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Mar 27, 20212 min read
Super Transphobic (“Super Straight”)
While it claims to be a new sexual orientation, “Super Straight” is yet another movement circulating online that people are using to mask...
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Feb 17, 20212 min read
Stop Over-validating Transgender People
The new media is becoming increasingly popular and therefore important in our daily lives. Social media platforms such as TikTok are...
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Nov 30, 20201 min read
“Everyone is a little bit bisexual”
Much of the LGBTQ+ community is bisexual and yet in our heteronormative society, we continue to pigeonhole bisexual people as gay or...
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Oct 28, 20201 min read
A Third Reason to Scrap Gender Roles
Why do some people have so much difficulty using correct pronouns and accepting non-binary identities? When meeting someone new, you...
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Oct 13, 20201 min read
Society's need for trans people to "look their gender”
Gender affirmation surgeries, also known as sex reassignment surgeries, often involve complex processes - having to undergo many...
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Oct 4, 20202 min read
Britain's Gender Recognition's Act won't change
The Gender Recognition Act was put in place in 2005 to have the law recognise people’s gender identity, after undergoing a lengthy...
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IntersectNews team
Sep 29, 20201 min read
The Stigmas around Asexuality
Asexuals (people who do not feel sexual attraction) are one of the lesser known sexualities within the LGBTQ+ community. Only around 1%...
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IntersectNews team
Sep 28, 20201 min read
Why do some people have so much difficulty using correct pronouns and accepting non-binary identity?
When meeting someone new, you might ask them if they have a nickname: a question that is completely ordinary to most people. But for...
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IntersectNews team
Sep 6, 20201 min read
Trans teen wins lawsuit against highschool
Drew Adams, a trans man, made the decision 3 years ago to sue his highschool over bathroom access. A federal court has now ruled in...
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Sep 6, 20202 min read
The Matrix is a Trans Metaphor, So What?
Lily Wachowski, co-director of The Matrix, which was undeniably one of the most iconic films of the 1990s, recently revealed that the...
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IntersectNews team
Sep 6, 20201 min read
What is The Split Attraction Model?
The split attraction model, or SAM, came into broader discussion in around 2005, although it had been theorised about as early as the...
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Aug 30, 20202 min read
The Importance of Neopronouns
Neopronouns refers to sets of pronouns commonly used by transgender or gender nonconforming individuals which differ from she/her,...
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Aug 5, 20202 min read
Gender Binary doesn’t exist
People often use ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ interchangeably, but their distinction is becoming more pertinent as more people become aware of...
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IntersectNews team
Jul 26, 20201 min read
Conversion Therapy Unpacked
Conversion therapy refers to a set of practices that falsely claim to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity....
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Jul 3, 20202 min read
Polish President: LGBTQ “‘ideology” is worse than communism
Last year nearly 100 municipalities throughout a third of Poland implemented “pro-family” resolutions “against LGBT propaganda” creating...
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IntersectNews team
Jun 24, 20201 min read
Trump administration attacks LGBT+ rights
On the fourth anniversary of the Pulse massacre, where forty-nine people were murdered in a gay night club in Florida, the Trump...
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IntersectNews team
Jun 22, 20201 min read
Do not put more money in JK Rowling’s pocket
It was almost impossible to miss that on June 10th, JK Rowling tweeted “TERF wars” and linked a text on her website. The linked text...
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IntersectNews team
Jun 19, 20201 min read
The final spark for change
In recent weeks we have seen a major resurgence of the BlackLivesMatter movement, with outbreaks of both peaceful and violent protests...
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Jun 16, 20201 min read
SCOTUS ruling
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that LGBT employees are protected from any workplace discrimination under the 1964 Civil Rights...
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