Discrimination
As humans, it seems that we have a continuous need for labels. In some ways, we’d all be so much better off without them, but until human psychology goes through some major changes, I don’t think that’s going to happen! The ‘cis’ vs. ‘trans’ issue has had people wound up for years now and by [...]
It seems that the Royal College of Psychiatrists is hosting a conference called “Transgender: Time to change”. I agree, it is time to change, but time to change for the better. Unfortunately, the inclusion of Julie Bindel, a transphobic radical feminist on the panel gives me little hope that this will be anything near that. [...]
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On my usual commute home this past Thursday, I encountered what is fast becoming a usual occurrence on my train, namely problems with overhead cables. To the chorus of moans and complaints bubbling around me, I resigned myself to the longer ulterior route and took the chance to pay the Evening Standard more than my [...]
Baroness Warsi is Britain’s first Muslim woman to have a seat in the House of Lords and as such has a key role in the fight against discrimination of women and Muslims. This week, she’s been in the headlines regarding Britain’s changing relationship with Islam and the growing acceptance of Islamophobia as an acceptable form [...]
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Yes, you read that properly. Please, don’t bother checking the calendar, I already did: We’re still in the 21st Century! Unbelievably, Texan right-wingers are trying to oust the Speaker of the Texas State House because he’s not a Christian. I never thought I’d see something like this in my lifetime… I thought this sort of [...]
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Sheila Matthews, a paediatrician on the Northamptonshire adoption board was dismissed after refusing to vote in cases pertaining to same sex adoption. Angered by being ‘discriminated against on the basis of her religion’ she took the Northamptonshire County Council to court and today lost her case, the court declaring that it saw no difference between [...]
Continue reading about Religious beliefs don’t trump doing your job properly
I read something today which I find quite despicable: A ‘charity’ in the US (“Project Prevention”) has been paying drug addicts $300 to be sterilised. It came to my attention because they’ve arrived in the UK now and are doing the same over here. The way I read this, this so called charity is deciding [...]
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It’s a story I’ve heard a thousand times. The fear one has how negatively society will react when one transitions.The fear of being bullied, of being rejected even by those closest to one. If you’re not trans, you may not understand this, but when you’re at that point, you’re looking down two potentially very bleak [...]
Continue reading about Trans teen dies from fear of transitioning
Yesterday, my lovely girlfriend and I were shopping in Hamburg. After a really fun day out, we returned to the car which was parked in the Gertrudentor car park next to the Europa Passage shopping centre. Unfortunately, this car park has the slowest lifts on the planet – I can feel the wrinkles growing as [...]
In September, the pope will be making the first official visit to the UK since pope John Paul II’s visit in 1982. Coming at a time when the pope has been astoundingly intolerant of women, homosexual people and trans people as well as when secularists have been increasingly disturbed by the Catholic church’s efforts to [...]