Investigation into GRA Reform: Call for Evidence
Questions and answers about the investigation into GRA Reform.
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The Strawtran
TERFs lie, and perhaps the most frustrating way in which they lie is when they lie about what we think.
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Free Speech
Why the “victims” of cancel culture won’t shut up.
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GRA Reform – Frequently Just Asked Questions
Transphobes love to “just ask questions” about their “reasonable concerns” regarding GRA reform, so here are some answers.
Read MoreRespectful Discussion in the Lions’ Den
“Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence” – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists, 1903 Recently the trans discourse has inevitably turned back to whether trans people are being ‘respectful’ enough. Cis people complain that trans attitudes are “too hostile”, “too confrontational”. Whether that’s Chris McEleny’s self-contradictory victim-blaming bullshit in The Herald, or the accusation that […]
Read MoreNo, You’re the Real Fascists
A quote often attributed to Winston Churchill is something along the lines of:- In the future, fascists will call themselves anti-fascists. There are a few problems with this quote, firstly that Churchill never said it, and secondly that, as Orwell pointed out, it’s not consistent to oppose fascism while (as Churchill did) supporting the way […]
Read MoreTrans Pride Southwest 2018
Just a quick reminder that Trans Pride Southwest is a thing that’s happening in Bristol, UK from Wednesday 21st (that’s this coming Wednesday) to Sunday 25th November. The best place for details seems to be the old Facecake, if you can stomach Zuckerberg’s web site. Ooh, he’s been naughty, hasn’t he? Events begin on Wednesday, […]
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Fight or Flight
In Coming Up for Air (published in June 1939, months before the Second World War legitimised it), George Orwell wrote about the impulse to do violence against fascists. He was attending a lecture by an anti-fascist at the Left Book Club in London, and, momentarily, found himself within the head of the speaker:- I saw […]
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