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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…
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FAAB-Mentality
[alert type=”success”]I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now, as an explanation and reference for what I’ve been calling FAAB-mentality (described below). I originally wrote and performed this…
Dos and Don’ts of Trashy Trans Reporting
This is a review of the way a single story is handled by two diffident tabloid newspapers. The sensationalistic reporting style is so starkly different that I thought it would make an…
TransAdvocate Metrics for February 2013
We at the TransAdvocate are beginning a new tradition. Each month we’re going to give you information about what we’ve been talking about here on the TransAdvocate, how…
California Trans Student Domaine Javier Expelled By a Baptist University For “Fraud” Is Suing
The producers of “True Life” began this episode in Jerry Springer fashion featuring trans woman Domain Javier saying the show would introduce you to people who lived… “Every minute…
I Believe There’s An LGBT Community, But…
One of the ongoing arguments I hear and I reject whether it comes from the LGB end of the spectrum or the trans end of it is that…
Jimmy Kimmel Live Trashes Trans People on V Day With “The Art of Seduction with Christoph Waltz”
Notice the woman didn’t need to check Christoph Waltz’s crotch. She already knew he’s not a real man. And Kimmel, I feel sorry for any woman trans or…
Why I outed “ex-gay” Matt Moore
After my last post about a profile on Grindr using ex-gay writer Matt Moore’s photo and personal details, I contacted Moore, who responded as follows: The grindr profile was really…
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…