Trans Exclusionists: It’s Your Turn

Today’s guest Transadvocate is polerin. Her bio on Twitter states: “Trans woman, radical lefty, wannabe cartoonist, geek, phreakNIC director, web developer, person. Will eat for food, and rock your face off. Or on. On is…

The Hate We Fight Abroad, The Ignorance At Home

In the context of the “war” for our equality, trans-people have to fight the war on two fronts. There’s the kind of hatred that is espoused by morally corrupt people on the right wing conservative…

KRXQ Morning Show Apologizes

GLAAD recently put out a “Call to Action” against KRXQ’s “Rob, Arnie, and Dawn” show after they went on a nasty verbal tirade against transgender children. Since the outburst, show sponsors Snapple, Sonic, Chipotle, Bank…

Hate Crime Blood Lust

To those that use Angie Zapata’s death as a way to “raise” your profile by covering the trial, shame on you. I have to agree with Brielle over at Women In Love. “Anyone who presents…

The Great Transsexual Radical Feminist Menace

“I don’t give a shit whether or not they [MTF transsexuals) want to chop themselves up. I don’t give a shit if they want to wear dresses. That doesn’t make them female. It doesn’t mean their issues and concerns are female issues and concerns. So long as female issues and concerns are subsumed to and absorbed by male interests (as they are when male people call themselves and are accepted as female), women will never socially realize our full humanity AS FEMALE PEOPLE.”

Counting the Cost

If my previous post seemed a little scattered and emotional, there’s a reason for it.  The first trans community function I ever attended was a TDoR function, as was the first event I ever MCed outside…