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Trans people have 99 problems, and Facebook is just one

A personal reflection on the abuse of weaponization of Facebook’s “Real Name” Policy By Emmagene Cronin I woke up Monday morning, the first day of Trans Awareness Week, as I do everyday before I’m…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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The Coming California Bathroom Initiative

Brad Dacus’s “Prancing Transgender Voyeurs” Quote The first line of what California’s Personal Privacy Protection Act initiative would create as California Health & Safety Code § 118501, should it become law in 2016, is…

Community and organizingLaw and civil rights
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Transphobic Jokes, Context, and the Free Speech Canard

Recently comedian Vicky Wagner posted this on social media: When criticized, she said: “I appreciate your opinion but Caitlyn had 65 years exp being a man in a man’s world. She had male privilege.…

Media, rhetoric, and discoursePublic policy and governance
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The TSA: a binary body system in practice

Traveling While Trans: The False Promise of Better Treatment By Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello Back in 2012, I wrote about the problems I regularly encountered as a trans person when going through TSA security…

Culture, identity, and representationHealthcare and medicine
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Fight back: Report Mississippi & North Carolina HATE here!

By Autumn Sandeen & Cristan Williams Anti-trans activists in both Mississippi and North Carolina have passed laws that effectively remove trans people from public life. Making it legal on a state level to discriminate…

Education and youthLabor, economics, and institutions
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African Voices: Well behaved women rarely make history

Well behaved women rarely make history: A Botswana transgender woman made history after filling a monumental constitutional case against the government for refusing to legally change her gender marker. By Miles Tanhira In her…

Culture, identity, and representationHealthcare and medicine