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Now This Is a Hotel Manager Who Should Definitely Be Fired
911 Audio: Hotel Manager Reports Guest For Being Transgender – BuzzFeed News Meagan Taylor and her best friend, who are both transgender women, were traveling through Iowa on July 13 to a funeral for...
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Three Points Regarding The No-Platforming Of Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer, by David Levine Quick summery: Germaine Greer, a second-wave feminist famous for her 1970 book The Female Eunuch, was invited to give a speech at Cardiff University. Ms. Greer’s...
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The Mint Garden- a place to discuss trans people’s gender
Have you ever planted mint in a well-watered garden? Probably not more than once. The stuff takes over, doesn’t it? Pretty soon you have more mint than you could use in a candy factory, and you’re...
View Article“American Reflexxx,” a short film showing mob hatred of gender ambiguity
Content warning: This short film contains extreme transmisogyny, a hostile mob, violence, and is disturbing. The film has a style of editing that makes it difficult to watch, even apart from the...
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Malta Just Showed Us What Our Gender Identity Laws Should Be
Celebration time for babies!! Malta has just become the world’s leader in intersex rights, and perhaps in trans rights as well. From Feminist Newswire: Malta’s parliament just passed new legislation...
View ArticleRevising for Trans Inclusive Language
At some point in the past, in a comment thread where we were discussing what I was then calling “routine infant male circumcision” in the United States, Grace pointed out to me that phrases like “the...
View ArticleDon’t Call Trans Women “men who identify as women”
I’m sure that there are a few “Alas” readers who will leap on this to say “but, Amp! You call people racists! You’re such a hypocrite!” Actually, I work to avoid calling people racists, just as I never...
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Living While Trans — Snapshots of Daily Corrosion
Not too long ago, Autumn Sandeen wrote about an experience she had trying to get a consumer discount she qualified for. Sandeen is a career Navy veteran. She’s the real deal, when it comes to...
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My Society Almost Killed Me Because I’m Trans
Transition takes time. Everyone wishes it weren’t so. Trans people wish it were over in the time it takes you to say “knife”. So do all the people made uncomfortable by transitioning people (which is...
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Cartoon: Trans Bills
Thanks to Grace, who was super helpful in writing this cartoon, and also suggested the word avalanche in panel 3. :-) TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon features two characters: A woman in a striped...
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First Approximations
I once saw a good friend of mine by chance in line at a restaurant. He was facing away, but I know him well, and I was confident from his height, the color of his hair, the set of his shoulders, his...
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Embarrassments – Trans People and Surgery
Not too long ago, I went through a series of surgeries involving intercontinental travel to an unfamiliar country, general anaesthesia, significant trauma, and extended recovery time, including the...
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Piers Morgan’s Interview Fail With Janet Mock
Privilege can lead to double-perception; two people look at the same thing and see something entirely different. I used to think of a particular street as a fine place to walk, and was taken aback...
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Pre-transition Pronouns: Some Guiding Thoughts
A dear cousin of mine, a feminist who was very vocal when I was growing up, did me the courtesy of asking me a question which I paraphrase thus: Thinking of you as Grace is easy enough now, but how...
View ArticleScenes from Trans Policework: Working While Visibly Trans
I wrote most of this on Thanksgiving, but then life demanded that I do other things than finish it, until now. All names have been changed, for confidentiality. — There is a woman who lives in my city....
View ArticleJohn vs Jon: Culhane Rebuts Rauch On “Gay Victimhood”
Be sure to read John Culhane’s superb response to Jonathan Rauch’s anti-ENDA Time piece. There’s a lot that Culhane wrote that I’m kicking myself for not thinking of in my post, especially this...
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Contra Jon Rauch, ENDA and Marriage Equality Are Different Aspects Of The...
In “The End Of Gay Victimhood,” Jon Rauch divides gay rights laws into youthful, strong, responsible laws – i.e., marriage equality – and old, weak, victimhood laws – i..e, anti-discrimination law....
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A Statement of Trans-Inclusive Feminism and Womanism
[The text below is copied from the "Feminists Fighting Transphobia" blog. I've signed the statement. --Amp] A Statement of Trans-Inclusive Feminism and Womanism We, the undersigned trans* and cis...
View ArticleScenes from Trans Policework: Someone Has To Clean Up
It wasn’t until he shat that I reflected on how long I’ve been doing this law enforcement thing. One of the security guards, no tyro himself, laughed in revulsion and said, “Oh my GOD! He took a DUKE...
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Reading the News While Trans
So, this happened: [Islan] Nettles was out with several other transgender women at 11 p.m. Friday when she ran across a group of men near West 148th Street and Eighth Avenue — directly across from the...
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