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With Apologies to Radical Feminists

Recently, I commented on a post at Bilerico: You want to get technical Sue? In the strictest definition, you’re not female. The distinction between the “sexes” is that a female has the ability to…

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Gender Fundamentalists

Many of us in the LGBT community are painfully aware of the religious fundamentalists who have such a wonderful time coming up with lies and fear tactics to throw out to the uneducated masses.…

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Communities of Ones

Like some others in the discussion, I do feel a need to say a few final words on the Old Guard (HBS) versus deconstructionist battle in the transgender community, and then move on. I…

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Radical Feminists on the Transgender v. HBS Controversy

I found a pretty intriguing comment over at Womens Spaces/The Margins concerning a post written by Harry Benjamin Syndrome apologist, Cathy Platine, at Pam’s House Blend. That whole thread over at PHB consists of…

Transgender identity and history
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Can You Ever Leave Behind the Evil Twin?

Don’t you just love that phrase, “used to be a man?” GARRICK Jacobson was in custody at Sydney’s Surry Hills police station when he apparently discovered his girlfriend used to be a man. Within…

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Walking Through the Valley of Shadows

(As I’d mentioned, it’s time to move on from the previous discussion. I admit, I probably wouldn’t have reacted as badly if the debate hadn’t touched on something that was freshly raw for me…

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More Brain Droppings From Jenni

It’s the day before Sunday and I’m sitting here planning out my vid for Trannystar Galactica. For those not in the know, Trannystar Galactica is a channel on Youtube that’s trans related. Every week…

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ARE YOU A MAN OR A WOMAN?

I have awoken multiple times from a nightmare hearing this phrase screamed at me over and over again. Whether awake or asleep, it echoes over and over and over again through my brain. It…

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We Are Not Defined By Our Genitalia

I’ve said this multiple times on this blog and will continue to say it until you peeps embed this point in your brain cells. You need to focus on what’s between a transperson’s ears,…

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Gender Orientation, Identity, and Expression

I’ve witnessed many arguments and misunderstandings explode over the conflation of these THREE dimensions of what we in trans discourse collectively refer to as gender: Gender Orientation: One’s subjective experience of one’s body, including…

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