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The Right Way To Be LGB Or T?

Back in 2009 I asked the the question if there were a right way to be LGB Or T. As I consider the personal difficulties of my past few years, especially those difficulties relating…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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Being Trans Affects Everything

It’s not a lifestyle (and I hate that conservaterm). When you swallow those hormones or take those first shots of testosterone or estrogen, it causes seismic shifts in your life that mere cis people…

Feminism and gender politicsHealthcare and medicine
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I am truly sorry

I know that seeing my name here on Transadvocate might trigger and anger a lot of you or at the very least, surprise you. I hurt a lot of my brothers and sisters during…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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Misogyny, it’s not just for breakfast anymore.

Recently I came across an interesting story in my newsfeed. It seems Sir Richard Branson, of Virgin Air lost a wager to Air Asia Group CEO Tony Fernandes. Sir Branson bet Mr Fernandes over…

Technology, data, and platformsTransgender identity and history
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Three More April African-American Transwomen Deaths

I’m beyond sick and tired of being sick and tired of the near genocidal levels of anti-trans violence that are taking away far too many under 30 transwomen of color before they’ve had a…

History, archives, and memoryTransgender identity and history
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Why I’m Kind of Over “Pride Day”

For one thing I remember when “Pride Day” commemorated the Stonewall Uprising. Back in those days it was political. I didn’t go to the Christopher Street West Gay Liberation Marches until 1974. The prior…

Community and organizingFamily and relationships
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My Exchange with the Southern Poverty Law Center

FB messages between me and the SPLC The trans community has asked itself recently why the supposed watchdog of extremist hate-groups – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) – has historically given Trans Exclusionary…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics