Archive for: May, 2007

Words Mean Things: You’ve Been Transgendered!

Words Mean Things: You’ve Been Transgendered!

When I hear “This is my friend _____ , she’s transgendered”, I cringe. It may seem innocuous, but using the word “transgendered” indicates that being transgender is something you have done to you. Imagine someone saying “this is my friend Andy, he’s gayed” or “this is my best friend Betty,  she’s lesbianed.” [...]

A Week of Direct Advocacy

A Week of Direct Advocacy

If nothing else, last week was historic in that the three major transgender advocacy organizations (National Transgender Advocacy Coalition, National Center for Transgender Equality, and the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition) brought in citizen lobbyists to Washington D.C. from across the United States for a week of direct congressional advocacy.
Rolling in to [...]

The T Isn’t Silent, But HRC Is

The T Isn’t Silent, But HRC Is

It’s coming up on two years ago that I wrote an “Open Letter to Cheryl Jacques.” A month after I posted my open letter, Jacques greeted transgender protesters outside of Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) offices with the news that HRC would not support any version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that didn’t include [...]

Transgender Lobby Week

Transgender Lobby Week

Off to lobby Congress! I’m not sure how much I’ll blog, but I plan on having audio and video to put up at some point, depending on where I can connect and upload from

The Ghost of Chris Crain: Gayjacking the Hate Crimes Bill

The Ghost of Chris Crain: Gayjacking the Hate Crimes Bill

When Chris Crain left his position at Window Media, I thought the voice of “transjack” was dead. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Today the Washington Blade published an op-ed by a long time Democratic gay activist and Washington D.C. mayoral adviser, Peter Rosenstein. He writes:
“On the eve of the House taking up the Hate [...]

Carnival of Bent Attractions: May(-ish) Edition

Carnival of Bent Attractions: May(-ish) Edition

As some of you may have noticed, there was no Carnival of Bent Attractions (COBA) post last month. This was partially due to the move of COBA to Transadvocate.com. So without further ado, the May addition of the Carnival of Bent Attractions!
Romeo Vitelli’s April 1st post, “Becoming Lili” reflected on the life of transsexual [...]

City of Brotherly Love, Sisterly Hate?

City of Brotherly Love, Sisterly Hate?

What the hell is the problem with the Philadelphia Police Department?
The police covered up the events that led to the murder of Nizah Morris in December of 2002. The city settled in a federal lawsuit that alleged that police and rescue workers contributed to her death.
On March March 21, 2007, (according [...]

Don’t Let The Door Hit Ya In The @!#*!!

Don’t Let The Door Hit Ya In The @!#*!!

Like a herpes sore, certain arguments pop up continually in the transcommunity and never seem to go away. Recently Gwen Smith wrote the editorial “What’s In a Name?” that discussed the term “women born transsexual (WBT)” or “Harry Benjamin Syndrome.”
Suzanne Cooke responded to Gwen’s editorial with “Good-Bye to Transgender and All That.” In it she [...]

It’s The Post That Never Ends

It’s The Post That Never Ends

It’s such an amazing thing, the transformation of Transadvocate.com. Once a blog of my personal opinions and beliefs, TA has become everything I ever envisioned it to be when I first purchased the domain on March 1st, 2002. There is enough traffic here that many times a good discussion happens without me commenting. Transadvocate.com [...]

Extremist Christians For Dishonesty, Hate, and Misinformation

Extremist Christians For Dishonesty, Hate, and Misinformation

That should be the title of Peter LaBarbera’s Americans for Truth (AFT) website. His latest post attacks sports reporter Christine Penner.
“I challenge ‘Mike/Christine’ to do a column describing, in detail, ’sex-reassignment surgery’ – whereby a penis is turned into a makeshift ‘vagina’ — assuming he is one day going to go that route. (‘Transitioning’ [...]

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