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J.K. Rowling Transgender Campaign Misogyny’s Quiet Escape

J.K. Rowling’s campaign against transgender rights, framed as safeguarding women, is statistically misdirected as UK data shows sexual violence predominantly comes from known individuals and figures of authority, not the transgender community, who themselves are disproportionately victims of crime. Continue Reading J.K. Rowling’s Transgender Campaign: Misogyny’s Quiet Escape

Defining Genocide: The Systematic Attack on Transgender Rights in the United States by Jenna Taylor

Trump Administration policies and rhetoric constitute a systematic attack on transgender rights that, when analysed through the lens of genocide frameworks like the Genocide Convention and Stanton’s Ten Stages of Genocide, may indicate the early stages of a transgender genocide. Continue Reading Defining Genocide: The Systematic Attack on Transgender Rights in the United States

Transgender employees, toilets, changing rooms and the Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992

Robin Moira White argues that Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 should not be used to exclude transgender employees from facilities, because the regulations were intended to address the lack of facilities for women, predate consideration of transgender people in legislation, and lack definitions of “male” and “female”.
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