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Flashback Episode | 41 - Trans: A Conversation with Helen Joyce

Gender: A Wider Lens

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The Importance of Courage in Trans Activism

There's a there's a very Orwellian bit in American law. At various points, various states and also the federal government have put out circulars or draft laws that seek to define sex as meaning gender identity. And so it's double think you have to be able to hold both meanings at the same time in your mind. Yeah. I hadn't realized to what an extent 1984 was based on constantly rewriting history. Like that's what Winston is doing. He's constantly changing everything in all the records every time the current narrative changes. People who were in or now being written out of Eurasia as war with Oceania are allowed with Oce Asia. You can rewrite everything.

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