🔗 A Guide To Gender Identity Terms
A useful guide to gender identity norms and the use of pronouns by cis/trans gender individuals.
A useful guide to gender identity norms and the use of pronouns by cis/trans gender individuals.
"We propose replacing the gender binary in elite sport with a more nuanced approach – an algorithm to be applied to all elite athletes (cisgender and transgender) that accounts for a range of physiological factors (including, but not limited to, testosterone levels), and gender identity. In addition to providing fairness to elite ciswomen athletes, an algorithm could also provide fairness to elite transmen athletes. Although not discussed in the paper, elite transmen athletes are highly likely to be physiologically disadvantaged in comparison to elite cismen athletes. Even if (via hormone therapy) a transman’s testosterone level reached that of an elite cismen athlete, some of his previous female physiology is unlikely to change (e.g. bone structure and lung size) meaning that, in this respect, they are disadvantaged in …
A teaching tool for breaking the big concept of gender down into bite-sized, digestible pieces
Tragic end of the boy who was brought up as a girl http://ind.pn/pO2bf9 (story of David Reimer)
أرفعي راسك فوق أنتي شرموطة http://youtu.be/oRaQv4yxM-o #SlutWalk
"men use sexual violence to put women in their place, and then a chorus of voices rises to blame women who get attacked" http://is.gd/haSaPn
Don't "act like a man" http://is.gd/j12Ay #gender