Hey trans and queer people— Raise your hand if you ever found yourself performing heteronormative gender roles for the sake of cis or straight passing and then felt really weird about it because you were enforcing a binary which has been personally destructive and invalidating! * sheepishly raises hand * When trans
In order to receive gender-affirming healthcare through the NHS, trans patients in the UK must surpass a series of checkpoints in which their gender identity is externally verified. The implication is that trans people are not capable of providing informed consent because people with non-conforming gender identities are by default
Western media is shamelessly sensationalist and ill-researched, and especially so regarding North Korea: the DPRK is painted as irrational and exotic through click-bait headlines which exclaim how bizarre it is. The “news” stories on Kim Jong-un’s hair, gossip about hidden mechanisms of the government, and most recently rumors about
The UK Royal Navy is currently constructing two Queen Elizabeth -class aircraft carriers, the first of which was named the HMS Queen Elizabeth today. These are the UK Navy’s largest ships to date. The HMS Queen Elizabeth is scheduled to commission in 2017 and to be fully operational by
An essay for my MSc; edited in 2025 for clarity Introduction This paper identifies the intersections between trans theory and international relations (IR) theory by exposing the international relation’s blindness to gender diversity, and demonstrating the usefulness of trans theory in filling the resulting gaps. Trans theory offers insights