Women’s privacy is under attack
You may have heard that a clothing-optional spa in Toronto turned away a trans woman and that has caused a stir. What you may not understand is why…
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Marian Aanerud
Campus Free Speech and Sophistry
By M. A. Melby As an educator, it is my duty to give all students an opportunity to learn and to succeed. In service to this duty,…
So, someone called you a TERF. Now what?
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 a self-loathing misogynist…
Minneapolis Star Tribune runs full-page advertisement for anti-LGBT hate group
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 the Star Tribune…
Quit attacking your allies!
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 about two years.…
Et tu, Caroline Criado-Perez?
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 similar to those…
Hair does not make the woman, Sarah Ditum
The appearance of Lavern Cox, a prominent trans woman activist and actor, on the cover of Time magazine was a great moment in trans advocacy. Although Chelsea Manning…
The relationship between Cathy Brennan and the SPLC
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 as a hate…
Thanks for the tip!
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 a Kindergarten teacher. …