Posts Tagged ‘ sexual orientation ’

Choice: How or Why?

Jul 5th, 2010 | By Emcee | Category: Featured Articles, Opinion Pieces

Despite great progress in the neurosciences, our understanding of the determinants of sexual orientation remains incomplete. The nature versus nurture debate is indeed too simplistic as an approach. Genetics and heredity do seem to play a role, but the environment also induces palpable physical alterations in the brain known as plastic changes (evident for example [...]



Discrimination in the Medical Field

Jun 6th, 2010 | By Guest Contributor | Category: Health

I think that you have “The GRID.” In 1982, such sentence used to terrify the medical staff as they said it, more than the patients themselves. As doctors and nurses knew only a bit more than patients did concerning this illness. Patients were completely isolated, and any medical staff that took the “risk” of entering [...]



Transgenders in Lebanon: An Overview

May 23rd, 2010 | By editor | Category: Featured Articles, Trans Column

Editor’s Note: At IDAHO 2010, Helem printed & distributed leaflets with some important information about transgender issues in Lebanon. I am re-publishing that information verbatim here to make it available for more people:
Ignorance breeds misunderstandings and fear. Thus, people who fall under the “Transgender” category of the “LGBT” are not only marginalised and stigmatised in [...]



Squash the Purple Butterfly

May 17th, 2010 | By Guest Contributor | Category: Featured Articles

It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wings can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world: The chaos theory. While it might seem quite illogical to blame a butterfly for a typhoon, this concept, at first glance, might appear awkwardly plausible to most people. This derives mainly [...]



المسيرة العلمانية”: أي علمانية؟”

Apr 26th, 2010 | By aphrodite | Category: Lead Story

من دون خطابات تحريضية، ولا طائفية، من دون الشيكات الموقعة بالدولار والعملة اللبنانية، ومن دون دموع الاستعطاف، أو عبارات التهديد والتخويف، نزل علمانيو لبنان الى الشارع يوم أمس الأحد في 25 نيسان 2010، ليطالبوا بقانون مدني اختياري، يضاف الى قوانين الأحوال الشخصية الطائفية التي تحكم حياة الأفراد في الزواج والطلاق والارث والوفاة والحضانة وغيرها. لا شك أن العدد كان جيدا نسبة الى أن المسيرة لم تستخدم التحريض الطائفي، ولا الترغيب المادي، ولا كان على رأسها “زعيم” أو حزب دعا اليها، وكان لافتا المشاركة الكثيفة للفئات العمرية الشابة، ومشاركة الأحزاب العلمانية في ظل غياب أية أعلام حزبية التزاما بتعليمات المنظمين. المسيرة كانت أشبه بصرخة الولادة لطفل ولد للتو، لكنه لا يدري من هو، ومن والداه، ولماذا جاء الى الحياة، وما هدفه في الحياة، وما سيكون مصيره.

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