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Teenage transgender row splits Sweden as dysphoria diagnoses soar by 1,500% – new health report and TV debates highlight backlash against gender reassignment
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How do I combat the "women need safe spaces" argument?
(I am trans-inclusive. I believe trans rights are human rights. I believe in self-identification. I will use whatever pronouns someone choose, and I try not to assume pronouns.) In the UK recently...
(I am trans-inclusive. I believe trans rights are human rights. I believe in self-identification. I will use whatever pronouns someone choose, and I try not to assume pronouns.)
In the UK recently there's been a bit of a debate between trans-phobic "gender critical" feminists who say that for sexual safety women need spaces that are women only, and that this means they need to exclude trans-people.
I think this is bullshit. I'd like some good quality arguments to use against this.
What are your ideas?
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LGBTQ activists in Iceland are protesting the planned deportation of a transgender teen and his family who fled Iran last February
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Professor loses landmark legal battle after claiming it’s ‘free speech’ to deliberately misgender trans students
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The number of teenagers registered as girls at birth who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria has increased by almost 1,500 percent in ten years in Sweden
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South Dakota House passes bill which makes it a misdemeanor for doctors to provide puberty blockers or other treatments affecting gender expression to children under sixteen years old
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Why Republicans are suddenly in a rush to regulate every trans kid’s puberty
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Becoming a man
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Gender neutral toilets in use for first time at Australian Open
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Sci-fi magazine pulls story by trans writer after 'barrage of attacks'
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A top YouTube makeup artist revealed she’s transgender. She said she was blackmailed into it.
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The internet made trans people visible. It also left them more vulnerable.
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JK Rowling's Maya Forstater tweets support hostile work environments, not free speech
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day dedicated to remembering trans* people who we have lost to transphobic violence
HuffPo: At Least 22 Transgender People Were Killed In 2019. Here Are Their Stories. GLAAD is holding on online vigil Daily Beast: The Transgender Day of Remembrance: So Much Loss, So Much to Keep...
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Flower Girl
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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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