Barbaric?
Imagine taking a trip to see your parents in Bangladesh and upon arrival being kidnapped, bundled into a tiny room and then forced to take sleeping tablets. Imagine then being tied up, thrown into a private ambulance and driven to a psychiatric hospital where you’re given a large dose of anti-psychotics. In this state, unable [...]
In Britain, there’s been quite a bit of news coverage over Lillian Ladele, a registrar in Islington, a bourough of London. Under British law, registrars are responsible for civil marriages, including the civil unions which allow gay and lesbian people some of the rights of a married heterosexual couple. She made the headlines when Islington [...]
I actually found this video on a site of a bunch of global warming apologists that I’d found following some bizarre chain of hyperlinks. I find the video, created by a Portuguese environmental group, moving, well executed and quite powerful. Let’s just say that the site I found it on didn’t quite agree (the comments [...]
One of the reasons* a lot of radical feminists hate trans people is that we are a wrench in the works of their supposed nirvana of a gender-free world. You see, trans people see very clearly that their physical gender doesn’t match the gender they identify with. We’re mostly very sure about what our true [...]
If you’re reading this blog, it’s likely that you’re in a country where being lesbian, bi, queer, trans or intersexed will not leave you languishing in a prison cell or in-front of a firing squad. Yes, we may face discrimination and hatred, but we’re not likely to be made criminals because of our gender or [...]
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Scandinavia has a reputation for being ecologically aware, politically correct and generally the good guys of Europe. For a lot of us, the odd-ones out are the Norway and the Icaland because of their continued whaling, a frankly barbaric act. There has been tremendous protest against their whaling policies, but I wasn’t aware that there [...]
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The Amsterdam Animal Protection organisation, a Dutch humane society, has this very creepy advert going which is designed to encourage people to not put their animals to sleep unnecessarily. It plays a very clever role reversal which has a human child being taken to a vet’s by her cat family and being put down in [...]
The furore around the Stonewall Journalist of the Year award going to Julie Bindel has highlighted in Europe the same complete lack of concern that the LGB_QI world shows transpeople that was seen by the Human Right’s Campaign’s lack of support for a trans-inclusive ENDA in the US. What we’re seeing here is an institutialisation [...]
I got this from Lisa Harney at Questioning Transphobia: Sunday, September 28th, 2008 9:57 pm More DOMESTIC TERRORISM. how is this NOT huge national news????? Has this been on a news blackout? How is it that no-one has heard of this until now?? On Friday, September 26, the end of a week in which thousands [...]
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IF YOU CARE ABOUT TRANS ISSUES, READ THIS. IT’S IMPORTANT Unfortunately, the medical establishment owns the transitions and the lives of most transsexuals up to at least the point where they are able to set themselves free after their operations have been done. Even more unfortunately, the medical establishment is highly conservative and very unwilling [...]