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Houston trans-inclusive equity ordinance survives

Houston Mayor Annise Parker and City Attorney David Feldman announced that the effort to overturn equality failed to collect enough valid petition signatures to put minority rights up for a popular vote in the…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Hair does not make the woman, Sarah Ditum

The appearance of Lavern Cox, a prominent trans woman activist and actor, on the cover of Time magazine was a great moment in trans advocacy. Although Chelsea Manning was the first trans woman to…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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World’s experts condemn the McHugh hoax

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently ran an op-ed by the right-wing anti-transgender psychiatrist, Paul McHugh. McHugh purposefully misrepresented the research he cited in his article, misleading WSJ readers, and the wider population into…

Culture, identity, and representationEducation and youth
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Anti-LGBT bigot caught engaging in election fraud in Texas

Engaging in fraud in order to overturn LGBT and especially trans equality in cities throughout the nation is nothing new for anti-equality bigots. In the past anti-equality efforts, election fraud was limited to purposefully…

Healthcare and medicineHistory, archives, and memory
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Et tu, Caroline Criado-Perez?

At first, I wasn’t going to write a response piece to Caroline Criado-Perez (CCP) article concerning the term “cis”, because many of her ideas were similar to those in Sarah Ditum’s post I recently…

Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics