Bayard Rustin
"Our job is not to get those people who dislike us to love us"
bell hooks
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance”
Marti Abernathey is Transadvocate.com's blog editor. She's also a podcaster, activist, and radiologic technologist in Madison, Wisconsin. She's been a part of various internet radio ventures such as TSR Live!, The T-Party, and The Radical Trannies, to name a few. As an advocate she's previously been involved with the Indiana Transgender Rights Advocacy Alliance, Rock Indiana Campaign for Equality, and the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition. She's taken vital roles as a grass roots community organizer in The Indianapolis Tax Day Protest (2003), The Indy Pride HRC Protest (2004), Transgender Day of Remembrance (2004), Indiana's Witch Hunt (2005), and the Rally At The Statehouse (the largest ever GLBT protest in Indiana - 3/2005). She was a delegate from Indiana to the Democratic National Convention and a member of Barack Obama's LGBT Steering and Policy Committee.
Rupaul: Fuck You, You Silly Faggot!
Even though RuPaul Andre Charles is a drag performer who lives his off-stage life as a man, he seems to think he can speak for the transgender community. In an…
Public Accommodations Language For Dummies
For the people who are confused by the right wing, Barney Frank, WWBT and Exterminationalist Twins rhetoric and obfuscation about Public Accommodations language, let me direct your attention to this…
Neil Patrick Harris Sounds Like A Transphobe
I was alerted to a transphobic statement from Neil Patrick Harris. Trans Femmergy posted Neil Patrick Harris: “I’ve never sounded more like a tranny in my life.” She said: Nope.…
Mainstream Media Cashes in on Destroying Trans Identities
The mainstream media has an obsession with trans people. They love to objectify us to sell their papers, even when the story has nothing to do with being trans. Consider…
Here we go Again: GetEQUAL Uses our Dead to Cash In
I received an email about GetEQUAL from a concerned friend. She gave me this link, which goes to a web page that is about GetEQUAL’s efforts for this year’s Transgender…
If you Need Someone to Blame for Massachusetts, Look in the Mirror
The Massachusetts legislature recently passed the Transgender Civil Rights Bill with a vital portion of it carved out. Public accommodations were stripped from the bill to assure passage. Public accommodations…
Introducing New Transadvocate Contributors: Matt Kailey and Jennifer Carr
The list of The Transadvocate contributors is growing by two today! Please Welcome Matt Kailey and Jennifer Carr! Kailey is a transsexual man and an award-winning author, blogger, and community…
Kelly Osbourne, Angie Zapata, and Why Words Matter
Yesterday I wrote a post about Kelly Osbourne’s transphobic rant in the Glamour UK. There were many attacks on my character by the Kelly Osbourne Twitter Army, but one tweet…
Kelly Osbourne’s Transphobic Rant: Humiliated by Chicks With Dicks and Trannys
Recently the daughter of Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, opened up about her “humiliation”: “Having to tell them (my parents) my fiance had cheated on me with a tranny who sold…
Donate to the Transgender Law Center, Because a Dead Body is a Terrible Thing to Waste
I hate writing this post, but every year I have to write it. From 2010 I wrote: “I’m pissed. Every year I write this post. EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN YEAR. You…
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{ "Therefore, I am a full-throated supporter of marriage equality in NJ." This is what pisses me off about the civil rights carcinomas such as... } – Feb 03, 1:40 PM
{ PS I as a transgender woman have tried to enter a men's room and been directed to the ladies'room. What's a girl to do. } – Feb 03, 1:04 PM
{ I can totally relate. It was especially difficult in early transition, when I started getting an intense desire to cry, but couldn't. It was frustrating... } – Feb 03, 11:31 AM