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Monthly Archive: April 2012

Cristan Williams · Opinion

16

My Response to Love’s Transsexual Rally

  • April 23, 2012

Ashley “I’m Colonized” Love So, Ashley Love supposedly held a rally outside of a GLAAD meeting. She writes: Though GLAAD does some good work, primarily for gays and those who support transgender[...]

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Cristan Williams

10

Pick a Side: Fantasy or Reality

  • April 13, 2012

Love made yet another post asserting (without evidence, of course) that she’s a victim of the word “transgender,” that the evil transgender umbrella is evil and transsexuals were colonized: Please… someone do[...]

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Irrational – Critical Examination of a Response to Critics.

  • April 9, 2012

Today’s guest post is from Antonia D’orsay from Dyssonance. She describes herself as “a multi-ethnic, early Generation X, native Arizonan writer, sociologist and psychologist who rarely cleaves to the standard[...]

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Monica Roberts

0

University Of Pittsburgh Imposes A Transphobic Gendered Facilities Policy

  • April 9, 2012

When the 2012-13 school year rolls around, I’ll be joining much of the Big East Conference in hatin’ on the University of Pittsburgh for a different reason other than their[...]

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Featured · Monica Roberts

0

Toby’s Act Reintroduced For Fourth Time

  • April 9, 2012

I’ve been writing posts about NDP MPP Cheri Di Novo’s attempts since 2007 to cover trans people’s human rights in Ontario by adding gender identity and expression to the Ontario[...]

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Guest Transadvocate

1

Transmisogynistic Media Report on Murdered Trans Woman From Detroit Local Fox Affiliate

  • April 4, 2012

Update April 4, 4:00 AM: I propose we start a twitter campaign criticizing the Fox affiliate station for putting together this disrespectful and transphobic report on Coko’s murder. Please tweet[...]

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Featured · Matt Kailey

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McDonald’s Happy Meals and Asking the Right Question

  • April 2, 2012

“Is the Happy Meal for a boy or a girl?” I had no idea that McDonald’s Happy Meals were gendered, but then I’ve never ordered one before this week. I’ve[...]

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Featured · Joelle Ruby Ryan

2

Feminism Must Be Led by Love, or Not At All

  • April 2, 2012

Recently, I have experienced a round of attacks by some radical-identified feminists and lesbian feminists for my writings and transgender advocacy.  There is a long history of conflict between transgender/transsexual[...]

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Death of TS Separatism Movement

Cristan Williams · Featured

46

I’m Calling it: the Death of the TS Separatist Movement

  • April 2, 2012

I’m going to call it: the TS Separatist movement – as it has existed over the past 5 years – is dead. The foundational falsehoods upon which TS Separatism was built have been exposed[...]

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Featured · Jane Fae

1

Berlin Authorities Endorse Forced Psychiatric Treatment of a Transsexual Girl

  • April 2, 2012

A German child, who has been living as a girl since she started school nearly seven years ago, is to be committed to the Charité University hospital in Berlin –[...]

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