Collective Demo

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TYFA on National Geographic

This just in from Kim Pearson over at TransYouth Family Allies: I hope you all will remember to tune in tonight and invite your friends […]

Family and relationships

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How To Be An Ally

Privilege is a nasty thing. It steals perspective, traps us in mindsets and views that make it near impossible to comprehend what a marginalized person […]

Media, rhetoric, and discourseViolence, safety, and dehumanization

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Trans Health Care Is A Life and Death Matter

Robert Eads was visiting friends in the late 1990s when he woke up in a pool of blood. His terrified hosts quickly began calling hospitals, […]

Community and organizingEducation and youth

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Trans Exclusionists: It’s Your Turn

Today’s guest Transadvocate is polerin. Her bio on Twitter states: “Trans woman, radical lefty, wannabe cartoonist, geek, phreakNIC director, web developer, person. Will eat for […]

Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics

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The Rabid, Transphobic Hate-Mongering of the Anti-Pornography Movement

Todays Guest Transadvocate is Dr. Joelle Ruby Ryan. Ryan describes herself as a “transgender, Feminist, Queer, Fat+, Activist, Educator, Writer, Speaker and Firebrand”. She is […]

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation

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Sorry Equality Maryland: HB-235 Does Not Protect the Homeless

[Note from Kat: In 2001, Maryland gays and lesbians blatantly and openly lied to the Legislature and to the public, claiming that trans people were […]

Culture, identity, and representationFamily and relationships

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My Body, My Choice

The following blog post is Audrey Mbugua from of Transgender Kenya. Mbugua works for Transgender Education and Advocacy (TEA). TEA is a human rights organization […]

Community and organizingEducation and youth

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Trans Erasure and the Old Bailey

Today’s guest post is from Catherine Butler. Butler is an academic and writer, living in Bristol, UK and blogs here. Trans erasure happens in all […]

Culture, identity, and representationEducation and youth

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On “Passing”

This guest post comes from Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello. Costello describes himself as “an academic and scaler of boundary walls, intersex by birth, female-reared, legally […]

Culture, identity, and representationEducation and youth

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What’s The Big Deal About Transgender Rights?

Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is from Jillian Burrows. Chaz Bono is going to be on Dancing with the Stars. For people who don’t know, […]

Healthcare and medicineLaw and civil rights