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The Times- Inside the ‘cloak and dagger’ campaign against Kathleen Stock

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  Inside the ‘cloak and dagger’ campaign against Kathleen Stock Activists calling on the University of Sussex to sack the trans row lecturer hide their identities to protect against an online backlash Activists with the Anti Terf Sussex campaign group donned balaclavas to stage a protest on campus. They hid their faces in this picture posted on the group’s Instagram page ANTITERFSUSSEX/INSTAGRAM Tom Ball Saturday October 16 2021, 12.00am, The Times Students calling for the resignation of Kathleen Stock have said their campaign has been “cloak and dagger” in order to protect their own members from online harassment. Trans activists at the University of Sussex are waging an anonymous campaign against Stock, the philosophy professor, who has been advised that she may need  security on campus  as a result of the row. The campaign, led by a collection of student groups, has posted flyers around the campus demanding she be fired and members have posed in balaclavas alongs...

The Washington Times-Transgender homicide rate ‘remarkably low’ despite Human Rights Campaign claims

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Transgender homicide rate ‘remarkably low’ despite Human Rights Campaign claims  In this Aug. 16, 2019, file photo, trans rights activist Kenya Cuevas smokes a cigarette while talking with fellow members of a community support group, in Mexico City. The group sets up a tent twice a week providing cultural activities ... By  Valerie Richardson  - The Washington Times - Sunday, December 8, 2019 Calls to combat a purported epidemic of killings targeting transgender people, especially women of color, are rising, even though U.S. data indicates that people who identify as members of the opposite sex are less likely to end up as homicide victims than their non-transgender counterparts. Kentucky State University associate professor Wilfred Reilly found that the 2017 homicide death rate for transgender people was about 1.48 per 100,000, less than a third of the overall murder rate of about 5 per 100,000 and a fraction of the rate for men in general (6.68) or black people (18.8). ...