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Max Hightower: Gender Hero
A member of Bearcat Theater at Sherman High School in the U.S. state of Texas whose school principal took away his role as a male character because of his transgender male gender identity.
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Ty Bodden: Gender Villain
Republican Representative in the legislature of the U.S. state of Wisconsin who in 2023 proposed legislation requiring that transgender people be housed with inmates of the gender they were assigned at birth rather than their current gender identity.
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Anti-trans prison housing bill raises alarms
Rating: Transsupportive, The Capital Times, November 7, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Anti-trans prison housing bill raises alarms Rylee Jenich spent 10 years incarcerated in various Wisconsin men’s prisons. For the last six of those years, Jenich — a trans-feminine person who uses they/them pronouns — publicly identified as…
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GenderMenace.net Media Rankings for October 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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Gender Awards for October 2023
Thanks to all of you who voted in the GenderMenace.net Gender Awards poll for October 2023. We have tallied your votes and would like to announce the winners! Gender Hero Winner Ryan Clancy Gender Villain Loser Mike Johnson and Kelly Johnson Gender Waffler Loser Tricia Cotham This Month’s Poll To see the GenderMenace.net Gender Award…
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Annette Bening: Gender Hero
WINNER: GenderMenace.net Gender Hero Award for November 2023 Actor in the United States who has spoken openly in support of transgender people, against anti-transgender laws, and whose son, writer Stephen Ira, is a transgender person.
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Sean Hannity: Gender Villain
Fox News commentator who downplayed U.S. House of Representative Speaker Mike Johnson’s history of extreme anti-LGBTQ activism and defended Johnson’s efforts to ban classroom discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Freedom Guard: Gender Villain
Organization founded by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, who served as president and chief counsel in 2015, that provided transphobic and homophobic “model bylaws for churches”.
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Onward Christian Counseling Services: Gender Villain
Organization whose owner and CEO is Kelly Johnson, wife of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, and whose website posted documents there comparing homosexuality to bestiality and incest until Ms. Johnson removed them.