Publications in the Collective
BREAKING: due to Target’s trans policy, voyeur accessed women’s changing room?
A case of voyeurism that has gripped the media was initially reported on a local Idaho news station: A man who identifies as a transgender woman has […]
About
The TransAdvocate aims to improve the lives of transgender people through investigative news and nuanced commentary from a boots-on-the-ground trans advocate perspective. What sets the TransAdvocate […]
Glossary
Terms, concepts, and acronyms used by our authors in their transgender discourse. Words in bold are glossy terms. Suggested citation: Glossary. TransAdvocate. (2014, March 15). […]
UK TransAdvocate Coming Soon!
The TransAdvocate will launch a UK-focused TransAdvocate in 2019. For now, check out the UK TransAdvocate on twitter: https://web.archive.org/web/20180627104245/https://twitter.com/UKTransadvocate
The TransAdvocate
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
HUD Launches Trans-Inclusive Fair Housing 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[UPDATED] #RadFem2013 Lies, London Irish Centre Truth + a Preview of Sheila Jeffreys’ New TERF Book!
For the second year in a row, the TERF hate conference has been booted from their venue. For the second year in a row, the TERF hate […]
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 […]
Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival
Most of the Womyn that come to fest really don’t care whether you’re straight or not as long as your not trans. – D.M., Festival […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What Hate Looks Like
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. […]
My Exchange with the Southern Poverty Law Center
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 Radical Feminists (TERFs) a […]
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 […]
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?” […]
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 […]
A Shezow Game: Spot the TERF!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[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! 6/5/13, 8:30 PM UPDATE: I’ve spoken with Senior Vice President of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
That time a TERF trolled the TransAdvocate & GLAAD
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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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
Hypocrisy, Hate and Harm #no2h8splc
The above is a picture of militant lesbians and gays protesting against a movie that promoted false gay stereotypes. Above is what happened when a […]
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. There is an […]
So, I hear trans people recently invented this whole cis/trans thing…
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
San Antonio: not as mature as their children
For the past month, the adults of San Antonio have been wringing their collective hands in very public displays of “concern” over a city ordinance […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Miss Gender: How to spot a TERF
Used with permission: (c) Rebecca Cohen
[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: […]
You might be a TERF if…
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 […]
On Trial in Texas: The Transitioned Status of Trans People
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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): […]
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, […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
PodCast: Reviewing media bias and an interview on Swirl Radio
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
Restoring your faith in humanity: supporting Jane Doe
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 was harassing cisgender girls […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Judgement Day: Protesting PJI’s Hate
“Exposing Injustice” The Pacific Justice Institute is the ex-gay organization that bullied a trans kid to the brink of suicide and is one of the […]
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 […]
TransGiving 2: The Gender Book
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 […]
TransGiving 1: The Trans Center and Archive
This is the first in a series on backing your community. During the month of December, the TransAdvocate will feature 12 AMAZING trans nonprofits/causes that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
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 – […]
Did bias lead to prosecution of bullied Hercules trans student?
By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams On December 4, 2013 an investigative reporter, Jennifer Lopez interviewed the police department about a case against a trans Hercules High School […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Religious Bigots: Intersections of Trans, Racial and Feminist issues | PodCast
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 […]
A Look Back at the T in the 1979 “Gay March” on Washington
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
#JD4PJI: The downfall of the Pacific Justice Institute and the sweet victory of trans youth
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 […]
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 […]
TERF: what it means and where it came from
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 […]
TERFs offer only hyperbole
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 […]
The Third Wave Fund: empowering communities to fight for gender, racial, and economic justice
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 […]
Tranny: An Evidence-Based Review
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 […]
Transgender*: The Rhetorical Landscape of a Term
K.J. Rawson, Cristan Williams, 2014 The current ubiquity of the word transgender might imply that it is an uncomplicated word.1 It circulates widely—in the media, […]
Trans people added to Violence Against Women Act
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 […]
On policing RuPaul’s “free speech”
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 […]
NOW state rep talks with the TransAdvocate about TERFs, trans-inclusion and civil rights
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 […]
Increasingly, anti-trans = anti-abortion: #protransprochoice
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 […]
Pastor who warned of “transgender predators” sexually harasses and assaults women
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 […]
The Playbook: Equality comes to Houston, the fringe freaks out, threatens to kill Mayor [UPDATED]
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 […]
Faggot Ru Paul: trannys need to “get stronger”
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 […]
Gender Performance: The TransAdvocate interviews Judith Butler
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 […]
Declining Southern Baptist Convention continues tradition of bigotry, now targeting trans people
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 […]
Houston trans-inclusive equity ordinance survives
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 […]
Houston, know thy bigots: outing the haters
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 […]
Hair does not make the woman, Sarah Ditum
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. […]
World’s experts condemn the McHugh hoax
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 […]
Anti-LGBT bigot caught engaging in election fraud in Texas
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 […]
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 In Part II, what gender is and is not was discussed and the […]
#TERFweek: Debunking TERF Tropes
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 […]
Contextualizing the Body: Part II of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
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 […]
#TERFweek: Remember Filisa Vistima
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 […]
#TERFweek: Let’s not repeat our history
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 […]
Intro to the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
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 […]
#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 […]
National justice orgs say: End trans exclusion policy at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
TERF hate and Sandy Stone
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 time TERFs beat RadFems for protecting a trans woman from their assault
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 […]
TERFism as an Obsessive Sadistic Fetish: Part VI of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
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 Lateral […]
Fact Checking Janice Raymond: The NCHCT Report
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 […]
I Am Jazz: an amazing book for trans kids
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 […]
WATCH: School board bigot squirm
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 […]
#TERFweek Redux
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 […]
How TERF violence inspired Camp Trans
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 […]
A TERF’s fist gave rise to trans-inclusive women’s music festivals
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 […]
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) […]
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. Much has […]
Sex work and the sex worker
“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 […]
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 […]
#CisPrivilege, UK’s Green Party and freedom of speech
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, […]
Sex Essentialism: TERF patriarchy and smelly vaginas
TERFs battle over who has the correct vaginal odor in order to determine female validity. I’ve noted many times that while Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) […]
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 […]
Repeating the cycle at MichFest: The clash of two feminisms
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 […]
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 […]
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The TransAdvocate interviews Catharine A. MacKinnon
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 […]
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 […]
InfoWars: California Green Party “Slaps” “Cisgendered” Men!
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 […]
See Tumblr TERFs justify threatening to murder a trans kid
Tumblr TERF, radfem-momma apparently thinks it’s okay to threaten trans kids with murder as long as you lie about the reason. Apparently, some TERFs on […]
(Re)Introducing inclusive Radical Feminism
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 […]
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? […]
Study: Trans kid’s gender implicit; govt report condemns conversion therapy
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 […]
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 […]
The media is lying about why NC is being sued
By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams Almost without exception, all news stories covering the US Attorney General’s suit against North Carolina omits the rather significant fact that […]
What the US Attorney General actually said about trans people & fighting NC in court
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 […]
Showdown in NC: Read the ultimatum the DOJ sent NC
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 […]
Debunked: JoeySalads’ Transgender Bathroom Hoax
Once again, news media around the globe proves that they’ll promote just about anything anti-trans, without verification. Zinnia Jones released an in-depth analysis and debunking […]
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. Making Money with […]
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 […]
Owning Endosex Privilege and Supporting the Intersex Community: WPATH, Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM), and Sex Variant Bodies
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 […]
Johns Hopkins Resumes Trans Care
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
#DiscoSexology Part IX: Dr. Zucker, CAMH, & Conversion Therapy
By Cristan Williams Installment Preface Welcome to the ninth and last installment in this series on the rise and fall of Disco Sexology. In the previous installment, […]
#DiscoSexology Part VIII: Interview the Author of The Last Time I Wore A Dress
By Cristan Williams Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook. Installment Preface Welcome […]
#DiscoSexology Part VII: Interview With Affirmative Therapy Pioneer
By Cristan Williams Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook. Installment Preface Welcome to […]
#DiscoSexology Part VI: Interview With Gender Infinity Co-Founder
By Cristan Williams Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook. Installment Preface Welcome to […]
#DiscoSexology Part V: An Interview With Zucker’s Patient
By Cristan Williams Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook. Installment Preface Welcome to […]
#DiscoSexology Part IV: Interview With The CAMH Medical Director
By Cristan Williams Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook. Installment Preface Welcome […]
#DiscoSexology Part III: The Report Controversy
By Cristan Williams Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook. Installment Preface Welcome […]
#DiscoSexology Part II: The Timeline
By Cristan Williams Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook. Installment Preface Welcome […]
#DiscoSexology Part I: Dr. Zucker, CAMH, & Conversion Therapy
By Cristan Williams Foreword With the recent enthusiastic promotion of disco-era ideas about trans people and gender identity in general, the TransAdvocate felt that it would […]
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 […]
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…” Speaking about the Trans Disaster […]
Help the trans community overcome Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey!
Help the Gulf Coast trans community affected by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey: The Texas Gulf Coast trans community is facing a catastrophic and ongoing […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Vote in primaries, elections, & runoffs: Register HERE!
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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…
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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,” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fri & Sun: Trans, Intersex, NB Scholarship Movie Nights!
Supporting trans, intersex, & NB scholarship with the dual presentation of the indie film, Queen of Cups.
Actual medical group supports trans kids while media seems to only listen to fake medical groups
By Cristan Williams Today, the actual medical group, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released several pieces of evidence-based guidance to support the care and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
ROGD researcher caught lying to the press
Dr. Littman lies, possibly misleading parents into withholding care from trans kids. Recently the author of a Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) study lied to a credulous […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The Traditional Holiday was Queer
Did you know there’s enough queer magic running through our Holiday traditions to make MAGA apoplectic?
Why “biological sex” is not real
The post argues that biological sex is often misunderstood as a strict binary, while actual human biology presents a spectrum of attributes. It critiques simplistic views, particularly those reinforced by political figures, and emphasizes…
Transphobia & Narcissistic Stupefaction
Returning to the poison chalice of TERFism, consider this, the underlying conceit underpinning all aspects of fascism: making meritorious mere accidents of birth. How […]
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 […]
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…
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