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Monthly Archive: January 2012

Cristan Williams · Featured

5

Equality=Bathroom Bills=Rape: Reality Check

  • January 23, 2012

Protections will allow men to dress as women “… in order to perpetrate crimes of homicide, rape, robbery [and] assault…” Sound familiar? It sounds like the arguments of TS Separatism and Religious Fundamentalists,[...]

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Featured · Jennifer Carr

2

True, All-Person Experience

  • January 23, 2012

My Brownie uniform “True, all-girl experience,” those were the words of the teen named Taylor who is part of a group trying to get people to boycott Girl Scout cookies[...]

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Jenna Fischetti · Opinion

1

The Criminal Behavior of the Serial Exterminist

  • January 20, 2012

as if you needed to read any more…     THE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR OF THE SERIAL RAPIST From 1984 to 1986, FBI Special Agents assigned to theNationalCenterfor the Analysis of[...]

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Matt Kailey

4

Thin Mint Morality Wars: The Girl Scout Cookie Boycott

  • January 19, 2012

Last year, I wrote a guest post for the excellent blog Womanist Musings called “Leave the Kids Out of It,” about a brouhaha over gendered Halloween costumes. Now we’ve got[...]

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Monica Roberts

2

I Repeat Gay Media, RuPaul is Not A Trans Expert

  • January 16, 2012

Gay media, did I not succinctly make the points in this 2009 post that RuPaul is not a trans person, emphatically said he was a gay man, and if you[...]

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Cristan Williams

10

Tranny: An Evidence-Based Review

  • January 16, 2012

“Tranny” seems to be a contentious term within the GLBT community. For many in the trans community, we’ve known “tranny” to be a term associated with the gay (specifically gay male) community;[...]

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Cristan Williams

16

Separatists and Fundamentalists

  • January 16, 2012

As some of you know some Separatists recently colluded in a bid to have the United Nations remove trans protections based upon gender identity and expression. Dana Lane Taylor, Cathy Brennan and Elizabeth Hungerford happily[...]

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Jane Fae

2

Tennessee Anti-trans Bathroom Bill Gains Dubious Distinction as “The State That Likes to Hate”

  • January 15, 2012

Trans men and women around the world reacted in horror yesterday to a proposal tabled before the Tennessee General Assembly to criminalise anyone who used changing or rest room facilities[...]

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Jenna Fischetti

0

Improper Purpose

  • January 12, 2012

Massachusetts recently signed into law an anti-discrimination bill which adds gender identity to its protected classes in the areas of employment and housing only. Gender identity is defined as follows:  [...]

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Featured

4

Aftermath of a Boycott: Moving the Discussion Forward on Trans Issues

  • January 10, 2012

Today’s guest post comes from Savannah Garmon. Garmon is a physics researcher and trans activist who presently lives in Toronto but calls Texas home.  She likes social justice, cats, beer,[...]

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