News Round-Up
19 May 2024
by Will Jones
If you though the 'trans' Roman Emperor museum stunt was ridiculous, in the U.S. there's a museum whose T. rex skeleton 'came out' as nonbinary back in 2017, proudly announcing its pronouns were they/them.
Woke books that were bought for huge advances by inexperienced editors have flopped commercially, insiders say, including a $500,000 'queer feminist' novel (3,500 copies) and Elliot Page's $3m trans memoir (68,000 copies).
We should always be sceptical of woke historical revisionism, says Guy de la Bédoyère. But in the case of 'trans' Emperor Elagabalus, the teenage popinjay really may have been partial to a bit of cross-dressing.
One of the UK's most insignificant institutions of public learning, North Herts Museum, has provoked ridicule by relabelling the Roman Emperor Elagabalus with female pronouns, as he was supposedly a "trans woman".
In a brutal resignation letter, Suella Braverman has accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of having "manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver" on key policies and said he is "incapable of doing so".
The BBC's "Female Self-Shooters" course faces backlash for allowing anyone identifying as female, leading to concerns about its impact on female-only initiatives.
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