Black Transpeople’s Burden -The NBJC Report On The NTDS Findings
As I’ve talked about over the last five years on TransGriot, the way a gender transition is experienced for African descended transpeople is vastly different from the way…
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The Oldest Trick In The Anti-Civil Rights Playbook
While I’m amused at times about the hysteria being whipped up about transpeople and the bathrooms we relieve ourselves in, it is never too far from my mind…
Apology To Cathy
You know what I’m upset about right now? The fact I even have to write this post in the first place.. As some of you know earlier Sunday…
WWTGSKWaHD? (What Would Tolstoy, Gandhi, Sakharov, King, Walesa, and Havel Do?)
I dread writing this post. Not because it is laborious, or texting on my personal resources, but because my sensibilities are afflicted by the subject matter. It is…
Transgender People Should be Barred from Restrooms
I was recently made aware of a disgusting revival of some of the same Raymondiod fallacies that has been used against trans people since the 1970s. This time…
What Are Y’all Gonna Do New York Trans Community?
In the wake of the failure of GENDA to pass and become the law of New York state for the fourth time, there has been some justified anger…
Flushing the Potty Panic
In 1975, a very curious thing happened in an area of the country where one might not expect such a curious event to take place. The city of…
Reparative Therapy for Trans Youth: Kenneth Zucker is Different from George Rekers How?
Watching this recent CNN story on reparative therapy and the damage it did to George Reker’s poster child (Kirk Andrew Murphy), I was struck by the similarity of…
SEIU Political Director and Progressive Maryland Board Member Calls Trans People “Circus Freaks”
I’ve seen vitriol spewed in my decade or so of transactivism, but it’s usually spewed most venomously by the right wing. SEIU Political Director Mark McLaurin spewed this…