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The author set out to understand how the faith of displaced LGBT people in South Africa has evolved over time, and how religion has shaped their experiences of displacement.
Student experience or satisfaction surveys are not a reliable guide to teaching performance. Even worse, anonymous survey responses are at times little better than university-facilitated hate speech.
As a teacher, an academic cannot use freedom of speech to say something that may directly demean or intimidate a student. But as a researcher, they must have the freedom to pursue the truth.
Is it even possible to respect faith leaders’ desires to uphold the harmful practice while outlawing it?
The survey also found that trans people who live in their affirmed gender report experiencing less stigma, anxiety and depression.
A psychologist and expert on gender diversity explains strategies for creating a healthy environment for trans or nonbinary kids.
Half of LGBTQ participants in a recent study experienced discrimination, insults, bullying or abuse while playing, watching or talking about sports.
Trans Day of Visibility, celebrated March 31, is a day to honor the trans community and counter transphobia.
The extended COVID-19 social isolation could be an opportunity for parents to have an impact on how boys are schooled in masculinity.
One in three Polish people believe in a ‘gender conspiracy’, according to new reserach.
The Trudeau government took the first step to federally ban conversion therapy — a practice intended to change sexual orientation.
TERF is not a slur. Instead, we should use words that accurately describe how some feminists are actually anti-trans activists.
Conversion therapy has been pushed on some in the LGBQ community by those who think same-sex sexual behavior is ‘unnatural.’ But such behavior seems to have evolved millions of years before humans.
Transgender and non-binary people are often pressured to hide their gender identity at work.
High-profile athletes have been speaking out against the eligibility of transgender women in elite female sporting competitions.
Researchers from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS share the latest research on HIV prevention, treatment and stigma.
Technology companies have immense power over our lives. But why are so many of their employees and others concerned about the ethics of their behaviour?
Wallaby and Waratahs player Israel Folau’s recent comments about gay people are just one example of the homophobia in Australian sport. Recent research suggests the problem is widespread.
‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ suggests children are being persuaded into transgender identities before they know what that means. This theory is best explained by transphobia and research study biases.
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