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”
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…