history of JK Rowling’s stances on trans issues. #LGBT
on 02026-08-21#Funcrunch about what it means to them to be agender and transmasculine: “In my case, it means that I cannot define what it means to be a man, woman, or any other gender with referring to body parts, and body parts do not define a person. (...) Despite being agender, I am not anti-gender. I was more that way when I first transitioned, because I thought that since the concept of gender made no rational sense to me, no one could actually have one.” #trans #LGBT
on 02026-07-27The effort to rename #JWST back to its original name, “NGST”, was because of James Webb’s “complicit silence [with the Lavender Scare] during his leadership roles at both the State Department and NASA”, which he headed 01961–01968. #LGBT #history #public-shaming
on 02026-04-15#video on #LGBT history: “homosexuality in pre-codes #cartoons”
on 02026-01-06#News that #Facebook is shutting down #LGBT and #abortion information accounts, including in countries where they’re legal. #censorship #human-rights
on 02025-12-11January #news about #Facebook employees getting mad because people will be allowed to use Facebook to say LGBTQA+ people are “mentally ill” #censorship #human-rights #LGBT
on 02025-12-11#Censorship in #China will now remove videos “promoting” “abnormal sexual behaviors” including #LGBT. #human-rights
on 02017-07-11“[T]he maternal aunts and grandmothers of homosexual probands were significantly more fecund compared with the maternal aunts and maternal grandmothers of the heterosexual probands. Moreover, due to the selective increase in maternal female fecundity, the total female fecundity was significantly higher in homosexual than heterosexual probands, thus compensating for the reduced fecundity of homosexuals. Altogether, these data support an X-linked multi-locus sexually antagonistic hypothesis rather than an autosomal multi-locus overdominance hypothesis” #gaygene #fecundity #natural-selection #lgbt
on 02015-08-14