CAN-0000-0863-3174
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…
Law and civil rightsMedia, rhetoric, and discourse
CAN-0000-0865-E5FC
as if you needed to read any more… THE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR OF THE SERIAL RAPIST From 1984 to 1986, FBI Special Agents assigned to theNationalCenterfor the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) interviewed 41 men…
Culture, identity, and representationLaw and civil rights
CAN-0000-0860-B9D7
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…
Community and organizingEducation and youth
CAN-0000-0852-FB1F
I’m working on getting a good idiomatic English translation of Streit um elfjährige Transsexuelle: Alex soll in die Psychiatrie – taz.de But in summary….. A Nurse decides (probably on religious grounds) that transsexuality is…
Healthcare and medicineLaw and civil rights
CAN-0000-0848-F7C01 inbound
A German child, who has been living as a girl since she started school nearly seven years ago, is to be committed to the Charité University hospital in Berlin – where she will be…
Education and youthFamily and relationships
CAN-0000-0842-E832
When the 2012-13 school year rolls around, I’ll be joining much of the Big East Conference in hatin’ on the University of Pittsburgh for a different reason other than their upcoming 2013 departure from…
Education and youthLaw and civil rights
CAN-0000-0830-F374
A couple of years ago, I attended a community forum in Denver that was set up so that trans people could meet with local police and discuss our community’s concerns. The police representatives present…
Community and organizingLaw and civil rights
CAN-0000-0832-B5C1
South America is quickly becoming the most trans friendly continent on our planet.Argentina just passed a groundbreaking Gender Identity Law and now their next door neighbors in Chile have made some moves that benefit…
Culture, identity, and representationLaw and civil rights
CAN-0000-0808-1F94
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…
History, archives, and memoryLabor, economics, and institutions
CAN-0000-0788-CE21
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,…
Healthcare and medicineLaw and civil rights