Collective

Collective Demo

CAN-0000-1215-8FCF

Isn’t It Ironic, Don’t You Think?

During the HRC/LOGO Presidential Forum John Edwards was asked: MR. SOLOMONESE: Susan Stanton is in our audience tonight. She was, for 17 years, the city manager in Largo , Florida . She did her…

Family and relationshipsLabor, economics, and institutions
CAN-0000-1218-4B813 inbound

Presidential Forum on Marriage Equality

It was billed as the “HRC Foundation and Logo Presidential Forum” but you could have just as easily called it the “HRC and Logo Presidential Forum on Marriage Equality. But it wasn’t supposed to…

Family and relationshipsLaw and civil rights
CAN-0000-1208-C6B71 inbound

I’m A Bitch, I’m A Lover

Meredith Brooks once sang: “ I’m a bitch, I’m a lover I’m a child, I’m a mother I’m a sinner, I’m a saint I do not feel ashamed I’m your hell, I’m your dream…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
CAN-0000-1210-3A68

Christ Commands You To Get Your Ass Kicked!

From the Evangelical Bible: I Fundamentalists: 1 And Christ said “if you’re a transsexual, you’re doomed. 2You deserve to be raped or sexually assaulted.” Or so it would seem from the Jesus blogosphere :…

Education and youthReligion and morality
CAN-0000-1212-BD0D

I’m Just an Angry Transsexual Activist Mafioso

In KQED’s recent interview of J Michael Bailey and Alice Dreger, Bailey said: “Again I reject the assertion that it’s all transgendered people are offended by my book. Many transgendered people are actually very…

Education and youthPublic policy and governance
CAN-0000-1203-723E1 inbound

Three Card Monte, Bailey Style

I’m getting rather tired of posting about this, but J. Michael Bailey is at it again. He posted “Transsexual Smokescreen: Ignoring Science In “The Man Who Would Be Queen” at Scientific Blogging.com. The post…

Science, evidence, and expertiseTransgender identity and history
CAN-0000-1204-CD89

Who Needs Truth When There’s Revisionism?

Just when you think you’ve heard it all …. Just a couple weeks ago, President George W. Bush let loose what we in Texas parlance (at least among polite company) term “a whopper” (no,…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
CAN-0000-1206-E605

That Old Tranny Religion!

I am an atheist/agnostic so I’m not sure why Jesus has been on my mind lately, but he has. So many Christian bloggers have written about the sin of being transgender. God, help us…

Family and relationshipsHealthcare and medicine
CAN-0000-1202-0C341 inbound

Closets Are For Clothes, Stealth Is For Planes

Recently, I read a blog post about an FTM complaining about being judged by other transgender people about living “stealth.” To those of you who feel the need to live secretly, I say this;…

Culture, identity, and representationTransgender identity and history