Ken dolls with a ‘man bun’. Female superhero action figures. At long last, the gendered distinctions of the pink and blue toy aisles are starting to break down.
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Despite the “Yes” vote, Australia has a long way to go in accepting sexuality and gender fluidity, especially in schools. Changing strict uniform rules is a small step in the right direction.
If we’re keeping him, it’s time to reinvent James Bond for the digital post-Weinstein age.
‘LGBTIQA+’ is a term often employed to be inclusive – but it runs the risk of being so inclusive it loses all meaning.
New guidance urging schools to stop making pupils conform to gender stereotypes is a step in the right direction.
The UN has finally created a specific role to uphold LGBT rights, but its first mandate-holder is resigning after just a year.
The new program for Catholic schools draws on the same research as Safe Schools (so perhaps it wasn’t part of a ‘Marxist agenda’ after all).
Many people use religion and culture as explanations for their homophobic attitudes.
There’s a simple solution to the school uniform conundrum: have a range of sanctioned options and allow students to choose, no matter their gender.
States who want to keep criminalising LGBT people are trying to stop the UN from creating a way of investigating them.
The Crossroads program provides students with meaningful and accurate information about gender diversity in order to challenge homophobic and transphobic discrimination and violence.
Is our gender determined by our bodies or our culture?
Gender is more of a flexible state than most people think. And as children, we start out thinking more flexibly about gender than we end up as adults.
The Australian Christian Lobby’s Lyle Shelton said he was concerned about body modification, gender reassignment surgery and future suicide risk. We check the research.
Safe Schools Coalition has been the focus of hot debate, but there is little evidence to support the anxieties around its mission.
As genders blur, language is rapidly adapting. Look no further than the American Dialect Society’s 2015 Word of the Year.
Germaine Greer’s comments that “post-operative transgender men are not women” have provoked outcry from transgender activists. So let’s have a meaningful discussion about gender, sex and the complex relationship between the two.
Transgender is a relatively new word. So when an academic seeks to create a transgender historical archive, complications abound.
Gay men earn less than heterosexual men, but lesbians earn more than straight women. The reasons may surprise you.
The album cover for Michael Jackson’s album Dangerous was painted by American pop-surrealist artist Mark Ryden. In it, he depicts a world in which the boundaries between human and animal, living and dead…
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
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Associate professor Sexualities and Genders / Sociology, Western Sydney University
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ARC Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow in Child and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Law, Keele University
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, National Centre of Excellence in Suicide Prevention, Griffith University
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Professor of Education and Equity, University of Sydney
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Researcher, Sexualities & Gender Research Network, Victoria University
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Professor of Cultural Studies, Director, Graduate Program in Gender Studies and Feminist Research, McMaster University
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Professor of Sociology, University College London., UCL
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Director, Tas Law Reform Institue / Associate Professor, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Assistant Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross
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Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
