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Freak Of The Week: The Tabloid Media
Give ’em an act with lots of flash in it And the reaction will be passionate Give ’em the old hocus pocus …. Give ’em the old three ring circus” — Richard Gere as…
Filmmaker Kevin Smith Loves Brazilian Transsexuals!
At least that’s the comment he made on Twitter: Are you Brazillian (sp)? I’m only into Brazillian (sp) Trannies. Pre-op. As I’ve stated before, I think celebrities that make these kind of jokes will…
Separatist Morality
It hasn’t been but 2 days since I reviewed the disguising way in which TS Separatists have taken up abhorrent fallacies and used it as a weapon against an oppressed people. If that wasn’t…
Transgender People Should be Barred from Restrooms
I was recently made aware of a disgusting revival of some of the same Raymondiod fallacies that has been used against trans people since the 1970s. This time the TS Separatist, Dana Lane Taylor…
Of Turd Polishing and Lies
Today I found that I was the subject of another Dana Lane Taylor commentary. Dana is an opinion leader in the TS Separatist group and in this post she claims that I am trying…
9th Anniversary of Stephanie And Ukea’s Deaths
On August 12, 2002 the city of Washington D.C and its trans community were rocked by the execution style killings of two transteens, Stephanie Thomas and Ukea Davis.They were shot dead by a semi…
Thank You Phyllis Frye
Thirty-one years ago today, Judge Phyllis Frye – the first openly trans judge in Texas – was able to get the Houston crossdressing ordinance overturned: – Click to for detail – Thank you Phyllis…
Clear Channel Eats Crow
Here’s the text of the Clear Channel apology letter: We would like to apologize for remarks made on KTBZ that has caused distress to people in the Houston Transgender Community. We addressed the insensitivity…
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 term “transgender” was coined by a heterosexual crossdresser chauvinist…
Truth Wins Out Radio: Ex-Transgender Radio
Example of right-wing ex-trans site I find the response that I’ve had to this is really interesting. After folks like pop-psychologist (trained in criminal psychology and practices a Chris Angel-like therapy called “Street Therapy”)…
Hold Dr. Keith Ablow Responsible… NOW!
Note: Update 9/19/2011, here’s my ethics complaint letter against Dr. Ablow before I sent it off today: By now, you are probably aware of the disgusting and shameful professional behavior of Dr. Keith Ablow,…
Houston Community College: Trans People Need Not Apply
Many of you will remember that Houston Community College (HCC) seemed to have attempted to cover up the anti-trans bashing of Lance Reyna, a female-to-male transgender student after he suffered an on-campus attack. On…
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 term. I’ve therefore focused on the eras which are…
Transgender: Homelessness & HIV
I know someone who was kicked out of her family’s home because she was trans. When she was on the streets, she went to the only place she knew would be welcoming to someone…
More Separatist Crap
I just read a sad little rant by a TS Separatist: “I see the T in lgbt as being a dumping zone, a miscelaneous, really in my view, the T is a junk drawer,…
About Work It
Since people are having a hard time understanding why trans folk seem to take issue with Work It, let me put it in terms that more folks might understand. What follows is the exact…
Dana Lane Taylor: I Rise to Your Challenge
Today I found that I was the subject of yet another Dana Lane Taylor gauntlet throw-down. Dana is an opinion leader in the TS Separatist group and in this post she seems to claim…
Tranny: An Evidence-Based Review
“Tranny” seems to be a contentious term within the GLBT community. For many in the trans community, we’ve known “tranny” to be a term associated with the gay (specifically gay male) community; a term…
Separatists and Fundamentalists
As some of you know some Separatists recently colluded in a bid to have the United Nations remove trans protections based upon gender identity and expression. Dana Lane Taylor, Cathy Brennan and Elizabeth Hungerford…
Equality=Bathroom Bills=Rape: Reality Check
Protections will allow men to dress as women “… in order to perpetrate crimes of homicide, rape, robbery [and] assault…” Sound familiar? It sounds like the arguments of TS Separatism and Religious Fundamentalists, doesn’t…
I Hate Separatists?
While I’m guilty of hating hate, of being intolerant towards intolerance and of having evil intentions towards evil, I’ve no personal issue with Separatists as people. As I’ve said several times, I’m not invested…
Cristan Williams Interview with Milton Diamond
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Crowing Over Progress
Well, TS Separatists have warned us for years that progress will never be seen under the rubric of the transgender borg. The time has come for me to admit that the Separatists were right…
Phyllis Frye Grandmother of the Trans Community
Over the last 24 hours, I’ve spent about 12 of them scanning Phyllis Frye’s 1970s trans documents. I don’t know that I can even put into words how those documents affected me. Most of…
I’m Calling it: the Death of the TS Separatist Movement
I’m going to call it: the TS Separatist movement – as it has existed over the past 5 years – is dead. The foundational falsehoods upon which TS Separatism was built have been exposed…
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 plot by crossdressers1,2 . According to this conspiracy, transsexuals…
My Response to Love’s Transsexual Rally
Ashley “I’m Colonized” Love So, Ashley Love supposedly held a rally outside of a GLAAD meeting. She writes: Though GLAAD does some good work, primarily for gays and those who support transgender socio-politics, we…
Pick a Side: Fantasy or Reality
Love made yet another post asserting (without evidence, of course) that she’s a victim of the word “transgender,” that the evil transgender umbrella is evil and transsexuals were colonized: Please… someone do an intervention…
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 the transgender community. The Houston transgender community…
Ashley “I’m Colonized” Love
For example, this Spring a few self-promoting and self-aggrandizing “transgender” bloggers, authors and “gender outlaw” entertainers (who actually financially and professionally profit by enforcing transgender socio-politics and umbrella-ism theory) are obsessing over how to…
Ashley Love, Quit Colonizing Isis King!
Isis recently modeled political shirts that read, “Legalize Gay” and “Gay is O.K.” and I know what you’re thinking… You’re thinking that it’s cool that an out transgender woman is able to support one…
TERFs are Attacked at Dyke Gathering!
Or not. A lot has been made over a Cathy Brennan – a TERF – being “attacked” at a dyke event by event organizers and some cis and trans folk. Here’s the video of…
Gender Orientation, Identity, and Expression
I’ve witnessed many arguments and misunderstandings explode over the conflation of these THREE dimensions of what we in trans discourse collectively refer to as gender: Gender Orientation: One’s subjective experience of one’s body, including…
Bigots Unite! Deploying the Klan Fallacy in 3… 2… 1…
It’s happened. TERFs and the people who DEFENDED Prop 8 have untied as one voice to proclaim that pre/non-op transwomen – as a group – are 1.) icky because 2.) they’re actually men, and…
Unity, NOT Uniformity!
As you may know, most of the TS Separatist leaders have moved on with their lives and the ones who are left seem to be the Ashley Love/Just Jennifers of the world who regularly…
What Say You Now, Suzanne ‘Brazilian Transsexual’ Moore?
After all, the Julie Birch Ill Society probably just cheers whenever a transsexual woman gets ‘cut out.’ From Pink News: It’s being reported that a transwoman has been shot dead in Brazil. According to…
RadFem Speak Out Against TERFs!
So, who’s heard of Julie Burchill and her “censored” article? Coming to the defense of her maligned feminist friend, columnist and author Julie Burchill wrote an article about trans women. Apparently, her friend Suzanne…
PLEASE! ‘Come For’ Us!
There’s a laughably pathetic piece of nonsense making the rounds right now – emanating from one of the usual pits of transexterminationistic insanity. I have no intention of linking to it, but this is…
1993: The Life and Times of a Gender Outlaw: An Interview with Leslie Feinberg
Twenty years ago, a now defunct trans newsletter captured a really interesting moment in trans history: a linguistic tipping point. As I’ve noted: “Transgender” has been around since at least 1965 “Transgender” was not…
Trans Rapper Murdered: The Official Story vs. The Friend’s Story
Multiple news outlets have reported on the recent torture, murder, and mutilation of a mid-western trans rapper. The rapper, Evon Young went missing January 2. The official story is that 5 men were arrested…
Insidious: Extreme Pressures Faced by Trans People
Studies show that the trans population lives under extreme psychological pressures unseen in even active military personnel. Fifty-five percent of trans people [1,2] were found to live with social anxiety. Within the general American…
“So, what was Stonewall?”
In the wake of the President Obama’s historic speech referencing Stonewall, NPR ran a piece asking and purporting to answer the question, “So, what was Stonewall?” The article calls upon Martin Duberman, now 82,…
Ebook for Transkids
S. Bear Bergman (co-author of Gender Outlaws) and Suzy Malik have a great ebook for transkids. The book tackles issues like judgement and compassion in a way that’s accessible to youth (grades K –…
The ‘Trans Cabal’ Replies
This video has been compiled by TransBareAll as a response to recent transphobic articles in the press. We don’t aim to debate the merits of freedom of speech, or the rights and wrongs of…
Candidate for Bangkok Governor Releases Ad Targeting GLB and Especially T Voters
Pongsapat Pongcharoen is a US-educated Thai police general who running for the office of Bangkok’s governor. Our modern world increasingly accepts varied genders… Bangkok must be a city that understands sexual differences, not just…
1930s FTMs
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Patriarchy, Petitions & Possums: The Simple Process of Getting a Name and Gender Change in Texas
The Omen Damn! 4:30 a.m. I fumbled with the off switch on the alarm clock, knocking over the glass of water I kept on my bedside table. I can only compare the sound my…
Fox News vs Trans Health Care Needs
The real story: Long-standing medical and psychiatric literature demonstrates clear benefits of medical and surgical interventions to assist gender variant individuals seeking transition. However, transgender and gender variant people are frequently denied medical, surgical,…
Federal Updates: New VA Trans Directive & ENDA via Executive Order?
ENDA via Executive Order On social policy, Obama is reconsidering whether to issue an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. When he decided not…
Nadine Williams South Wales Transgender Woman Cleared of Rape Charge
Nadine Williams, a transgender woman has beencleared of rape and two counts of sexual assault which she was accused of doing before transitioning while presenting as Dean, a male. Ms. Williams who spend 6…
Take the Trans “Sense of Community” Survey!
Take the survey here For some time, I’ve seen and heard subjective assertions like: I love the trans community! I hate the trans community! There is no such thing as a trans community! I…
Interview With an Actual Stonewall Riot Veteran: The Ciswashing of Stonewall Must End!
The POTUS noted Stonewall in his 2013 inaugural address: We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us…
Gender Orientation: Intersex Conditions Within The Transsexual Brain
This is part of a lecture given on May 5, 2010 by Prof. Robert Sapolsky at Stanford University. Prof. Sapolsky reviews studies he feels make a compelling case for those who assert that transsexualism…
Logic Be Damned: MMA Fighter Fallon Fox and the PC Conspiracy
The MMA world has been a-buzz after learning that MMA fighter Fallon Fox is trans. A popular site for all things MMA recently posted an article that was quite good. The author sought out…
Dos and Don’ts of Trashy Trans Reporting
This is a review of the way a single story is handled by two diffident tabloid newspapers. The sensationalistic reporting style is so starkly different that I thought it would make an exceptional case…
HUD Launches Trans-Inclusive Fair Housing App
The HUD App Reciently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) unveiled the first housing discrimination mobile application (app). The app provides a quick and easy way to learn about your housing…
TransAdvocate Metrics for February 2013
We at the TransAdvocate are beginning a new tradition. Each month we’re going to give you information about what we’ve been talking about here on the TransAdvocate, how you’ve felt about it and how…
Turn Your Profile Pic Red?
Equality means just that. While the trans community is invested in marriage equality, the reality trans folk face each day is described by the American Psychiatric Association thusly: Discrimination and lack of equal civil…
Militant March Protesting Death Of Transsexual Kayla Moore While In Police Custody
A large group of LGBT activists strode down the middle of Berkeley streets, enraged that one month has passed and still no statement from police detailing exactly who or what killed trans person Kayla…
[UPDATED] #RadFem2013 Lies, London Irish Centre Truth + a Preview of Sheila Jeffreys’ New TERF Book!
RadFem 2013 organizer, Cathy Brennan responds to this post in a totally rational, non-hateful way. For the second year in a row, the TERF hate conference has been booted from their venue. For the…
Reality Check: Fallon Fox and the Transgender Advantage
Those in her corner cite studies that show that testosterone production is diminished by several years of estrogen therapy, while adversaries contend that those studies are flawed, and that she has an unfair advantage…
Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival
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TransAdvocate Polling Results
Last month we asked TAers how they felt about non-binary expressions of gender. One of the favorite RadFem (TERF) memes they like to propagate is that trans folk are the embodiment of the patriarchy…
Einstein’s Fabulous Footwear
No, it’s not ‘shopped. From what I’ve been able to gather, Einstein didn’t value clothing norms; he instead wore what felt comfortable. It’s well known that he hated wearing socks and had foot problems.…
Revisiting ‘the fallacy of cis privilege, again.’
I’ve noticed that TERFs tend to lie. Like, a lot. As in, metric tons of BS. TERFs far and wide are currently gnashing their collective teeth over the reality that their hate-fest conference (#RadFem2013)…
What Hate Looks Like
15-year-old Raymond Buys shortly before his death Raymond Buys was sent to an infamous right-wing training camp for effeminate boys. “I sent my son on this course to make him a better man, to…
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…
The TERF Appropriation of the Trans Day of Remembrance
A TERF hate-tracking site recently raised a warning that Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) leaders are attempting to appropriate the Trans Day of Remembrance: Cathy Brennan, contributor to the Radfem2013 conference, has sunk to…
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…
A Shezow Game: Spot the TERF!
[su_cwtop] Horror of horrors: there’s a cartoon wherein a boy puts on a ring that dresses him up like a female superhero. You just know that’s going to bring out the RadRight/TERF fringe to…
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,…
May 2013 Polling Results
This month we asked our readers, “If you’re transitioning and had to pick just one, what would you say is the goal of your transition?” and here are the results: May 2013 polling results…
Will the real Brennan please stand up?
Will the real Brennan please stand up? Many trans folk are aware of Brennan for her attempts to overturn trans equality protections, her targeting, outing and trans-shaming of non-cis folk and for claiming that…
[UPDATED] Anti-Trans Radio Show Dropped From SiriusXM!
UPDATE: I just received a statement from Clear Channel! See below… On June 3rd – just days into Pride Month – the Clear Channel radio show Lex and Terry, broadcast by SiriusXM, began discussing…
Anti-Trans Bills Defeated in Arizona and Texas!
After an ordinance was approved in April by the City of Phoenix which prohibited discrimination in public accommodations based on gender identity, Republican Representative John Kavanagh introduced a bill that sought to make it…
Responding To: Is It Wrong to Perform at Michfest?
At its core, Thompson’s argument — and Vogel’s — is essentially based on gender identity and socialization. It contends that being assigned female at birth is a life experience that differs from that of…
[UPDATED] SiriusXM Broadcasts ClearChannel Support for Trans Murder
6/6/13, 1:10 PM UPDATE: Sign the petition demanding that Clear Channel issue a public apology! [hr] 6/5/13, 8:30 PM UPDATE: I’ve spoken with Senior Vice President of Communications at SiriusXM and he has made…
Victoria Brownworth, PGN, and Trans Kids
Victoria Brownworth has been in the news lately because she is a Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) who has a history of interpreting the trans experience for disempowered trans people. What follows are excerpts…
Gawking at TransKid’s Genitalia is “Freedom of Speech” says Philly PD
A much older adult, who was famous in the eyes of a kid, talked the minor into exposing themselves to the adult. The adult then took a good long look – long enough to…
A Rant About MTF “Stealth”
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 and how they feel about it. Suzan Cooke kicked…
That time a TERF trolled the TransAdvocate & GLAAD
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The TERF Empire Declares War Against Trans People
Trans pioneer Dallas Denny published an article on TA about expressing her misgivings about the upcoming publication of a book promoting Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) hate. She just received a chilling response from…
For the last time: VICTORIA BROWNWORTH IS NOT A TRANSPHOBE!!!
Victoria Brownworth is an award-winning journalist who likes to write about transwomen who live on the edge of society due to bigotry which means that nothing she does can ever be transphobic. Furthermore, she…
Buddhist Bigots, Buddhism and Trans Folk
Editor’s Note: This is part of a TransAdvocate series on religion. This series seeks to explore how various religions conceptualize trans and how trans people conceptualize religion. [hr] There is an ex-trans temple in…
Hypocrisy, Hate and Harm #no2h8splc
The above is a picture of militant lesbians and gays protesting against a movie that promoted false gay stereotypes. March 18, 1970 Ladies’ Home Journal Sit-In Above is what happened when a bunch of…
So, I hear trans people recently invented this whole cis/trans thing…
[su_cwtop] Using the cis- and trans- taxonomy to reference gender behavior was used as early as 1914. The transgender community didn’t invent its use, nor is its current use inconsistent with its use in…
New Jersey bans trans conversion therapy
A lot has been said over New Jersey’s new bill, signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie (R), which bans gay conversion therapy. What you may not know is that this law is inclusive…
Libertarian Feminism and trans people
The TransAdvocate recently featured a piece by Radical Women. The group touched on many radical positions on gender and the transgender experience. In this piece, the TransAdvocate interviews Sharon Presley, Executive Director of the…
Sheila Jeffreys and the myth of where trans care comes from
Sheila Jeffreys has for years claimed that trans surgery is the product of some malevolent conspiracy: [Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best…
Trans Radio Theater: Poe Comedy With A Purpose
From the Houston trans community comes this comedy gem: A poe is someone who parodies fundamentalism in such a way that it is ridiculous yet simultaneously difficult to tell if the media is real…
California Trans Bill Freak Out
Supposedly, as the RadRight narrative goes, the California bill protecting trans kids in school is anarchy and madness. Unsurprisingly, TERFs and H-BSers jumped on that narrative: You know what? BS. Here in TEXAS –…
San Antonio: not as mature as their children
San Antonio adults standing up for their right to discriminate. For the past month, the adults of San Antonio have been wringing their collective hands in very public displays of “concern” over a city…
VICTORY in Texas: Activism Works!
The transadvocate recently reported on the efforts of the Texas radical right to derail a proposed LGBT non-discrimination policy in San Antonio. As noted, the proposed ordinance wasn’t asking anything more of San Antonio’s…
“Award Winning” Journalist Victoria Brownworth Caught Lying YET AGAIN!
Victoria Brownworth, self proclaimed “award winning” TERF journalist (though she calls herself RadFem), hates me. Like, a lot. I wrote the following factual account of how she used her privilege to coerce a trans…
What are the top 3 things you like about being trans?
There is so much hardship, pain, grief and oppression we as trans people face. Sometimes it seems that no matter where we turn, the only image we see representing us (in movies, books, articles,…
What Cisprivilege Looks Like
While the vast majority of the feminist word understands that in a society that punishes trans people, not being trans is beneficial. However, fringe nuts on both the left and right often bleat on…
If you live in Texas, YOUR transitioned status is up for appeal
This very important case has been dragging on for a couple of years now and here’s the recap: 1.) It all started April, 19 2010 with this: Back in 2010, an intersex person wanted…
You might be a TERF if…
[su_cwtop] I’ve noticed that there seems to be some confusion about what a Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) is so, here’s a quick guide to help you figure out if you’re someone who pushes…
[UPDATED] Cotton Ceiling: Uncovering the trans conspiracy to rape lesbians
The mere mention of the “cotton ceiling” should send rapey shivers up your spine. If you’ve not heard of it here’s the lowdown from feminists: Transgender cotton ceiling rapists hold male-only (Planned Parenthood-sponsored) seminars,…
Miss Gender: How to spot a TERF
Used with permission: (c) Rebecca Cohen
On Trial in Texas: The Transitioned Status of Trans People
Me & Judge Frye Today Phyllis Frye (America’s first out trans judge) and I met up with Nikki Araguz at the 13th District Court of Appeals for the hearing on how Texas will view…
Anti-gay activist group admits trans school “harassment” is fake
Okay. Maybe the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) doesn’t think that they’re admitted their charge of “harassment” is fake, but I’ll let you be the judge. The PJI is a right-wing activist organization and huge…
GLAAD condemns fake “report” of harassment by transgender student
GLAAD condemned the false report by the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) which claimed a transgender kid was harassing cisgender girls in Colorado. PJI is the ex-gay/creationist organization at the center of an international effort…
YOUR HELP REQUESTED: HRC condemns fake trans harassment charges, ex-gay group dodges my fact checking, family & friends open up
Today, HRC has joined GLAAD in condemning the false reports of trans harassment by an ex-gay/creationist group, the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI). The PJI is the organization at the center of an international effort…
California signature gatherer caught lying to trick people into discriminating against trans children
Groups who want a legal right to discriminate against transgender children seem to be pulling out all the stops. An ex-gay group, the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), recently went on an ugly smear campaign…
TERFs & Trans Healthcare
While there are many who feel that morality must be built into law, I believe that the elimination of transsexualism is not best achieved by legislation prohibiting transsexual treatment and surgery but rather by…
Trans Student Attacking Girls in School Restroom! Or, you know… not.
The push for radical transgender rights in schools is trumping privacy rights at one Colorado high school. A male student at Florence High School who claims to be a transgender has been harassing girls…
Todd Kincannon, Former South Carolina GOP Executive Director: American trans people should be interned in camps
Former South Carolina GOP Executive Director, Todd Kincannon has publicly declared that some Americans should be interned in “camps.” Kincannon went on to refer to a trans person as a “goddamn he-she” and stated…
UK’s Daily Mail Removes False Trans Harassment Story
On Sunday, October 13, 2013 the Daily Mail published a story titled, Girls ‘harassed’ in school bathroom by transgender student told his rights trump their privacy: The story, exposed by the TransAdvocate as a…
Daily Mail pulls story, Examiner prints retraction, Fox News keeps the lie going
On Sunday, October 13, 2013 the Daily Mail published a story titled, Girls ‘harassed’ in school bathroom by transgender student told his rights trump their privacy, but pulled the article after it became apparent…
TERF supports anti-gay activist group
Cathy Brennan, an opinion leader in of the Trans Exclusionary RadFem movement has chosen to side with the ex-gay organization, the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI): Fails to mention this story was recanted Worse, Brennan…
Family of Colorado trans kid targeted by harassment hoax speaks up
I’d like to introduce you to a 16 year old high school student who I’m going to refer to as “Jane Doe.” I’m calling her “Jane” because, after an ex-gay organization orchestrated an international…
TransAdvocate interviews the Pacific Justice Institute
I wanted to go ahead and get this interview out there ASAP. I’ll make a more in-depth post soon – including how PJI responds to Jane Doe’s mother and what they think about ex-gay…
What happens when PJI is confronted by parents?
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay organization that stirred up the right-wing word by claiming that a trans kid (who I will refer to as Jane Doe, for reasons of safety) in…
‘Hate group’ supporters under police surveillance for bullying?
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay organization that stirred up the right-wing word by claiming that a trans kid (who I will refer to as Jane Doe, for reasons of safety) in…
The legal argument against your transitioned status
The following is the argument against YOUR transitioned status being recognized, currently sitting in the Texas 13th District Court of Appeals, and soon to be making its way to the US Supreme Court. This…
Second PJI-backed signature gatherer caught lying; this time, trans kids cause rape & molestation
For the second time, undercover auditors for the TransAdvocate have caught Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) backed signature gathers working to overturn trans protections for California school children by lying. PJI, an ex-gay organization who…
Debunked: LA peeping tom trans kids
In the seemingly never-ending morass of falsehoods coming from the likes of the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), a new claim of trans harassment is being pushed in the media by members of the PJI-backed…
Victoria Brownworth: this is who you pay to write about queer issues?!?
Before you read further, check out this Storify wherein Victoria Brownworth claims that I am a pedophile who pays to have sex with children: [View the story “More Lies From Victoria Brownworth ” on…
Spot anti-trans signature gatherers in California? Report it at 866-377-0578!
The TransAdvocate has documented the dirty tricks anti-trans groups are playing in California. We documented how the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) falsely claimed that a trans girl had been harassing cis girls in the…
PJI caught lying… yet again
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay organization that stirred up the right-wing word by claiming that a trans kid (who I will refer to as Jane Doe, for reasons of safety) in…
PodCast: Reviewing media bias and an interview on Swirl Radio
[hr] In this podcast, I review the way in which the mainstream media has responded to the TWO right-wing hoaxes which spread the trans bathroom meme in mainstream media. Also, there’s a short interview…
Meet the financial backers of the effort to discriminate against trans kids in California
NAME OF CONTRIBUTOR PAYMENT TYPE CITY STATE ZIP EMPLOYER OCCUPATION AMOUNT TRANSACTION DATE SEAN FIELER MONETARY PRINCETON NJ 8540 EQUINOX PARTNERS PARTNER $80,000.00 9/25/2013 PACIFIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE MONETARY SACRAMENTO CA 95827 $10,000.00 9/23/2013 HAGMAN…
PJI fundraising video targeting suicidal trans kid goes viral
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay organization that stirred up the right-wing word when it claimed that a trans kid (who I will refer to as Jane Doe, for reasons of safety)…
Cathy Brennan’s TERF group promotes PJI fundraiser
The group TERF attorney, Cathy Brennan represents is promoting PJI’s fundraising efforts: Brennan had previously acted as PJI’s mouthpiece, delivering PJI statements to the TransAdvocate. Additionally, Brennan outed the name of the trans kid…
PJI given brushoff by the Colorado School Board
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay organization who claimed that a trans kid (who I will refer to as Jane Doe, for reasons of safety) in Colorado was harassing cisgender girls in…
Update of California referendum targeting trans children
Since election day we’ve gotten numerous requests for updates on what’s happening with the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) backed effort to repeal the California law defining protections for transgender school children. The law (AB…
Right-wing gets it wrong. Again.
Some of you may be shocked to learn that staff at Heritage Middle School in St. Leonard, MD are forcing school children to crossdress in order to make them understand the hardship trans and…
California school students & faculty support genderqueer student set on fire & who continues to be misgendered in the press
[TW: Anti trans violence + misgendering by press] Sasha Fleischman, a genderqueer senior at Colorado’s Maybeck High School, fell asleep in the rear of a bus heading for East Oakland. Sasha’s skirt was set…
Restoring your faith in humanity: supporting Jane Doe
Before PJI: Jane Doe (front row, middle) with school friends. The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay organization who claimed that a trans kid (who I refer to as Jane Doe) in Colorado…
Colleen Francis and the infamous Evergreen State College incident
The mere mention of the incident should send shivers down your spine. Trans people who support protections based on gender identity should feel nervous when Colleen’s name is mentioned. If you’re trans, you should…
Add intimidation to the lies, fraud of the anti-AB1266 effort as signature gatherer caught bullying trans advocate
The TransAdvocate has documented numerous unethical and/or illegal actions by Pacific Justice Institute backed movement seeking to repeal protections for trans children in California. We’ve caught them bullying a trans kid to the brink…
Popular TERF front group is fake
Would you be surprised to learn that a wildly popular front group TERF attorney, Cathy Brennan runs is fake? The group, Organizing for Women’s Liberation (OWL) claims to have received well over 100,000 FaceBook…
Harris County to house jail inmates according to “gender identity” …
… Is the headline you’re probably heard if you’re familiar with this story. As you might imagine, the actual story is a bit more nuanced. Yes, Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia did, in fact,…
Another California trans student attacked, trans community responds: #JD4PJI
Just a week after the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) backed coalition turned in over 600,000 signatures to repeal protections for trans children in California, a trans student was caught on tape fighting for her…
Media from protesting the Pacific Justice Institute’s hate
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay group who recently bullied a Colorado trans kid to the brink of suicide. At the same time, PJI was working to strip protections for all trans…
Southern Poverty Law Center: Monitor Gender Identity Watch as a Hate Group
As a feminist organization, Secular Woman promotes gender equality. We stand against and combat sexism, hate, intolerance, and misogyny. Transgender women are women. Cisgender women are women. We do not, in any way, view…
A Community of the Heart: Intersectional feminist speech from San Antonio TDOR
What follows is an amazing speech given by Graciela Sanchez on realizing liberation through building a “community of the heart.” Sanchez, a self-identified lesbian Latina queer spoke on the intersections of oppression and of…
Judgement Day: Protesting PJI’s Hate
“Exposing Injustice” [hr] The Pacific Justice Institute is the ex-gay organization that bullied a trans kid to the brink of suicide and is one of the major players in the effort to repeal protections…
TransGiving 3: Boston Alliance of GLBT Youth
The Boston Alliance of GLBT Youth (BAGLY) is a youth-led organization that’s worked with trans youth since the 1980s. BAGLY has a queer youth speakers bureau and youth led HIV/AIDS education program. Furthermore, BAGLY…
Interview with Delta county “castration” school board member: turns out she’s linked to anti-LGBT groups
Recently Katherine Svenson, a Delta county School Board member in Colorado, found herself the topic of controversy after remarking that trans kids should be castrated before they use the restroom. What news reports failed…
Eavesdrop on a right wing anti-trans training camp: teaching fear mongering and lies
Recently, an equality effort in Florida was defeated by appealing to the ‘trans people = rape’ meme. As it turned out, appealing to this meme was deliberate and is, in fact, part of a…
TransGiving 1: The Trans Center and Archive
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TransGiving 2: The Gender Book
[alert type=”notice”]This is the second in a series on backing your community. During the month of December, the TransAdvocate will feature 12 AMAZING trans nonprofits/causes that deserve your support.[/alert] The Gender Book is one…
Fact Checking: anti-trans “parents of students” speak out at school board meeting
By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams Charlotte Burrous, a reporter for the Canon City Daily Record asserted that parents of students spoke out at a school board meeting: Parents of students in the Florence-Penrose School District…
TransGiving 4: Trans Youth Support Network
For the 4th Day of TransGiving, the TransAdvocate has picked The Trans Youth Support Network (TYSN)! TYSN is a partnership of youth and community members who work together to support trans youth in Minnesota.…
The Specificity Critique
The Paradise Post decided to feature one the more ridiculous talking points on offer by anti-equality forces. The “Specificity Critique” is when bigots decry trans equality laws for being policy instead of procedure. I…
CONSPIRACY: PJI front group sues California because county offices were closed on holiday
By Cristan Williams @CristanWilliams Gina Gleason, director of the Faith and Public Policy and Watchmen “ministries” of Calvary Chapel church1, asserted that her church’s group, the Privacy for All Students (PFAS) coalition is suing…
Cathy Brennan attempts to censor LGBT magazine
OutSmart magazine asked me to write a piece on the TERF phenomena. My 2500+ word article featured just two sentences that mentioned Cathy Brennan’s behavior. Cathy Brennan – a Maryland attorney, activist, leader and…
New lies: Anti-LGBT sites assert courtroom victory and claim California trans law is now on hold
It all began with the Media Matters “Misinformer of the Year” winner, the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) issuing a press release claiming that because they turned in 600k+ signatures (some valid, some demonstrably not),…
[UPDATED] Trigger Warning! Focus on the Family is coming to a theater near you!
A friend and I recently went to see the new Hobbit movie. The lights dimmed and imagine my surprise when the following movie preview flashed across the screen: My friend and I both gasped…
Toronto newspaper pushes trans hoax, claims no duty to fact check
On Saturday, the Toronto Star’s “ethics” journalist, Ken Gallinger, unquestioningly published the incredible claim that an elderly Toronto women was hit on in the YMCA women’s locker room by a male-bodied individual who was…
Fool me once: Toronto Star doubles down on their anti-trans hoax
By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams In its landmark 2009 decision on responsible communication in the public interest, Canada’s highest court asserts this principle: “Freedom does not negate responsibility. It is vital that the media act…
Did bias lead to prosecution of bullied Hercules trans student?
By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams Jewlyes Gutierrez, 16-year-old trans sophomore at Hercules High School On December 4, 2013 an investigative reporter, Jennifer Lopez interviewed the police department about a case against a trans Hercules High…
PJI pushes debunked lies to the press. Again.
Ex-gay groups are pounding their high chairs insisting that AB 1266 is not in effect. They claim that merely because they turned in signatures – valid or no – AB 1266, the California law…
[UPDATED] Toronto Star’s editorial problem
On Saturday, January 4, 2014, the Toronto Star published an anti-trans hoax without first fact checking. The claim was that a 70 year old woman was undressing in a Toronto-area YMCA when a male-bodied…
Eric’s unhealthy obsession with trans kids
Sexualizing children is cruel. Mocking children is cruel. Promoting hoaxes that demonizes children is cruel. Let’s be clear: Eric Owens gets paid to be cruel to children because they’re trans. Unlike dupes who are…
Putin in drag: what transmisogyny looks like?
I’m sure many of you have seen the various protest images of Vladimir Putin’s image colored as if he’s wearing false eyelashes and makeup. The images are used to protest against anti-queer oppression in…
Full SFGN Interview: ‘I am not a bigot’ Says Gender Identity Watch’s Cathy Brennan
Recently the South Florida Gay News interviewed me for an article on the TERFs, Cathy Brennan and her group, Gender Identity Watch: The Web is where this feud appears to have escalated with Brennan…
Trans medical treatment and faith
A reader writes: I am trans but also religious. Although I live as a woman, I was born with boy parts. In my opinion, to have surgery would imply that God made a mistake.…
Trans medical care = mutilation?
A reader writes: I was wondering if it would be possible to open a discussion seeking articulation explaining why and how surgical alteration is different from genital mutilation. I feel insufficiently equipped to defend…
Of expectations and education
I recently posted the following to my FaceBook page: Is it me or is there a lot of “JESUS! STFU already! I’m complementing you and think you should have rights! What, now I have…
“Right to discriminate” bill supports KKK’s right to racial segregation says Sen Yarbrough’s office
By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams Arizona state senator, Steve Yarbrough (R) sponsored Senate Bill 1062, hailed as a “property rights” bill aimed at ensuring that business owners and social service organizations would have the right…
A Look Back at the T in the 1979 “Gay March” on Washington
[su_cwtop] Official Souvenir Program of the 1979 National March on Washington, Page 40 It should be noted that the organizer of the 1st MOW was Ray Hill from Houston, Texas. Hill was a significant…
Religious Bigots: Intersections of Trans, Racial and Feminist issues | PodCast
[su_cwtop] Hey there folks this is Cristan Williams with another TransAdvocate podcast. Today I have a few topics I want to touch on. We’ll talk about the Arizona “right to discriminate” bill. Specifically we’ll…
The shame of Sheila Jeffreys’ hate
University of Melbourne Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF), Sheila Jeffreys is being called out for her racist comments by the indigenous Australian community. Jeffreys asserted on a radio show that being trans is like…
#JD4PJI: The downfall of the Pacific Justice Institute and the sweet victory of trans youth
[su_cwtop] The one thing that you have to realize is that everything the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) did to a trans kid in Colorado was about PJI’s desire to stop a law in California…
TERF: what it means and where it came from
[su_cwtop] Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERF) are quick to make fact assertions about the term, TERF. According to TERFs, the term is a slur and use of the term makes one a misogynist. Others…
Trans advocates supporting clinic defense
The TransAdvocate is an unequivocal supporter of body autonomy. While the issue of body autonomy affects people in somewhat different ways, we’ve noticed that the same groups standing in the way of a abortion…
TERFs offer only hyperbole
[su_cwtop] TERFs are well-known for referring to their rhetoric as being “gender critical.” You might think that this means that they are critical of gender in all its forms. However, TERF criticism of gender…
The Third Wave Fund: empowering communities to fight for gender, racial, and economic justice
[su_cwtop] The Third Wave Fund (TWF) is a feminist, activist foundation that works nationally to support the vision and voices of young women, transgender and gender nonconforming youth. I came across the TWF while…
NOW state rep talks with the TransAdvocate about TERFs, trans-inclusion and civil rights
[su_cwtop] I heard of Poppy years before I met her. I knew her to be a major force behind Southern feminism. Poppy has a long history of working for reproductive rights both as an…
On policing RuPaul’s “free speech”
[su_cwtop] I think the freedom of speech and policing arguments that have popped up around RuPaul are entirely disingenuous. Nobody is stopping RuPaul Andre Charles from using these terms as much as he likes…
Trans people added to Violence Against Women Act
[su_cwtop] The original Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was passed in 1994 and signed into law by then President, Bill Clinton. As you can imagine, the original act was not explicitly trans-inclusive. However, when…
Transgender*: The Rhetorical Landscape of a Term
[su_cwtop] The following is a peer-reviewed paper originally published in Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. The article was co-authored by the TransAdvocate Editor, Cristan Williams and Dr. Rawson of the College…
Tranny: An Evidence-Based Review
[su_cwtop] Discourse surrounding the term tranny has become more than a little heated. In fact, a RuPaul Drag Race runner-up enacted the mock execution of a trans woman named Parker Molloy for the apparent…
Increasingly, anti-trans = anti-abortion: #protransprochoice
[su_cwtop] The right to body autonomy and being free from oppressive gender stereotypes is an issue that’s near and dear to my heart. I’ve noticed that the same hubris people who stand in the…
Gender Performance: The TransAdvocate interviews Judith Butler
[su_cwtop] Judith Butler is a preeminent gender theorist and has played an extraordinarily influential role in shaping modern feminism. They’ve written extensively on gender, and her concept of gender performativity is a central theme…
Faggot Ru Paul: trannys need to “get stronger”
[su_cwtop] The faggot, RuPaul Andre Charles, claims that trans people are “bitches” who need to “get stronger” with regard to his use of tranny. In an interview on WTF with Marc Marron, RuPaul said:…
The Playbook: Equality comes to Houston, the fringe freaks out, threatens to kill Mayor [UPDATED]
[su_cwtop] Listen to this article On Wednesday, May 28, 2014, the Houston City Council approved a sweeping non-discrimination ordinance barring discrimination against 15 protected classes, including an explicit protection against discrimination due to one’s…
Pastor who warned of “transgender predators” sexually harasses and assaults women
[su_cwtop] Houston recently passed a nondiscrimination ordinance protecting the following 15 classes: Sex, Race, Color, Ethnicity, National Origin, Age, Familial Status, Marital Status, Military Status, Religion, Disability, Sexual Orientation, Genetic Information, Gender Identity, and…
Declining Southern Baptist Convention continues tradition of bigotry, now targeting trans people
[su_cwtop] The past president of the Southern Baptist Convention Ed Young and current pastor of Second Baptist Church in Houston recently joined Pastor Kendall Baker and David Welch in denouncing Houston’s recent Equal Rights…
Hair does not make the woman, Sarah Ditum
[su_matop] The appearance of Lavern Cox, a prominent trans woman activist and actor, on the cover of Time magazine was a great moment in trans advocacy. Although Chelsea Manning was the first trans woman…
Houston, know thy bigots: outing the haters
[su_cwtop] The Houston Area Pastors Council (HPAC), an organization led by men who sexually harassed women (and who tried to misrepresent the sexual abuse to the public), has been working to overturn broad equality…
Houston trans-inclusive equity ordinance survives
[su_cwtop] Houston Mayor Annise Parker and City Attorney David Feldman announced that the effort to overturn equality failed to collect enough valid petition signatures to put minority rights up for a popular vote in…
Anti-LGBT bigot caught engaging in election fraud in Texas
[su_cwtop] Engaging in fraud in order to overturn LGBT and especially trans equality in cities throughout the nation is nothing new for anti-equality bigots. In the past anti-equality efforts, election fraud was limited to…
World’s experts condemn the McHugh hoax
[su_cwtop] The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently ran an op-ed by the right-wing anti-transgender psychiatrist, Paul McHugh. McHugh purposefully misrepresented the research he cited in his article, misleading WSJ readers, and the wider population…
#TERFweek: Debunking TERF Tropes
[su_cwtop] TERFs tend to behave much like a fundamentalist echo chamber so that once a new malicious anti-trans trope is created, it is quickly disseminated and replicated until the trans community and/or allied communities…
Debunking TERF Essentialism: Part III of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
Part III of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series: Debunking TERF Essentialism [su_cwtop] Listen to this article In Part II, what gender is and is not was discussed and the ways in which…
National justice orgs say: End trans exclusion policy at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival
[su_cwtop] The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) has joined the Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Nation Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and several other social justice organizations…
#TERFweek starts now!
What it is #TERFweek is a week of education, raising awareness and openly talking about the abuse our communities have endured at the hands of the Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist movement. From Monday, August…
Intro to the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
[su_cwtop] About a decade ago, the feminist community came up with the term Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) as a way to halt the default colonization of Radical Feminism and feminism itself by TERFs…
#TERFweek: Let’s not repeat our history
[su_cwtop] The following article was published in 1974. Note the way the overall public held anti-trans views in contempt. Note the dismissive way the author of this article reported on TERF bigotry. I think…
#TERFweek: Remember Filisa Vistima
[su_cwtop] Before you read further, I need to state a strong Trigger Warning: The following post recounts the circumstances surrounding the suicide of a trans women. Filisa Vistima was a 22-year-old transsexual woman from…
Contextualizing the Body: Part II of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
[su_cwtop] Part II of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series: Contextualizing the Body If one is talking about something that has chemistry and mass, one is not talking about the thoughts in one’s…
TERFs Selling Women into Rape Culture: Part IV of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
Note: If you’ve not done so, please read Part III: Debunking TERF Essentialism, as this piece draws upon the debunked TERF ad naturam essentialism concepts – the “essence” of what makes one male or…
Critical of “Gender Critical:” Part V of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
Many of the TERFs I’ve had the displeasure of meeting move through life belligerently sexing physical phenomena and behavior (especially rape) while simultaneously (and ironically) proclaiming themselves to be critical of gender. For TERFs,…
TERF hate and Sandy Stone
[su_cwtop] Sandy Stone was a problem that Janice Raymond, author of The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, decided to take care of. Raymond felt that Stone — an out trans woman who…
TERFism as an Obsessive Sadistic Fetish: Part VI of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
[su_cwtop] Listen to this article The obsessive nature of TERFs who police the trans communities’ selfhoods through cruelty can be viewed as an obsessive sadistic fetish. The TERF movement – in breathtaking acts of…
That time TERFs beat RadFems for protecting a trans woman from their assault
[su_cwtop] Robin Tyler is an iconic Radical Feminist lesbian who talked with me about the ways she confronted TERF violence and oppression against trans women. We discussed Tyler’s involvement with the 1973 West Coast…
WATCH: School board bigot squirm
[su_cwtop] In what has to be one of the most facepalm-inducing interviews I’ve ever watched, Canadian school board trustee, Sam Sotiropoulos attempted to explain why he’s not a bigot for promoting bigotry. The above…
I Am Jazz: an amazing book for trans kids
[su_cwtop] Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings recently published a book for trans kids titled, I Am Jazz. The beautifully illustrated story is based on the real-life experiences of Jazz. Laverne Cox said that the…
Fact Checking Janice Raymond: The NCHCT Report
[su_cwtop] It has long been asserted that the iconic TERF opinion leader, Janice Raymond, played a part in bringing an end to the public and private coverage of transgender medical care, resulting in measurable…
A TERF’s fist gave rise to trans-inclusive women’s music festivals
[su_cwtop] Listen to this article What follows is a continuation of my interview with Radical Feminist lesbian icon, Robin Tyler. In the previous piece, Tyler talked about being beaten by TERFs for trying to…
How TERF violence inspired Camp Trans
[su_cwtop] Listen to this article In the middle of a cool August night in 1991, Nancy Burkholder was thrown out of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (MWMF) because she’s a trans woman. Burkholder was…
#TERFweek Redux
[su_cwtop] In the post announcing #TERFweek, we specified goals for the week. These goals were: Raise awareness about this movement of hate and the groups it forms. Educate people about its tactics. Collectively speak…
Gender Critical Feminism, the roots of Radical Feminism and Trans oppression
Gender Critical Feminism (GCF) is a euphemism for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism (TERF). There is no ideological difference between the TERF and “Gender Critical Feminist” (GCF) movement; they are one in the same. GCF teaches…
As #LeelahAlcorn’s mom talks to CNN, Leelah’s Reddit posts come back to haunt her
While her mom talks to CNN to profess her love and support, Leelah’s Reddit posts paint a homelife defined by bullying and fear. [su_cwtop] Listen to this article Much has been written about Leelah…
#CisPrivilege, UK’s Green Party and freedom of speech
[su_cwtop] Some of you might remember that Germaine Greer, a TERF the Radical Feminist Andrea Dworkin took to task for trying to pass off patriarchy as feminism, made some small waves for appealing to…
McCarthyistic Trannies and Golden Cis Tears
[su_maedtop] “Are you now or have you ever been a TERF?” screams the title of the latest missive from the NewStatesman. The implication of the headline is that trans people are silencing through McCarthyistic…
Sex work and the sex worker
[su_cwtop] Listen to this article “K” is an intersex, trans and sex worker rights advocate. I interviewed K about their sex work experiences, how the needs of sex workers might be respectfully addressed and…
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The TransAdvocate interviews Catharine A. MacKinnon
[su_cwtop] Catharine A. MacKinnon is a lawyer, teacher, writer, theorist, and activist. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law…
Media Supports Demonizing of Trans Children, Silent on Trans Reparative Therapy
[su_maedtop] The United Kingdom’s conservative weekly magazine, The Spectator, recently published a post written by Brendan O’Neill (Editor of Sp!ked). The piece’s title gives you a hint to its tone: Trans activists are effectively…
Repeating the cycle at MichFest: The clash of two feminisms
[su_cwtop] The yearly struggle the trans community experiences with MichFest has been taking place for so long, some of us have trouble remembering why MichFest’s “womyn-born womyn” policy was such a painful issue for…
A trans advocate’s perspective on Trans 101 questions
Sometime back, a reporter asked me some Trans 101 questions, so I decided to publish that Q&A as a trans advocate’s nuanced perspective on Trans 101 questions. What does “transgender” mean? Much like queer,…
Sex Essentialism: TERF patriarchy and smelly vaginas
TERFs battle over who has the correct vaginal odor in order to determine female validity. [su_cwtop] Listen to this article I’ve noted many times that while Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) like to speak…
Rowan Atkinson makes more sense than BBC’s “Woman’s Hour”
Why TERF ideology is child abuse and how the media supports it. By Natacha This article discusses the clash of ideology and lived experience as exemplified by a recent BBC radio program in the…
InfoWars: California Green Party “Slaps” “Cisgendered” Men!
[su_cwtop] Or not. Perhaps you’ve seen this image floating around the Internets today: As InfoWars reports, “The California Green Party is attracting controversy after posting an image on its official Instagram page which promotes…
See Tumblr TERFs justify threatening to murder a trans kid
[su_cwtop] Listen to this article Tumblr TERF, radfem-momma apparently thinks it’s okay to threaten trans kids with murder as long as you lie about the reason. BACKSTORY: This post has to do with Tumblr…
The NY Times goes concern trolling
On August 22, 2015, the NY Times ran an article by Richard A. Friedman titled, “How Changeable Is Gender?” One might be excused for mistaking the piece as an earnest call to the medical…
Study: Trans kid’s gender implicit; govt report condemns conversion therapy
[su_cwtop] Listen to this article A recent study found that the gender identity of trans children is as implicit as the gender identity of cis children. A study with 32 transgender children, ages 5…
Fact check: study shows transition makes trans people suicidal
A 2011 Swedish study proves that trans people are more suicidal due to transition, are likely rapists and that trans women exhibit male socialization. Or does it? [su_cwtop] Perhaps you’ve heard that a Swedish…
(Re)Introducing inclusive Radical Feminism
[su_cwtop] Listen to this article The TransAdvocate is pleased to announce the launch of a new program aimed at making a decades-old intersectional trans, intersex and genderqueer inclusive radical feminism more accessible. The TransAdvocate,…
On Free Speech, No-Platforming, and the Media’s “Transgender Debate”
While it’s well and good to call out those who denigrate trans people in the media, it’s time to take it a step further. [su_cwtop] Making Money with Media What cis privilege looks like.…
Debunked: JoeySalads’ Transgender Bathroom Hoax
Once again, news media around the globe proves that they’ll promote just about anything anti-trans, without verification. [su_cwtop] Listen to this article Zinnia Jones released an in-depth analysis and debunking of YouTuber Joey “Salads”…
Showdown in NC: Read the ultimatum the DOJ sent NC
[su_cwtop] Listen to this article The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has given the State of North Carolina until Monday, May 9, 2016, to cease discriminating against trans people: Both you and the State…
What the US Attorney General actually said about trans people & fighting NC in court
[su_cwtop] Listen to this article On Monday, May 9th, the United States Attorney General, Loretta Lynch came out swinging against North Carolina’s commitment to discriminating against trans people. The speech that AG Lynch gave…
The media is lying about why NC is being sued
By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams Listen to this article Almost without exception, all news stories covering the US Attorney General’s suit against North Carolina omits the rather significant fact that when North Carolina took federal…
Fight back: Report Mississippi & North Carolina HATE here!
By Autumn Sandeen & Cristan Williams Anti-trans activists in both Mississippi and North Carolina have passed laws that effectively remove trans people from public life. Making it legal on a state level to discriminate…
Owning Endosex Privilege and Supporting the Intersex Community: WPATH, Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM), and Sex Variant Bodies
E-Book Version Listen to an audio version of this article: By Margo Schulter The presentation of a poster session advocating Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM) at the recent Amsterdam meeting of the World Professional Association…
The Politics of Transphobia
Bathroom Bills & The Dialectic of Oppression: From the KKK to anti-feminism: examining the Southern roots of the anti-trans “bathroom bill” movement. By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams While Republican delegates dutifully cheered their presidential nominee…
Johns Hopkins Resumes Trans Care
Listen to this article Johns Hopkins was an early pioneer in American trans care until anti-LGBT activist Paul McHugh began working at the hospital. In 1979, McHugh was able to end trans care at…
#DiscoSexology Part VII: Interview With Affirmative Therapy Pioneer
Disco Sexology, Part Six: Gender Infinity Disco Sexology, Pt. 8: Committed for GID By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as…
#DiscoSexology Part VIII: Interview the Author of The Last Time I Wore A Dress
Disco Sexology, Pt. 7: Affirmative Therapy Disco Sexology, Pt. 9: Conclusion By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an…
#DiscoSexology Part IX: Dr. Zucker, CAMH, & Conversion Therapy
Disco Sexology, Pt. 8: Committed for GID By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Installment Preface Welcome to the ninth and last installment in this series on the rise and fall of Disco Sexology.…
Religious extremist attacks cis woman for using unisex bathroom
A cisgender man connected with a Florida Christian convention accosted a cisgender woman with a Bible as she exited an “All Genders” restroom at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando. The man, shouting about…
#DiscoSexology Part III: The Report Controversy
Disco Sexology, Part Two: The History Disco Sexology, Part Four: CAMH Director By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both…
#DiscoSexology Part IV: Interview With The CAMH Medical Director
Disco Sexology, Part Three: Controversy Disco Sexology, Part Five: Zucker’s Patient By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an…
#DiscoSexology Part V: An Interview With Zucker’s Patient
Disco Sexology, Part Four: CAMH Director Disco Sexology, Part Six: Gender Infinity By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both…
#DiscoSexology Part VI: Interview With Gender Infinity Co-Founder
Disco Sexology, Part Five: Zucker’s Patient Disco Sexology, Pt. 7: Affirmative Therapy By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both…
#DiscoSexology Part I: Dr. Zucker, CAMH, & Conversion Therapy
Disco Sexology, Part Two: The History By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Foreword With the recent enthusiastic promotion of disco-era ideas about trans people and gender identity in general, the TransAdvocate felt that…
#DiscoSexology Part II: The Timeline
Disco Sexology, Part One: Introduction Disco Sexology, Part Three: Controversy By Cristan Williams Listen to this article* Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio…
TERF legal team attempts to CENSOR the TransAdvocate
The Trans Exclusionary (self-identified) “radical feminist” lawyer Cathy Brennan sent, via her attorney, a cease-and-desist letter, asserting that the following statement from a TransAdvocate story titled, Fake “Radical Feminist” group actually paid political front…
Help the trans community overcome Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey!
Help the Gulf Coast trans community affected by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey: Many members of the Gulf Coast trans, intersex, and genderqueer community have lost everything. Trans, intersex, and genderqueer individuals can experience extreme difficulties…
Watch: Buck Angel urges our community to support the Trans Disaster Relief Fund
Buck Angel: “Not everyone is in a position to be treated respectfully so we must care for our own…” Many members of the Gulf Coast trans, intersex, and genderqueer community have lost everything. Trans,…
Podcast: When Disaster Hits Our Community
The TransAdvocate podcast crew discusses the way the trans community responds to natural disasters, plus a review of upcoming events. On the Pod: Cristan Williams, Robin Mack, and Alexis Melvin [democracy id=”2″]
Podcast: Intersex Awareness Day
The TransAdvocate podcast crew discusses the Intersex Awareness Day with pioneering intersex activist and TFA board member, Koomah plus a review of upcoming events. On the Pod: Cristan Williams, Robin Mack, Alexis Melvin, &…
Podcast: Resist & Rebuild – Getting it Done!
We’re always hearing how we’re supposed to “RESIST.” What can that look like when you live in the Deep South in Trump’s America or when your community just faced a historic natural disaster? Find…
Are Misogynist, Homophobe, & TERF slurs?
Into the nexus of the ‘gay alt-right feminist’ movement I received notice that an opinion leader in the sex essentialist activist community had linked to one of my articles titled, You Might be a…
[Audio Essay] On The Make-It-A-Slur Campaigns: Are Misogynist, Homophobe & TERF Slurs?
This week’s podcast is an audio essay: On The Make It A Slur Campaigns: Are Misogynist, Homophobe & TERF Slurs? By: Cristan Williams Narrated by: Nikki Delgado Duration: 25 minutes Essay Summary: Anti-equality activists,…
2017 Trans Day of Remembrance
For many years, the trans community’s one event was a memorial service and while we now celebrate numerous aspects of trans lives, November 20th remains the trans community’s oldest community tradition. What follows is…
Podcast: A study in Trans Advocacy for the Trans Day of Resilience
On this #TransDayofResilience, did you know that we can make the political machine work for us? Learn about how a trans community fought off dozens of “bathroom bills” and how a Texas trans community…
Podcast: Unboxing Trans History & Right Wing Rapists
We have the largest trans archive still in the community’s hands and we share with you some of the recent acquisitions from the last couple of weeks. This invariably wraps back around to current…
This is the end… to burnout!
Today’s show focuses on self-care as a form of Resistance, plus the local and national news and Gwen Smith’s Gender Nation. On the Pod: Cristan Williams, Robin Mack, and Alexis Melvin. Music: Whole Cloth…
Podcast: US Commission on Civil Rights, TransAdvocate Hip Hop, & WAD
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 for the TransAdvocate, and we talk about World AIDS…
See this trans advocate hip-hop video
As previewed in the last TransAdvocate podcast, the hip-hop artist known as MIC created an amazing tune about the TransAdvocate, trans advocacy in the US, and the radical feminists who bravely stood by their…
Podcast: Community, Transition, & Standards of Realness
The podcast crew reviews national and local politics and discusses some of the nuances of community, transition, and detransition. Also featured: the first installment of Gwen Smith’s Gender Nation and bonus material. On the…
Fear and our Future
Today’s show focuses on dealing with fear, both personally and as a community. Moreover, we present an audio essay performance piece titled The Real Housewives of Gilead: The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t as Fictional as…
We answer your questions
It turns out that basically everyone running the anti-trans campaign against Houston’s equal right’s ordinance is a sexual harasser, pedophile, or sex abuse apologist. Also, we answer your questions in our 2017 year-end special!…
Recognizing the Right Wing Playbook
While we’ve seen it before, we sometimes don’t see the political forest for the trees. The TransAdvocate crew reviews both local and national news and Dr. Gillian Frank helps us recognize the political tactics…
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If “Resistance” means anything, it means removing those from power who act to oppress us. This means that YOU –yes you– are needed in the fight to ensure that those who are running for…
Remembering who we are
You can hear anti-queer people bloviating nonstop about who they think we are and after a while, this psychological erasure is can take its toll. Today we remember who we are with: A new…
Yet another anti-queer activist is sexually abusing someone
This week, we take a look at Pastor Andres Savage who coerced an underage girl into sexually servicing him on the outskirts of Houston. But, before we do that, let’s look at the bad…
Arsonist TERF thinks trans women are immoral & should be beaten
As readers might be aware, the UK media is engulfed in a new and ongoing round of media-created trans panic of the same type that lead to the death of Lucy Medows in 2013.…
TransAdvocate 101
Having observed numerous conversations predicated on fundamental misunderstandings concerning trans advocacy, I put together this TransAdvocate 101 to compliment our Trans 101. If cis and trans advocate communities wish to better communicate, we need…
Why they ALWAYS talk bathrooms
The TransAdvocate produced a short documentary to examine the political right’s propensity to focus on bathrooms when it comes to trans equality. The reality is, the political right always focuses on bathrooms, privacy, and…
Dylan Forbis: Out Trans Man Running for Texas House!
We’ve seen out trans people running and winning elections throughout the nation recently and today the TransAdvocate welcomes our guest host Dylan Forbis, an out trans man running for a seat in the Texas…
Q&A: Dealing with Gender Dysphoria
The TransAdvocate Q & A is where we answer your questions. If you’d like to submit a question, go to our contact page and send it in. Today’s question is: I’m pre-transition and my…
No, really. THEY are the problem.
Today we have as a guest podcaster, Ali Lozano, Outreach Director for Laura Moser running for Congress in the 7th district! Subscribe to the TransAdvocate Podcasts and Audio Essays here: iTunes Google Play Soundcloud…
Q&A: Taking a break from trans advocacy
The TransAdvocate Q & A is where we answer your questions. If you’d like to submit a question, go to our contact page and send it in. Today’s question is: Is it responsible or…
Rapid onset gender dysphoria and other myths
The anti-trans movement created a new pathology they’re shopping around to various (mostly right-wing) news outlets. It’s called “rapid onset gender dysphoria” and you catch it from websites like DeviantArt, Tumblr, and Reddit. A…
Houston GLBT Political Caucus throws trans people under the bus
Unfortunately, it appears that the Houston GLBT Political Caucus, like HRC before them, is throwing the transgender community under the bus. Members of the Caucus Board encouraged candidates in the current election to support…
COVID-19: Support Trans People
The Trans Disaster Relief Fund (TDRF) sent out an urgent request for donations to support transgender individuals and other members of the LGBTQI+ community during the current Coronavirus emergency. The transgender community is uniquely…
Slate wants you to be concerned that, “A Disproportionate Number of Autistic Youth Are Transgender.” Here’s why that concern is BS.
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 large number of people who seek treatment for gender…
Kleeping it Real: How not to transition
Annnd we’re back! A trans Baby Boomer, Gen Xer, and Millennial are kleepin’ it real and discussing what you need to know about transition and why everyone is suing the makers of Androgel! Subscribe…
Singal’s Florida: You’re very wrong about trans kids
UPDATE (4/20/22): This article was updated to respond to spurious recommendations from the Florida Department of Health, which assert the same debunked claims this article fact-checks. Having learned that the mainstream publication The Atlantic…
The preapocalyptic podcast!
We’re all doomed, so say the pundits… and we all know they never engage in hyperbole, right? Also, Dylan Forbis, the first out trans man to run for public office in Brazoria County, crashes…
Are cis women facing violent transphobia? Absolutely.
Today we talk to a community news reporter who uncovered a story straight news refuses to cover: a cis woman is beaten in Colorado for being “trans,” told that she didn’t belong in Trump’s…
TransAdvocate Brazil: 63 trans people murdered, but change is coming
Updates from the Brazilian division of the Trans Advocate: The Brazilian Supreme Court approved a policy that would give trans people the ability to correct our legal identification, without having to have surgery. While…
Read the pro-trans letter from Congress to the TSA here
We have written before about the humiliating ways the TSA have sometimes interacted with trans and intersex bodies. Apparently, some in the US Congress have become concerned about this ongoing problem. Last month, Representatives…
TransAdvocate UK: Media hysteria about trans people
Updates from the UK division of the Trans Advocate: The Conservative government came out this week calling for a consultation on how to best reform the Gender Recognition Act, or G.R.A. of 2004. This…
Creeper Sexologists and Bathroom Bill Floaters
The TA Podcast is an intergenerational show featuring a trans Baby Boomer, Gen Xer, and Millennial that considers the issues affecting the lives of trans and intersex people. Subscribe to the TransAdvocate Podcasts and…
Transphobe Alex Jones Seems to Watch Trans Porn
Alex Jones, recently banned from various platforms such as Facebook and YouTube for, in part, his dehumanization of trans people, accidentally revealed that he watches trans porn on his phone. In a recent commercial…
Problems with Pride
Today we talk about some problems with PRIDE celebrations, including anti-trans hate groups infiltrating Pride celebrations in San Fransico, Boston, and London. Also, we discuss news you’re not hearing anywhere else! The TA Podcast…
Butchering Intersex & Trans Privilege
The TA Podcast is an intergenerational show featuring a trans Baby Boomer, Gen Xer, and Millennial that considers the issues affecting the lives of trans and intersex people. We welcome Koomah to discuss the…
WPATH responds to Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD)
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the decades-old organization that issues the international standards for medical and psychological care for trans people, responded to the media hype over a “study” that purports…
Texas GOP’s Trans Panic: Beto & Sri
While the GOP in Texas has recently made it clear that they intend to persist in promoting the various lies that support transphobic “bathroom bills,” they’ve taken their anti-trans hysteria further by claiming that…
Rewrite: Trans woman in Pakistan set on fire for resisting sexual assault from cis men
Rewrite is a TransAdvocate feature wherein unethical journalism is corrected and rewritten in ways that are respectful of the trans, intersex, and genderqueer experience. Today’s Rewrite comes from The Time of India. LAHORE: A…
Hurricane Florence & the trans community: how you can help
The North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia trans communities are at significant risk of taking a direct hit from one of the region’s largest hurricanes of the last 50 years. Hurricane Florence will be…
TERF Academic Rewrites History
TERF activist censors Radical Feminist voices to sneak hate into the classroom. Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) activist, Sheila Jeffreys has written a new academic book that claims to inform readers of the various ways…
Actual medical group supports trans kids while media seems to only listen to fake medical groups
By Cristan Williams Listen to this article [hr] Today, the actual medical group, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released several pieces of evidence-based guidance to support the care and protection of transgender youth.…
Fri & Sun: Trans, Intersex, NB Scholarship Movie Nights!
Join the TransAdvocate in supporting trans, intersex, and non-binary scholarship with the dual presentation of the indie film, Queen of Cups. Showing for two nights, this streaming movie Zoom event will feature Q&As by…
Kavanope + the Center for Gender Research and Policy
Yup, we have Kavanaugh-fatigue too and this is how we deal with it. Also, we introduce the new Center for Gender Research and Policy! The TA Podcast is an intergenerational show featuring a trans…
ROGD researcher caught lying to the press
Dr. Littman lies, possibly misleading parents into withholding care from trans kids. Listen to this article Recently the author of a Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) study lied to a credulous Canadian reporter who…
Senator Ben Sasse noticed our nihilistic ennui 🙄
Vince Pryor with the Victory Fund joins us to discuss Senator Ben Sasse’s (R) latest hand wringing book and the biggest issue effecting us all: the upcoming election. The TA Podcast is an intergenerational…
Drag Queen Evangelical Pegging Christmas Extravaganza!
Today we consider a recent article wherein Dr. Kelsy Burke tells us that, “Evangelicals love pegging!” Also, we cover the hysteria at Houston’s City Hall over Drag Queen Story Time and talk about how…
Two Cis Women Sexually Assault Trans Woman in Public Bathroom
Two cisgender women sexually assaulted a transgender woman in a North Carolina public restroom. The cisgender women, Jessica Fowler and Amber Harrell, were arrested for sexual battery and second-degree kidnapping. According to reports, the…
Liberty Counsel demands anti-lynching protections be stripped from trans people
Speaking to an evangelical news outlet, Mat Staver, president of the multi-million dollar hate group, the Liberty Counsel, said that transgender people shouldn’t enjoy the “special right” not to be lynched under a Senate…
TERF suing Twitter for special right to harass trans women
Meghan Murphy, a Canadian TERF, is suing Twitter for the special right to harass trans women on Twitter. Murphy is represented by Republican operative and past editor of the Heritage Foundation’s Policy Review magazine,…
Transition causes strokes! Or you know, not.
The newest claim making the sex essentialist activist rounds is that transition will probably cause you to have a stroke or heart attack. TERFs and other sex essentialist activists, from the political right to…
Bathroom bill makes BETO break promise to not swear 🤬
Known for dropping F-bombs during live TV events, Beto made a promise to stop cursing in public speeches. However, he broke that promise when the topic of bigoted anti-trans laws came up at a…
Trans Community Comes to the Aid of Furloughed Federal Workers
The Transgender Foundation of America (TFA) announced that the Transgender Disaster Relief Fund (TDRFund.us) would accept applications for assistance from LGBTQI and allied federal workers whose lives were thrown into chaos due to the…
Sorry haters, Americans increasingly support trans people
Amid rollbacks of federal protections for transgender individuals, a new survey finds Americans have grown increasingly more supportive of rights for transgender people. Sixty-two percent of Americans say they have become more supportive of…
Philadelphia International Airport hosting trans job fair!
Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) is hosting the first Job Fair for TransWork on Tuesday, September 10, from 3-5 PM, at the William Way Community Center at 1315 Spruce Street. The Airport, which is owned…
Is Briscoe “Gun Nut” Cain a closet queen?
If you know anything about the queer community, you’re familiar with the stereotype of the closeted dude who lives a lie by pretending to be Mr. Manly Man. You know, the guy who can’t…
Merriam-Webster explains why “they” was added as a non-binary pronoun to dictionary
Today the Merriam-Webster announced the addition of the singular non-binary pronoun, they. The nonbinary pronoun ‘they’ has been added to the dictionary. https://t.co/tadl1VdfB0 — Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) September 17, 2019 In an interview with the…
JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, announces that she is a TERF
JK Rowling has long hinted that she sympathized with sex essentialist so-called “radical feminist” idea that nobody’s phenotype is transitioned when trans people medically transition, and thus, trans women are males and trans men…
If transgendering is a thing, then so is cisgendering
Anti-trans sex essentialist activists love to pretend that “transgender” is a verb for the same reason anti-gay activists like to pretend “gay” is also a verb. If being gay or trans is a mere…
Why I support #CancelNetflix. It’s not because Chapelle is offensive.
Cisgender media seems to want to have a “debate” over opinions about whether Dave Chappelle is offensive, and I can understand why. If we debate opinions instead of verifiable facts, cis media gets to…
Proof: The Facts of Life vs the Cisgender Debate
Dave Chappelle’s cisgender enablers repeatedly assert that anti-trans “jokes” are “just jokes” and not an essential aspect of the dehumanization process. So, let us put cisgender media’s claim to the test. The pushback against…
APA worried, FBI arrests GCer for terrorism, and JKR goes full Glinner
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) issues an alert over the rising number of state laws aimed at harming trans youth, the FBI just arrested a “gender critical” guy for threatening to bomb the dictionary…
Your How-To Guide to Gender Critical Activism
Do you fear trans people and want to rationalize the simmering hate you feel? We here at the TransAdvocate have spent almost 2 decades debating and debunking anti-trans nonsense and we’ve learned a thing…
Fascism and transphobia are ALWAYS linked
Anti-feminism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and racism are THE entry points to fascism. Remember, the FIRST Nazi book-burning was the burning of books from a trans clinic. Given that, would it surprise you to…
A Cotton Ceiling Conspiracy Rebranding: Super Straight
An internal discussion within the trans community, originally known as the Cotton Ceiling, concerned itself with the way physical cisnormative beauty standards impact notions of desirability, how these biases relate to the fetishization of…
Debunking the Dialectic of Design and Dimorphism
In this article, I will debunk the five arguments fascists currently use to target transgender people. All fascist movements are predicated upon the myth of categorical purity. Because the material reality of individual humans…
Gender-Critical Policy Causes Brain Damage in Trans Youth
Interventions designed to prevent, halt, or reverse non-cisgender experiences are known as conversion therapy. The scientific consensus is that these practices are “pseudoscientific,” and experts on torture have identified these pseudoscientific practices as “torture.”…
Transphobia & Narcissistic Stupefaction
Listen to the article, Narcissistic Stupefaction. Until now, I’ve struggled to name the psychosocial process undergirding the movement that is MAGA. However, I think I’ve found a term that succinctly identifies the problem: Narcissistic…
Why “biological sex” is not real
I know, I know. When you hear me say that biological sex isn’t real, you hear that I’m saying that the sexed attributes of a body aren’t real, that having sex isn’t real, and…
The Traditional Holiday was Queer
Did you know there’s enough queer magic running through our Holiday traditions to make MAGA apoplectic? You’ve heard the hysteria before: the Left’s war on Christmas, woke is destroying the NYC Thanksgiving Parade, and……
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