11 July 2013

What's Being Trans Got To Do With It?

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At first glance, it looks like just another soap opera involving super-rich New Yorkers. An agoraphobic heiress falls behind in her maint...
10 July 2013

A Self-Hater Smears Tyler Clementi With A Stereotype

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Robert Oscar Lopez may well have the courage of his convictions.  But, it seems that he doesn't have a whole lot of logic to back them ...
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09 July 2013

Dora Ozer Murdered In Her Home

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Seven years ago, I spent almost a month in Turkey.  I hope to return one day:  There is so much art and architectural achievement, history ...
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08 July 2013

Tomorrow: Equal Access Bill Hearing In Massachusetts

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Today I'm cross-posting an announcement that appeared on Planetransgender, where it was in turn cross-posted from the Massachusetts Tra...
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07 July 2013

Four Years In My New Life, Five For This Blog

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Today this blog turns five years old.  And, on this date four years ago, I underwent my gender-reassignment surgery. I could not have pred...
06 July 2013

A General Supports A Transition In Australia

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Yesterday I wrote about someone who defended the rights of transgender prisoners in New Zealand.  Today, I'm going to remain in the same...
05 July 2013

Why The Rights Of Transgender Prisoners Matter

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New Zealand is like most other countries in that male-to-female transgender inmates are confined to men's prisons. Unlike most other c...
04 July 2013

A Fourth Anniversary on the Fourth

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I can't believe that four years--almost--have passed since my surgery! On this date four years ago, I flew from LaGuardia to Denver In...
03 July 2013

California Bill For K-12 Transgenders

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Today, California lawmakers approved a bill that would allow transgender K-12 students to decide which bathrooms they will use, and on whic...
02 July 2013

Capital Crimes Against Trans Women Of Color

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In recent posts, I mentioned the spate of anti-LGBT crimes in New York during the days leading up to Pride.  It seems that any city with a v...
01 July 2013

By The Time We Got To Stonewall

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You've all heard " Woodstock " by Crosby Stills Nash & Young.  If you haven't, you have 43 years of catching-up to do...
29 June 2013

What Does The Supreme Court Ruling On Proposition 8 Really Mean?

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Last night, I volunteered with the Anti-Violence Project.  Two fellow volunteers and I were doing an outreach in the Village. At the end of...
27 June 2013

They're Pediatricians, Not Pedophiles!

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Sexual-minority youth should not be considered abnormal. At first glance, it just seems like a fancy way of saying "Queer kids ain...
24 June 2013

Pride Week

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“Pride Week” has begun here in New York.   It will culminate in the march that begins in Midtown Manhattan and follows Fifth Avenue, Was...
23 June 2013

Why Crimes Against LGBT (Especially T) People Are Under-Reported

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Whenever the number of assualts and other crimes against LGBT people increases--as it did for several years in the first decade of this cen...
22 June 2013

Transgender Employee of Desperate Housewife's Restaurant Attacked

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Eva Longoria may one day have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  For now, she has a restaurant--Beso--along the Boulevard. Vivian Die...
20 June 2013

Protections In The Blue Hen State

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Delaware's license plate s refer to it as "The First State ". It was indeed the first to ratify the Constitutio n , on 7 D e...
19 June 2013

Faux Humor About Trans People

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Almost everyone I know whose p olitic s are anywhere to the left of David Duke's complains a bout, o r scoffs at, Faux News. If you...