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Oh, no, even Boris Johnson gets it

Oh, no, even Boris Johnson gets it

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Feb 17, 2023
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Transgender friends in Washington, D.C. (Wiki)

“There are some Republicans who take a very peculiar view of what is going on. They somehow have come to identify, through a really weird piece of logic, Putin with conservatism...and Ukraine as being woke. I mean, Give me a break." — Boris Johnson, in an interview with Kyiv Jewish Forum

So I wasn’t asked to sign the open letter to the New York Times protesting its coverage of trans people. But I would have. It’s a very good letter. Its chief contention is that the Times leaves out crucial information about its sources and treats  gender diversity with “eerily familiar” pseudoscience.

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