The Religious Right comments on the Transgender Workplace Discrimination Hearings

Starting From Scratch:The Death of United ENDA Part II

Judy Shepard: Back Up HRC On Press “Misinformation” About Leaving Transgender Behind!

Taking Pot Shots At Trans Rights

Pounding the Pavement in Primary Season: It’s Obama Time!

Love Ya! Mean It!

Remembering Tom Lantos

“Love cannot be defeated.” as said to rock vocalist, Bono by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) The political group I belong to – the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) – noted the passing of longtime Rep. Tom Lantos in a press release on Monday from complications due to esophageal cancer. Chances are, most of the transgender [...]

What Next?

Last night I wrote a friend a rant that was full of expletives and frustration. Most of my disgruntlement was from the Wednesday’s passage in the House of Representatives of the sexual orientation only Employment Non-Discrimination Act. It was a historic day for gays and lesbians (if only symbolically), but it was a setback for [...]

Fresh New Lies, or How To Kill Off the Last Of Hope

“I’m up on the Tight Rope … one side’s Fate and one is Hope,It’s a Circus Game for You and Me.I’m up on the High Wire … one side’s Life and one is Fire,But the Top Hat on my Head is all you see.” — Tight Rope, Leon Russell Indeed there is a very fine [...]

Hero Worship

“What makes us heroic? Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Over the past few years, the transgender community has had its share of reports of heroism from Mara Keisling and Lisa Mottet of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) about the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Rep. [...]