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Instagram "Personals" account relaunches as Lex, a dating and social app targeted for people who are lesbian, bisexual, asexual, womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two-spirit and non-binary
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Trans athletes are posting victories and shaking up sports
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Liberal mom forces son to be transgender? - The Younger Case
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100 hours of name change labor
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Set to rights – Iceland's new Gender Autonomy Act
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Transgender man who gave birth must be registered as "mother" on the birth certificate
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US Supreme Court term to begin with blockbuster question: Is it legal to fire someone for being gay or transgender?
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Five tips for journalists on covering trans and nonbinary people
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Doctors working for the Department for Work and Pensions must respect a service user's pronoun choice
This is a bit complicated. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the government department that pays social security benefits in the UK. There are a range of benefits. Some of these...
This is a bit complicated.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the government department that pays social security benefits in the UK. There are a range of benefits. Some of these benefits are for people who cannot work because of disability. In order to qualify for some of these disability benefits you need to have a medical assessment with an "independent" doctor. This doctor is independent from the patient. They're employed by companies who are paid by the DWP, so there's supposed to be some kind of arm's length arrangement there.
A doctor was employed by one of these companies to do this assessment work for the DWP. He was a committed Christian. He held that he would not be able to refer to people by anything other than the gender they were assigned at birth.
The DWP is clear: you must respect a person's choice of pronouns.
The General Medical Council (the registrant body for doctors in England) is also clear: you must not impose your personal views upon your patients, especially if it's going to cause distress.
This doctor was spoken to about his beliefs. He declined to change his stance. He lost his job. He took his employer to employment tribunal for unfair dismissal based on discrimination against his protected characteristic: his religious views.
He lost his case.
Here's the legal document: https://christianconcern.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-Resource-Judgment-Mackereth-DWP-Others-ET-191002.pdf
It's pretty long! 42 pages! The last pages give a summary.
You'll notice the URL. He was supported by the Christian Legal Centre. I won't say anything about them, but I'll link this page which gives some useful information: https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2018/04/on-the-naughty-step-the-questionable-ethics-of-the-christian-legal-centre/
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When feminism supports trans rights everybody wins – just like in Iceland
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Transgender and gender nonconforming people say they have been pressured to expose their genitals during TSA searches at airports
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The Guardian newspaper has lost two trans employees over its reporting on trans issues
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A transgender man in Tennessee was suspended from his Christian college just hours after getting top surgery
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Transgender women explain what it's like when they don't 'look trans'
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My religious OCD convinced me God would never love me
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"I'm proud of who I am, but I'm more than one identity": The fight for transgender voices in 2020
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When you’re trans, living with your parents can be complicated
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Trans women and femmes speak out about being fetishized
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Amazon's facial analysis program is building a dystopic future for trans and nonbinary people
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Compton's Cafeteria riot: A historic act of trans resistance, three years before Stonewall
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The new American family: Trans, gender queer, nonbinary, two-spirit
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Israel Folau launches fresh attack on gay and transgender people
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Five trans Catholics on the Vatican’s rejection of their gender identity
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Black trans women are being murdered. Why aren’t there more arrests?
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Lesbian bar in Tokyo hit by transgender controversy
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Transgender hurdler CeCe Telfer easily wins national championship by more than 0.5 seconds
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The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37
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"It's a true gift": Shea Couleé opens up about embracing their non-binary identity
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Leather club president ousted after transphobic comments about new International Mr Leather
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A transgender soldier who fought to wear the Army uniform wonders if it still fits
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Woke-washing: How brands are cashing in on the culture wars
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Blurred lines: A pregnant man’s tragedy tests gender notions
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China: Transgender people risk their lives with dangerous self-surgery
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'I'd rather go to heaven than live here as a boy': Inside the lives of Australian trans children
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These LGBTQ activists don’t want queer and trans people serving in the military
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‘I try to spread the joy’: The trans pastor battling intolerance in the Deep South
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Being Nikki Smith - The climber known for those photos and bylines and first ascents is not the same person on the inside. That person isn’t called Nathan at all. Her name is Nikki.
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Gay-friendly towns in red states draw LGBTQ tourists: 'We're here to be normal for a weekend'
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Armenian MPs call for trans activist to be burned alive after historic speech
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Gender dysphoria isn’t a “social contagion,” according to a new study
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We will not be shoved back into the closet: A statement from trans protesters in Kansas City
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Transgender woman Colleen Young's dream of being who she wanted was her secret for more than 80 years
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A high school expelled a girl for kicking a boy who entered the girls' bathroom to "protest" against a trans student
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California National Guard defies Donald Trump on transgender troop ban
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All-male historically Black Morehouse College will admit transgender men
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The idea of being trans has my head in a scramble
This is going to be a bit of a ramble. I'm not even sure where to even start. Browsing r/egg_irl has me confused. Am I trans? What does it mean for someone currently living as their...
This is going to be a bit of a ramble.
I'm not even sure where to even start.
Browsing r/egg_irl has me confused. Am I trans? What does it mean for someone currently living as their birth-assigned-gender to be trans? Would I be happier as a woman? Or non-binary? I don't feel major bodily disphoria. I don't dislike my body. I am curious what it would be like to have a female body.
When I was a teenager I read Commitment Hour, by James Alan Gardner. It's about a village where young people switch back and forth every year (go to sleep as one, wake up as another), until they turn twenty and have to choose one or the other. I loved it. I fantasied about what it would be like to quickly switch back and forth. I liked the idea of finding out what it's like to have a female body without having to permanently commit to it. That fantasy has tempered a bit since then, but I wouldn't say it's completely gone.
I've been growing my hair out, but I've also grown my beard out. Both started as laziness. I didn't feel like bothering to get my hair cut or mess with shaving my face. I hate shaving. Now it's something of a security blanket. I feel exposed without them. Another reason I grew my beard out was because there were a couple of times when I was a teenager that a stranger thought I was a girl and it made me uncomfortable. I grow hardly any chest hair and I like it that way; but I have a lot of leg hair, and I like that too.
I've never been the macho type or had much use for machoness.
I don't know If I would like being female, or if I just like the idea of it. There have been other things that I liked the idea of but not the thing itself. How can I respond to others seeing it as a phase if I'm not even sure myself if it's a phase.
I don't like the social stigma around it. I come from a conservative family. I don't know how they would react. I live in a small predominately Mormon community where everybody knows everybody and gossip runs rampant. I don't know if being female is what I really want, but I at least want the space to experiment and find out.
I don't know what I want and I hate not knowing. Even deciding whether or not I should even type this out, let alone post it, has been a major mental battle.
I've been on Tildes a while, but I created a new account because my main account could be connected to my real identity and I'm so not ready for that. Even putting this out there anonymously has me terrified.
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Emoji keep getting more inclusive. So why is there no trans pride flag?
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I’ve been a lesbian my entire life, but I only realized I was a woman this year
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Finding femme - The quiet resistance of a small-town stylist for trans women and cross-dressing men
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