Month: May 2018
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21st Century Sex
Recently four Irish rugby players were acquitted of the rape of a young woman. A detailed account of the trial was published by the Irish Times. If the paper’s report is at all accurate, it seems probable that the victim was indeed raped. So confused and contradictory were the accounts of the defendants that the…
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Internalised Transphobia
This post sounds rather po-faced, but for all that the term “internalised transphobia” has an aura of radical activism about it, I believe it’s a real phenomenon. I’m a part-timer and some of the issues that I face are different from those faced by folks who’ve transitioned. But I think this experience of being our…
Mrs Benn 