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Author: Cristan Williams

Cristan Williams is a trans historian and pioneer in addressing the practical needs of underserved communities. She started the first trans homeless shelter in Texas and co-founded the first federally funded housing-first homeless program, pioneered affordable health care for trans people in the Houston area, won the right for trans people to change their gender on Texas ID prior to surgery, started numerous trans social service programs and founded the Transgender Center as well as the Transgender Archives. She has published short stories, academic chapters and papers, and numerous articles for both print and digital magazines. She received numerous awards for her advocacy and has presented at universities throughout the nation, served on several governmental committees and CBO boards, is the Editor of the TransAdvocate, and is a founding board member of the Transgender Foundation of America and the Bee Busy Wellness Center.
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Houston Community College: Trans People Need Not Apply

  • Cristan Williams
  • September 21, 2011
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        Many of you will remember that Houston Community College (HCC) seemed to have attempted to cover up the anti-trans bashing of […]

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Hold Dr. Keith Ablow Responsible… NOW!

  • Cristan Williams
  • September 20, 2011
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Note: Update 9/19/2011, here’s my ethics complaint letter against Dr. Ablow before I sent it off today:   By now, you are probably aware of […]

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  • Cristan Williams

Truth Wins Out Radio: Ex-Transgender Radio

  • Cristan Williams
  • September 16, 2011
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Example of right-wing ex-trans site I find the response that I’ve had to this is really interesting. After folks like pop-psychologist (trained in criminal psychology […]

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An Intro: “Transgender” During the 1990s

  • Cristan Williams
  • September 8, 2011
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For the past few months, I’ve made available a number of never-before-considered documents that reviewed the true roots of the word “transgender”. The Myth The […]

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Clear Channel Eats Crow

  • Cristan Williams
  • August 27, 2011
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Here’s the text of the Clear Channel apology letter: We would like to apologize for remarks made on KTBZ that has caused distress to people […]

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Of Turd Polishing and Lies

  • Cristan Williams
  • August 14, 2011
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Today I found that I was the subject of another Dana Lane Taylor commentary. Dana is an opinion leader in the TS Separatist group and […]

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  • Opinion

9th Anniversary of Stephanie And Ukea’s Deaths

  • Cristan Williams
  • August 13, 2011
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On August 12, 2002 the city of Washington D.C and its trans community were rocked by the execution style killings of two transteens, Stephanie Thomas and Ukea […]

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  • Cristan Williams

Thank You Phyllis Frye

  • Cristan Williams
  • August 12, 2011
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Thirty-one years ago today, Judge Phyllis Frye – the first openly trans judge in Texas – was able to get the Houston crossdressing ordinance overturned: […]

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  • Opinion

Separatist Morality

  • Cristan Williams
  • August 10, 2011
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It hasn’t been but 2 days since I reviewed the disguising way in which TS Separatists have taken up abhorrent fallacies and used it as […]

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