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Revealing Family Secrets

“Children should be seen and not heard.” How many times did I hear this when I was little? After a while I didn’t need it whispered into my ear anymore, I embodied it. I…

Education and youthFamily and relationships
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Kelly Osbourne: I Support the Transgender Community

Editor’s note: The following guest post is from Kelly Osbourne. Osbourne is a television personality and musician. Osbourne and I discussed on Twitter about her use of the phrase “chick with a dick” and…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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Transgender: Homelessness & HIV

I know someone who was kicked out of her family’s home because she was trans. When she was on the streets, she went to the only place she knew would be welcoming to someone…

Community and organizingFamily and relationships
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Neil Patrick Harris Sounds Like A Transphobe

I was alerted to a transphobic statement from Neil Patrick Harris. Trans Femmergy posted Neil Patrick Harris: I’ve never sounded more like a tranny in my life. She said: Nope. But ya do sound…

Culture, identity, and representationLaw and civil rights
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More Separatist Crap

I just read a sad little rant by a TS Separatist: “I see the T in lgbt as being a dumping zone, a miscelaneous, really in my view, the T is a junk drawer,…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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Telegraph hatred for Trans folk?

Today’s guest post comes from Jane Fae. Fae is a free-lance journalist, writing about law and computer technology, privacy and censorship. She has been a regular contributor to The Register and The Guardian. She…

Community and organizingFamily and relationships
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Rupaul: Fuck You, You Silly F****t!

Even though RuPaul Andre Charles is a drag performer who lives his off-stage life as a man, he seems to think he can speak for the transgender community. In an interview with Michelangelo Signorile,…

Community and organizingMedia, rhetoric, and discourse
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Equality=Bathroom Bills=Rape: Reality Check

Protections will allow men to dress as women “… in order to perpetrate crimes of homicide, rape, robbery [and] assault…” Sound familiar? It sounds like the arguments of TS Separatism and Religious Fundamentalists, doesn’t…

Law and civil rightsMedia, rhetoric, and discourse