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Primary School Teacher Found Dead After Beginning New Term As Woman

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 21.03.2013 | UK
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A primary school teacher who began a new term as a woman after transitioning from male to female has been found dead. Pupils at St Mary Magdalen's ...

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Why Transphobia Needs A Place In The Dictionary

Claudia White | Posted 12.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
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Claudia White

Last month, I started a Change.org petition to get the term "transphobia" added to the both the Oxford English Dictionary and Microsoft Office's dictionary lexicon. The petition gained 500 signatures in just five hours and now stands at over 9,000.

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When Did 'Freedom of Speech' Become a Cover for Bigotry?

Alex MacDonald | Posted 23.03.2013 | UK Politics
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Alex MacDonald

What really worries me here is that a self-confessed feminist is actually resorting to the same tactics used by the likes of Ann Coulter and Nick Griffin to justify her hateful beliefs.

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A Critique of Modern Gender Studies

James Hetterley | Posted 18.02.2012 | UK Politics
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James Hetterley

Gender, rather lifelessly, has been defined by the FAO as "the relations between men and women, both perceptual and material. Gender is not determined biologically...but constructed socially". The beginning of all studies into gender, then, must also be a study of social relations.

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