Facebook recently introduced 50 new terms that can be used to describe one’s gender. Anyone with half a brain and a drop of empathy understands that gender issues are about more than the nouns that we use and the genitals that a person has now or had before.
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That is why (should have been a hacking trial defendant), transphobic and brainless cave dweller Piers Morgan has come under attack by members of the transgender community and other intelligent members of society around the world for his crass, insensitive and, latterly, self-pitying public statements on the subject. This is how Stephen Colbert dealt with the story a couple of nights ago.
Piers Morgan could find comfort in the support of some tabloids who expressed their transphobia by using hate speech slurs
Original post published 19 February 2014
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