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5/1/1884 Lawrence Register Payne, most of whose life

The Daily Gazette: Fort Wayne, Ind, Thursday Morning, May 1, 1884 Lawrence Register Payne, most of whose life has been passed as a woman in Frederick county, Virginia, under the name of Rebecca Payne,…

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TERFs: The Insurance Fraudsters Of Feminism

You know the ones. They pretend you hit them in your car by jumping on your hood while you are moving slow and pretend to have an injury so that they can claim on…

Community and organizingFeminism and gender politics
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Rapid onset gender dysphoria and other myths

The anti-trans movement created a new pathology they’re shopping around to various (mostly right-wing) news outlets. It’s called “rapid onset gender dysphoria” and you catch it from websites like DeviantArt, Tumblr, and Reddit. A…

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Gender Nation: Transphobia, Termination, and Tinder

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. A questionable search leads to lawsuit A…

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Read the pro-trans letter from Congress to the TSA here

We have written before about the humiliating ways the TSA have sometimes interacted with trans and intersex bodies. Apparently, some in the US Congress have become concerned about this ongoing problem. Last month, Representatives…

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The preapocalyptic podcast!

We’re all doomed, so say the pundits… and we all know they never engage in hyperbole, right? Also, Dylan Forbis, the first out trans man to run for public office in Brazoria County, crashes…

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Drag Queen Evangelical Pegging Christmas Extravaganza!

Today we consider a recent article wherein Dr. Kelsy Burke tells us that, “Evangelicals love pegging!” Also, we cover the hysteria at Houston’s City Hall over Drag Queen Story Time and talk about how…

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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…

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