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On June 20th, the Associated Press released an article entitled “New transgender policy at New York juvenile jails“. The article details New York State’s decision to allow transgender youth in juvenile detention facilities to…
Education and youthFamily and relationships
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Dr. Marshall Forstein, Chair of the Work Group on Practices Guidelines on HIV Psychiatry for the American Psychiatric Association (not to be confused with the American Psychological Association), has written a reply to the…
Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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As many readers may be aware, the American Family Association (sponsor of conservative Christian news site OneNewsNow) has organized a boycott of McDonald’s. (At various times during the past decade AFA has also boycotted…
Culture, identity, and representationFamily and relationships
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Robert Eads was visiting friends in the late 1990s when he woke up in a pool of blood. His terrified hosts quickly began calling hospitals, […]
Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Recently, I saw a tweet by Diana Cage on twitter. I’d heard Cage on her nightly show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio’s “Diana Cage Show”, […]
Culture, identity, and representationHealthcare and medicine
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Apparently CBS has decided that the AP sytlebook is too tame for its content, and would rather go the way of Jerry Springer.
Culture, identity, and representationHealthcare and medicine
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Today Senator Bob Casey asked the Social Security Adminstration to create a publication for gender change: Dear Commissioner Astrue: Thank you for your continued leadership […]
Culture, identity, and representationHealthcare and medicine
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Sometimes the intersection of two seemingly unconnected stories come together to show how little respect for trans people there is and how transition/surgery are treated as luxuries, […]
Healthcare and medicineTransgender identity and history
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So… Why did I re-run that 12 1/2-year-old piece about Judge Frye and her dogs over at ENDABlog? Because of this: Ramseyer wasn’t using internet anonymity […]
Community and organizingFamily and relationships
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And so we now have… A $363,000 Tax Bill to Widow Led to Obama Shift in Defense of Marriage Act … Edith Windsor and Thea […]
Family and relationshipsLaw and civil rights