Well behaved women rarely make history: A Botswana transgender woman made history after filling a monumental constitutional case against the government for refusing to legally change her gender marker. By Miles Tanhira In her High court application against…
The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t as Fictional as you Thought For most Americans, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a novel about a dystopian future where women are chattel whose only purpose is to procreate. For a surprising…
In a TransAdvocate article entitled “On the Ethics and Utility of Violence,” an anonymous contributor makes the case for such violent acts as punching Richard Spencer, a white supremacist who has invoked Nazi slogans, in the middle of…
. The Boston Daily Globe: Tues., Sept. 15, 1885 WINCHESTER’S SENSATION Pretty Girls Who Claimed to Be Men. The Romance of "Rebecca," Afterward "Lawrence," H Payne. A Father’s Efforts to Secure Possession of His Child. The Washington Post…
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 coming in two anti-trans murders Vermont and Texas, as a…
THE DAILY JOURNAL: FREEPOBT, ILLINOIS,. SEPTEMBER 3, 188o. PAINFUL EXPOSURE. A VIRGINIA SENSATION HAS A STARTLING SEQUEL Two Alleged Girls Who Are Supposed To Be Masculines —The Adventures of the Feminines of the Payne Family. WASHINGTON CITY, Sept…
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. Trans prisoners, the next battleground A federal court case represented by…
While we’ve seen it before, we sometimes don’t see the political forest for the trees. The TransAdvocate crew reviews both local and national news and Dr. Gillian Frank helps us recognize the political tactics that are being used…
TRIGGER WARNING for violence and transphobia! The TERFS have a fairly full agenda when it comes to their feminism. It does deal with violence (male violence while ignoring female violence) but when it comes to naming the problem…
As readers might be aware, the UK media is engulfed in a new and ongoing round of media-created trans panic of the same type that lead to the death of Lucy Medows in 2013. Already, media hysteria coupled…