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The Trans Agenda #8 Widespread glee over trans kid cruelty

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The Trans Agenda #5 Labour make trans pledges but will it keep them?

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The Trans Agenda #2 5 March 2024

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Sex Matters demand census investigation and Commons inquiry

Sex Matters challenges the 2021 census data on transgender individuals, demanding an official investigation and a Commons inquiry.
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Equality Act 2010 debate; disgusting politicians roll eyes on hearing of trans suicide

On Monday 12 June, MPs met in Westminster Hall for a three hour debate on the definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010. Last week we covered the debate in a general sense but left out the unbecoming behaviour that caused an uproar on social media as we felt it deserved its own article. Moss writes;
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Equality Act and the awful anti-trans debate in UK Parliament

On Monday 12 June, MPs met in Westminster Hall for a three hour debate on the definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010. A contentious debate that had been bubbling up for several months. Moss writes;

Is Maya Forstater the world’s foremost trans expert? The week in Trans 28/08/22

Unlike the first week of this trans media watch, which mostly centred around one story about JK Rowling, how she was the real victim...
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What does the Maya Forstater tribunal mean for trans people? (Don’t worry!)

Before Maya Forstater's case a lot of things were up in the air and every single lawyer, legal expert and asshole with a website like myself was just guessing about how things would work or play out. That's sort of what law is in general. But now we actually have some definition on the playing field, we're starting to see the rules take shape and even despite a win; I don't think the gender criticals will be happy with the results once they set in.
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Sajid Javid: “biological sex matters”, but does it?

Of course, sex matters - but is the view of sex that transphobes want to uphold as an avenue to do transphobia through worth protecting? No. Not in the slightest. Which is why even despite trans people being positioned as believing sex doesn't matter via their rhetoric, you will still find trans people on the front lines of so many of the causes we're told can only be fought for via a trans exclusionary, strict and rigid view of sex as a binary system.