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SEIU Political Director and Progressive Maryland Board Member Calls Trans People “Circus Freaks”

Marti Abernathey
April 15, 2011
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I’ve seen vitriol spewed in my decade or so of transactivism, but it’s usually spewed most venomously by the right wing. SEIU Political Director Mark […]

Do Not Blame Trans People For The Fact That, At Midnight, Maryland Will Have No Statewide Trans Protections

Kat
April 11, 2011
0

The reason that the Maryland legal status quo of today is trans-free is not the fault of anyone who opposed HB235. The Maryland legal status quo of […]

Washington Post Gets in the Act of Being Scrivener for ‘Equality’ Maryland’s Trans-Othering Narrative of Deception

Kat
April 8, 2011
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According to an unsigned WaPo editorial, Maryland: passed a law banning discrimination against gay people a decade ago, but transgender individuals were dropped from the legislation. […]

Sadly Not an April Fool’s Joke

Kat
April 1, 2011
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Over at PHB, Monica Roberts commented: When multiple civil rights attorneys tell me it won’t do what EQ MD claims it will, the bill needs […]

Translation: Gay Marriage Greed Killed Trans Rights (Even a Diseased Version Thereof)

Kat
March 29, 2011
0

From the Baltimore Sun: After the House of Delegates this weekend voted overwhelmingly to prohibit employer and housing discrimination for the transgendered, the bill crossed […]

Demanding That We Forget is Transphobia

Kat
March 28, 2011
6

A comment by laughriotgirl on one of the threads at PHB wherein refusing to bend over and take gay transphobia is branded as homophobia: What […]

Exactly Ten Years Ago

Kat
March 26, 2011
3

History that some who claim to be our allies expect us to forget: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 27, 2001 HRC CONGRATULATES MARYLAND SENATE FOR […]

The Continuing Con Artistry of Morgan Meneses-Pinochet and Free State (Still, Always and Forever) Just Us

Kat
March 25, 2011
0

First, a word from Kelli Busey (one which, (1) I’ve made one slight grammatical correction to, and (2) even without correction in all likelihood, will be disappeared […]

If its an Effort to Undermine Trans Progress, You Can Bet There’s a Gay Marylander Behind it

Kat
March 25, 2011
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And so, apparently HB 235, the Maryland trans bill that no trans people who actually need the practical protections of civil rights law actually want, […]