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Monthly Archive: August 2007

Opinion

10

I’m A Bitch, I’m A Lover

  • August 31, 2007

Meredith Brooks once sang: “ I’m a bitch, I’m a lover I’m a child, I’m a mother I’m a sinner, I’m a saint I do not feel ashamed I’m your[...]

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Opinion

10

Science and Ideology: The Blanchard-Bailey-Lawrence Model of Transsexuality

  • August 30, 2007

By Élise Hendrick (reprinted with permission) Autogynaephiles, Homosexuals, and Fabricators: The Blanchard-Bailey-Lawrence Taxonomy of Trans Women I. A Hypothetical Let us suppose that someone claimed to have found that rape[...]

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Opinion

20

Christ Commands You To Get Your Ass Kicked!

  • August 29, 2007

From the Evangelical Bible: I Fundamentalists: 1 And Christ said “if you’re a transsexual, you’re doomed. 2You deserve to be raped or sexually assaulted.” Or so it would seem from[...]

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Opinion

12

Transadvocate Reports: In development

  • August 24, 2007

I’m working on bringing the podcast you hear at times, Transadvocate Reports, into a live show. I NEED YOUR HELP! I’m trying to decide which intro and outro music is[...]

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Opinion

4

I’m Just an Angry Transsexual Activist Mafioso

  • August 23, 2007

In KQED’s recent interview of J Michael Bailey and Alice Dreger, Bailey said:   “Again I reject the assertion that it’s all transgendered people are offended by my book. Many[...]

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Opinion

2

Stylebook? What Stylebook?

  • August 21, 2007

From the AP Stylebook: “Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics (by hormone therapy, body modification, or surgery) of the opposite sex and present[...]

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Opinion

9

Truth In Numbers, Hate Crimes Statistics

  • August 18, 2007

From a recent report out of UCLA entitled: Comparison of Hate Crimes Rates Across Protected and Unprotected Groups ( by Rebecca Stotzer, Public Policy Research Fellow at the Williams Institute)[...]

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Opinion

2

Isn’t It Ironic, Don’t You Think?

  • August 17, 2007

During the HRC/LOGO Presidential Forum John Edwards was asked: MR. SOLOMONESE: Susan Stanton is in our audience tonight. She was, for 17 years, the city manager in Largo , Florida[...]

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Opinion

0

For Matters of Disclosure, I Open Myself To You

  • August 16, 2007

The post that follows this will discuss Alice Dreger’s “The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in[...]

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Opinion

8

Summer Songs that helped us Survive

  • August 12, 2007

When I was Stone Blue … Rock and Roll sure helped me through …. Warning beforehand, this is a fluff-piece – you’ll have to excuse me. Actually, a little of[...]

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