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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...

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...

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Sports Organizations Find Themselves Walking a Tightrope on Controversial Political Issues

Liam Thompson, Contributor April 23, 2021

In the past year there have been protests throughout professional sports leagues.  In college sports multiple basketball stars protested the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) ban on student-athletes...

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...

Petra De Sutter Becomes World's First Transgender Deputy Prime Minister

Petra De Sutter Becomes World’s First Transgender Deputy Prime Minister

Roshan Natarajan, Deputy Editor-in-Chief October 7, 2020

Belgian gynecologist-turned-politician Petra De Sutter is now the most senior transgender government official in the world. This month, she was sworn in as a deputy prime minister, representing the Flemish...

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