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Protest, HRC, and My Investment Portfolio
I like to think of my advocacy/political work in much of the same way as I think of how to invest my money. I see activism as an investment in my community and my…
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GLAAD:New York Post Headline Dehumanizes Transgender People
This is from the folks over at GLAAD: February 7, 2008 Just one week after GLAAD issued an alert encouraging our community to respond to a sensational New York Post headline, the tabloid today…
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Equality Through Intimidation? The Houston HRC Dinner Protest
I just recieved this from Phyllis Frye: By calling the Houston Police, national HRC deliberately set in motion a police over response. HRC used government and taxpayer monies to intimidate the hell out of…
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Right Wing Watch: FRC misrepresents New York State protections for trans youth in custody
On June 20th, the Associated Press released an article entitled “New transgender policy at New York juvenile jails“. The article details New York State’s decision to allow transgender youth in juvenile detention facilities to…
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My Support
Readers of this blog are probably not surprised that I’m supporting the boycott of the Human Rights Campaign’s San Francisco Dinner. What you might find surprising is that I’m supporting my friend Diego Sanchez,…
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Diego Sanchez Named Senior Legislative Adviser To Barney Frank
Sources on the Hill confirmed to The Transadvocate that Barney Frank’s office will announce the hiring of Diego Sanchez today. Sanchez will replace outgoing senior policy adviser, Joe Racalto. Sanchez is currently the Director…
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The Trans Scare
Thanks to Box Turtle Bulletin and Gay News Blog I was introduced to this lovely piece of transphobia: The commercial, produced by Citizens For Good Public Policy, shows a small white blond girl entering…
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Bird Of Paradox their ‘crisis of faith’ with feminism, This Ain’t Livin posted about discussing how your gender gender effects you, and Planet Transgender posted about Columbus Ohio’d City Council passing a transgender anti-discrimination…
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The Transadvocate Video Podcast – 1/23/09
Today I’m starting a new feature to the site, it’s a video podcast of the The Transadvocate. I’m testing this out, but tentatively I’ll be doing it live at 1pm Eastern/12pm Central every Tuesday…
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Transsexuals Not Covered In Hate Crimes Bill
Back on Feburary 25, 2009 Kathy Padilla wrote a post over at Pam’s House Blend titled “Hate Crimes & ENDA: Bad Bills Come and Bad Bills Go“. When it came out I really thought…