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One Sunday morning reading selection: The term Transgender is an umbrella term coined by transgender activists to describe the following individuals: heterosexual cross-dressers; homosexual transvestites or drag queens; and transsexuals (individuals undergoing so-called sex…
Community and organizingHealthcare and medicine
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I’m not holding my breath. Andrew Cuomo, New York’s new Democratic governor, has repeatedly emphasized that he “want[s] to be the governor who signs the law that makes marriage equality a reality,” saying in…
Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Mr. Gay-Marriage-And-Nothing-Else-But-Gay-Marriage doubtlessly try to spin away from that characterization of a HuffPo piece, but if you’re single and/or trans and/or LGB or T and currently living somewhere that doesn’t provide access to the…
Culture, identity, and representationFamily and relationships
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There’s a meme going around the GLBT leadership out in the media right now that goes something like this: “Democrats wouldn’t pass ENDA even when we had the votes and no one knows why.”…
Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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If the actions of gays and lesbians surrounding screwing trans people out of their civil rights and then re-writing/ignoring the history of their role in creating third-class status for trans people were the only…
Community and organizingFamily and relationships
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Tom Lang (definitely not pictured above) lays out the context in what anti-trans bill-monger Cathy Brennan viewed (views?) as the northern counties of Maryland: Here We Are In February of 2011 And The Commonwealth…
Family and relationshipsHistory, archives, and memory
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From Facebook: Now, Tom is just pointing to a stealth-obnoxious piece in the Boston Herald about Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s recent trans executive order. The fact that its author, Hillary Chabot, saw fit to…
Law and civil rightsMedia, rhetoric, and discourse
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[Kat’s note for the combined post: Even these long-dead kitties can see that something is not as the official gay mouthpieces of 2011 assert it to be.] Seen on the front page of Queer…
Law and civil rightsMedia, rhetoric, and discourse
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Good news: The person that Free State Just Us was trying to turn into a Trans Jemima for the nefarious purpose of creating a public perception of having an understanding of the reality of…
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Transgender blogs (here, here, here, here, here, here, here and that’s not counting the numerous blogs by Katrina Rose here and on ENDAblog) have been buzzing over the lack of public accommodation protections in…
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