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More Gay Marriage-Primacy Prattle
Now its Joe Fudgepacker Dan Savage: I’m not an idiot Yeh, well, I hope you weren’t hoping for 100% agreement from the masses on that one Dan. But I digress already. Now that the…
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Can New York Gays Put Trans Needs Ahead of Gay Wants?
I’m not holding my breath. Andrew Cuomo, New York’s new Democratic governor, has repeatedly emphasized that he “want[s] to be the governor who signs the law that makes marriage equality a reality,” saying in…
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Further Trans-Marginalization on the Move in Delaware
From the Rhode Island Avenue Cesspool: Yesterday, at a press conference on the steps of Legislative Hall in Dover, primary sponsors Senator David Sokola and Representative Melanie George introduced a comprehensive civil unions bill…
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My Body, My Choice
The following blog post is Audrey Mbugua from of Transgender Kenya. Mbugua works for Transgender Education and Advocacy (TEA). TEA is a human rights organization working towards ending human rights violations against transgender and…
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Reparative Therapy for Trans Youth: Kenneth Zucker is Different from George Rekers How?
Watching this recent CNN story on reparative therapy and the damage it did to George Reker’s poster child (Kirk Andrew Murphy), I was struck by the similarity of this story and a child that…
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Black Transpeople’s Burden -The NBJC Report On The NTDS Findings
As I’ve talked about over the last five years on TransGriot, the way a gender transition is experienced for African descended transpeople is vastly different from the way our white counterparts do. The National…
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Trans Erasure and the Old Bailey
Today’s guest post is from Catherine Butler. Butler is an academic and writer, living in Bristol, UK and blogs here. Trans erasure happens in all kinds of places, but it happens most to those…
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On “Passing”
This guest post comes from Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello. Costello describes himself as “an academic and scaler of boundary walls, intersex by birth, female-reared, legally transitioned to male status, and pleased with my trajectory.…
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Pumping-Beauty Now, Pay Dearly For It Later
One of the issues I don’t talk about enough is the prevalence of pumping amongst POC transwomen. It’s a subject that is guaranteed to start a vigorous discussion amongst us because the trans women…
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We Need POC Trans Speakers At The 2011 TDOR’s
I’ve had the honor of speaking at many types of events. They range from Trans 101 panels to speaking about trans issues from an African American perspective in college classes to testifying in front…