Listen to this article A recent study found that the gender identity of trans children is as implicit as the gender identity of cis children. A study with 32 transgender children, ages 5 to 12, indicates that the…
Obamacare Vagina: Navigating Medicaid Coverage of SRS, Part One By Rani Baker @destroyed4com4t Listen to this article I sat there, gently squooshing around silicone breast implant like a stress ball. Sqoosh, squoosh, feeling the weight of the rubbery…
By Kelly Winters, PhD Listen to this article Jesse Singal, the Senior Editor at nymag.com, has enlisted his New York Magazine blog to promote the widely publicized presumption that painful distress with birth-assigned sex and gender are just…
Disco Sexology, Part Five: Zucker’s Patient Disco Sexology, Pt. 7: Affirmative Therapy By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook.…
This was the era of Anita Bryant’s crusade against lesbians and gays. “As a mother,” Bryant said, “I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.” This was the predominant belief; this notion…
On September 10, the Australian media giant, Nine Entertainment, aired a long-anticipated news report “about what can go wrong when doctors misdiagnose a child as transgender.” The story headlined their Australian version of the American CBS program, “60…
I’ve set up a survey for the trans community using the “Sense of Community Index-2” (SCI-2) research tool. For some time I’ve wanted to do this survey with the trans community. Take the survey here. For some time,…
The TransAdvocate crew records live in Houston’s Montrose. Today’s topics include the stupidity of the Trump administration, an awesome hip-hop track the rapper MIC did for the TransAdvocate, and we talk about World AIDS Day coming up on…
Anchorage Daily News reprint of LA Times, Aug. 1, 1988 Biological women, thought to account for only 6 percent of the nation’s transsexual population in the early 1950s, now make up around 25 percent of the 10,000 to…
Gender Nation is a bi-weekly column by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, the founder of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, reviewing news affecting the trans, intersex, and genderqueer community. Justice Served for Davia Spain San Francisco will not be filing…