I dread writing this post. Not because it is laborious, or texting on my personal resources, but because my sensibilities are afflicted by the subject matter. It is neither my desire nor intent to further inflame an already…
Back in 2011, Cathy Brennan and I were among a group of people working to pass Maryland’s HB 235 (Prohibiting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination) into law. I developed what I thought was a friendship with her…
The first post in this blog is simply going to hi-light some actual quotes from the TERF community. If you would like to have quotes added to this list please sign up for an account on twitlonger.com, post…
Cathy Brennan, contributor to the Radfem2013 conference, has sunk to yet a new low. She is now trying to exploit the death of our sisters (Transgender Day of Remembrance – TDOR) to further her justification of transphobia. She…
You know the ones. They pretend you hit them in your car by jumping on your hood while you are moving slow and pretend to have an injury so that they can claim on insurance. Pay them attention…
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is a right-wing activist organization and huge supporter of the ex-gay movement as well as the debunked practice of conversion therapy. Recently, the PJI stirred up the right-wing word by claiming that a…
Here’s the claim: Here’s the sequence of events: Talks to PJI Tweets PJI’s statement to the TransAdvocate Issuing PJI’s response to the TransAdvocate More on this story… 0
OutSmart magazine asked me to write a piece on the TERF phenomena. My 2500+ word article featured just two sentences that mentioned Cathy Brennan’s behavior. Cathy Brennan – a Maryland attorney, activist, leader and a public face of…
The nonprofit, Secular Women has created a petition calling on the Southern Poverty Law Center to regard TERF attorney, Cathy Brennan’s group, Gender Identity Watch, as a hate group. The petition starts off, “As a feminist organization, Secular…
What follows are the words of a cisgender feminist who can no longer not name the problem: I suppose in the past I’ve avoided, for the most part, discussing specific perpetrators of transphobia and transmisogyny. My reasoning for…