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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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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

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