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Would you work with the ‘Alliance Defending Freedom’?

YouTube still of the video: Should TERFs unite with the Right? It shows both panelists, Bindel and Joyce, with the moderator, Florence Read. They're seated in chairs with a bookcase behind them.

A 2022 Bindel–Joyce debate in which Joyce calls my gender ‘an attack on the whole institution of civilization’. She thinks she’s preserving ‘the Enlightenment,’ ‘evidence,’ ‘stable meanings,’ ‘how you do science’, ‘the whole institution of civilization.’

There were gay Nazis

detail of the book cover for BAD GAYS, focus on the word BAD

‘Bad Gays’ by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Weimar-era Germany had LGBTQ society and culture and an early movement for LGBTQ legal rights. Of course, that was lost. And some of the Nazis were gay.

More shameful nonsense from ‘Gay Shame’

Blonde woman has a surprised face. She is looking over her big sunglasses and she is holding both hands (with painted fingernails) in front of her face.

Regarding trans people, Gareth Roberts asks: ‘Who exactly invited the vampire in’? A continuation of my criticism of the ‘sex-realist’ aka ‘gender-critical’ aka transphobic book ‘Gay Shame’ by Gareth Roberts, published in April 2024.

121 things I want cis men to stop doing

Silhouette of a man awkwardly standing on his head against a rainbow vortex background.

Conveniently, all of them are sentences in the same article by the same cis man. Cis men’s name is Andrew Sullivan and I want them to stop doing what he did in his April 9, 2021 article on Substack. This is not Star Wars.

Yet another pro-discrimination argument

Pencil erasers, not used

Always follow the typos. They reveal what editors aren’t researching. Why does a national newspaper pay a columnist for a 2,800-word anti-transgender opinion essay? More mysteriously: If there’s a typo, what does it imply?

‘And you know what that means’

Closeup of a Nandu ostrich head

Is it a dogwhistle? I don’t know what it means. Transphobic essays are fiction. Not the harmless entertainment kind, either. These are lies about brutalizing the elderly and medically intervening on kids.

A bigoted premise sparks an ideology

One hand holds an open matchbox, the other holds a struck match. The matchbox brand label is "transfóboros."

For some, transphobia and homophobia are first principles. Transphobia is an ideology for many, a lens through which they see the world. There are other ways to think without first striking the match of transphobia.