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Monthly Archive: September 2007

Politics

6

ENDA Three Card Draw

  • September 27, 2007

With passage of The Matthew Shepard Act in the Senate on Thursday, it should have been a time for celebration. But on the heels of the victory came the news[...]

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Politics · Vanessa Edwards Foster

5

Déjà Vu All Over Again!?! Do We Hafta???

  • September 27, 2007

“So I get on my knees and pray … we won’t get fooled again!” — the Who Fresh on the heels of Southern Comfort Conference (SCC), many of the transgender[...]

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Politics

12

It’s Put Up Or Shut Up Time

  • September 26, 2007

According to the Washington Blade: “House Democratic leaders are strongly considering dropping anti-discrimination protections for transgender persons from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, after an internal Democratic head count[...]

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Opinion

3

Last Ditch Effort: The Right Wing Whopper Lies

  • September 26, 2007

Unbelievably, I woke up to find this in a google alert:”Bringing back Hitler and the SS” From the get go, it’s filled with lies: “Right now we have a bill[...]

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Opinion

0

New feature:TA Tidbits

  • September 26, 2007

I’m stealing a way of posting from Autumn and Stephanie over at Abnormal Heights. With TA tidbits, I’m going to post multiple trans stories I find with just a bit[...]

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Opinion

8

With “Defenders” Like This…

  • September 26, 2007

Alice Dreger Destroys Academic Freedom in Order to Save It It is an old adage that “crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.” This appears to be the[...]

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Politics

0

Freak Of The Week: The Tabloid Media

  • September 24, 2007

Give ‘em an act with lots of flash in it And the reaction will be passionate Give ‘em the old hocus pocus …. Give ‘em the old three ring circus”[...]

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Opinion

8

Chris, I’ll Say It Again: You’re Wrong

  • September 22, 2007

With a vote coming soon on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, I’d like to revisit something Chris Crain said a while back in his post “A trans activist tees off on[...]

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Opinion

14

Nothing Says Patriot Like Hiding… Your Children

  • September 21, 2007

That ever popular bastion of Jesus freedom, WorldNetDaily, is hiding a Transgender Partriot! In their “Letter of the Week” they showcase the anonymous patriot. She starts out by saying “First,[...]

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Opinion

9

The Blue and Yellow Stepchild

  • September 20, 2007

Every year around this time I start seeing the GLBT media get in a feeding frenzy about the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI). Story after story is told of how[...]

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