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Trans101 For Dumbasses

If you’re wanting to ask your favorite transgender person questions and you’re not that bright… this video is for you.

Counting the Cost

If my previous post seemed a little scattered and emotional, there’s a reason for it.  The first trans community function I ever attended was a TDoR function, as was the first event I ever MCed outside a support group.   I’ve been sensitive to transphobic violence at every step, and my own transition began with violence.  But [...]

“Sometimes, We Just Have to Pay Full Price.”

My partner is a nut about sales. If it isn’t on sale, it doesn’t get purchased. So sometimes, when we run out of a breakfast staple and such, I have to remind her of that basic fact of life: “sometimes, we just have to pay full price.” And then, the phrase comes back to haunt [...]

Remembering Our Dead, Echos From Our Fallen Sisters

I was looking at videos for my YouTube post and found this video titled “Twin Boys Living As Girls”. It was taped in the early nineties, and is from the Jenny Jones Show. I sat their thinking this was just another trans segment on talk TV. It is not. When I realized who these two [...]

Transgender YouTube Sunday

I don’t know why I didn’t see this earlier, or why it just now hit google alerts, but I think it’s a pretty good interview. ——- I love this video. I’m going to burn it to DVD and start giving it away to people that want a trans101. It’s very well done. ——- And now… [...]

Remembering Tom Lantos

“Love cannot be defeated.” as said to rock vocalist, Bono by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) The political group I belong to – the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) – noted the passing of longtime Rep. Tom Lantos in a press release on Monday from complications due to esophageal cancer. Chances are, most of the transgender [...]

Hatred Poured Out On Our Children

Over the last few days since it was learned that an 8 year old is transitioning at a school in Colorado, quite a few blogs have been pretty ugly about it. I wrote about some of these blogs on the post Targeted Families, Targeted Lives. Last night I learned that a 10 year old, Cameron [...]

Men to Take Major Role in IFGE 2008 Conference

This post comes from Michael Woodward: In keeping with its theme “Toward a Greater Diversity”, the IFGE Annual conference has successfully engaged many leaders and champions for the FTM community to take part in its 23rd Annual Conference. The conference, which runs from Monday, March 31, 2008, to Saturday, April 5, 2008, is being held [...]

Christian, But Not Christ

Recently Christianity Today posted a story titled Walking a Fine Line:Pastors wrestle with transgender issues. According to the story, the pastor of the church where the former Spring Arbor University professor Julie Nenecek attended, said: “They were welcome to worship with us and listen to the Bible as it was proclaimed in preaching,” Cumings told [...]