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Critiquing transgender theology: A review of Janice Raymond’s ‘Doublethink’ by Robert Jensen, Emeritus Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas

There’s a sad irony at the heart of Janice Raymond’s new book on transgenderism and feminism. After decades of research and activism, she is uniquely qualified to contribute to the polarized debate over these issues. But because she has long been demonized by the transgender movement, her insights on sex and gender will be overlooked …

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Jo Bartosch on how gender critical campaigners are being labelled domestic terrorists and threats to national security by ‘radicalisation’ academics at King’s College London

It feels like a waiting game; will it take the murder of a campaigner, or perhaps a fatal attack on a meeting, for the authorities to take the threat of trans activism seriously? Given the numbers of porn-fed, grievance-hoarding young men drawn towards transgenderism, some form of planned violence seems darkly inevitable. But academics working …

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Senators Urge Lifting of Restrictions on Gay and Bi Male Blood Donors

The senators’ call comes as other countries lift deferral periods on blood donations by queer men —France and Greece did so this week.

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Anti-Trans Legislative Push Starts Again in 2022

At least seven states are considering anti-transgender bills after a record year for such legislation.

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Sinema Refuses to Change Filibuster to Pass Voting Rights Legislation

Sen. Krysten Sinema’s refusal to support changing the Senate rule has most likely doomed the legislation that Democrats had wished to pass.

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Mythologies queer des Philippines

Sur l’île de Mindanao, un trio d’artistes revisite les mythologies précoloniales pour mettre en valeur leur potentiel queer oublié. Résultat: Diwata, une série graphique d’une troublante beauté.  L’article Mythologies queer des Philippines est apparu en premier sur 360°.

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New School Board President Calls for Burning LGBTQ+ Books

“There is some bad, evil-related material that we have to be careful of and look at,” Virginia’s Spotsylvania County School Board’s new president previously said.

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Australian Man Convicted Over the 1988 Murder of Gay American

Scott Johnson’s remains were found at the bottom of a cliff. Police initially reported the death as a suicide before Johnson’s brother campaigned for a more thorough investigation. 

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Professional Judy signs up to Gettr: “As Twitter disappears up its own reality-denying ideological rectum it has become more and more authoritarian.”

You know the feeling well. You’re about to send the tweet but that gnawing feeling in the back of your head starts. You stop to think. Will this be the tweet that gets you put on the naughty step and started on the journey to being banned? Have I crafted the tweet in such a …

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Janice Raymond takes on gender identity: Doublethink reviewed by Claire Heuchan

Janice Raymond is best known as author of The Transsexual Empire. First published in 1979, the book predicted the medicalisation of gender identity; the troubling implications that self-ID has for how lesbians define our sexuality, build our community, and create our spaces. And having foreseen one of the most divisive political issues of this era, …

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