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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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Seven Goals Of Trans Activism

There are whys to transgender activism, but beyond the whys of transgender activism there are the whats: there are the goals of transgender activism. Here are seven goals of trans activism with some explanation…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Revictimized In Death

Dehumanization of murdered trans women seems to be the norm these days. No matter how many times GLAAD and trans activists reach out to teach journalists how not to revictimize murdered trans women —…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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Phyllis Frye: Lifetime Achievement Award

America’s first out trans judge Phyllis Frye (she was the first out trans judge to be sworn in, in America) just recently won the Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was given at the Transgender…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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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
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Ask Matt: Do I Owe My Parents Grandchildren?

A reader writes: “I am a 24-year-old transgender girl. I started transition about a year and a half ago, with one month in between where I had major doubts and confusion about my life.…

Education and youthHistory, archives, and memory
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A Challenge to GallusMag, Editor of GenderTrender

Apparently I’ve made the big time. I discovered that GallusMag, self-identified RadFem (TERF), TERF opinion leader and co-founder of RadFemHub, has attempted to troll me on her infamous TERF blog, GenderTrender. According to GallusMag,…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation