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[the_borderer]

Does anyone know what where the UK law stands on transphobic abuse?

I have been getting trouble from a couple of individuals in particular for about six months maybe, until yesterday. They got onto the same bus as me and started off with their usual name calling as well as throwing old bus tickets at me. When I complained to the bus driver they protested their innocence, as I would have expected, but when they realised that the driver and other passengers didn't believe a word they were saying they threatened me, saying they would be round to my flat later. 20 minutes they were round, ringing the doorbell and knocking on the window. When I didn't answer they shouted "you are dead!" through my letterbox. By this point I had already told relatives what was happening, and when I was threatened at my flat I got the police involved, but they said that there wasn't much they could do.

I am pretty terrified, especially as today is Black-eye Friday (The one day in the year when violent crime goes out of control in Carlisle) and I am living on my own.

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[kerrizor.livejournal.com]

I need a book recommendation to take to jury duty on monday (who the hell gets jury duty the week of christmas?) What are your favorite books recently?

DRAG IT UP! December 20 Vancouver BC

[devin-boi.livejournal.com]

Kings of Vancouver

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[katrijn.livejournal.com]

I was searching for androgynous names and I found , an article about (you guessed it) androgynous names. The main thrust is that androgynous naming hasn't increased, and androgynous names usually settle out into one or the other.

I found this excerpt especially interesting:

"To some degree the androgyny is appealing," says Lieberson. "But this can also give it a negative value for their sons and a positive value for their daughters." The researchers explain this asymmetry using the well-known sociological concept of status contamination: "The advantaged have a greater incentive to avoid having their status confused with the disadvantaged," they write. If boys (like whites) are relatively advantaged compared with girls (or blacks), these privileged groups will systematically "leave the neighborhood" when customary markers of status disappear--as they do when names lose their sexual specificity.