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Irrational – Critical Examination of a Response to Critics.

Today’s guest post is from Antonia D’orsay from Dyssonance. She describes herself as “a multi-ethnic, early Generation X, native Arizonan writer, sociologist and psychologist who rarely cleaves to the standard party line for any…

Culture, identity, and representationHealthcare and medicine
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My Response to Love’s Transsexual Rally

Ashley “I’m Colonized” Love So, Ashley Love supposedly held a rally outside of a GLAAD meeting. She writes: Though GLAAD does some good work, primarily for gays and those who support transgender socio-politics, we…

Education and youthHealthcare and medicine
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Pick a Side: Fantasy or Reality

Love made yet another post asserting (without evidence, of course) that she’s a victim of the word “transgender,” that the evil transgender umbrella is evil and transsexuals were colonized: Please… someone do an intervention…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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“Lesbian Erasure” as Code Talk for Trans Bashing

On WMST-L (a large Women’s Studies Listserv with over 5,000 members from around the Globe) there has been a thread with quite a few responses about the so-called issue of “lesbian erasure.” Apparently, some…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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Ashley “I’m Colonized” Love

For example, this Spring a few self-promoting and self-aggrandizing “transgender” bloggers, authors and “gender outlaw” entertainers (who actually financially and professionally profit by enforcing transgender socio-politics and umbrella-ism theory) are obsessing over how to…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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Ashley Love, Quit Colonizing Isis King!

Isis recently modeled political shirts that read, “Legalize Gay” and “Gay is O.K.” and I know what you’re thinking… You’re thinking that it’s cool that an out transgender woman is able to support one…

Community and organizingHealthcare and medicine
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Gender Orientation, Identity, and Expression

I’ve witnessed many arguments and misunderstandings explode over the conflation of these THREE dimensions of what we in trans discourse collectively refer to as gender: Gender Orientation: One’s subjective experience of one’s body, including…

Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics