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Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’s “Vanguard”

Wikipedia has this to say about the pre-Stonewall Compton Cafeteria Riot and Vanguard: Many of the militant hustlers and street queens involved in the riot were members of Vanguard, the first known gay youth…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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1975: Transgender = Cross-Gender

"transgender pronouns" Chicago Tribune, Aug. 23, 1975 Ey has a word for it By Judie Black AS WOMEN HAVE grown freer, the English language has grown more tan­gled: What’s a chairperson and who is…

Media, rhetoric, and discourseRace and intersectionality
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TransAdvocate UK: Media hysteria about trans people

Updates from the UK division of the Trans Advocate: The Conservative government came out this week calling for a consultation on how to best reform the Gender Recognition Act, or G.R.A. of 2004. This…

Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics
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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…

Healthcare and medicineLaw and civil rights
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TERFs side with Fox News

Unsurprisingly, Cathy Brennan, opinion leader in of the TERF movement has, of course, chosen to side with the Fox News and the Pacific Justice Institute: Brennan, an attorney the LGBT Bar Association disavowed… ……

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Gender Nation: Is a serial killer targeting black trans women?

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. Is a serial killer targeting black trans…

Community and organizingRace and intersectionality
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1973: West Coast TERFs

… perhaps the most consequential incident in the rising tide of hostility toward transgender people in the summer of 1973 was directed against transsexual lesbian singer Beth Elliott by Robin Morgan at the West…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation