For The “It Could Be Worse” file…
A cleric who married a female-to-male transsexual and a woman was attacked by enraged Muslims in Bogor. Prior to the attack the mob had gathered at the Al-Muawanah mosque to discuss what should be done…
Category: Opinion
Happy Birthday Transcending Gender!
Jen Burke, of Transcending Gender, is celebrating her two year blogging birthday. If you haven’t been over to her blog, well… YOU SHOULD! She’s a very prolific blogger (and blawger) and a very talented writer!…
Common Sense or Science? You Choose!
Generic Confusion’s author, Greg wonders about allowing gender dysphoric children to choose their gender: “What are parents to do when their child says he’s tired of being a child, and wants to be a roadrunner?…
Strangers in a Strange Land – By Caillean McMahon
By Caillean McMahon Pennsylvania Gay and Lesbian Alliance On this past Saturday, President Bush gave a radio address to the nation. In it he said that the committment of a husband and a wife promotes…
Re-thinking Gay Image
by Caillean Maureen McMahon I’m old enough to remember. It does not seem that very long ago that Russian Orthodox leaders commanded the sympathy of the world as they attempted to keep their faith and…
Less than Straights
by Caillean McMahon We are being openly defined as “less than” heterosexual couples by candidates for office. A “mother and a father” is the ideal family group that ought to be promoted by the state…
The Gay Tax by Caillean Maureen McMahon
The Gay Tax Today, I had a moment of unusual clarity. Like a lightning bolt in the sky, the darkness of the tangled alliances and motivations involved in the opposition to same-sex marriage was illuminated…
War of the Words
Could we be winning the war of the words? I got this google alert in my email box today: Notice the actual piece that the google alert was linked to: There is hope yet. We…
One Binary Please, Supersize
(The MacDonaldization of Intersex activism) My response to the following article Why Doesn’t ISNA Want to Eradicate Gender? By Curtis E. Hinkle Imagine a world in which the main division between individuals were size. This…