Human Rights
From 20th November last year to 19th November this year, 179 trans people were killed. That is, 179 killings of trans people made enough press and police attention for us to know about. It doesn’t take into account those that are just reported under their old names and their assigned genders, nor does it take [...]
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 [...]
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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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Transgender Day of Remembrance We live in a sick society in a lot of ways. It allows racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia… The list goes on! However, today is the day when we remember a segment of society which our culture views as disposable. Trans people. Per capita, there is no other group of people with [...]
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When I hear the shocked hysteria about the gay/lesbian/trans lifestyle, it always raises a giggle. I love it when the conservatives use these phrases because it shows how isolated and myopic they are. You see, there is a gay/lesbian/trans lifestyle, but the only reason for that is because the hetero and cis communities create an [...]
Recently, busses have been popping up over London with a rather controversial message on them: It’s certainly not the sort of message one expects to see in today’s Britain and various Christian organisations thought so and complained to the Advertising Standards Authority trying to get it banned. I’m very happy with the news today that [...]
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For some reason, certain cis people are convinced that letting people use the toilet which matches their gender is going to end up with a rash of hideously horrible behaviour, flashing and violent sexual activity. In both the US and the UK, this is a big issue at the moment and it is getting a [...]
An article at the Bilerico Project (by Renee of Womanist Musings fame) talking about the continual speculation regarding CNN’s Anderson Cooper and his sexuality got me thinking (as Renee all so often does!) We’d been having some similar (heated) discussions about being trans people being out on a TS group just before Christmas and then [...]