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Iraq bans media usage of words ‘homosexuality,’ ‘gender’: reports (thehill.com)

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Iraq’s official media regulator has reportedly banned the terms “homosexual” and “homosexuality” on all media and social media platforms and is instead mandating the usage of the term “sexual devia…

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those losers are so worried about other people’s sexuality.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like, are they going to remove the gender field from their identity forms too? Why would you ban a common word?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That would be ironic, considering that gender wouldn't matter upon hire.