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Can New York Gays Put Trans Needs Ahead of Gay Wants?

I’m not holding my breath. Andrew Cuomo, New York’s new Democratic governor, has repeatedly emphasized that he “want[s] to be the governor who signs the law that makes marriage equality a reality,” saying in…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Evan Wolfson: LGB or T and Single? Drop Dead!

Mr. Gay-Marriage-And-Nothing-Else-But-Gay-Marriage doubtlessly try to spin away from that characterization of a HuffPo piece, but if you’re single and/or trans and/or LGB or T and currently living somewhere that doesn’t provide access to the…

Culture, identity, and representationFamily and relationships
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Demanding That We Forget is Transphobia

A comment by laughriotgirl on one of the threads at PHB wherein refusing to bend over and take gay transphobia is branded as homophobia: What bothers me Is that we are expected to just…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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My Body, My Choice

The following blog post is Audrey Mbugua from of Transgender Kenya. Mbugua works for Transgender Education and Advocacy (TEA). TEA is a human rights organization working towards ending human rights violations against transgender and…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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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…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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The Oldest Trick In The Anti-Civil Rights Playbook

While I’m amused at times about the hysteria being whipped up about transpeople and the bathrooms we relieve ourselves in, it is never too far from my mind as a transperson of color that…

Law and civil rightsPublic policy and governance