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3 votes
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Voguing for our lives. Again
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What JK Rowling should know about a transgender woman like me: Every day in public is risky
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I am a mother of a trans teen and here’s what you’re getting wrong about them
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New York’s Gender and Family Project advises parents how to support their children’s gender expression
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The US federal government will now allow health care providers to deny care to anyone they perceive as trans or gay
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Mermaids writes an open letter to JK Rowling
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JK Rowling is dangerously wrong
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Daniel Radcliffe responds to JK Rowling's latest tweets about gender identity
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Iyanna Dior, a Black trans woman, beaten by mob in Minneapolis
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Puerto Rico approves new civil code, sparking fears over LGBT+ rights
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A trans woman in France has won election to become the country's first openly transgender mayor
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Hungary votes to end legal recognition of transgender people
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Meet Syd Sanders, Maine's first transgender high school valedictorian
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UK man who gave birth to child cannot be named as father on that child's birth certificate
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I wrote a poem - Coming Out 2.0
I'm working on this for a poetry class I'm taking, any criticism is welcome. Edit: Italicized some text I forgot when I copied it out of Word. Edit 2: Fixed some phrasing. Coming Out 2.0 When I...
I'm working on this for a poetry class I'm taking, any criticism is welcome.
Edit: Italicized some text I forgot when I copied it out of Word.
Edit 2: Fixed some phrasing.Coming Out 2.0
When I first came out
I thought it was over.
Done.
I know myself now,
My life can finally be
worthwhile and fun.But there was always a mess I dared
not touch. Who do I like? What gaze
makes me blush? I suspected the feminine
but held out hope – only taking up one letter
made it easier to cope.And some people do change after starting
HRT, so patiently I hoped men would appeal
to me. I had some feelings before, it seemed reasonable
they would grow. But as time went on I realized I had
nothing to show. My feelings for men were entirely gone,
but still hopeful for a straight-passing future, I pressed on.I had definite feelings for women before,
But at times the attraction seemed a bit more –
Did I want to be them or did I want to be with them?
The former I assumed, as it helped to distract,
focus on my work, brush my desires under the mat.I’d think “She looks cute”, but “in that outfit”, “with that hairdo” and other qualifiers
I began to append, convincing myself what I felt was normal and, like a
Chicagoland road, no bend. When I began to notice some feelings bubbling up I said
“Female friendships are close, it’s nothing, the end.” But try as I might, they flowered
and bloomed, and soon I could not help but be all-consumed. Maybe I’m bi, I thought,
That isn’t so bad. More options for dating, how can I be mad? I told my friend my feelings, and as
expected, for me she had none. She’s still one of my best friends, so I’d neither lost nor won.I dealt with the rejection and moved on. I could still be bi, better not
jump the gun. You can’t take back coming out, you’ve got one shot – nail it
and be done. I thought everything would be the same, but the floodgates were open,
my restraints had been broken. I could finally be honest about my feelings
for women (endless, confusing and interwoven) and for men, which were at most
an appreciative token.A week after confessing to my crush, it was obvious
who won. The Sapphic feelings and desires made
their presence known, their intent to stay,
and more difficult than coming out
as trans was admitting
to being gay.15 votes -
Meet the transgender wrestling champion
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Juno Dawson: “Why I’m no longer debating trans rights”
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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
10 votes -
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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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
11 votes -
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
11 votes -
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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"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
9 votes