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The Tories’ poisonous culture wars

issue 28 January 2023

Aretha Franklin’s 1967 hit ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’ should be removed from the music streaming network Spotify because it perpetuates anti-trans stereotypes, according to a whole bunch of alphabet people with too much time on their hands.

The spearhead of this attack on the Queen of Soul’s famous hit is a Norwegian group called the Trans Cultural Mindfulness Alliance (TCMA), who you may not have heard of but with whom I’m sure you’d get on just fine.

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