When #MeToo Celebrities Fail Trans Women
If celebrities are going to profit off of being the figureheads for our collective traumas, then we have the right to demand they do it right. Trans people are sexually victimized at a sadly high…
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The Gill Foundation & NCTE choose money over trans lives
By Kelley Winters The National Center for Transgender Equality Executive Director Mara Keisling responded[]to sharp criticism[] of the recent strategy by NCTE and other nonprofits funded by the Gill Foundation to back a Pennsylvania state nondiscrimination bill that included…
What the US Attorney General actually said about trans people & fighting NC in court
On Monday, May 9th, the United States Attorney General, Loretta Lynch came out swinging against North Carolina’s commitment to discriminating against trans people. The speech that AG Lynch gave is incredibly striking and stands as…
Showdown in NC: Read the ultimatum the DOJ sent NC
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has given the State of North Carolina until Monday, May 9, 2016, to cease discriminating against trans people: Both you and the State of North Carolina (the “State”) are…
On Free Speech, No-Platforming, and the Media’s “Transgender Debate”
While it’s well and good to call out those who denigrate trans people in the media, it’s time to take it a step further. Making Money with Media Chances are that you’ve seen the clueless being used…
The TSA: a binary body system in practice
Traveling While Trans: The False Promise of Better Treatment By Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello Back in 2012, I wrote about the problems I regularly encountered as a trans person when going through TSA security screening at…
The NY Times goes concern trolling
On August 22, 2015, the NY Times ran an article by Richard A. Friedman titled, “How Changeable Is Gender?” One might be excused for mistaking the piece as an earnest call to the medical community for better…
See Tumblr TERFs justify threatening to murder a trans kid
Tumblr TERF, radfem-momma apparently thinks it’s okay to threaten trans kids with murder as long as you lie about the reason. Apparently, some TERFs on Tumblr are trying to figure out how to justify their…
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 woman, using the urinal. The sequence is…