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Vanderbilt Political Review

Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

OP-ED: Trans Kids do Exist, and They are in Danger

OP-ED: Trans Kids do Exist, and They are in Danger

Benjamin Newcomb, Contributer November 18, 2022

“I shall not go your way, O despisers of the body! You are no bridge to the overman!” -   Fredrich Nietzsche          I had the grave misfortune of going to Matt Walsh’s transphobic “Rally...

Drawing of three figures with gender symbols on them created by a young Hunter Schafer

Hunter Schafer on the Intersection of Art and Activism

Chloe Hall April 1, 2022

Article Header Image by Hunter Schafer published on https://www.rookiemag.com/2015/04/dancing-on-my-own/ “Making work in order to get the oppressors to humanize you is kind of sad when you think about...

OPINION: Trans People, Sports, and Domination: Why Lia Thomas is Important to Bigots

OPINION: Trans People, Sports, and Domination: Why Lia Thomas is Important to Bigots

Benjamin Newcomb, Contributor March 23, 2022

"I am" - Exodus 3:14          I’d like to begin this opinion piece by congratulating Ms. Lia Thomas on her win in the 500-meter freestyle at the Ivy League nationals. As a former swimmer who...

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SATIRE: A Short Article on Bathrooms and Biological Sex

Benjamin Newcomb, Staff Writer July 27, 2021

            Note: The following anonymous piece of writing was procured by VPR when a manila envelope containing a longer version of the article in an incomprehensible scrawl was slipped under...

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OP-ED: Exclusion of Transgender Athletes is Neither Scientific nor Fair

Benjamin Newcomb, Contributor May 7, 2021

The recently published Op-Ed titled "Joe Biden's Transgender Policy Creates an Unfair Playing Field" is poorly researched, needlessly sensationalist, and morally intolerable. In other words it is a poor...

Transphobic Sensationalism Sweeps America

Transphobic Sensationalism Sweeps America

Benjamin Newcomb March 17, 2021

A filthy cache of transphobia has revealed itself in discourse surrounding and adjacent to the Equality Act, a bill passed in the House on Feb. 25 to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to strengthen and...

Arguments at the United States Supreme Court for Same-Sex Marriage on April 28, 2015

Gay and Trans Rights Tested in the Supreme Court

Brogan Dice December 4, 2019
The conclusion of these cases will fundamentally challenge the American understanding of what it means to be a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.
The Carol Swain petition hurts the cause more than it helps. But there's a better way.

The Carol Swain petition hurts the cause more than it helps. But there’s a better way.

Alexander Slawson November 12, 2015

The controversial Carol Swain, a Vanderbilt Professor, is once again in the news after almost 1,500 students (and counting) signed a petition to have her fired.  (The demand was recently downgraded to...

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