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True, All-Person Experience

My Brownie uniform “True, all-girl experience,” those were the words of the teen named Taylor who is part of a group trying to get people to boycott Girl Scout cookies because the Girl Scouts…

Education and youthTransgender identity and history
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Queerty Racism And Transphobia On Display Again

There’s no love lost between me and Queertyas many of you longtime readers are aware of. I’ve written more than a few times about the failures Queerty regularly gets into when it comes to…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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God Does Not Love Trans People

This guest Transadvocate post comes from Natalie Reed. Reed describes herself as “a magical young woman who lives in the mists and pines of Vancouver, British Columbia, where she fends off the oppressive gloom…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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Crowing Over Progress

Well, TS Separatists have warned us for years that progress will never be seen under the rubric of the transgender borg. The time has come for me to admit that the Separatists were right…

Law and civil rightsTransgender identity and history
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The Fallacy of ‘Cosmetic’ Surgery for Trans People

A woman who was arrested last year for providing dangerous “butt enhancement” shots consisting of cement, caulk, tire sealant, and other toxic and troublesome substances is facing new charges as more victims come forward.…

Healthcare and medicineTransgender identity and history
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Paging Dr Mengele

I’m working on getting a good idiomatic English translation of Streit um elfjährige Transsexuelle: Alex soll in die Psychiatrie – taz.de But in summary….. A Nurse decides (probably on religious grounds) that transsexuality is…

Healthcare and medicineLaw and civil rights
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Dear 15 Year Old Me…

From Dear 15 year old me – how you can help. If you are a LGBT adult, write a letter to yourself, but write it to the person you were when you were 15…

Family and relationshipsHealthcare and medicine
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Dear Dr. Zucker, We Are Not an Experiment

After finally hearing Dr. Zucker’s comments on the CBC Radio show I participated in that aired this past Monday, I had to sit and reflect. Dr. Zucker referred to us (parents of gender diverse…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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Thanks Again To All My Sistah Girls

When I first began my transition back in 1994 I was concerned whether I’d be able to be the type of girlfriend I wanted to be and needed to be to the women cis…

Race and intersectionalityTransgender identity and history
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Tracking Transgender: The Historical Truth

Why and when did transsexual people begin calling themselves transgender? According to some internet memes transsexuals began self-identifying as transgender due to a vast global plot by crossdressers1,2 . According to this conspiracy, transsexuals…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation