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Kleeping it Real: How not to transition

Annnd we’re back! A trans Baby Boomer, Gen Xer, and Millennial are kleepin’ it real and discussing what you need to know about transition and why everyone is suing the makers of Androgel! Subscribe…

Education and youthHistory, archives, and memory
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COVID-19: Support Trans People

The Trans Disaster Relief Fund (TDRF) sent out an urgent request for donations to support transgender individuals and other members of the LGBTQI+ community during the current Coronavirus emergency. The transgender community is uniquely…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Tranny: An Evidence-Based Review

“Tranny” seems to be a contentious term within the GLBT community. For many in the trans community, we’ve known “tranny” to be a term associated with the gay (specifically gay male) community; a term…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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Gender Nation: Military Ban is stayed, once again

Gender Nation is a bi-weekly column by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, the founder of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, reviewing news affecting the trans, intersex, and genderqueer community. Military Ban is stayed, once again In…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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Phyllis Frye: Grandmother of the Trans Community

Crosspost from my Ehipassiko blog, posted here for research value Over the last 24 hours, I’ve spent about 12 of them scanning Phyllis Frye’s 1970s trans documents. I don’t know that I can even…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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90.1 KPFT Radio Interview: History of Transgender Language

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History, archives, and memoryMedia, rhetoric, and discourse
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Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’s “Vanguard”

Wikipedia has this to say about the pre-Stonewall Compton Cafeteria Riot and Vanguard: Many of the militant hustlers and street queens involved in the riot were members of Vanguard, the first known gay youth…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Are cis women facing violent transphobia? Absolutely.

Today we talk to a community news reporter who uncovered a story straight news refuses to cover: a cis woman is beaten in Colorado for being “trans,” told that she didn’t belong in Trump’s…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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1973: West Coast TERFs

… perhaps the most consequential incident in the rising tide of hostility toward transgender people in the summer of 1973 was directed against transsexual lesbian singer Beth Elliott by Robin Morgan at the West…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation