25 May 2014

Tona Brown To Perform At Carnegie Hall

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So...You want to see the first transgender African-American to perform at Carnegie Hall.  Well, you'll have your chance next month--ass...
24 May 2014

Scraping The Sky, Or Brushed By Fog

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Late yesterday morning and the afternoons were just interludes between rainstorms.  Or so it seemed.  And it rained even harder, from what ...
23 May 2014

R.I.P John

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Today I'm going to detour a bit, for a very personal reason. In other posts, I've mentioned Millie.  I met her the day I moved to ...
22 May 2014

Transphobes Tossed Off The Airwaves--For Now, Anyway

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Rochester, NY was one of the very first jurisdictions in the US to protect gender identity and expression in its human rights laws.  In fac...
21 May 2014

Walk In Our Shoes

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20 May 2014

Coming Together While Going In Opposite Directions

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Boy meets girl... All right....Before anyone accuses me of not getting the story "straight", I'm going to tell you what hap...
19 May 2014

Banning The Ban In The Beaver State

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As a general rule, I guard against complacency.  Still, it's hard to greet one piece of news as if it's becoming almost routine. ...
18 May 2014

Transgender Culture: What Is It? Or Is It?

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The moment you talk about a "culture", you're not part of it. Perhaps it's trite to say that. But, like so many other s...
17 May 2014

Younger And More Brutally Attacked

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Today is International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia .  Normally, I don't care much for days dedicated to one thing or another...
16 May 2014

Violence Against Us

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Tomorrow is International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.  In light of that, I feel the need to present this:
15 May 2014

Governor O"Malley Signs Legislation; Opponents Ready To Drag It Into The Bathroom

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News flash :  Governor Martin O'Malley has just signed legislation that makes Maryland one of a handful of states to extend its anti-di...
14 May 2014

What Chuck Hagel Still Needs To Understand

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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel recently said the ban on transgenders serving in the US military "continually should be reviewed. ...
13 May 2014

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Condoms and diaphragms can't always protect us.  Sometimes we need an umbrella: From Prezi  
12 May 2014

Can A Child Be "Outed" For Her Own Good?

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I think that, by now, most people would agree that it's wrong to "out" an LGBT person who is harming no one else.  But h...
11 May 2014

The Best Mother (Besides Mine) Of A Transgender Child

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"I have lucked out in at least one area:  the Mom department." I told my mother that once. More than once, actually.  But not o...
10 May 2014

Open To The Rainbow In The Ozarks?

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They sure don't wast time in Arkansas ! Yesterday, Kristin Seaton and Jennifer Rambo exchanged vows in Eureka Springs--only a day aft...
09 May 2014

Safety In Numbers?

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This post is not about a transgender issue per se.  However, it is a matter of social justice and policy, and you can't think of LGBT i...
08 May 2014

Seat Belt Safety Video: Good For Trans People?

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about a ruling from India's Supreme Court that says, in essence, that transgenders are a third gender.  This,...
07 May 2014

Charges Dropped, But Is Anything Resolved?

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The good news:  Battery charges against her were dropped. The bad news:  She had to complete a conflict-resolution course. I'm refe...
06 May 2014

This Army Doesn't Want Us

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Time was when I used to donate to the Salvation Army, even when I could barely afford to do so.  During the holiday season, I almost never ...