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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

The Scotsman Sarwar and Swinney

The Scotsman article reinforces transphobic discourse by framing the gender debate as a conflict between trans rights and women’s rights, employing moral panics, exclusionary rhetoric, and “othering” of trans people.
Continue Reading The Scotsman Sarwar and Swinney must now accept the circle cannot be squared on gender debate – a response.

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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