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About

The TransAdvocate aims to improve the lives of transgender people through investigative news and nuanced commentary from a boots-on-the-ground trans advocate perspective. What sets the TransAdvocate […]

Community and organizingEducation and youth

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UK TransAdvocate Coming Soon!

The TransAdvocate will launch a UK-focused TransAdvocate in 2019. For now, check out the UK TransAdvocate on twitter: https://web.archive.org/web/20180627104245/https://twitter.com/UKTransadvocate

History, archives, and memory

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Truth In Numbers, Hate Crimes Statistics

From a recent report out of UCLA entitled: Comparison of Hate Crimes Rates Across Protected and Unprotected Groups ( by Rebecca Stotzer, Public Policy Research […]

Public policy and governanceRace and intersectionality

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The Transadvocate Video Podcast – 1/23/09

Today I’m starting a new feature to the site, it’s a video podcast of the The Transadvocate. I’m testing this out, but tentatively I’ll be doing it live at 1pm Eastern/12pm Central every Tuesday…

History, archives, and memoryLaw and civil rights

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Yes Pat Robertson, I’m Transgender and Proud

Pat Robertson spouting off about Barack Obama’s announcement of a “Presidential Memorandum on Federal Benefits and Non-Discrimination” asked “someone’s proud to be transgendered? His historical […]

History, archives, and memoryLaw and civil rights

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The Rabid, Transphobic Hate-Mongering of the Anti-Pornography Movement

Todays Guest Transadvocate is Dr. Joelle Ruby Ryan. Ryan describes herself as a “transgender, Feminist, Queer, Fat+, Activist, Educator, Writer, Speaker and Firebrand”. She is […]

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation

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An Intro: “Transgender” During the 1990s

For the past few months, I’ve made available a number of never-before-considered documents that reviewed the true roots of the word “transgender”. The Myth The […]

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory

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A Drama Preemption

As I said before, I set out doing research into the etiology of the term “transgender’” to satisfy my curiosity about claims made about the […]

History, archives, and memoryScience, evidence, and expertise

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Tracking Transgender: The Historical Truth

Why and when did transsexual people begin calling themselves transgender? According to some internet memes transsexuals began self-identifying as transgender due to a vast global […]

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation

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What Inclusionism Means

I wanted to take a moment and address what it means to be a non-Separatist; that is, what it means to be an Inclusionist – part of […]

Community and organizingHealthcare and medicine