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No Match, No Job, No Surgery
Maybe it was my naiveté, but I always thought when I got my documentation changed, I transitioned, and was passable, that I’d be able to live the nice normal life I did before transition.…
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The G & The L Rises, T Sinks And Fails, And All Is AOK? BS!
“He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” — Martin Luther King Jr. Well it didn’t take long for responses to my last blog. One person wrote me privately…
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Embracing Trans Diversity is not a Luxury
Over the 12 years of living my life as Monica, I have been privileged to learn many things about the TBLG community, but mostly about the trans community. The biggest lesson in my short…
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Breaking News: First Ever Transgender Appointment To The DNC
On Friday DNC Chair Tim Kaine appointed Barbra Casbar-Siperstein ( the first transgender person appointed) to the Democratic National Committee. Casbar-Siperstein is currently the President of the New Jersey Stonewall Democrats, Vice Chair of…
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Is HRC Wicked?: A Return TO Barney Frank’s Oz
Coming up on the two year anniversary of the Human Right Campaign’s (HRC) support of Barney Frank dropping gender identity from the 2007 Employment Non-discrimination Act (ENDA), the irony of HRC’s current position on…
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Exploiting The Transgender Dead: The Irresistible Temptation Part II
Each year as another Transgender Day of Remembrance comes near, it seems as if another group or organization tries to remake the TDOR in their own image (examples: 2007, 2008). Recently Katherine V London…
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Racism, Congressional Hearings, and GLBT Politics: Stop Excluding African Americans
On November 5th, 2009, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will hold hearings on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). The hearings will take place in a city where over half of its…
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Gay Mafia Wars: ENDA and the Politics of Personal Destruction
As I write this, I feel as if I’ve been transported back in time to May of 2007. The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) had just had a successful lobby days event and I…
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ENDA And Barney Frank’s Trans Penis Panic
In a recent interview with Karen Ocamb, Barney Frank said: “I’m hoping to get a vote on it in committee [House Committee on Education and Labor, chaired by California Democrat George Miller]. I’m doing…
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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…