Transgender Lobby Week

May 14, 2007 ·

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Off to lobby Congress! I’m not sure how much I’ll blog, but I plan on having audio and video to put up at some point, depending on where I can connect and upload from 🙂

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Words Mean Things: You’ve Been Transgendered!

When I hear "This is my friend _____ , she's transgendered", I cringe. It may seem innocuous, but using the word "transgendered" indicates that being transgender is something you have done to you. Imagine someone saying "this is my friend…
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Podcast: Community, Transition, & Standards of Realness

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On policing RuPaul's "free speech"

I think the freedom of speech and policing arguments that have popped up around RuPaul are entirely disingenuous. Nobody is stopping RuPaul Andre Charles from using these terms as much as he likes in his personal life. RuPaul Andre Charles is a human being; RuPaul is…
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Thank You Phyllis Frye

Thirty-one years ago today, Judge Phyllis Frye – the first openly trans judge in Texas – was able to get the Houston crossdressing ordinance overturned: - Click to for detail - Thank you Phyllis for everything you’ve done… from pioneering the field…
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  1. Hey Marti- I *finally* did not do the ‘get 5 hours sleep before running up to the Hill’ routine!