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How debate about gender identity could undermine global efforts to protect victims of violence

  • Written by Jenna Norosky, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageA transgender woman takes part in an International Day For The Elimination Of Violence Against Women demonstration in El Salvador on Nov. 25, 2019.Camilo Freedman/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)

Aided by the Trump administration, debate over gender identity has gone from being a touchstone of domestic culture wars to infiltrating the work of...

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