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Can You Ever Leave Behind the Evil Twin?

Don’t you just love that phrase, “used to be a man?” GARRICK Jacobson was in custody at Sydney’s Surry Hills police station when he apparently discovered his girlfriend used to be a man. Within…

Healthcare and medicineLaw and civil rights
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Hillary Talk, Not Gender Talk, Not Frank Talk

In the past week or so I’ve noticed increasing heat (see also: infighting) from the supporters in the GLBT Clinton camp. Tuesday they pointed towards Hillary Clinton’s “fully inclusive” ENDA statement as a sign…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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Counting the Cost

If my previous post seemed a little scattered and emotional, there’s a reason for it. The first trans community function I ever attended was a TDoR function, as was the first event I ever…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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Am I The Only One? Online Polling, Advocacy, and The Least of Us

Recently the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) announced their effort to collect data on “discrimination against transgender people in housing, employment, public accommodation, health…

Community and organizingFamily and relationships
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Hate Crime Blood Lust

To those that use Angie Zapata’s death as a way to “raise” your profile by covering the trial, shame on you. I have to agree with Brielle over at Women In Love. “Anyone who…

Transgender identity and historyViolence, safety, and dehumanization
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My Dead Feminist Heart

Reading Nexy’s blog, I found out about a post over at Feministing and the boycott that’s being called by some in the transgender community. The title of the post is “Men in Women’s Bathrooms,…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics