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Tweet, tweet
A couple of months ago I signed up to Twitter. I use Facebook and have a community that I feel a part of there (several communities in fact), but I thought I’d take a look at Twitter and try to explore some of the issues around gender identity from a different perspective. The trans communities…
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Self-identification and the asymmetry of sexual violence
In the UK the 2004 Gender Recognition Act (GRA) was a landmark in legal history. It provided a mechanism for a change of gender to be recognised in law, and to be reflected in key identity documents, such as birth certificates. To achieve this change, the individual had to submit to a detailed examination by…
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Trans and gay identities
Attraction to members of one’s own sex and the desire to be of the other sex are rarely the result of a conscious choice, but there are important differences between trans people and gay people. For some trans people the desire to assume the opposite gender is fetishistic in origin; in this sense at least…
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A Nobel Woman
I was delighted to read of the award of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics to Donna Strickland, of the University of Waterloo. Contrary to the incendiary remarks made by a rather bitter Italian physicist at CERN recently, there are some brilliant female physicists. I have the privilege of collaborating with one at work. It…
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