Collective Demo

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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 […]

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory

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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 […]

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory

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“Lesbian Erasure” as Code Talk for Trans Bashing

On WMST-L (a large Women’s Studies Listserv with over 5,000 members from around the Globe) there has been a thread with quite a few responses […]

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics

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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 […]

Feminism and gender politicsHealthcare and medicine

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Ask Matt: Some Tips for Presenting on Trans Issues

A reader writes: “I’m thinking about speaking to a Gender Studies class at the college I attend because of some ignorant comments from ignorant classmates […]

Education and youthLaw and civil rights

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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 […]

History, archives, and memoryScience, evidence, and expertise

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50,000 Deaths

Technology on the Social and Ethical Aspects of Transsexual Surgery By Janice G. Raymond Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Women’s Studies Hampshire College/University of […]

Education and youthHealthcare and medicine

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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 […]

Transgender identity and history

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Five Attributes of Trans Allies

Last week in my Transgender Studies class, and also at a Diversity Day presentation that I made on the Auraria Campus, we talked about allies. […]

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation

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Yet Another Update of California Referendum Targeting Trans Children

The data in this update is in large part from a peer LGBT community activist who wants to remain anonymous, and the commentary is mine. […]

Community and organizingEducation and youth