Historical Examples of Gender Discrimination
Certain forms of sex discrimination are illegal in some countries, while in other countries sex discrimination may be legally sanctioned under various circumstances.
Most countries don't protect from discrimination based on gender identity or expression and trans people still face an immense amount of discrimination.
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“We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
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“But there, where I have garnered up my heart,
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The fountain from the which my current runs
Or else dries up: to be discarded thence,
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