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GenderMenace.net Media Rankings for August 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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Mike Dunleavy: Gender Villain
Governor of the U.S. state of Alaska who supports a school sports policy preventing transgender students from playing on the team of their gender identity.
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Kris Kobach: Gender Villain
Attorney General of U.S. state of Kansas who issued an official legal opinion on June 26, 2023, to revert gender marker of transgender people to their sex assigned at birth.
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Kevin Stitt: Gender Villain
Republican Governor of U.S. state of Oklahoma who has signed executive orders requiring state agencies to refuse to respect a person’s gender identity and preventing gender changes on birth certificates and signed into law SB 2 on March 30, 2022, which prevents transgender girls and women from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams from…
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Texas Values: Gender Villain
A conservative group whose policy director is Jonathan Covey, and that in August 2023 supported a law banning gender-affirming care for minors in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Elon Musk: Gender Villain
Right-wing billionaire owner of Twitter and Tesla who has proposed prison terms for those providing gender-affirming care to transgender people.
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Jonathan Covey: Gender Villain
Policy director of Texas Values, a conservative group that supported a law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Fan Liang: Gender Hero
Director of Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health who advocates for gender-affirming care for transgender people.
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Kim Russell: Gender Villain
Oberlin College women’s lacrosse head coach who in August 2023 stated her position that transgender women should not play in women’s sports.
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Alice Cooper: Gender Villain
Male rock musician who has used lots of gender-bending makeup and in 2023 made transphobic comments. LOSER: GenderMenace.net Gender Villain Award for August 2023