Apparently I’m on comment moderation at Bilerico even though I’m a former contributor and a verified user. So, I’ll post my question to Dr Jillian Weiss here:
Dr. Weiss, I’m kinda confused. You’ve said here that:
I do not have any reliable info on this. My feeling is that I will not abandon the effort [...]
I have to admit that ignorant Christians get on my nerves, especially when it comes to discussing transgender people and genital “mutilation”. This was brought to mind yesterday from a tweet I received:
reSemblance: The surgical mutilation of ur God given body in an attempt 2B something you’re not, is indeed a disgusting pretense.
This isn’t even [...]
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A press release from transsexualities.com:
Transwoman removed from female washroom by security and subjected to transphobic slurs for using “wrong bathroom”
KELOWNA, BC – On Sunday, October 26th, at approximately 2AM, a transwoman was dragged out of the women’s washroom at LeVeL Nightclub.
A LeVeL employee who identified herself as Carly Wilson, initially directed the victim, a regular [...]
From the Gainesville Sun:
The CVS Pharmacy manager who allegedly admitted Friday to filming women in his store’s bathroom was an active participant in the 2008 charter amendment to “keep men out of women’s restrooms.”
Jonathan Matheny, 27, was charged with one count of video voyeurism after a customer told police she had discovered a cell phone [...]
Recently, I saw a tweet by Diana Cage on twitter. I’d heard Cage on her nightly show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio’s “Diana Cage Show”, and I decided to subscribe and listen in on her show. I came in during Derek and Romaine’s “Desperately Fucking Angry” segment where people call in and complain about things [...]
In the context of the “war” for our equality, trans-people have to fight the war on two fronts. There’s the kind of hatred that is espoused by morally corrupt people on the right wing conservative side (the “abroad” part of the fight). It’s found at places like Pat Dollard’s blog. On a post about a [...]
I used to be pretty arrogant about the whole stealth vs. out thing. Today reading Dyssonance’s To Stealth Or Not To Stealth, I had to reflect on how my perspective has changed, and not. I’ve worked jobs where no one knew I was transgender/transsexual and I’ve worked at places where my entire story was posted [...]
This morning I received an email talking about a website called “The Pink Butterfly Network“. It claims to be a knockoff of Lynn Conway’s Transsexual Women’s Successes, pointing to transsexual women who should inspire us.
I like Lynn Conway, and her Transsexual Women’s Successes page has become more than just pretty faces. But this knockoff site [...]
From Facebook and my friend María Lapachet:
“At the beginning of last month a woman was assaulted in a private gym in Gijon, Spain. She was taking a shower when a man kicked the door open, almost knocking her out. She was dragged out, thrown to the floor, kicked and verbally assaulted by a group of [...]
