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Understand the LGBTQIA+ news: University regulators' "absolutist" free speech laws could allow free rein to transphobia
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Understand the LGBTQIA+ news: University regulators' "absolutist" free speech laws could allow free rein to transphobia

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  • Kathleen Stock: A ruling against a UK university under an "absolutist" approach to free speech could have wide-ranging impacts on the UK's education system. We explore.
  • World Athletics: A sex test that was ultimately ended because it was too dehumanising is set to come back to World Athletics. We help you understand why.
  • Adolescence: The TV show that's dominated the news agenda and inspired a conversation about misogyny. QueerAF's audience development producer Dee Whitnell looks at the bigger picture in the Queer Gaze.

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Kathleen Stock: New ruling could make it harder to prevent anti-trans bullying in UK Universities

TL;DR: The UK university regulator has fined the University of Sussex over a policy which was designed to prevent hateful and bullying views being shared toward transgender people on campus, under what's been decried as an "absolutist" approach to free speech. The fine could have a chilling impact right across the UK's education system.

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