Skip to content
Thursday, September 18, 2025

TransAdvocate

Be a Trans Advocate

  • TransAdvocate Glossary
  • Fact Checking
  • Politics
  • Contact
  • About Us

Author: Marian

  • Home
  • Marian
So, someone called you a TERF. Now what?
  • Marian Aanerud
  • Opinion

So, someone called you a TERF. Now what?

  • Marian
  • July 26, 2015
  • 0

There are many things possible in the universe. If you are called a TERF it could be that the person who said it is actually […]

  • Marian Aanerud
  • Media Watch

Minneapolis Star Tribune runs full-page advertisement for anti-LGBT hate group

  • Marian
  • October 1, 2014
  • 0

Months after the Minneapolis Star Tribune was strongly criticized for their coverage of Cece McDonald’s case, despite local trans activists’ earnest attempts to work with […]

  • #TERFweek
  • Marian Aanerud
  • Opinion

Quit attacking your allies!

  • Marian
  • August 11, 2014
  • 8

I have seen various version of this phrase. “Quit attacking your allies!” – many, many times.  I’ve only been involved heavily in trans activism for […]

Et tu, Caroline Criado-Perez?
  • Marian Aanerud
  • Opinion

Et tu, Caroline Criado-Perez?

  • Marian
  • August 6, 2014
  • 12

At first, I wasn’t going to write a response piece to Caroline Criado-Perez (CCP) article concerning the term “cis”, because many of her ideas were […]

  • Marian Aanerud

The relationship between Cathy Brennan and the SPLC

  • Marian
  • April 2, 2014
  • 98

In late November of last year, Secular Woman began a petition asking the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to list Cathy Brennan’s Gender Identity Watch […]

  • Marian Aanerud
  • Opinion

Thanks for the tip!

  • Marian
  • March 9, 2014
  • 20

If you’re of my generation and grew up in the U.S., you’ll remember the movie “Kindergarten Cop” where a gruff police officer goes undercover as […]

  • Marian Aanerud

The Observer photograph [TW: Sexual Assault]

  • Marian
  • March 8, 2014
  • 8

The Observer recently featured a photograph of a tourist casually sexually assaulting a trans feminine performer by slipping his hand under her dress and squeezing her […]

© 2025 TransAdvocate