Publications in the Collective
The Indigo Girls, The Bigotry Of The MWMF WBW Policy, And Peaceful Action
As Cristan Williams pointed out in her recent Transadvocate piece Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, segregation against trans women has been occurring at that festival for […]
My Creepy Internet Flame Troll
This is a personal post regarding a known flame troll who seems to have focused on me. If this isn’t the kind of post you’re […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Why Transgender Activism
I published an earlier revision of this essay first on January 12, 2011 at Pam’s House Blend. I believe the hypothesis of this essay is […]
A Bathroom Story That Doesn’t Involve The “Bathroom Bill” Meme
There’s an interesting, but sad story found on the Army Times website entitled West Point sergeant charged with filming naked female cadets. From the article: […]
Changing My Recorded Gender With The Department Of Defense
fter my surgery and later issuance of a new birth certificate last November, I wanted to apply to the Department of the Navy (DON) to […]
My Belated Apologies To GallusMag And Trans Community
Cathy Brennan, in one of her blogs titled Name The Problem, has again named me a violent man in her post
Appalling Silence From Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Performers
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but […]
Transgender Soldier Meets the President
Crossposted with permission from OutServe Magazine, the magazine of OutServe-SLDN. By Anonymous Memorial Day weekend is, first and foremost, about remembering those who have made […]
Not Against Stealth But For Being Out
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series on “stealth.” The goal of this series to examine the nuanced ways trans opinion leaders conceptualize stealth […]
Progressive Talking Heads Not Talking About California School Success And Opportunity Act
It’s kind of sad, really. Progressive talking heads on cable television aren’t talking about Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) signing AB 1266, the School Success and […]
Dear Jennifer Usher, Please Do Keep Your Focus On Me
[alert type=”info”]Jennifer Usher posted up on her blog a post entitled Slacktivists? ROTFLLMAO!!!!! as a response to my recent Transadvocate post Transsexual Separatist Slacktivism Doesn’t […]
Transsexual Separatist Slacktivism Doesn’t Win Legislatively
Call them classic transsexuals or women of operative history; call them true transsexuals or transsexual separatists — whatever you call them, you can also call […]
Thoughts On Chelsea Manning’s Coming Out
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 […]
PJI Has Wildly Varying Tones & Talking Points On Jane Doe & AB 1266
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 […]
Ashton Lee’s Testimony Before State Senate Education Committee On AB 1266
Ashton Lee in a transgender youth who attends California’s Manteca High School. Back on June 12th, he testified before the California State Senate Education Committee […]
The Traditional Values Coalition And AB 1266
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, […]
Many Quotes About AB 1266
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 […]
Where PJI’s Arguments Fall Apart In Florence, Colorado
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 […]
TLC’s Masen Davis: What Happens Next With AB 1266
A brief video filmed in early November, 2013, with Masen Davis of the Transgender Law Center. In this video he discusses what we can expect […]
PJI’s Attorneys Sexualizing Trans Female Preteens And Teens
It’s hard for me to imagine the actual discussion language in meeting between Pacific Justice Institute‘s (PJI’s) president Brad Dacus, staff attorney Matt Reynolds, and […]
Signature Count Released In AB 1266 Referendum Signature Drive
On November 10, 2012, the Associated Press posted the article Group collects signatures to repeal Calif. transgender law. The article gives numbers related to the […]
AB1266 Referendum Drive: So Far, Not So Good For Privacy For All Students Coalition
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 […]
Messaging On LGB&T Equality & Citizenship At San Diego TDOR March
This is imagery of the flags we paraded at the San Diego Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) march. Note we flew an American flag […]
Action: Judgment Day For The Pacific Justice Institute
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 […]
Another Update of California Referendum Targeting Trans Children
This update is from a peer LGBT community activist who wants to remain anonymous. The update is accurate as of the December 4th update found […]
PJI Has Plan Bs
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 […]
Pueblo Chieftain: Florence School Board Upheld Superintendant Vendetti’s Report
The Pueblo Chieftain pretty much reported in their November 21, 2013 article Transgender pupil keeps restroom rights that the administrative and criminal cases brought forward […]
Yet Another Update of California Referendum Targeting Trans Children
The data in this update is in large part from a peer LGBT community activist who wants to remain anonymous, and the commentary is mine. […]
My Letter To The Editor Of The Toronto Star
Sometimes, one just has to call out pure, unadulterated bullsh**. The following is my letter to the Toronto Star editor as submitted. Dear Letters to […]
An Update On The AB 1266 Signature Drive Spot Check Count
Quoting my anonymous peer activist friend whose helping me with the numbers: San Diego County is in and puts the pro-trans side in a better […]
Despite PJI’s Claims To Contrary, AB1266 Goes Into Effect On January 1, 2014
In their December 30, 2013 press release Co-ed Bathroom Bill Update: Legislature Still Has To Hold It, the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) claims that the […]
Interview with LAUSD’s Judy Chiasson About AB1266 (Part 2)
On Monday, January 13, I interviewed Judy Chiasson of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for a bit under an hour, and this post […]
Interview with LAUSD’s Judy Chiasson About AB1266
On Monday, January 13, I interviewed Judy Chiasson of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for a bit under an hour. You may remember […]
AB1266: Privacy For All Students and “San Francisco Values”
Save me, Lord, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues. Psalm 120:2 The Pacific Justice Institute (CRI) stated in their Letter to the principal of […]
CRI speaking to their Conservative Christian base On AB1266
“I don’t mind if you take pictures, especially like liposuction me, if you’ve got any sort of like…yeah, Photoshop — something like that. But, we’re […]
In Revolution, The Trans Terms Sylvia Rivera Used
I look to Sylvia Rivera, who passed in 2002, was an activist icon whose action approach to civil rights is one I admire. I like […]
“Slacktivism” Plus Brick-And-Mortar Activism Equals Trans Civil Rights Aims
The Chicago Sun-Times published an op-ed by Kevin D. Williamson entitled Laverne Cox Is Not a Woman. The op-ed was Williamson’s response to the Time […]
A Sincere Happy Mother’s Day Wish To Me From Cathy Brennan
Back in 2011, Cathy Brennan and I were among a group of people working to pass Maryland’s HB 235 (Prohibiting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity […]
The New “Faggots” Are Trans
Bayard Rustin is a civil rights icon of the African-American and gay civil rights movements. In 1986, Rustin gave a controversial speech entitled “The New […]
#TERFweek: The Changed Language But Consistent Viewpoint Of MichFest’s Lisa Vogel
This is a long-form article on MichFest’s co-founder and current producer Lisa Vogel. The article contains extensive text of what Vogel has stated regarding trans […]
Equivocation And Lies In Lisa Vogel’s August 18th Statement
(Added emphasis to specific statements by Lisa Vogel and/or official MichFest press releases and documents is added throughout the piece with bolded orange text.) Lisa […]
Linda V. Shanko, AKA GenderTrender’s GallusMag
GallusMag of GenderTrender has, on Sunday, October 19, 2014, been identified as Linda V. Shanko. Shanko is perhaps best known for mixing false, malicious […]
TransAdvocate Suspending Its MichFest Petition Signature
On the evening of April 8, 2015, The TransAdvocate editors came to a unanimous decision to suspend our signature on the Equality Michigan petition asking […]
Romance Writer Roslyn Holcomb Says She Would Have Shot Trans Woman In Planet Fitness Locker Room
One of the fairly regular commenters on GenderTrender is Roslyn Hardy Holcomb, a published writer of color. She’s been interviewed by USA Today, she has […]
The Coming California Bathroom Initiative
The first line of what California’s Personal Privacy Protection Act initiative would create as California Health & Safety Code § 118501, should it become law […]
An open letter to Lisa Vogel: I bought my MichFest ticket!
Hi Lisa Vogel, Perhaps you know of me. My name is Autumn Sandeen. I’ve written about MichFest quite a few times over the past seven […]
California Apparently Needs A Second Respect After Death Act
In January of 2014 California, Speaker of the Assembly Toni Atkins introduced the Respect After Death Act (AB 1577), and Gov. Brown signed it into […]
Privacy For All announces Bathroom Bounty Bill initiative signature drive
On Friday, July 10, 2015, the Privacy For All coalition announced in an email entitled “The Naked Facts” the kick off of the California Secretary […]
Pat Cordova-Goff Answers Questions About The Stonewall Boycott
Pat Cordova-Goff, an 18-year-old college student and Trans Youth Justice Organizer for TRUTH (a position jointly funded by GSA Network and Transgender Law Center) started […]
Transgender Day of Visibility: Summer- I Am A Girl (Lyric Video)
For the The Transgender Day Of Visibility. This lyric video explores the performative nature of gender, the difficulties of navigating the legal system and finding […]
The 2008 Gainesville Bathroom Bill TV Spot Revisited
Their Supposed 2 + 2 Didn’t Equal Their What They Said Would Be The Outcome Of 4 Just this last year in Houston, the Campaign […]
Anti-Trans GoFundMe Campaign Includes PJI – An SPLC Identified Anti-LGBT Hate Group
The Privacy For All (PFA) coalition that includes the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) — a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified active Anti-LGBT hate group […]
EEOC Commissioner: “Contrary state or local laws provide no defense to an employer that violates Title VII”
Recently in BuzzFeed in the article Feds “Ready” For Transgender Discrimination Complaints In North Carolina, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Commissioner Chai Feldblum was quoted […]
Washington’s Just Want Privacy’s Talking Points For Their Antitrans Initiative
Do you want to know what Just Want Privacy‘s talking points are? The talking points that the organization gives out to their spokespeople who support […]
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