Proposal: A section listing common transphobic propaganda
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The examples that immediately spring to mind are:
- Adult Human Female, 2022: a documentary from the UK
- a screening of this was successfully stopped at the University of Edinburgh late last year
- two days ago it was announced that Ed Academics for Academic Freedom (at the University of Edinburgh) plan to screen it later this month
- What is a Woman?, 2022: an online film by Matt Walsh
Perhaps also a section on propaganda aimed at children; I've seen a lot more children' books in this vein lately—like every single one in the Sean Spicer 'take back storytime tour'.
(I'd be happy to help with this in whatever way works best.)
I've created the /library/propaganda/ section with ahf.md and wiaw.md representing those two titles: feel free to dump content in there and issue a pull request. If you have any questions let me know!
Or, if you prefer, write it in any kind of document like Google Drive or MS Word, or even as a comment here, and I can paste it right in.
No, markdown is perfect! I've just had deadlines.
@bethylamine Do you have a standardised set of terminology for referring to transphobic individuals that should be used in the project? Like, when referring to the individuals interviewed in AHF in this project, what do you want to go in the blank here: 'prominent UK ________'?
That is something I've been debating myself. "Gender criticals" is informally fine, "anti-trans actors" is too formal (and may seem like it implies some kind of roleplaying.) Transphobes is a catch-all, but can be pejorative when trying to write in neutral tone.
PACE frames it more around the anti-trans/gender-critical movement/campaign rather than the individuals supporting that movement, I suppose. You could say prominent UK figureheads of the gender-critical movements.