Updates from the Brazilian division of the Trans Advocate: The Brazilian Supreme Court approved a policy that would give trans people the ability to correct our legal identification, without having to have surgery. While this policy was decided…
In a published peer-reviewed paper, Dr. Sheila Jeffreys asserts: could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as directly political, medical abuse of human rights.…
West Coast Lesbian Conference NOTE: In 2008 the non-transgender Feminist/Radical Feminist community popularized the term Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) as a way to identify a group, primarily focused on targeting transgender people in the name of Radical…
The TA Podcast is an intergenerational show featuring a trans Baby Boomer, Gen Xer, and Millennial that considers the issues affecting the lives of trans and intersex people. Subscribe to the TransAdvocate Podcasts and Audio Essays here: iTunes…
Judith Butler is a preeminent gender theorist and has played an extraordinarily influential role in shaping modern feminism. She’s written extensively on gender and her concept of gender performativity is a central theme of both modern feminism and…
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. Funeral funded for fallen trans man Daine Gray, a 22-year-old trans…
The nonprofit, Secular Women has created a petition calling on the Southern Poverty Law Center to regard TERF attorney, Cathy Brennan’s group, Gender Identity Watch, as a hate group. The petition starts off, “As a feminist organization, Secular…
Rewrite is a TransAdvocate feature wherein unethical journalism is corrected and rewritten in ways that are respectful of the trans, intersex, and genderqueer experience. Today’s Rewrite comes from The Time of India. LAHORE: A transgender woman in Pakistan…
The trans community continues to create words in order to capture the nuances of cultural gender roles, our physical sex and the entire experience of transitioning. Developing terminology to deal with all of this nuanced and subjective experience…
The North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia trans communities are at significant risk of taking a direct hit from one of the region’s largest hurricanes of the last 50 years. Hurricane Florence will be a catastrophic disaster and…