Gender Menace

WARNING: Among posts supportive of transgender people, you may encounter transphobic items intended to assist in research and action to prevent transphobia.

Category: villains

Caroline Lowbridge: Gender Villain

BBC journalist who published article with transphobic stereotypes on October 26, 2021.

October 29, 2021
Trans Activism UK’s Finalised Open Letter to the BBC

The following version of Trans Activism UK’s Open Letter to the BBC, complete with signatories present at 8pm UK on Friday October 29th, is the version which will be sent in digital and physical formats to multiple members of staff at the BBC. Rating: Transsupportive, LauraKBuzz.com, October 29, 2021 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

October 29, 2021
Kathleen Stock vs. transgender people

Kathleen Stock is a British philosopher and anti-transgender extremist from the “gender critical” movement. Stock is a sex segregationist who presents a polite, academic veneer for the movement’s anti-transgender aims. Transgender Map, October 28, 2021 (PDF archive)

October 28, 2021
Anti-trans professor Kathleen Stock quits Sussex university in ‘massive win for LGBT+ students’

LGBT+ students at the University of Sussex have welcomed news that professor Kathleen Stock is to leave the institution. Pink News, October 28, 2021 (PDF archive)

October 28, 2021
Dave Chappelle and Free Speech: A Trans Woman’s View

Today, I want to talk about the recent uproar over the new Dave Chappelle Netflix special that some people have described as transphobic. I then want to expand the discussion into the wider issue of trans issues and free speech, something that is close to my heart. Rating: Transsupportive, Medium, October 18, 2021 (PDF archive) (HTML…

October 18, 2021
Tulsi Gabbard Introduces Bill That Would Ban Trans Women and Girls from Female Sports

Democratic Hawaii Rep. and former 2020 Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard introduced a bill into the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday that would dictate Title IX protections for female athletes be based on biological sex—a term often used to refer to gender assigned to a person at birth—thats advocate have decried as inherently transphobic. Rating: Transneutral, Time,…

December 11, 2020
Tucker Carlson: Gender Villain

Right-wing media host who was dismissed from Fox News on April 24, 2023, repeatedly spread transphobic misinformation.

October 27, 2019
Gender-critical feminist Posie Parker in video with white nationalist YouTuber – and a lot of Mumsnet users are fine with it

Posie Parker, one of the UK’s most prominent “gender-critical feminists” has appeared in what Mumsnet users are calling a “brave”, “interesting” and “brilliant” video with a French-Canadian white nationalist. Rating: Transsupportive, Pink News, October 15, 2019 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

October 15, 2019
Right-wing and evangelical media helped land anti-trans parent group the Kelsey Coalition in USA Today

The Kelsey Coalition has been promoting harmful junk science in the media and to policymakers. Rating: Transsupportive, Media Matters, August 16, 2019 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

August 16, 2019
Trans competition is discriminatory, say teens backed by anti-abortion lawyers

Three high-school students in Connecticut have filed a federal discrimination complaint challenging the state’s policy of letting trans students compete on sports teams according to their gender identity. Rating: Transsupportive, Pink News, June 20, 2019 (PDF archive)

June 20, 2019