On Saturday, the Toronto Star’s “ethics” journalist, Ken Gallinger, unquestioningly published the incredible claim that an elderly Toronto women was hit on in the YMCA […]
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Top TransAdvocate Stories of 2013
The TransAdvocate joins other media outlets in celebrating that most hallowed of Holiday traditions: The Top 2013 List. What follows is a look back of […]
Fact Checking: anti-trans “parents of students” speak out at school board meeting
By Cristan Williams @cristanwilliams Charlotte Burrous, a reporter for the Canon City Daily Record asserted that parents of students spoke out at a school board […]
Eavesdrop on a right wing anti-trans training camp: teaching fear mongering and lies
Recently, an equality effort in Florida was defeated by appealing to the ‘trans people = rape’ meme. As it turned out, appealing to this meme […]
Interview with Delta county “castration” school board member: turns out she’s linked to anti-LGBT groups
Recently Katherine Svenson, a Delta county School Board member in Colorado, found herself the topic of controversy after remarking that trans kids should be castrated before they […]
Colleen Francis and the infamous Evergreen State College incident
The mere mention of the incident should send shivers down your spine. Trans people who support protections based on gender identity should feel nervous when […]
Restoring your faith in humanity: supporting Jane Doe
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay organization who claimed that a trans kid (who I refer to as Jane Doe) in Colorado was harassing cisgender girls […]
California school students & faculty support genderqueer student set on fire & who continues to be misgendered in the press
[TW: Anti trans violence + misgendering by press] Sasha Fleischman, a genderqueer senior at Colorado’s Maybeck High School, fell asleep in the rear of a […]
PJI fundraising video targeting suicidal trans kid goes viral
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay organization that stirred up the right-wing word when it claimed that a trans kid (who I will refer to as Jane Doe, […]