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Feminism LGBT Trans

On transphobic “feminism”

“Again with the trans related posts!”, I hear you say. When you spend so long hanging around with feminists and trans people, you can’t help but think about trans issues and feminism a lot. And one of the issues that came up quite a bit while I was at a party with some cool trans […]

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Politics

Headingley

It’s one of those things that every Lib Dem was dreading to hear: that, even with months of campaigning, their candidate had lost to the Labour candidate. Not more was the hurt felt in Headingley two weeks ago. We – as in Leeds Liberal Youth – had been campaigning hard since last September to ensure that […]

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LGBT Trans

On Wikipedia and Breanna Manning

Another blog post about trans issues, bear with me. 🙂 One thing that really annoys me about Wikipedia is that it’s really progressive about LGBT issues (thanks to the very well-organised LGBT WikiProject), except where it really matters. And where it really matters is in the case of Breanna Manning, although you probably know her […]

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Politics

The American justice system is rockin’ the suburbs

Let me tell y’all what it’s like  Being male, middle class and white  It’s a bitch, if you don’t believe, Listen up to my new cd, shamone –Ben Folds, “Rockin’ the Suburbs” First off, I apologise to Mr. Folds for using his song about nu metal bands in a blog post about racism. A common […]

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Politics

Transgender health in Leeds: An addendum

Last month I wrote a post about the state of transgender health in the NHS in Leeds. However, I realise that the post, written from the perspective of a cisgender ally, misses out the most important aspect of all: the transgender perspective. I hence asked on the LUU LGBT Society’s group page for said perspective, […]