Author: Zoe

50,000 Deaths

Technology on the Social and Ethical Aspects of Transsexual Surgery By Janice G. Raymond Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Women’s Studies Hampshire College/University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts June, 1980 Note: If you’re looking for…

They’ve Got Form (Part I)

Regarding the recent brouhaha over Julie Burchill’s recent article in the Observer, republished (and then taken down) on the Guardian website, and re-re-published at her request in the Telegraph, an article referring to Trans people as “Shims” and “She-males”,…

The Observer Screws Up

There are things one does not do in a national newspaper. One does not call Blacks “uppity ni**ers”. One does not state as fact that Yids drink the blood of Christian children. And one does…

Not Quite Another One…

Girl is born looking like a Boy. She tries to be a Boy. Fails, but can fake it well. She has to to try to have some kind of normal life. Later, she finds out…

Paging Dr Mengele

I’m working on getting a good idiomatic English translation of Streit um elfjährige Transsexuelle: Alex soll in die Psychiatrie – taz.de But in summary….. A Nurse decides (probably on religious grounds) that transsexuality is due…

Dear 15 Year Old Me…

From Dear 15 year old me – how you can help. If you are a LGBT adult, write a letter to yourself, but write it to the person you were when you were 15 years…

Freaks and Perverts

As a follow-up to the previous post, from Yahoo News: ‘X’ now a gender option in Australian passports – Yahoo! News The comments (nearly all from US readers) are instructive. Here’s some of the more…