{"id":4919,"date":"2022-05-10T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/?post_type=resource-toolkit&#038;p=4919"},"modified":"2022-05-10T14:10:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:10:24","slug":"responding-to-misinformation-about-gender-diversity","status":"publish","type":"resource-toolkit","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/resource-toolkit\/responding-to-misinformation-about-gender-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding to Misinformation about Gender Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These resources were suggested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BU WGS Faculty<\/a> (Women&#8217;s, Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies Program).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some suggestions and examples of how respond to transphobia and general misinformation about gender diversity:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>ACLU: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wfqUk0tdjkg\">\u00a0How to Respond\u00a0to Trans Misinformation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/25\/opinion\/sex-biology-binary.html\">Why Sex is Not Binary<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ACLU: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/lgbtq-rights\/four-myths-about-trans-athletes-debunked\">Four Myths about Trans Athletes Debunked<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sociologist Tey Meadow: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/02\/06\/restricting-care-transgender-teens-would-be-terrible-mistake\/\">Why Restricting Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth is a Mistake<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/diversity\/files\/2022\/05\/kyle-a0KL1Um0wBA-unsplash-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"247\" class=\"wp-image-4920 alignnone\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/files\/2022\/05\/kyle-a0KL1Um0wBA-unsplash-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/files\/2022\/05\/kyle-a0KL1Um0wBA-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/files\/2022\/05\/kyle-a0KL1Um0wBA-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/files\/2022\/05\/kyle-a0KL1Um0wBA-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/files\/2022\/05\/kyle-a0KL1Um0wBA-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/files\/2022\/05\/kyle-a0KL1Um0wBA-unsplash-755x503.jpg 755w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These resources were suggested by BU WGS Faculty (Women&#8217;s, Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies Program). Here\u2019s some suggestions and examples of how respond to transphobia and general misinformation about gender diversity: ACLU: \u00a0How to Respond\u00a0to Trans Misinformation Biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling: Why Sex is Not Binary ACLU: Four Myths about Trans Athletes Debunked Sociologist Tey Meadow: Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19144,"featured_media":4920,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-toolkit\/4919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-toolkit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resource-toolkit"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-toolkit\/4919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4929,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-toolkit\/4919\/revisions\/4929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}