Naming the Real Monsters
At the New Statesman, Juliet Jacques with one of the best, distilled and concise pieces I’ve seen setting out point-by-point who the media monsters are and the evil that…
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Logic Be Damned: MMA Fighter Fallon Fox and the PC Conspiracy
The MMA world has been a-buzz after learning that MMA fighter Fallon Fox is trans. A popular site for all things MMA recently posted an article that was…
Dos and Don’ts of Trashy Trans Reporting
This is a review of the way a single story is handled by two diffident tabloid newspapers. The sensationalistic reporting style is so starkly different that I thought it would make an…
TransAdvocate Metrics for February 2013
We at the TransAdvocate are beginning a new tradition. Each month we’re going to give you information about what we’ve been talking about here on the TransAdvocate, how…
California Trans Student Domaine Javier Expelled By a Baptist University For “Fraud” Is Suing
The producers of “True Life” began this episode in Jerry Springer fashion featuring trans woman Domain Javier saying the show would introduce you to people who lived… “Every minute…
Fox News and Massachusetts Family Institute Slam New Student Transgender Policy
The Fox News headline “Students Who Refuse to Affirm Transgender Classmates Face Punishment” sets the stage for this “Cultural War” against trans people written by Todd Starnes. Deconstructing…
Jimmy Kimmel Live Trashes Trans People on V Day With “The Art of Seduction with Christoph Waltz”
Notice the woman didn’t need to check Christoph Waltz’s crotch. She already knew he’s not a real man. And Kimmel, I feel sorry for any woman trans or…
Why I outed “ex-gay” Matt Moore
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…
Trans Rapper Murdered: The Official Story vs. The Friend’s Story
Multiple news outlets have reported on the recent torture, murder, and mutilation of a mid-western trans rapper. The rapper, Evon Young went missing January 2. The official story is that 5…