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Consequently, transgender people became an object of fascination, and plenty was written about them – by the mainstream media, feminists and the medical establishment whose management of transsexualism has proved especially controversial – with transgender people themselves frequently excluded from the conversation, with their identities erased or discounted, or having their experiences framed by people or outlets with no lived experience of being transgender.

Juliet Jacques, author of the Guardian’s Transgender Journey series which documents the gender reassignment process from a first-person perspective, critically examines some of the ideas and myths that grew around transgender people, and the gulf between mainstream political and media discussions of transgender issues and the autonomous transgender theory and identities that developed in response.]]> quirky http://www.cusu.cam.ac.uk/events/3008/invisible-lives-thinking-critically-about-transgender-issues/ http://www.cusu.cam.ac.uk/events/3009/the-young-atheists-handbook/
In this talk, Alom Shaha will describe his personal experiences growing up in a Bangladeshi Muslim community in London, what role his science education played in his journey towards atheism and how, as a Physics teacher, he responds to the apparent conflict between science and religion in the classroom.]]> quirky http://www.cusu.cam.ac.uk/events/3009/the-young-atheists-handbook/ http://www.cusu.cam.ac.uk/events/add.html cusu http://www.cusu.cam.ac.uk/events/add.html