Take the Trans “Sense of Community” Survey!
Take the survey here For some time, I’ve seen and heard subjective assertions like: I love the trans community! I hate the trans community! There is no such thing as a trans community! I wish…
Category: Cristan Williams
Federal Updates: New VA Trans Directive & ENDA via Executive Order?
ENDA via Executive Order On social policy, Obama is reconsidering whether to issue an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. When he decided not to…
Fox News vs Trans Health Care Needs
The real story: Long-standing medical and psychiatric literature demonstrates clear benefits of medical and surgical interventions to assist gender variant individuals seeking transition. However, transgender and gender variant people are frequently denied medical, surgical, and…
Candidate for Bangkok Governor Releases Ad Targeting GLB and Especially T Voters
Pongsapat Pongcharoen is a US-educated Thai police general who running for the office of Bangkok’s governor. Our modern world increasingly accepts varied genders… Bangkok must be a city that understands sexual differences, not just accepting…
Patriarchy, Petitions & Possums: The Simple Process of Getting a Name and Gender Change in Texas
The Omen Damn! 4:30 a.m. I fumbled with the off switch on the alarm clock, knocking over the glass of water I kept on my bedside table. I can only compare the sound my alarm…
Trans Rapper Murdered: The Official Story vs. The Friend’s Story
Multiple news outlets have reported on the recent torture, murder, and mutilation of a mid-western trans rapper. The rapper, Evon Young went missing January 2. The official story is that 5 men were arrested for torturing, mutilating, murdering,…
“So, what was Stonewall?”
In the wake of the President Obama’s historic speech referencing Stonewall, NPR ran a piece asking and purporting to answer the question, “So, what was Stonewall?” The article calls upon Martin Duberman, now 82, to retell the story of Stonewall. Martin Duberman…
Gender Orientation, Identity, and Expression
I’ve witnessed many arguments and misunderstandings explode over the conflation of these THREE dimensions of what we in trans discourse collectively refer to as gender: Gender Orientation: One’s subjective experience of one’s body, including its sexed attributes. Gender Identity:…
Bigots Unite! Deploying the Klan Fallacy in 3… 2… 1…
It’s happened. TERFs and the people who DEFENDED Prop 8 have untied as one voice to proclaim that pre/non-op transwomen – as a group – are 1.) icky because 2.) they’re actually men, and therefore 3.)…