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  • This house opposes the use of the "it gets better" narrative by progressive movements in the developing world

    Philippine Schools Debating Championship 2023 · Ana Alano Semifinals · 2023-04-20

  • As Kaja Kallas, I would have left out promises in the coalition agreement that were not discussed during the election campaign.

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    Kaja Kallas discussing the state budget for 2023 on 26.10.2022: "Taxes will not rise. Period." Reform Party's election program 2023: "We will keep the tax burden as low as possible and essential for funding public expenses. /.../ Revenue from the budget must be increased without increasing the tax burden, through an innovative and knowledge-intensive economy and wise expenditure choices and structural reforms. /.../ We will adopt the civil partnership law implementation acts." There was virtually no discussion on changes to taxes and marriage equality in pre-election debates. The coalition agreement of the new government, 08.04.2023: "We will raise the value-added tax by 2 percentage points in 2024. /.../ We will raise the individual and corporate income tax by 2 percentage points in 2025. /.../ We will change the family law in such a way that marriage is established between two adults."

    Keskkoolide Eesti meistrivõistluste 22/23 III etapp EST · Round 2 · 2023-04-15

  • This House Believes That LGBTQIA+ creators and producers should heavily prioritize creating LGBTQIA+ media (films, TV shows, etc.) that are not centered on the characters' identities and/or personal experiences related to their sexuality

    SMDO 2023 · 5 · 2023-04-15

  • This house regrets the trend of queer movements in liberal democratic states that dominantly conceptualizes queer rights as private freedom, with an aim to reduce the role of government.

    Infoslide

    Microfinance refers to the financial services provided to low-income individuals or groups typically excluded from traditional banking. Most microfinance institutions focus on offering credit in the form of small working capital loans, sometimes called microloans or microcredit.

    HKDC 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-03-25

  • This house believes that the LGBTQ should actively support lavender marriages.

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    A lavender marriage is a male–female mixed-orientation marriage, undertaken as a marriage of convenience to conceal the socially stigmatized sexual orientation of one or both partners.

    Novice Worlds 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-03-25

  • In gender studies, This House Believes That academic institutions should prioritize studies and research on the biological links to gender as opposed to sociological links

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    For the purposes of this debate, "biological links" in gender studies are physiologcial evidences or perspectives in the conception of gender (i.e., brain sizes, gay chromosomes, etc.) while "sociological links" are societal evidences or perspectives in the conception of gender such as conflict theory (theory that states that gender is born from struggle), structural formalism (gender is made through complex systemic factors such as education, government, etc.), or the value of one's inherrent choice to be queer.

    46th Mindanao Parliamentary Debate Championship · High School Semifinals · 2023-03-17

  • That we support major media companies (e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+) removing media that has harmful depictions of race, gender, sexuality, etc (eg. Gone with the Wind for featuring blackface, Grease for sexism, Disney films for cultural stereotypes) as opposed to putting a disclaimer about this content.

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    A 12-second, unskippable disclaimer put on some Disney films reads (in part): "This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now."

    Advanced Open 2023 · Round 8 · 2023-03-02

  • That LGBTQ+ roles in television shows and movies should only be played by members of that community (ie. a gay woman portrayed by a gay woman, a trans man by a trans man).

    Advanced Open 2023 · Round 8 · 2023-03-02

  • This house believes that the LGBTQ movement should support Beards in conservative states

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    Beard is a term describing a person who is knowingly used as a romantic partner (boyfriend or girlfriend), or spouse to conceal one's sexual orientation.

    CUPD 2023 · Pre-quarterfinals · 2023-02-24

  • This house regrets the use of gender binary conforming transgenders as the faces of the trans movement

    CUPD 2023 · Pre-quarterfinals · 2023-02-24

  • This house believes that the feminist movement should campaign for the equal sexualization of men in the media as opposed to campaigning against the sexualization of women

    CUPD 2023 · Pre-quarterfinals · 2023-02-24

  • That police officers should be barred from participating in pride

    ANU Interhall Debating Competition 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-02-17

  • This House prefers that the LGBTQIA+ movement emphasizes the "matrix of oppression" as the main approach rather than the message of strong cohesion

    Infoslide

    For the purpose of this debate, the "matrix of oppression" implies the system of inequality is built upon the intersection of multiple identity constructions such as gender, race, class, etc., creating differences even within one identity group. Minority groups focusing on such a concept tend to be more critical not only of the dominant social structure, but also of the internal power dynamics within the in-group.

    KIDA BP National Championships 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-01-27

  • This house would mandate affirmative action for all debate tournaments.

    Infoslide

    Currently, WUDC and Australs employ an affirmative action policy that requires at least one-third of each institution's contingent to be non cis-male. The policy was promoted to increase diversity but also to encourage participation from less-represented groups

    Canadian Parliamentary Nationals 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-01-01

  • This house, as Oscar Wilde, Regrets publishing The Picture of Dorian Gray

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray was a novel published by Oscar Wilde in 1890, who was one of the most popular Irish playwrights in the 1890s, as well as a closeted homosexual. The novel includes themes of homosexuality and the implicit legitimisation of male prostitution, which caused wide scale controversy upon its publication. In 1895. Wilde was prosecuted on charges of sodomy, and passages from the novel were recited in court as proof of his immorality. Dorian Gray was Wilde's only novel, and his

    UT MARA National Novice 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-01-01