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But too often, recent efforts to reform institutions have meant reconstituting them in ways that distort or fundamentally undermine their core mission. Nonprofit organizations, governmental agencies, university departments and cultural institutions have ousted leaders and sent their staffs into turmoil in pursuit of progressive political goals. The latest target is PEN America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to free expression by journalists and authors. This followed a refusal by several writers to have their work considered for PEN’s annual literary awards. According to its 21 signatories, mostly up-and-coming authors, “among writers of conscience, there is no disagreement.
Persons: George Floyd, Salman Rushdie, PEN’s, Suzanne Nossel, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Organizations: Nonprofit, PEN America, PEN Locations: Gaza, Israel
Or that every predator serving time in prison deserves immediate and unfettered access to the showers in the women’s prison. You might even believe that de-transitioning, and transition regret, are commonplace, instead of rare (widely believed to be about 1 percent). Conservatives have succeeded in demonizing trans people in part because so many Americans have said they’d never known anyone who is trans. In part this is because our numbers are small, but it’s also, in part, because many trans people, post- transition, are not immediately “readable” as trans. Knowing a person who has had an abortion — just like knowing someone who is trans — can change Americans’ opinions about it.
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