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CBS Ditches AP Stylebook for Transphobic Screed

Apparently CBS has decided that the AP sytlebook is too tame for its content, and would rather go the way of Jerry Springer. The title of a post over at CBS News blares “Cross-Dressing…

Culture, identity, and representationHealthcare and medicine
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When Ticked Off Gay Men Attack: Misogyny As A Knife

Last week when I posted Tribeca Film Festival Promotes Exploitation of Transgender People, I never thought that the call to action would cause controversy within the GLBT community. As gudbuytjane said about the movie…

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Trans Exclusionists: It’s Your Turn

Today’s guest Transadvocate is polerin. Her bio on Twitter states: “Trans woman, radical lefty, wannabe cartoonist, geek, phreakNIC director, web developer, person. Will eat for food, and rock your face off. Or on. On…

Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics
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All’s Sans Daylight on the Exterminationist Frontier

One Sunday morning reading selection: The term Transgender is an umbrella term coined by transgender activists to describe the following individuals: heterosexual cross-dressers; homosexual transvestites or drag queens; and transsexuals (individuals undergoing so-called sex…

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Why No ENDA? The Scary Trans Frank’en Penis!

There’s a meme going around the GLBT leadership out in the media right now that goes something like this: “Democrats wouldn’t pass ENDA even when we had the votes and no one knows why.”…

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Be Good or You WILL BE Degraded, TRANNY!

Sometimes the intersection of two seemingly unconnected stories come together to show how little respect for trans people there is and how transition/surgery are treated as luxuries, not medically necessary. Many people will argue…

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