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Hey John, Thanks for being a subscriber of The Needle. Here is your Weekly NRT! To start, here's our top 5 viewed articles this week. #1 - An op-ed about portrayals of trans women as inherently masculine, and how this harms the perceptions of them, even if the images are meant to advocate for them. This article is a form of media critique. It's not calling the real people the depictions may reflect hateful. It is an analysis of the context in which the depictions are made, and how there's little daylight between "allies" trying to make uplifting art and transphobic caricatures. #2 - An op-ed discussing the term "transsexual", and how modern reclamation of the term has nothing to do with the loaded, harmful past, wherein doctors controlled access to the means of transition. That was the age of transmedicalism (the ideology of gatekeeping care based on a doctor determining if you'd be "fuckable" on HRT, which was a catastrophe). The op-ed discusses how some of us have different needs, and that there should be language to talk about this. #3 - An op-ed discussing how fleeing a repressive regime, such as the US or UK, is isn't a betrayal of community, but rather a victory. Every trans person who becomes safe is a victory for us all. It further talks about how being able to migrate and survive is so uncontroversial in terms of moral philosophy that it's been codified in international law as a human right for nearly a century. #4 - A discussion of a recent study showing that as little as 6 months on feminizing HRT aligns the health profiles and protein expressions of a transsexual woman with those of a cis woman. The Needle covered this study before Erin in the Morning or Pink News! This was part of our ongoing "Academia Slaying" column. #5 - A discussion of a recent study that joyfully discusses puppygirls and what they can teach us. To our knowledge, none of the other trans news sites have covered this study. Also part of the "Academia Slaying" column.
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Up next is every article we published since the last NRT went out. First up, we have the next 3 entries in Jane's interview series with Louise Weard, the creator of the Castration Movie series. Here is Part 4 and Part 5. Second, Jane syndicated her argument for armed community self defense as an opinion piece from Assigned Media over here to The Needle.
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Feeling down about the state of trans rights in America? For our Good News! vertical, Artemis has your back- with an article discussing multiple (six) laws passed by Colorado's legislature in the most recent session, all of which improve trans and queer lives. In political news, Jane interviewed a transsexual woman running for state legislature in Indiana. The candidate, Lilliana Young, offered a vision of solidarity and progress. In another entry for our "Academia Slaying" vertical, Artemis covered a study that is an interesting case. On the one hand, it provides strong data debunking gender conservative claims about "youth desistance", and on the other- the way the study brief was written reinforces gatekeeping, cissexist ideas of what transsexual medicine should be. Artemis also covered a frustrating development in the UK's war on women and what is constructed as acceptable womanhood. Finally, we published an article addressing misinformation about asylum-seeking. Thank you for being a supporter of The Needle. We'll be back next week with another dose of News Replacement Therapy. You can support our coverage by spreading the word and signing up for a paid subscription. They start at 5 euros a month. However, we hope you will give what you can. If you're already a paid subscriber, we thank you again for your generous support and solidarity. 💡 Disclaimer: This newsletter is named "News Replacement Therapy" as a cheeky reference to HRT, and is not meant to be an actual, literal medicine or therapy. We aren't trained in that, but to be fair, neither is your doctor. |
