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On September 10, the Australian media giant, Nine Entertainment, aired a long-anticipated news report “about what can go wrong when doctors misdiagnose a child as […]
Education and youthFeminism and gender politics
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I’ve set up a survey for the trans community using the “Sense of Community Index-2” (SCI-2) research tool. For some time I’ve wanted to do this survey with the trans community. Take the survey…
Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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The TransAdvocate crew records live in Houston’s Montrose. Today’s topics include the stupidity of the Trump administration, an awesome hip-hop track the rapper MIC did […]
History, archives, and memoryLabor, economics, and institutions
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Anchorage Daily News reprint of LA Times, Aug. 1, 1988 Biological women, thought to account for only 6 percent of the nation’s transsexual population in the early 1950s, now make up around 25 percent…
Transgender identity and history
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Gender Nation is a bi-weekly column by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, the founder of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, reviewing news affecting the trans, intersex, and genderqueer […]
Community and organizingHealthcare and medicine
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Here’s how Slate begins its article on the concerning trend of autistic people being diagnosed as trans: Gender specialists first noticed decades ago that a […]
Culture, identity, and representationEducation and youth
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New procedures in Russia approved: activists say it could be worse, leaves intersex people with few options On 19 January 2018, Russian authorities approved a […]
Community and organizingHealthcare and medicine
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The current Standards of Care (SOC) is version VII. Here’s were everything got started in 1979 with the HBIGDA SOC I: STANDARDS OF CARE The hormonal and surgical sex reassignment of gender dysphoric persons…
Family and relationshipsHealthcare and medicine
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NOTE: In 2008 the non-transgender Feminist/Radical Feminist community popularized the term Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) as a way to identify a group, primarily focused… Continue readingThe Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival: The historic RadFem…
Community and organizingEducation and youth
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[box]”… Virginia Prince, a male crossdresser… Calling himself “transgender” rather than a “crossdresser” or a “transvestite” was an attempt to remove himself and other similar “transgenders” from the negative cultural baggage and the concurrent…
Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation