07 February 2013

Brendon Ayanbadejo Gets It--Almost

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Kelli Busey's Planet Transgender has become one of my favorite transgender-related blog.  Actually, it achieved that distinction not lo...
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06 February 2013

Why I Am Not Passing Now

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I am not boasting when I say that it's been a while since I've had to think about "passing".  Any time I meet someone, wh...
03 February 2013

India's Response To The Death Of A Woman Who Was Gang-Raped

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In much of the world--including, at times, my hometown of New York--rape is still treated as "just" a sexual offense rather than t...
02 February 2013

A Thorn In The Side Of The Rose City T-Girls

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One thing any trans person can tell you is that there are some things that even the most trans-friendly communities and the strongest anti-d...
01 February 2013

Words That Are Transphobic And Why

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On Rebloggy , I found this useful infographic (and others):
31 January 2013

A New Harlem Renaissance?

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If you ask almost anyone living in New York City to name a "gay neighborhood", you will probably hear "Chelsea" or ...
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....