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Tere Fredrickson Interview

For those of you who are not very familiar with Tere Fredrickson, she was a significant part of a linguistic tipping point which occurred in the late 80s/early 90s. She ran an inclusive group,…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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Trump set to abolish intersex people

A memo was recently leaked from the Department of Health and Human Services. In it, the HHS defines sex as a binary determined by chromosomes (presumed to come in only two forms, XX or…

Education and youthHealthcare and medicine
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1972: Transsexual Action Organization Call for Community

Here is what is purported to be our nation’s first national transsexual rights organizations had to say about building a community of people of non-cisgender history, experience and/or expression in order to fight for…

Community and organizingHealthcare and medicine
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#TERFLogic: Sexism clings to eggs and sperm

A TERF blog that tries to make the case for sex essentialism claims that sexism is predicated upon sperm and eggs: according to this #TERFLogic, this man is oppressed as a female. No, that’s…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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Unethical Trans Doc Exposed 

It’s hard to say exactly when Dr. Christopher Salgado, board certified and celebrated genital reconstruction surgeon, started to post questionable things on his Instagram account (@sexsurgeon). The account was taken down after the first…

Community and organizingHealthcare and medicine
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1977: Transpeople

1977 letter to trans man: "Transpeople" 22 August 1977 Dearist Heath, I’m a member of the MCC of the Resurrection in Houston and very happy to be a Christian sibling of Jeri and of…

Education and youthLaw and civil rights
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Goodbye Sarah DePalma

In Texas, one of the trans community’s most important activists is about to die. By Phyllis Randolph Frye I sadly write that a long-time fighter for trans rights, Sarah DePalma of Houston, is in…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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1976: Transgenderist

Masthead: Gay Community News, January 31st, 1976 issue (Vol. 3, No. 31) Virginia Prince is oftentimes given credit for coining the term “transgenderist” and “transgenderism” in 1978. In 1977, Prince writes of three types…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation