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Gender Nation: Military Ban is stayed, once again

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. Military Ban is stayed, once again In…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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How Russian authorities will now process trans people

New procedures in Russia approved: activists say it could be worse, leaves intersex people with few options On 19 January 2018, Russian authorities approved a controversial Decree, defining the procedure of legal gender recognition…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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Gender Nation: A pair of painful losses

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. Obama-era trans prison policies rolled back A…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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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…

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Are cis women facing violent transphobia? Absolutely.

Today we talk to a community news reporter who uncovered a story straight news refuses to cover: a cis woman is beaten in Colorado for being “trans,” told that she didn’t belong in Trump’s…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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The preapocalyptic podcast!

We’re all doomed, so say the pundits… and we all know they never engage in hyperbole, right? Also, Dylan Forbis, the first out trans man to run for public office in Brazoria County, crashes…

Education and youthHistory, archives, and memory