Category: Medium
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After Freedom Caucus Erupts, Wyoming DOC Changes Tune On Transgender Inmates
Rating: Transphobic, Cowboy State Daily, August 3, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary After Freedom Caucus Erupts, Wyoming DOC Changes Tune On Transgender Inmates After a group of state Republican lawmakers are challenging the Wyoming Department of Corrections (DOC) over how it accommodates transgender inmates, the DOC walked back statements on the policy, saying…
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GenderMenace.net Media Rankings for July 2023
Here at GenderMenace.net, we review a lot of media stories that address gender issues each month. For each story, we provide a rating of “Transsupportive”, “Transneutral”, or “Transphobic”. These labels make it possible to perform an article count for each media source that gives a sense of how to rank them from most transsupportive to…
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Sarah Jane Baker
Sarah Jane Baker, Trans Rights Activist was arrested (12/07/23) after Monday’s tweet from the Home Secretary. Rating: Transsupportive, Medium, July 13, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video 1 archive) (Video 2 archive) (Video 3 archive)
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Being trans is a matter of semantics
Is it right to question why someone is trans? Or that gender is a social construction rooted in oppression? Coming out as a gender other than the one you were assigned at birth is a weird experience, partly because you have to overcome what society views as normative gender and partly because as you soon…
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A Pattern of Deception: The Alliance Destroying Freedom
The Supreme Court recently went along with the lies of the evangelical hate group: Alliance Defending (sic) Freedom. Given the nature of the Trump justices this is no surprise; they were appointed to satisfy the religious right and for no other reason. Rating: Transsupportive, Medium, July 6, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary A…
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Media Body Shaming and Witch-hunt.
In a new low-point for the British media last week the usual suspects caused a week-long witch hunt for someone whose only crime seems to be drawing attention to high utility bills and being trans. That is how it started but it quickly escalated because the person in question, Mika Minio-Paluello, was also the mother who had…
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GenderMenace.net Media Rankings for June 2023
Here at GenderMenace.net, we review a lot of media stories that address gender issues each month. For each story, we provide a rating of “Transsupportive”, “Transneutral”, or “Transphobic”. These labels make it possible to perform an article count for each media source that gives a sense of how to rank them from most transsupportive to…
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I CAN’T FIND THE SENSE IN TRANSITIONING… My Response
Below is my response to a post written last week by someone who clearly has their own ideas about the transgender community and decided to be generous enough to share their thoughts with everyone else. They also followed up their views with years of supporting data compiled from the experts on YouTube. If you take…
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What is gender dysphoria anyway? (And who decided it had to be a thing?)
I introduced gender dysphoria in a previous article, “Body Positivity Whilst Trans”, as a fundamental feeling of discomfort with your body that can’t simply be willed away through positive thinking. I also mentioned in that article not understanding at first that I did experience this sort of discomfort, because I had a mistaken idea of what it…
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The fight for trans* truths: Erin Reed and Matt Walsh
Somewhere off in the distance on a digital soap box Matt Walsh is yammering on about trans* women like they are leper sores on the feet of the hold virgin. His Catholic sensibilities are offended, he tells us, by the mere whiff of gender non-conformity. He cannot get an answer to a simple question, despite…