30 January 2013

Maryland Bill To Outlaw Trans Discrimination

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New Year's Day was the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. So, it seems appropriate that just over the border from wh...
29 January 2013

Valentina Verbal Runs For Chilean Congress

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Last year, Argentina passed a law that said, in essence, any Argentinian aged 18 or over can be whichever gender he or she chooses.  No su...
28 January 2013

A Date With Jazz

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In case you missed Barbara Walters' latest interview with "Jazz", an 11-year-old transgender girl whose story Ms. Walter has ...
27 January 2013

How Much Is A Transgender Woman's Life Worth?

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If you fire shots into a car with three transgender women, what kind of a sentence you should expect? Depends. If you're a police o...
26 January 2013

Why Is The Catholic Church Fighting Gay Marriage?

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I'm sure you've read--or heard-- Queen Gertrude's observation in Hamlet : "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."...
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25 January 2013

What We Experience

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For a decade, I've been getting my healthcare and referrals from the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center .  At times, they can be madd...
24 January 2013

Passing Into The Lost Generation

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In yesterday's post , I started to describe some of the ways in which spending so much time and effort on "passing" has harme...
23 January 2013

"Passing" Does Not Mean "Equal"

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As I've mentioned in earlier posts, previous generations of transsexuals tried to go "stealth" as much as they could.  That m...
21 January 2013

MLK And LGBT People

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Sometimes President Obama seems to think he's channeling Martin Luther King Jr. when he doesn't think he's a reincarnation of P...
20 January 2013

When You Can Get Away With Murder

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Kudos to Kelly Busey of Planet Transgender  (one of my "must read" blogs) for posting this story about Fernanda Carrico da Silva...
19 January 2013

The State Of My Commute

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From  Bike Commuters This post is a response to a comment Kiyomi made on " The States of Bicycle Commuting ", a post on my o...
18 January 2013

Over Time: A Transformation

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In researching something on the Web, I came across a time-lapse video of an Australian's transgender's change from male to female: ...
16 January 2013

No More Forced Sterilizations In Sweden

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Almost a year ago, I wrote about the Swedish law requiring transgender people to be sterilized before changing sexes. Well, that forty-y...
15 January 2013

Safer, But Not For Trans People

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Mayor Mike Bloomberg, in seemingly every speech he makes, reminds his listeners that New York is "the safest big city in America....
13 January 2013

Charlie, One Year Later

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Today was mild for this time of year.  Although it didn't rain, or even drizzle, the air felt damp, as it has since the rain we got th...
11 January 2013

A Generation of Elders Who Are Novitiates

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Writing about the Lost Generation of Transgenders , as I did yesterday and in a few earlier posts, got me to thinking about my own situatio...
10 January 2013

Health Care Professionals And Lost Generation Of Transgenders

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In several posts on this blog, I have mentioned some of the difficulties transgender people have in getting appropriate medical and psychia...
09 January 2013

It Took 30 Years, But They Found A Way To Fire Him

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In the winter class I'm teaching, the students are about to read Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis . It seems like an amazing coinci...
06 January 2013

Who Belongs To The "Club"?

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Over the years, there have been many definitions of "transgender" and "transsexual", apart from the ones in the textboo...
05 January 2013

We Won't Come For What They've Built In The Beaver State

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Once again, I've Kelli Busey to thank for the latest news about what's available to trans people. She reports that in order to c...
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