TransAdvocate in Texas: Texas Senate Bill 6 (SB6) was particularly cruel as it takes aim at trans and intersex school children, fining any school that does not force trans/intersex boys to use the girl’s bathroom and trans/intersex girls…
The TransAdvocate will launch a UK-focused TransAdvocate in 2019. For now, check out the UK TransAdvocate on twitter: https://web.archive.org/web/20180627104245/https://twitter.com/UKTransadvocate
From a recent report out of UCLA entitled: Comparison of Hate Crimes Rates Across Protected and Unprotected Groups ( by Rebecca Stotzer, Public Policy Research Fellow at the Williams Institute) Current proposed legislation would change certain existing federal…
Today I’m starting a new feature to the site, it’s a video podcast of the The Transadvocate. I’m testing this out, but tentatively I’ll be doing it live at 1pm Eastern/12pm Central every Tuesday through Friday. Below is…
Pat Robertson spouting off about Barack Obama’s announcement of a “Presidential Memorandum on Federal Benefits and Non-Discrimination” asked “someone’s proud to be transgendered? His historical record seems a bit off, since the fall of Rome happened when it…
Todays Guest Transadvocate is Dr. Joelle Ruby Ryan. Ryan describes herself as a “transgender, Feminist, Queer, Fat+, Activist, Educator, Writer, Speaker and Firebrand”. She is also the author of Gender Quake: Poems and the co-producer of three autobiographical…
For the past few months, I’ve made available a number of never-before-considered documents that reviewed the true roots of the word “transgender”. The Myth The term “transgender” was coined by a heterosexual crossdresser chauvinist who hated transsexual people,…
As I said before, I set out doing research into the etiology of the term “transgender’” to satisfy my curiosity about claims made about the term. I’ve therefore focused on the eras which are most consistently discussed: 1970…
Why and when did transsexual people begin calling themselves transgender? According to some internet memes transsexuals began self-identifying as transgender due to a vast global plot by crossdressers1,2 . According to this conspiracy, transsexuals by the millions were…
I wanted to take a moment and address what it means to be a non-Separatist; that is, what it means to be an Inclusionist – part of the transgender community. The Houston transgender community has been an explicitly…