Category: James Esses

  • Costa Coffee faces boycott calls over transgender illustration

    Costa Coffee faces boycott calls over transgender illustration

    Rating: Transneutral, NBC News, August 1, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Costa Coffee faces boycott calls over transgender illustration Anti-LGBTQ social media users are threatening to boycott the world’s second-largest coffee chain after a photo of one of its mobile cafe vans, which bore an illustration of a transgender person, began to circulate…

  • James Esses: Gender Villain

    James Esses: Gender Villain

    Therapist-in-training expelled from university course in 2021 for objecting to counseling youth about gender-affirming care and co-founder of anti-trans group Thoughtful Therapists.

  • Mapping the transphobia/far-right Twitter nexus

    Mapping the transphobia/far-right Twitter nexus

    The convergence between “gender critical” anti-trans activists and the far right is becoming increasingly apparent. Posie Parker’s Let Women Speak rallies are attended by anti-abortion campaigners and Sieg Heil-ing Nazis. The LGB Alliance have found a new home at 55 Tufton Street alongside neoliberal and climate-misinformation think tanks. And fascist group Patriotic Alternative (PA) have been leading anti-drag protests. Rating: Transsupportive, Medium, May 23,…