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Explainer: Cass, Reviewed
The Cass Review is an inquiry set up in 2020 by the English national health service to look into its provision of paediatric gender-affirming care. The…
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Isabelle Moreton
Don't say transphobia: from Nex Benedict to Brianna Ghey, why is the media unable to report effectively on queer hate crimes?
The media continues to profit off the "spectacle" of transness while doing nothing to highlight the real oppression and danger faced by trans people.
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Maurice Quirk
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Patrick Lenton
Gender is not scary, argues Judith Butler. But right now, it represents the threat of social change
Butler’s overarching argument is that “gender” – the overdetermined concept to which “anti-gender ideologists” object – is really a nightmarish…
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"But he's gay": revisiting the heterosexual blooper that changed queer culture forever
Cynthia Izaguirre, the news anchor, said one wrong word, in 2001. She just said one simple little homosexual word, and 22 years later a lesbian is…
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Bec Shaw
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"Oh, parasitic men": talking horror, chasers and Jordan Peterson with filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay
T Blockers is a new and extremely fun horror film from trans film maker Alice Maio Mackay, that centres a trans woman as the protagonist and heroine.
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Patrick Lenton
What is the WPATH "leak" and why is conservative media trying to position it as a “groundbreaking medical scandal”?
Transplaining the "WPATH Files", a series of screenshots from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health that are being deliberately…
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Srishti Chatterjee

March 2024

All the heterosexual nonsense we were forced to endure over MARCH
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Patrick Lenton
Trans Day of Visibility offers chance for community to stand in solidarity and support
Trans Day of Visibility is an attempt, as the trans community puts it, to “give us our roses while we’re still here.”
The X-Men have always been here and queer, get used to it
According to triggered conservatives, a superhero team famously defined by their marginalised identities, has now "gone woke" lol.
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Ian Carlos Crawford
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Before the 1980s, Australian teachers could be banned for being gay. A new report wants to protect them at religious schools too
Today, in New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia, teachers in religious private schools can still lose their jobs if they…
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Why is the government still bending to the will of a few conservative faith leaders when it comes to protecting LGBTQIA+ students in…
The public supports removing Article 38. Politicians support the changes. And the legal system supports the changes.
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Max Loomes
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