Category: science
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Central Bucks is proposing a policy to ban transgender athletes playing on teams aligned with their gender identities
Rating: Transphobic, The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 10, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Central Bucks is proposing a policy to ban transgender athletes playing on teams aligned with their gender identities The Central Bucks school board is considering a policy that would ban transgender students from playing on…
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Florida ‘Effectively’ Bans AP Psychology Course Over Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Content
The College Board announced it was refusing to change the content of its psychology course for the state’s Department of Education. Rating: Transneutral, Huffington Post, August 3, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) Content Summary Florida ‘Effectively’ Bans AP Psychology Course Over Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Content The College Board announced it was refusing…
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How many transgender and intersex people live in the US? Anti-LGBTQ+ laws will impact millions
Rating: Transneutral, Yahoo News, July 26, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary How many transgender and intersex people live in the US? Anti-LGBTQ+ laws will impact millions New laws targeting LGBTQ+ people are proliferating in GOP-led states, but often absent from policy decisions is a clear understanding of how many people will be directly…
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Dr. Marci Bowers says transgender Americans are a “vulnerable population that deserves health care”
Dr. Marci Bowers says transgender Americans are a “vulnerable population that deserves health care” CBS News
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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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Judge rules transgender health care ban unconstitutional
A Federal judge in Arkansas ruled against the state’s law banning transgender health care. A doctor who testified in the case, who has treated trans patients for 30 years, says,”It’s not just that someone learns that there are transgender or non-binary people in society and is contemplating that as an identity. It’s that they are…
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Transgender issues: The Enquirer answers reader comments
Our stories on Kentucky’s new law prohibiting gender-affirming medical care – as well as a similar bill proposed in Ohio – generated hundreds of online comments. Rating: Transsupportive, Cincinnati Enquirer, June 20, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)
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Ask Ethan: What is a woman?
If you think you know what sex, gender, and “the right thing to do” for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science. Rating: Transsupportive, BigThink, June 9, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) Content Summary STARTS WITH A BANG — JUNE 9, 2023 Ask Ethan: What is a woman? If you…