History offers lessons in debate around trans rights, says LGBTQ+ professor
Toxic debate in Britain about transgender rights echoes the vilification of gay men in the 1950s – a historical parallel that could offer solutions to the current clash, says the country’s first professor of LGBTQ+ history. Matt Cook, who will take up the newly created post at Oxford University’s Mansfield College in September, said shifting ideas about gender identity over the centuries show us that debate about what it means to be a man or a woman is nothing new. “The debate in the UK about trans rights is particularly…
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