Sean Dorsey is an award-winning choreographer, dancer and writer. Recognized as the United States’ first out transgender modern dance choreographer, Dorsey has won audiences and accolades from San Francisco to New York with his powerful dance-theater. Dorsey is the founder and Artistic Director of Fresh Meat Productions, the first U.S. non-profit dedicated to the year-round creation, presentation, and touring of transgender arts. Dorsey’s current show, The Secret History of Love, will be in San Francisco from March 28-31 as part of a… Read more.
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Militant March Protesting Death Of Transsexual Kayla Moore While In Police Custody
March 14, 2013 · Cristan Williams
A large group of LGBT activists strode down the middle of Berkeley streets, enraged that one month has passed and still no statement from police detailing exactly who or what killed trans person Kayla Moore while she was in police custody Anonymous Queers in action angry that the police have only offered a vague statement believe they are responsible for Moore's death, repeatedly taunted the police. The Berkeley police have announced the will Review the facts Wensday night. Cross-posted from PlanetTransgender Read more.
Gender Orientation: Intersex Conditions Within The Transsexual Brain
March 11, 2013 · Cristan Williams
This is part of a lecture given on May 5, 2010 by Prof. Robert Sapolsky at Stanford University. Prof. Sapolsky reviews studies he feels make a compelling case for those who assert that transsexualism is actually a type of intersex condition. More on gender orientation Those interested in gender roles and the brain should read Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender. Fine does an excellent job at debunking pernicious myths while chronicling the history of the way neurology has been used… Read more.
The Table is Set: A Teen “Son” Tells her Mom She’s Really A Girl. ABC’s What Would You Do?
February 18, 2013 · Kelli
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Why I outed “ex-gay” Matt Moore
February 9, 2013 · Guest
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 mine. I’ve been on it on and off for the last couple of weeks. Like I told the guy who sent you the picture, I am wrong in having been on grindr. I haven’t changed my views on homosexuality, the bible, etc. Creating a grindr profile and talking to guys on it… Read more.
The ‘Trans Cabal’ Replies
January 22, 2013 · Cristan Williams
This video has been compiled by TransBareAll as a response to recent transphobic articles in the press. We don't aim to debate the merits of freedom of speech, or the rights and wrongs of different sides of an argument. Instead we want to show the real impact of the way language is used, how it can affect the people it targets. In the media (and society in general) there are some words which we never use, such as the 'N'… Read more.
RadFem Speak Out Against TERFs!
January 20, 2013 · Cristan Williams
So, who’s heard of Julie Burchill and her “censored” article? Coming to the defense of her maligned feminist friend, columnist and author Julie Burchill wrote an article about trans women. Apparently, her friend Suzanne Moore’s latest article contained a faux pas. In Burchill’s words: She wrote that, amongst other things, women were angry about “not having the ideal body shape – that of a Brazilian transsexual”. At best, this is simply a poorly constructed byproduct of the aged-out argument that idealized… Read more.
Cristan Williams Interview with Milton Diamond
March 7, 2012 · Cristan Williams
It Gets Better – Eve
August 16, 2011 · monica_roberts
When I find the "It Gets Better' videos from African-American celebrities and trans people, they will get posted on this blog ASAP. Here's one from rapper and actress Eve. Read more.
Interview with Laura Weinsten, Colombian Transgender Activist.
August 15, 2011 · Guest
Not a Compliment to a Trans Person
August 14, 2011 · Guest
Reteaching Gender and Sexuality
January 14, 2011 · Marti Abernathey
TransFM’s Sodium Pentathol Sunday
September 12, 2010 · Marti Abernathey
GritTV:The Politics of Being Transgender
January 13, 2010 · Marti Abernathey
Transpinay Activist Sass Rogando Sasot Speaks To United Nations
December 23, 2009 · Marti Abernathey
Sass Rogando Sasot speaks to United Nations on December 10th, 2009 - A panel discussion organized by the Permanent Missions to the United Nations of Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden on the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights. Theme: Opposing grave Human Rights Violations on the basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Read more.
The F Word: Remembering Transgender Victims of Violence
November 27, 2009 · Marti Abernathey
Speaking Out: Transgender Detainee Faces Twice the Abuse
November 17, 2009 · Marti Abernathey
Red Without Blue
October 28, 2009 · Marti Abernathey
Some Transgender History
October 8, 2009 · Marti Abernathey
Nobody Passes Perfectly
September 28, 2009 · Marti Abernathey
God and Transsexuals
September 26, 2009 · Marti Abernathey
Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance In Musical Performance
September 25, 2009 · Marti Abernathey
Testimony of Vandy Beth Glenn During ENDA Hearing
September 24, 2009 · Marti Abernathey
Transgender Center on ABC News
September 22, 2009 · Marti Abernathey
Transgender Sexual Objectification
September 19, 2009 · Marti Abernathey
Cops ID “Person on Interest” In Trans Murder
September 18, 2009 · Marti Abernathey
Young Turks:Transwoman Sues Employer Over Genderless Bathrooms
September 5, 2009 · Marti Abernathey