Over the 12 years of living my life as Monica, I have been privileged to learn many things about the TBLG community, but mostly about the trans community. The biggest lesson in my short life as a woman…
In the context of the “war” for our equality, trans-people have to fight the war on two fronts. There’s the kind of hatred that is espoused by morally corrupt people on the right wing conservative side (the “abroad”…
Robert Eads was visiting friends in the late 1990s when he woke up in a pool of blood. His terrified hosts quickly began calling hospitals, clinics, and private physicians, explaining that Robert was a partially-transitioned female-to-male transsexual and…
The Internet is a wild place. It also provides one of the most remarkable resources to any social movement: the capacity to integrate resources and efforts and share narrative and information rapidly. But the flora and fauna of…
Every time I see a story about “USA: 8-year-old child sex change“, “8-year-old boy has ‘sex change’, or Boy, 8, has ’sex change’, that is Unbelievable!, it sickens me. Not because of the children, but because of the…
Each year as another Transgender Day of Remembrance comes near, it seems as if another group or organization tries to remake the TDOR in their own image (examples: 2007, 2008). Recently Katherine V London commented on the post…
On November 5th, 2009, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will hold hearings on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). The hearings will take place in a city where over half of its citizens are African American.…
Todays guest blogger is Michelle Diane Rose. Michelle is a communications student and the co-author of The Color of Sunlight. She lives in Portland, Oregon and works for a non-profit. (I dunno why I’ve taken to using “teh”…
Tomorrow you’ll likely to see a big push from inside the beltway “equality” organizations pushing for passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). From a recent e-mail plea: Dear United ENDA Coalition Organizational Leaders: We think you’ll agree…
Now its Joe Fudgepacker Dan Savage: I’m not an idiot Yeh, well, I hope you weren’t hoping for 100% agreement from the masses on that one Dan. But I digress already. Now that the Republicans hold the House,…