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Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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(not directed at op, just general knowledge) the term gay panic specifically comes from the "gay panic" defense - a legal defense stating that a straight perpetrator cannot be held liable for their violent assault or murder of a queer victim bc they perceived the victim as coming onto them, which

Impy@wayward-imp.bsky.social · 4w ago

Does anyone else struggle with the urge to hold it against authors who use the term "gay panic" to describe the emotional flailing of someone who can't get up the nerve to face the person they like? But the authors simply DO NOT KNOW that "gay panic" is what it was called when bigots killed people.

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