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Presidential Forum on Marriage Equality

It was billed as the “HRC Foundation and Logo Presidential Forum” but you could have just as easily called it the “HRC and Logo Presidential Forum on Marriage Equality. But it wasn’t supposed to…

Family and relationshipsLaw and civil rights
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Stylebook? What Stylebook?

From the AP Stylebook: “Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics (by hormone therapy, body modification, or surgery) of the opposite sex and present themselves in a way…

Culture, identity, and representationHealthcare and medicine
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I’m A Bitch, I’m A Lover

Meredith Brooks once sang: “ I’m a bitch, I’m a lover I’m a child, I’m a mother I’m a sinner, I’m a saint I do not feel ashamed I’m your hell, I’m your dream…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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Christ Commands You To Get Your Ass Kicked!

From the Evangelical Bible: I Fundamentalists: 1 And Christ said “if you’re a transsexual, you’re doomed. 2You deserve to be raped or sexually assaulted.” Or so it would seem from the Jesus blogosphere :…

Education and youthReligion and morality
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I’m Just an Angry Transsexual Activist Mafioso

In KQED’s recent interview of J Michael Bailey and Alice Dreger, Bailey said: “Again I reject the assertion that it’s all transgendered people are offended by my book. Many transgendered people are actually very…

Education and youthPublic policy and governance
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Closets Are For Clothes, Stealth Is For Planes

Recently, I read a blog post about an FTM complaining about being judged by other transgender people about living “stealth.” To those of you who feel the need to live secretly, I say this;…

Culture, identity, and representationTransgender identity and history
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Three Card Monte, Bailey Style

I’m getting rather tired of posting about this, but J. Michael Bailey is at it again. He posted “Transsexual Smokescreen: Ignoring Science In “The Man Who Would Be Queen” at Scientific Blogging.com. The post…

Science, evidence, and expertiseTransgender identity and history
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Who Needs Truth When There’s Revisionism?

Just when you think you’ve heard it all …. Just a couple weeks ago, President George W. Bush let loose what we in Texas parlance (at least among polite company) term “a whopper” (no,…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory