Written by Lollie Melton Trigger Warning: mentions of sex, homophobic abuse … When I was 12 I thought I was Bi. I realised I was attracted to women reading a […]
Month: January 2021
Inclusion is not Erasure: Why TERF Ideology Harms the LGBTIQA+ Community
Written by Lou Gibney (she/her) *(TERF stands for Trans exclusionary radical feminist and is used to describe someone who labels themselves a feminist but holds discriminatory views towards trans people […]
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There is No Pride Without Black Lives
Written by Elle Windsor (she/her) (First published in June 2020) Trigger Warning: descriptions of racist abuse, police brutality, death, descriptions of violence … Last week I was shaken along with […]
My Experience as a Trans Women: Dora’s Story
Written by Pandora Hughes Many of the public conversations about transgender people in the UK are conducted at the level of the theoretical or the abstract. Keeping the real lived […]
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LGBTIQA+ Greens Statement on Banning Conversion Therapy
In August of 2020, the then Deputy Chair of LGBTIQA+ Greens Lee-Anne Lawrance said: “I’d urge Liz Truss to not delay any more. We need to ban conversion therapy. Reform […]
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LGBTIQA+ Greens Statement on the High Court Puberty Blockers Ruling
We find the court ruling in the Judgment in the case of Keira Bell and Mrs A against The Tavistock Clinic and Portman NHS Trust highly troubling, as it puts […]
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