In Memory of Terri Williams Moore (1941–1976)
A trans historian considers the backward progress of the way media represents our dead. By Kat If you are thinking of transitioning but have yet to start the pr...
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The Look, Interrupted: How Cinema Looks At Trans Women’s Bodies
In the 2013 film Adult World, when cisgender protagonist Amy is cleaning the bathroom, she peers through a glory hole in the stall to see Rubia, a transgender w...
#TERFweek Redux
In the post announcing #TERFweek, we specified goals for the week. These goals were: Raise awareness about this movement of hate and the groups it forms. Educat...
Lateral violence in the trans community
Lateral violence is displaced violence directed against one’s peers rather that one’s true adversaries. Our true adversaries are kyriarchy and all t...
Trans Etiquette: When is a Compliment Not a Compliment?
By Matt Kailey It’s not tough to compliment trans people. Like anyone else, we like to be told that we look nice, or that you love our new shirt, or that we did...
Considering Trans and Queer Appropriation
Within the activist circles I run in, I routinely hear people accuse others of appropriation, or claim that certain behaviors or endeavors are appropriative. I ...
Ask Matt: The Politics of Dating a Trans Woman
A reader writes: I’ve always considered myself to be very well educated on the different letters in our acronym. However, all it took was one date with a trans ...
Ask Matt: Should I Come Out or Stay In?
A reader writes: “I came out as a transman to myself in 2009, to my (cismale) partner, friends, family, and work from 2010-11, started testosterone in 2011, all...
More Separatist Crap
I just read a sad little rant by a TS Separatist: “I see the T in lgbt as being a dumping zone, a miscelaneous, really in my view, the T is a junk drawer, an...