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…
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Rowan Atkinson makes more sense than BBC’s “Woman’s Hour”
Why TERF ideology is child abuse and how the media supports it. By Natacha This article discusses the clash of ideology and lived experience as exemplified by a…
Repeating the cycle at MichFest: The clash of two feminisms
The yearly struggle the trans community experiences with MichFest has been taking place for so long, some of us have trouble remembering why MichFest’s “womyn-born womyn” policy was…
Romance Writer Roslyn Holcomb Says She Would Have Shot Trans Woman In Planet Fitness Locker Room
One of the fairly regular commenters on GenderTrender is Roslyn Hardy Holcomb, a published writer of color. She’s been interviewed by USA Today, she has twenty-three books reviewed…
#CisPrivilege, UK’s Green Party and freedom of speech
Some of you might remember that Germaine Greer, a TERF the Radical Feminist Andrea Dworkin took to task for trying to pass off patriarchy as feminism, made some small…
Sex Essentialism: TERF patriarchy and smelly vaginas
TERFs battle over who has the correct vaginal odor in order to determine female validity. I’ve noted many times that while Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) like to speak…
As #LeelahAlcorn’s mom talks to CNN, Leelah’s Reddit posts come back to haunt her
While her mom talks to CNN to profess her love and support, Leelah’s Reddit posts paint a homelife defined by bullying and fear. Much has been written about…
Trans people have 99 problems, and Facebook is just one
A personal reflection on the abuse of weaponization of Facebook’s “Real Name” Policy By Emmagene Cronin I woke up Monday morning, the first day of Trans Awareness Week, as I…
Fact Checking Janice Raymond: The NCHCT Report
It has long been asserted that the iconic TERF opinion leader, Janice Raymond, played a part in bringing an end to the public and private coverage of transgender…
