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Your How-To Guide to Gender Critical Activism
Do you fear trans people and want to rationalize the simmering hate you feel? We here at the TransAdvocate have spent almost 2 decades debating and debunking an...
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TransAdvocate 101
Having observed numerous conversations predicated on fundamental misunderstandings concerning trans advocacy, I put together this TransAdvocate 101 to complimen...
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A trans advocate’s perspective on Trans 101 questions
Sometime back, a reporter asked me some Trans 101 questions. I decided to publish that Q&A as a trans advocate’s nuanced perspective on Trans 101 ques...
Why I support #CancelNetflix. It’s not because Chapelle is offensive.
Cisgender media seems to want to have a “debate” over opinions about whether Dave Chappelle is offensive, and I can understand why. If we debate opi...
Texas GOP, KKK, & My History
I'm a white Texan that grew up a couple of blocks from the KKK headquarters in Pasadena Texas. I grew up at a time where the KKK and evangelical leadership team...
A Cotton Ceiling Conspiracy Rebranding: Super Straight
An internal discussion within the trans community, originally known as the Cotton Ceiling, concerned itself with the way physical cisnormative beauty stand...
Fascism and transphobia are ALWAYS linked
Anti-feminism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and racism are THE entry points to fascism. Remember, the FIRST Nazi book-burning was the bur...
If transgendering is a thing, then so is cisgendering
Anti-trans sex essentialist activists love to pretend that “transgender” is a verb for the same reason anti-gay activists like to pretend “gay...
What the Trans Moment Has to Offer Radical Feminism (Part Two)
Lately I have read several trans-inclusive feminists take apart the notion that biological reproductive capacity holds any functional validity as a marker of wh...
JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, announces that she is a TERF
JK Rowling has long hinted that she sympathized with sex essentialist so-called “radical feminist” idea that nobody’s phenotype is transitione...
Phalloplasty
The topic engenders polarized debate within the transgender community. Nowhere more than on internet support groups where, in the same thread, you will see some...