The LGTIQA+ Greens have condemned the Education Minister, Nadhim Zahawi that teachers should out trans and non-binary primary school children to their parents. During the education select committee on Wednesday (20 April), Conservative MP Miriam Cates suggested children need safeguarding due to their identity. She went on to say “That is a huge safeguarding fail, […]
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Trans day of visibility 2022: What do we mean by visibility?
Article written by: Sebastian Cousins, Trans Liberation Officer, Young Greens On the day you are likely reading this (trans day of visibility), you will see a celebration from a variety of people and groups about the importance of visibility, using the pictures of famous or notable trans public figures. With that, the affirmation of how […]
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Why Trans Liberation Is Critical For All Liberation
Article written by: Seb Cousins, Trans Liberation Officer, Young Greens One of the many issues with the ‘trans debate’ has been its obsession with the existentialism of trans people’s bodies. For a debate that exists in a culture which has fetishised trans bodies, it seems odd that the debate is about if trans and non-binary […]
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Why Trans People are Joining the Greens
Written by Pandora Hughes Trigger Warning – mentions of transphobia … Although I had voted Green on occasions, I didn’t join the Party until December 2019, in the middle of the last General Election. Up to that point I had been a Labour member and supporter. I had been voting Labour and occasionally campaigning for […]
A Brief History of Transphobia
By Josh Farrell Trigger Warning – mentions of transphobia … Feminism has a long history, with the advent of Western Feminism being somewhere in the mid-1300s however it wasn’t until the 1960s that feminism as a topic was being analysed critically by feminists themselves. From this analysis came what we know as Radical Feminism which […]
The Institute of Sexology and the Erasure of Transgender History
Written by Pandora Hughes (she/her) Trigger Warning: Transphobia, mentions of violence, murder … If you’re nursing a prejudice against a persecuted minority and someone calls you on it, what do you do? Merely denying that you are a bigot leaves you under social suspicion, and wheeling out the ‘some of my best friends are…’ defence […]
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