Tag: transgender
Seeking Justice When The Empire (State) Strikes Black (Trans)
“Just waking up in the morning, gotta thank God. I don’t know but today just seems kinda odd…. Plus nobody I know got killed in South Central L.A. … Today was a good day.” –…
Yes Pat Robertson, I’m Transgender and Proud
Pat Robertson spouting off about Barack Obama’s announcement of a “Presidential Memorandum on Federal Benefits and Non-Discrimination” asked “someone’s proud to be transgendered? His historical record seems a bit off, since the fall of Rome…
ENDA And Hate Crimes Go To The Back Of The Bus
Last Thursday Jason Bellini of the Daily Beast reported that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) had made a deal with the Obama Administration to delay repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy in an…
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…
No Match, No Job, No Surgery
Maybe it was my naiveté, but I always thought when I got my documentation changed, I transitioned, and was passable, that I’d be able to live the nice normal life I did before transition. It…
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…
More Brain Droppings From Jenni
It’s the day before Sunday and I’m sitting here planning out my vid for Trannystar Galactica. For those not in the know, Trannystar Galactica is a channel on Youtube that’s trans related. Every week is…
My Dead Feminist Heart
Reading Nexy’s blog, I found out about a post over at Feministing and the boycott that’s being called by some in the transgender community. The title of the post is “Men in Women’s Bathrooms, Is…