Author: Marti Abernathey
Breaking News: First Ever Transgender Appointment To The DNC
On Friday DNC Chair Tim Kaine appointed Barbra Casbar-Siperstein ( the first transgender person appointed) to the Democratic National Committee. Casbar-Siperstein is currently the President of the New Jersey Stonewall Democrats, Vice Chair of Garden…
Trans and Stealth
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…
Privileged and Pretty Equals Success
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….
Frank Leaps Transgender Lobbyists in Single Bound
Am I the only one who is a bit puzzled/miffed/baffled by Barney Frank’s insinuation in this exchange: There is another difference from 2007. Frank now has a policy adviser who is a female-to-male transsexual. Diego…
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly?
I spend a lot of time here at The Transadvocate posting various news articles from around the web through a plugin that pulls tweets from the Transadvocate Twitter page. Recently Stephanie Stevens from Abnormal Heights…
Transgender Woman Attacked At Gym
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…
Conan O’brien Mocks Transsexuals For Easy Laughs
As if transsexuals needed any help being stigmatized, Conan O’Brien did his part to further negative stereotypes with a comedy sketch portraying transsexauls as mustached strippers. To make matters worse the liberal leaning website, Huffington…
Megan Fox is a Transsexual! Lady Gaga is a Hermaphrodite! Daniel Radcliffe is a Tranny Chaser!
In my search of twitter for transgender/transsexual content for the Transadvocate on Twitter, the tweet: “ZOMG Megan Fox is a transsexual!” comes up repeatedly. The genesis of this meme is from Megan Fox herself: I am…