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A “Transsexual Versus Transgender” Intervention*

Over the last year or so, I have read a number of blog entries and Facebook rants about the so-called “transsexual versus transgender” issue. For those who are unaware of this debate, it stems…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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A Drama Preemption

As I said before, I set out doing research into the etiology of the term “transgender’” to satisfy my curiosity about claims made about the term. I’ve therefore focused on the eras which are…

History, archives, and memoryScience, evidence, and expertise
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Kelly Osbourne, Angie Zapata, and Why Words Matter

Yesterday I wrote a post about Kelly Osbourne’s transphobic rant in the Glamour UK. There were many attacks on my character by the Kelly Osbourne Twitter Army, but one tweet questioned my use of…

Education and youthTransgender identity and history
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Revealing Family Secrets

“Children should be seen and not heard.” How many times did I hear this when I was little? After a while I didn’t need it whispered into my ear anymore, I embodied it. I…

Education and youthFamily and relationships
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Libra Backs Down In Face of Trans Outrage

Following worldwide outrage, an ad campaign for Libra feminine hygiene products, which had been circulating in Australia and New Zealand, has now been put on hold. The campaign had attracted widespread condemnation as offensive…

Community and organizingMedia, rhetoric, and discourse
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Tranny: An Evidence-Based Review

“Tranny” seems to be a contentious term within the GLBT community. For many in the trans community, we’ve known “tranny” to be a term associated with the gay (specifically gay male) community; a term…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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True, All-Person Experience

My Brownie uniform “True, all-girl experience,” those were the words of the teen named Taylor who is part of a group trying to get people to boycott Girl Scout cookies because the Girl Scouts…

Education and youthTransgender identity and history
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The Criminal Behavior of the Serial Exterminist

as if you needed to read any more… THE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR OF THE SERIAL RAPIST From 1984 to 1986, FBI Special Agents assigned to theNationalCenterfor the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) interviewed 41 men…

Culture, identity, and representationLaw and civil rights
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Crowing Over Progress

Well, TS Separatists have warned us for years that progress will never be seen under the rubric of the transgender borg. The time has come for me to admit that the Separatists were right…

Law and civil rightsTransgender identity and history