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Don’t Let The Door Hit Ya In The @!#*!!

Like a herpes sore, certain arguments pop up continually in the transcommunity and never seem to go away. Recently Gwen Smith wrote the editorial “What’s In a Name?” that discussed the term “women born…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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It’s The Post That Never Ends

It’s such an amazing thing, the transformation of Transadvocate.com. Once a blog of my personal opinions and beliefs, TA has become everything I ever envisioned it to be when I first purchased the domain…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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Extremist Christians For Dishonesty, Hate, and Misinformation

That should be the title of Peter LaBarbera’s Americans for Truth (AFT) website. His latest post attacks sports reporter Christine Penner. “I challenge ‘Mike/Christine’ to do a column describing, in detail, ‘sex-reassignment surgery’ –…

Education and youthHealthcare and medicine
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Top Transgender Blogs

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Transgender identity and history
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May Flowers and ENDA’s Showers

I pulled a couple of well versed legal minds in to shed more light on the shared space concerns: “It’s problematic for employees who have transitioned prior to employment. As I read it, it…

Culture, identity, and representationLabor, economics, and institutions
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City of Brotherly Love, Sisterly Hate?

What the hell is the problem with the Philadelphia Police Department? The police covered up the events that led to the murder of Nizah Morris in December of 2002. The city settled in a…

Healthcare and medicineLaw and civil rights
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The T Isn’t Silent, But HRC Is

It’s coming up on two years ago that I wrote an “Open Letter to Cheryl Jacques.” A month after I posted my open letter, Jacques greeted transgender protesters outside of Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC)…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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Transgender Lobby Week

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Transgender identity and history
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The Ghost of Chris Crain: Gayjacking the Hate Crimes Bill

When Chris Crain left his position at Window Media, I thought the voice of “transjack” was dead. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Today the Washington Blade published an op-ed by a long time…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation