A Girl Like Me The Gwen Araujo Story Based on actual events, this is the story of Gwen Araujo (born Edward Araujo). The transgender California teen lived her life as a female until she was savagely beaten and killed at a party after her acquaintances discovered she was biologically male. See how her shocking and senseless murder shook the community ... Read More »
OLYMPIA, Wash. – A bill in the state Legislature to allow business owners to refuse services for same-sex couples would give them a “license to hate,” according to one Senator. But the bill’s sponsor says it protects religious freedoms. “This is a bill that allows bigotry,” said Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas Island. The state of Washington is suing ... Read More »
Some activists say that a transgender model wearing a pro-gay shirt is another example of transsexual erasure. A small grassroots volunteer organization aiming to educate people on trans rights and issues says a campaign featuring a transgender model is actually helping erase transsexual visibility. Leaders of MAGNET, or Media Advocates Giving National Equality to Transgender & Transsexual People, are boycotting ... Read More »
My daughter, Grace passed away in September 2010. There wasn’t an obituary. There wasn’t a funeral. There wasn’t a casket or even a body to put in one. No one sent me sympathy cards. No one brought me casseroles. This wasn’t because no one cared; it was because my child is still alive. When my daughter came out to me ... Read More »
I realize this might sound harsh, but I have to say it … More often than not, when I am speaking with a TG woman, I feel like I am speaking with a MAN. It has nothing to do with the way she looks – or even the sound of her voice. It’s the WAY she communicates. Learning how to ... Read More »
International human rights activists have decried Sweden’s decision not to update a “barbaric” law that requires all transgender people to become sterilized before their gender reassignment will be formally recognized by the state. As GlobalPost is reporting, Sweden currently only allows transgender people to change their gender on official documents if they undergo sterilization beforehand. The official law, passed in ... Read More »
Bil Browning over at Bilerico.com has doubled-down on an important message this holiday season. He’s getting a lot of attention this year for a blog post titled “Why You Shouldn’t Donate to the Salvation Army Bell Ringers.” The now annual post receives thousands of hits on his popular blog and for good reason. He’s asking people to avoid the bell-ringing ... Read More »
The paradox of transgender fashion, and this applies mostly to MTF, FTM, and some C/D folk, but I suppose could apply to androgynes too. But I think it’s mostly to the other three categories of the transgender community. At any rate, the paradox is thus: Because of the society driven need for gender based markers to mark out one’s identity ... Read More »
Transgender ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protester Segregated, Humiliated by NYPD During Arrest, Detention Justin Adkins, a transgender activist and Assistant Director of the Multicultural Center at Williams College, was arrested as part of the “Occupy Wall Street” protest on October 1 at the Brooklyn Bridge. In a statement released to the public (read it below), Adkins details his mistreatment by the ... Read More »
Regardless of what his anatomy, pink bedroom and society told him, Grayson knew for years he really wasn’t a girl. He wore his hair closely cropped since the age of 11, while his heart and his former name did not match up. “He was thrilled when people mistook him for a boy, because he was a boy inside,” said his ... Read More »
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