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Category: In the News

Articles in the mainstream news media that I think it worth drawing attention to, often because they have a gender or transgender bias.

What do any of us really know about the shoes in which we have never walked?

14th February 201914th February 2019 Hay LlamasIn the News, Opinion, TransgenderLeave a Comment on What do any of us really know about the shoes in which we have never walked?

Someone sent me a link to this short TED talk by Paula Stone Williams It’s very good. The key quote I took from it was “What do any of us really know about the shoes in which we have never…

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What You Need to Know About Transgender Rights

9th February 2019 Hay LlamasIn the News, OpinionLeave a Comment on What You Need to Know About Transgender Rights

This article was published a year ago, and is still utterly superb. The fight for transgender rights is an urgent battle against what some have called the last bastion of socially acceptable bigotry. If we take the notion seriously that…

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Photo manipulation

23rd January 201924th January 2019 Hay LlamasIn the News, OpinionLeave a Comment on Photo manipulation

I read an article in The Guardian today about “Selfie Dysphoria” It’s an interesting article about how selfie filters are driving many people to use cosmetic surgery to make their face look more like their selfies, and how in the…

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Women in Motorsport – the W Series

11th October 2018 Hay LlamasIn the News, OpinionLeave a Comment on Women in Motorsport – the W Series

It’s been recently reported in the Media [1][2] that there is a new female-only motorsport series being launched called “W Series”. British IndyCar driver Pippa Mann calls it a “sad day for motorsport” and that it will segregate women drivers.…

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Doctor Who is now a woman

16th July 2017 Hay LlamasIn the News, OpinionLeave a Comment on Doctor Who is now a woman
Source: Wikipedia

Just after Wimbledon Men’s Final, fans everywhere learned what they had been waiting till the end of the match for. Not who won, but who would be the new Doctor Who. To the shock of few, the new Doctor is…

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Transgender – Richard O’Brien and Germaine Greer

17th May 201611th February 2019 Hay LlamasIn the News, Opinion, TransgenderLeave a Comment on Transgender – Richard O’Brien and Germaine Greer

  Well… wow. What do you make of this? Richard O’Brien responding to Germaine Greer’s comments on transgenderism. I agree with Germaine Greer and Barry Humphries. You can’t be a woman. You can be an idea of a woman. You’re in…

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Ted Cruz, Toilets and Transgenders

16th May 2016 Hay LlamasIn the News, Opinion, Transgender1 Comment on Ted Cruz, Toilets and Transgenders

A month ago, I posted a reaction on my public Facebook page to Ted Cruz’s comments on North Carolina’s decision to pass a law which makes transpeople use the public toilets (restrooms) of their birth gender rather than their identified…

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In the News: British Army’s first transgender officer

19th January 2015 Hay LlamasIn the News, Opinion, Transgender1 Comment on In the News: British Army’s first transgender officer

As I mentioned a few days ago, transgender issues do seem to be appearing in the mainstream news a lot more than they used to. Is it actually (gasp!) becoming socially acceptable to acknowledge that we exist and that it’s…

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Review: BBC Radio 1 – The Surgery with Aled and Dr Radha (14-Jan-2015)

15th January 201511th February 2019 Hay LlamasIn the News, Opinion, Reviews, Transgender2 Comments on Review: BBC Radio 1 – The Surgery with Aled and Dr Radha (14-Jan-2015)

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, last night the weekly Surgery with Aled and Dr. Radha on BBC Radio 1 was on the subject of Gender Identity. The entire hour of the programme was given over to the subject, and…

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In the News

14th January 2015 Hay LlamasIn the News, Transgender2 Comments on In the News

I don’t know if it’s just because I am more aware of it, but there does seem to be a lot more media coverage about transgender issues and Gender Identity in the mainstream media at the moment. Tonight at 9pm…

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