Showing posts with label gender identity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender identity. Show all posts
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Trans Forming Liberty. Amy Sherald at SFMOMA

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 Sometimes politics make an artwork even more politically fraught than when it was painted.      
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Medical Treatments for Transgender Minors--Oral argument in Supreme Court

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  Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about the Tennessee ban on transgender treatment for minors. Supreme Ct. Hears Case on Me...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Vatican statement on gender-affirming surgery and human dignity

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 A new statement from the Vatican has been widely covered in the press. Here's the story from the National Catholic Reporter: Vatican co...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Gender neutral words in gendered languages

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Novel pronouns haven't been widely adopted in English, but committees now have chairs or chairpersons, and there are some attempts not m...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Trans as a gender identity

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 New freedoms continue to be recognized. It is not so long ago that sexual orientation and then same sex marriage were at the forefront of t...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

New legislation expressing repugnance to gender transition

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  Trans people are facing new obstacles from state legislatures, concerning sports teams, healthcare, and toilets.  Here's a story from ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Boy scouts reverse their position and accept transgender boys

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That was fast. After the Cub Scouts recently expelled a transgender boy, the NY Times reports  Boy Scouts, Reversing Century-Old Stance, W...
Monday, January 2, 2017

Repugnance watch: Gender identity. 8-year-old transgender boy barred from Cub Scouts in NJ and NYC issues an "intersex" birth certificate,

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Two (otherwise unrelated) recent news stories suggest that social attitudes towards gender identity may be tested in the new year in ways t...