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Openly MRKH Contestant In Miss USA 2013

We won’t have a girl like us competing in the Miss USA 2013 pageant next month because Kylan Wenzel unfortunately didn’t win the Miss California USA pageant. I’ll still have somebody else to root…

Community and organizing
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Indonesia’s Trans Muslims

Here’s a documentary focusing on our Indonesian trans sisters. They have been catching hell there lately, and the anti-trans attitudes whipped up by fundie Muslims even affected a 2010 international trans conference held there.…

Religion and morality
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Stealth Doesn’t Help The Trans Community

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series on “stealth.” The goal of this series to examine the nuanced ways trans opinion leaders conceptualize stealth and how they feel about it. Suzan Cooke kicked…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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TransGriot Ten Questions Interview-Carmen Xtravaganza

What can I say about the person I’m about to have the pleasure of doing this Ten Questions interview with? She’s an actress, runway model and legendary house mother of the legendary international House…

Community and organizingFamily and relationships
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Open Letter To My Black Transbrothers

Dear Transbrothers, Ever since I met Alexander John Goodrum at the 1999 Creating Change in Oakland I have been in love with y’all and was moved today to declare it publicly. I have had…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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Sage Smith Case- 21 And Still Missing

By Monica Roberts @TransGriot Erik McFadden. Photo: Facebook D. Sage Smith turned 21 on December 13. But there was no party, no gathering of family and friends around a birthday cake with 21 candles…

Family and relationships
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Monica Roberts’ Speech To Houston City Council

Speech To Houston City Council January 7, 2014 By Monica Roberts Happy New Year and good afternoon to you Mayor Parker, distinguished members of City Council, and my fellow Houstonians. I am Monica Roberts,…

Culture, identity, and representationEducation and youth