The following article was published in 1974, one year after TERFs politicized the use of restrooms, advocated for the public exclusion of trans people in the queer rights movement and participated in beating trans hero Sylvia Rivera and…
The TransAdvocate Q & A is where we answer your questions. If you’d like to submit a question, go to our contact page and send it in. Today’s question is: I’m pre-transition and my gender dysphoria makes my…
Niagara Falls Gazette Thursday, Nov. 21, 1968 Sex Shift Surgery In Use Since 1966 BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) — Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medical Center’s “gender identity clinic’ have been performing sex-change operations since July 1966. The program, first…
Wikipedia has this to say about the pre-Stonewall Compton Cafeteria Riot and Vanguard: Many of the militant hustlers and street queens involved in the riot were members of Vanguard, the first known gay youth organization in the United…
"transgender pronouns" Chicago Tribune, Aug. 23, 1975 Ey has a word for it By Judie Black AS WOMEN HAVE grown freer, the English language has grown more tangled: What’s a chairperson and who is a Ms.? But help…
Updates from the UK division of the Trans Advocate: The Conservative government came out this week calling for a consultation on how to best reform the Gender Recognition Act, or G.R.A. of 2004. This comes at a time…
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. We welcome Koomah to discuss the largest Intersex IGM protest…
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. Funeral funded for fallen trans man Daine Gray, a 22-year-old trans…
Today we talk about some problems with PRIDE celebrations, including anti-trans hate groups infiltrating Pride celebrations in San Fransico, Boston, and London. Also, we discuss news you’re not hearing anywhere else! The TA Podcast is an intergenerational show…