This is from the folks over at GLAAD: February 7, 2008 Just one week after GLAAD issued an alert encouraging our community to respond to a sensational New York Post headline, the tabloid today ran yet another egregious…
I just recieved this from Phyllis Frye: By calling the Houston Police, national HRC deliberately set in motion a police over response. HRC used government and taxpayer monies to intimidate the hell out of TG and gender variant…
On June 20th, the Associated Press released an article entitled “New transgender policy at New York juvenile jails“. The article details New York State’s decision to allow transgender youth in juvenile detention facilities to be treated as members…
Readers of this blog are probably not surprised that I’m supporting the boycott of the Human Rights Campaign’s San Francisco Dinner. What you might find surprising is that I’m supporting my friend Diego Sanchez, in speaking at the…
Sources on the Hill confirmed to The Transadvocate that Barney Frank’s office will announce the hiring of Diego Sanchez today. Sanchez will replace outgoing senior policy adviser, Joe Racalto. Sanchez is currently the Director of Public Relations &…
Thanks to Box Turtle Bulletin and Gay News Blog I was introduced to this lovely piece of transphobia: The commercial, produced by Citizens For Good Public Policy, shows a small white blond girl entering a public restroom in…
Bird Of Paradox their ‘crisis of faith’ with feminism, This Ain’t Livin posted about discussing how your gender gender effects you, and Planet Transgender posted about Columbus Ohio’d City Council passing a transgender anti-discrimination law.
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…
Back on Feburary 25, 2009 Kathy Padilla wrote a post over at Pam’s House Blend titled “Hate Crimes & ENDA: Bad Bills Come and Bad Bills Go“. When it came out I really thought it would be one…
According the Washington Blade, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) approved a policy statement that “the group will not support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, if it excludes language protecting persons from discrimination.” The Advocate followed suit with:…