I have some thoughts on how Pvt. Chelsea Manning’s gender dysphoria was rolled out. Let me begin by saying I’m going to give, and I’m going to advocate for, respect for Manning’s chosen name and publicly embraced gender,…
Within the activist circles I run in, I routinely hear people accuse others of appropriation, or claim that certain behaviors or endeavors are appropriative. I myself have written about how certain people (e.g., cisgender academics and media producers)…
It All Depends On The Audience The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) has been at the center of a controversy because of what they’ve clamed about the behavior of a trans student at a Colorado high school. They’ve turned…
Ben Lopez of the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) testified against California’s Success and Opportunity Act at the State Senate Education Committee hearing on June 12, 2013. An excerpt from his testimony: This bill would call for any student…
I’ve collected a number of quotes from those against California’s School Success and Opportunity Act (AB 1266) referendum signature drive and should it turn out to be successful. There’s also some background quotes by some of the characters…
With talking points, it’s easy to demonize a class of people as a class of people. When confronted with one, very humanized person who belongs to that class of people, it can be hard for someone to stick…
The Secretary of State’s office described the process and procedure for qualifying the School Success And Opportunity Act (AB1266) for referendum on the November, 2014 ballot: Once the requisite number of signatures has been collected, they must be…
This is imagery of the flags we paraded at the San Diego Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) march. Note we flew an American flag — shown in the center of the photo — to highlight trans people are…
It’s just not enough to know what you’re against: we also need to know what we’re for, and then work and sacrifice to create the kind of world we want to live in. And, sometimes it takes more…
If we don’t get it — enough signatures — we have to get over a half-a-million signatures, and if we don’t…we aren’t able to get enough signatures, then it goes into effect on January first. And then it’s…we’re…