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What does AMAB mean? And is it offensive to use?
AMAB stands for Assigned Male At Birth, where a person’s gender was given by medical professionals based on the baby’s genitalia found at birth giving a person a biological sex marker on their birth certificate. In this case, AMAB would mean that doctors or midwives found the baby to have a penis, therefore, would assign […]
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What is deadgendering? Who does it and is it offensive?
Dead gendering is when… Deadgendering is when someone refers to a person with the wrong gender pronoun or refers to a previous gender identity which that person has since denounced. It is similar to deadnaming except you are specifically referring to their previous gender identity rather than their previous name. Referring to a trans woman […]
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What does folx mean?
Terms where X replaces a letter denotes a nod to more inclusive language
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What does womxn mean and how do you pronounce it?
Have you noticed the term Womxn and ever wondered what it means or why people are starting to use it? Womxn is a relatively new term, thought to be a more inclusive way of saying or writing women/woman. It is thought that it was first used in 2015. The term Womxn is an alternative for […]
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Cornwall Pride pens open letter to MPs about the Gender Recognition Act
Cornwall Pride wrote to all of the UK’s MPs to express concerns over the Gender Recognition Act and the delays to “gay cures” in the UK. “Very concerned over backtracking on trans rights”. The team that runs Cornwall’s only Pride event, Cornwall Pride has written to all of the UK’s MPs to outline their concerns […]
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Reddit just purged a lot of subreddits that criticised trans people
Reddit has purged a huge amount of forums recently. Yesterday it banned numerous subreddits, many of which were gender critical, trans-exclusionary or part of an anti-transgender movement. Reddit is one of the largest forum websites in the world. It has hundreds of thousands of pages dedicated to thousands of topics, with millions of users. As […]
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What does AFAB mean? And is it offensive to us?
AFAB stands for Assigned Female At Birth, where a person’s gender was given by medical professionals based on the baby’s genitalia found at birth giving a person a biological sex marker on their birth certificate. In this case, AFAB would mean that doctors or midwives found the baby to have a vagina, therefore, would assign […]
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No, workers are not being “forced” into putting preferred pronouns on their email signature
We can categorically state that companies in the UK are not forcing their workers to put preferred pronouns onto their email signatures. This notion was brought up by India Willoughby who tweeted, “Something else that I’m surprised no news organisation has picked up on is forced declaration of pronouns in the public sector. Employees now […]
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OPINION | Is having 100+ genders too many?
For a community that claims to despise labels and being put in boxes are we really telling the wider world that we now have 100+ labels for ourselves, a fair majority of which are based on our mood and situation at any given time?
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6 totally easy ways you can be a great ally to the non-binary community
Six ways we can all become a better ally to our gender non-conforming siblings.
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This is how you can be a better non-binary ally
Six ways we can all become a better ally to our gender non-conforming siblings.