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Category: Monica Roberts

evon4

Featured · Monica Roberts

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Evon Young Case Update

  • May 8, 2013

The last time I posted on the murder of Milwaukee trans man and rapper Evon Young five suspects, 37 year old Ron Allen, 23 year old Devin Seaberry, 26 year[...]

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Remembering

Featured · Monica Roberts · Opinion

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Three More April African-American Transwomen Deaths

  • May 3, 2013

I’m beyond sick and tired of being sick and tired of the near genocidal levels of anti-trans violence that are taking away far too many under 30 transwomen of color[...]

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transsitionaffects

Featured · Monica Roberts · Opinion

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Being Trans Affects Everything

  • May 1, 2013

It’s not a lifestyle (and I hate that conservaterm).  When you swallow those hormones or take those first shots of testosterone or estrogen, it causes seismic shifts in your life[...]

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tropes

Featured · Monica Roberts

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Seven Transphobic Tropes Debunked

  • April 29, 2013

I’ve discussed in the over 6500 posts on this blog (and had fun eviscerating ) these seven transphobic tropes that seem to constantly pop into articles about this community and[...]

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Monica Roberts

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The Battle For Self Determination Of One’s Own Identity Is A Just One

  • April 28, 2013

I’m blessed to have some pretty smart people around me as you can tell by some of the conversations that get started on my Facebook page. Sometimes those profound conversations[...]

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OED defines Astroturfing as: "the deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from members of the public."

Featured · Monica Roberts · Opinion

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Trans Exterminationalists In Their Own Words

  • April 11, 2013

One of the things that mystifies me is why The Southern Poverty Law Center hasn’t declared Trans Exterminationalist Radical Feminism as a hate group.   Could it be because the rumor[...]

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trans-dc

Featured · Monica Roberts

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DC Comics To Introduce First Reality Based Trans Character

  • April 10, 2013

I’ve talked in the blog about the Archie Comics having storylines in which they have done ‘what if’ gender bending with their hero Archie and reimagined his life twice as a girl in issues[...]

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DADT

Monica Roberts · Politics

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Trans Inclusion In The Military Panel Discussion

  • March 25, 2013

As I, the Transgender American Veterans Association, and a host of other people and organizations continue to point out, the 2011 repeal of DADT doesn’t include the trans portion of[...]

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ex-tg

Featured · Monica Roberts · Politics

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PFOX’s ‘Ex-Trans’ Spokesperson Exposed

  • February 21, 2013

Now that the reparative therapy folks have been discredited to the point that some states are considering legislation to ban it, the ex-gay industry is scrambling to shift tactics and[...]

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pride-flag

Featured · Monica Roberts · Opinion

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I Believe There’s An LGBT Community, But…

  • February 18, 2013

One of the ongoing arguments I hear and I reject whether it comes from the LGB end of the spectrum or the trans end of it is that ‘there is[...]

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