The strategy of queer activism always orders silence. If politicians are discussing a bill to introduce gender self-determination, it is preferable that the media do not talk about it, and if they do talk about it, they have to say that the bill is only "against discrimination of LGBT people" and keep quiet about the rest. Any opinion that is even the slightest bit dissonant is silenced with insults, threats (chilling effect) and blackout (no platform). All this happens also in Italy, see for example [...]

In a letter to Sex Matters, Kishwer Falkner, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the UK's equal opportunities watchdog, said it had ended its relationship with Stonewall, the largest LGBT organisation. "As a publicly funded organisation, we have to make sure we make the best choices about our budget and we have recently reviewed all our agreements," said Falkner. For many years Stonewall has strongly influenced [...]

For years, free thought has been under attack in academies all over the western world, including Italy, with particular regard to the discussion of sex and gender issues. The spread of cancel culture, tribalistic-identitarian posturing, safe spaces and the obsession with "political correctness" are strangling freedom of expression and research almost everywhere, contributing significantly to building a society terrorised and dumbed down by censorship and self-censorship. That teachers are being silenced, threatened [...]

In these hours, the LGBT+ world is mobilising to ask the Senate Justice Commission to schedule the Zan bill against homobitransphobia, misogyny and ableism, which has already been approved by the Chamber of Deputies. Arcilesbica has drawn up a number of proposed amendments, without which, it says, "there is a risk of serious breakdown". These, in brief, are the proposals addressed to the centre-left senators. - in the definitions in art.1, use the clear terms of "sex, gender stereotypes, sexual orientation, transsexuality", instead of the current ambiguities (sex, gender, orientation [...]

"There is a stubbornness in me that does not tolerate being intimidated by the will of others. My courage rises at every attempt to frighten me'. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813 An earthquake is shaking Anglo-Saxon universities. Gender-critical female professors have provoked it, risking their careers by denouncing the loss of academic freedom and the intimidating climate in which sex, gender and gender identity are discussed. "The gender identity movement is erasing people's freedom of speech and the academic freedom of anyone who does not [...]

Gender studies, which was born to welcome female knowledge and represent it in the academies, has long since become a transfeminist and queer reserve (Julie Bindel explains it here). Provincially, Italian universities are in line with the trend - the phenomenon is consolidated in the Anglo-Saxon world and indeed shows some signs of abating - and in their educational offerings they do not fail to include proposals such as this one from the University of Turin, Department of Law: "Seminar on Lgbtq+ Law" (?), a compendium of the themes of that subculture - [...]