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A Good Week for Bad People
It’s been a bad week of politics for queer people. It’s been a bad week of politics for trans people. It’s been a bad week of politics for anyone with a moral backbone or an ounce of care for other people. It’s been a bad week; but not the only week.
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Adult Human Female: Not a victory for free speech
The showing of ‘Adult Human Female’ at Edinburgh University has made the campus a less safe space for staff and students. The film has about as much academic standing as ‘Birth of a Nation’, and the arguments within are just as toxic; but its showing has been hailed as a victory for “common sense” and…
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Adult Human Female
Edinburgh University has seen 2 attempts by gender critical activists to screen the film ‘Adult Human Female’ cancelled following staff and students protests. A third attempt is on the cards. ‘Saying trans people don’t or shouldn’t exist is not a ‘personal opinion’ that we can ‘debate’.’ Ruth Elliott on the protest against the screening of…
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Rights or Liberation?
RTiE Trans Liberation Event 20th October 2023 Trans Liberation is the right to be yourself. But this needs to be beyond the simple question of legal rights, which can be taken away by the state as readily as they can be given. If we can make common cause with all of the oppressed, then trans…
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What is Trans Liberation? Event 20th Oct
‘It’s important that we understand the difference between trans liberation and trans rights, because if we only strive to make things a little better and set our sights on the bare minimum, we’ll always be playing catch-up and responding to attacks made against us. We must fight for liberation, for more than the bare minimum,…
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‘Don’t let the bampots grind you down!’
Leslie (he/him) is a trans man based in Edinburgh. Here’s his take on the Tory party conference. ‘Cruella Braverman did us a favour last week by joining up the dots. She announced that people who are LGBT+ or women should no longer be allowed to apply for asylum on that basis, neatly demonstrating that the Tories…
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Defend Trans rights, defend democracy
The Scottish Government challenge against the Section 35 blocking of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Scotland) is now in court. What is the Bill about? Why did the Tories block it? Gender Recognition Reform in Scotland ‘This is a significant and important Bill, but it has been met with one of the most spiteful and…
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Oban Pride 2023
It was a grand weekend at Oban Pride (1st – 3rd September), starting with an unofficial ‘trans takeover’ in a local pub, where G and I handed out about 100 trans liberation stickers on the dance floor. It was entirely unintentional, a chance compliment by a member of staff about G’s T-shirt following a glass…
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Everyone is welcome here
Why not have a year round pride? Edinburgh during pride is great, and during the rest of the year you can still find some shops and local businesses with LGBT+ stickers and flags. So why not something more permanent? We started in May 2023, going around local shops with ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ stickers and…
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No Pride without Trans Pride!
The sun came out for over 400 people marching from the metal dragon on Dundee High Street to the Bonar Hall. According to Maggie Chapman MSP, it was ‘extremely colourful’, and pretty loud. Chants of ‘Trans rights are human rights’ and ‘Protect trans kids’, among others, set the tone, and there were many creative placards,…