The Slowly Boiled Frog is biting commentary from David Cary Hart reflecting upon issues affecting the LGBT community. Tony Perkins will argue vociferously that a fetus has rights. Mr. Perkins doesn’t seem to think that a teenager has…
We’ve seen out trans people running and winning elections throughout the nation recently and today the TransAdvocate welcomes our guest host Dylan Forbis, an out trans man running for a seat in the Texas House! Subscribe to the…
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. Military Ban is stayed, once again In yet another rebuke of…
The current Standards of Care (SOC) is version VII. Here’s were everything got started in 1979 with the HBIGDA SOC I: SOC I (1979) Cover Page STANDARDS OF CARE The hormonal and surgical sex reassignment of gender dysphoric…
Updates from the Brazilian division of the Trans Advocate: The Brazilian Supreme Court approved a policy that would give trans people the ability to correct our legal identification, without having to have surgery. While this policy was decided…
The TA Podcast is an intergenerational show featuring a trans Baby Boomer, Gen Xer, and Millennial that considers the issues affecting the lives of trans and intersex people. Subscribe to the TransAdvocate Podcasts and Audio Essays here: iTunes…
A TERF blog that tries to make the case for sex essentialism claims that sexism is predicated upon sperm and eggs: according to this #TERFLogic, this man is oppressed as a female. No, that’s what anti-LGBT hate groups…
1977 letter to trans man: "Transpeople" 22 August 1977 Dearist Heath, I’m a member of the MCC of the Resurrection in Houston and very happy to be a Christian sibling of Jeri and of Candie’s. Jeri asked me…
The pamphlet from the first ICTLEP: 1992 FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSGENDER LAW AND EMPLOYMENT POLICY This Conference is for attorneys and other legal professionals; for employment, personnel, and other human resources professionals; and for members of the…
JK Rowling has long hinted that she sympathized with sex essentialist so-called “radical feminist” idea that nobody’s phenotype is transitioned when trans people medically transition, and thus, trans women are males and trans men are females. However, Rowling…