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A new PYROPHORE entry has been published, indexing 🟥 the Catholic Church, a Rome-based Christian Restorationist religious organisation and former agency of the Italian government with a surprising history of anti-trans activism.
This hasn't come up in our ordinary coverage because there wasn't enough English-language material for us to know how to put it in the WEEKLY, but it did come up in our PYROPHORE research on Alexander Korte.
This thread is worth a read.
This is something that's probably going to not see much coverage in the Anglosphere, but yesterday, a press briefing for the new clinical guideline for trans youth in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland was published. (1/12)
We're using a little editorial threat rating system for PYROPHORE using square emojis which takes a few beats from Shinigami Eyes and Soupcan but with more bitterness, so right now it's:
No square: You're fine... for now... c!ssy
🟥: Foe
🟧: Potential foe
🟨: Coward
SEVERAL PROBLEMS WEEKLY
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, SP Press' weekly bulletin on trans news and current affairs from around the globe for the period of 31 March through 6 April, is now live!
A new PYROPHORE entry has been published, indexing 🟥 Australian Feminists for Women's Rights (AF4WR), a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) group based in Marrickville, New South Wales.
Clearing out the back issues: here's the Weekly
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, for 23–29 June. By the way, we have Ghost now! We can do proper newsletter subscriptions! Check it out!
A new PYROPHORE entry has been published, indexing 🟥 Women's Rights Network Australia (WRNA), an anti-trans advocacy group of the "women's sex-based rights" tendency, operating primarily in greater Sydney, New South Wales.
A new PYROPHORE entry has been published, indexing 🟧 the Australian Doctors' Fund t/a the Australian Doctors Federation, a medical professionals' advocacy group based in Banksia, southern Sydney, New South Wales.
A new PYROPHORE entry has been published, indexing Dr Jillian Spencer, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and Killarney Group (Genspect) collaborator from Queensland, Australia.