By Kelley Winters Listen to this article The National Center for Transgender Equality Executive Director Mara Keisling responded to sharp criticism of the recent strategy by NCTE and other nonprofits funded by the Gill Foundation to back a…
Listen to this article Johns Hopkins was an early pioneer in American trans care until anti-LGBT activist Paul McHugh began working at the hospital. In 1979, McHugh was able to end trans care at Johns Hopkins and later…
Bathroom Bills & The Dialectic of Oppression: From the KKK to anti-feminism: examining the Southern roots of the anti-trans “bathroom bill” movement. By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams While Republican delegates dutifully cheered their presidential nominee for promising to keep…
By Kelly Winters, PhD Listen to this article Jesse Singal, the Senior Editor at nymag.com, has enlisted his New York Magazine blog to promote the widely publicized presumption that painful distress with birth-assigned sex and gender are just…
A trans historian considers the backward progress of the way media represents our dead. By Kat Listen to this article If you are thinking of transitioning but have yet to start the process you have probably spent some…
Disco Sexology, Part One: Introduction Disco Sexology, Part Three: Controversy By Cristan Williams Listen to this article* Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook. Installment Preface…
Disco Sexology, Part Two: The History By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Foreword With the recent enthusiastic promotion of disco-era ideas about trans people and gender identity in general, the TransAdvocate felt that it would be important…
A cisgender man connected with a Florida Christian convention accosted a cisgender woman with a Bible as she exited an “All Genders” restroom at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando. The man, shouting about Biblical interpretations of gender…
On March 13, 2017, the TransAdvocate will meet with numerous members of the Texas Legislature –both Democratic and Republican– concerning anti-LGBTQIA bills recently filed during this legislative session. Particularly of concern for both the trans and intersex community…
Disco Sexology, Pt. 8: Committed for GID By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Installment Preface Welcome to the ninth and last installment in this series on the rise and fall of Disco Sexology. In the previous installment,…