May 2013
4 posts
GENDERQUEER AND NON-BINARY IDENTITIES: Jess' Big... →
femmeprincessbrat:
transtheorist:
It’s finally here! This is my ongoing list of gender terms, hopefully people like it and find it helpful. My plan is to update and add to this list as time goes on so check it out and tell me what you think! If you have a term you think ought to be…
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April 2013
17 posts
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Would Jesus Discriminte? →
Affirmation in Scripture
On this web site we discuss five passages of Scripture that affirm gay people and their relationships.
These stories, which the writers of the Bible included under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, are amazingly gay-positive. Odds are, you have never heard about these passages and their meaning for sexual minorities. The truth of these texts threatens some of our...
5,000-year-old ‘transgender’ skeleton discovered →
transawareness:
Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old skeleton which they believe may be the remains of a transgender person.
Men’s bodies from that age and culture are usually found buried with their heads towards the west and with weapons.
But this skeleton was found with its head towards the east and was surrounded by domestic jugs – as women’s bodies from the time are usually...
OUTNEWS: Sweden ends sterilisation of transgender... →
projectqueer:
Sweden will no longer sterilise transgendered patients after a law banning the practice entered into force on Thursday, but many who have already undergone a sex change are now seeking damages from the state. The Stockholm administrative court of appeal recently ruled that the practice of forced sterilisations, which dated back to a 1972 law on sexual identity, was...
Ten Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started My... →
Two years and 4,860 pills later, I now realize how little I actually understood back then. There were so many aspects of transitioning and being treated like a woman in society that I was totally unprepared for. And today, as I prepare to take an indefinite break from my public trans*-related online presence (more on that later), I’d like to share ten lessons that I wish I had known in February...
Thomas Beatie Marriage Case →
purplegoesbothways:
beingdanny:
transawareness:
Transgender Law Center is dismayed that Arizona Superior Court Judge Douglas Gerlach has ruled that Thomas Beatie’s marriage to his wife was invalid because of Arizona’s ban on same-sex marriage. Beatie has lived as a man for the past 15 years. Before he and his wife married in 2003, Beatie underwent significant medical treatment to transition...
UFC suspends Matt Mitrione for ripping transgender... →
transawareness:
In a Monday appearance on The MMA Hour, Mitrione called Fallon Fox a “lying, sick, sociopathic, disgusting freak.”
In response, the UFC issued a statement saying the TUF 10 veteran’s contract has been suspended and he will be investigated.
“The UFC was appalled by the transphobic comments made by heavyweight Matt Mitrione today in an interview on ‘The MMA Hour,’” the statement...
Thomas Beatie Marriage Case →
transawareness:
Transgender Law Center is dismayed that Arizona Superior Court Judge Douglas Gerlach has ruled that Thomas Beatie’s marriage to his wife was invalid because of Arizona’s ban on same-sex marriage. Beatie has lived as a man for the past 15 years. Before he and his wife married in 2003, Beatie underwent significant medical treatment to transition from female to male, including...
Thomas Beatie Marriage Case →
senor-bizarro:
transawareness:
Transgender Law Center is dismayed that Arizona Superior Court Judge Douglas Gerlach has ruled that Thomas Beatie’s marriage to his wife was invalid because of Arizona’s ban on same-sex marriage. Beatie has lived as a man for the past 15 years. Before he and his wife married in 2003, Beatie underwent significant medical treatment to transition from female to...
Thomas Beatie Marriage Case →
transawareness:
Transgender Law Center is dismayed that Arizona Superior Court Judge Douglas Gerlach has ruled that Thomas Beatie’s marriage to his wife was invalid because of Arizona’s ban on same-sex marriage. Beatie has lived as a man for the past 15 years. Before he and his wife married in 2003, Beatie underwent significant medical treatment to transition from female to male, including...
“Trans inclusion will be a legislative priority over my dead body.”
– Elizabeth Birch, Human Rights Campaign Executive Director, 1995-2004
figured now would be a good time to remind everybody exactly who these people are and exactly how much they value trans people
(yes, I realize Birch is no longer with the organization, but this is not because they found her...
Sign petition to the Daily Mail - stop media... →
Sack Richard Littlejohn for his disgusting attack piece against Lucy Meadows, apologize for printing it, and institute a editorial review process to prevent this kind of discrimination from ever ending up in print again.”
This week, a schoolteacher took her own life, a tragic result of media bullying that was egged on by a right-wing columnist for the UK’s 2nd-largest paper.
Lucy Meadows just...
February 2013
5 posts
“The question lesbian and gay people need to answer is not “Why are transgender...”
– Transgender Communities: Developing Identity Through Connection Lev AI in Bieschke et al (2007)
Transgender rights bill advances in NY Legislature →
projectqueer:
Cadence Case knows all about the discrimination at jobs and in landing an apartment, the fear of bullying in the streets, the sideway glances and snickers, the wearisome daily effort of acting as expected.
Click the header link above to read the full article. TW: problematic terminology
Republicans strip transgender protections from... →
projectqueer:
BY: J. SKYLER ROBINSON
Republicans in the House of RepresentativesFriday introduced a modified version of the Violence Against Women Act that strips the bill of its express protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity, which would enable states to exclude lesbian, bisexual, transgender and transsexual women from receiving benefits under the grant. The House...
January 2013
1 post
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Con Top of the World: omg like what →
contop:
i just saw a post that someone came out as demisexual
looking it up, it’s basically being attracted to personality not the physical
im just like… what?
like, why is this a thing? why is this a term? Some people are more drawn by physical, some are more drawn by the mental connection. The fact…
For one… that’s about the most uneducated rant I’ve ever seen. ...
May 2012
2 posts
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Deaf Trans Men, Psychology and the Role of...
So that is the title of my paper that I’ve been writing for the last 5 months. A massive research article. It’s done, I turned it in to my teacher, she gave it back to me today. I got a 190 out 200 on it. Which is great. But she asked to speak to me about it after class. She wants to work with me on my paper to tweak a few minor things and then with my permission, she wishes to...
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April 2012
103 posts
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Trans Male Statistics
Though 77% of trans men proceeded with hormone treatment. Of all surveyed trans guys, 63% received ‘top surgery’ to create a masculine chest and 28% stated that they would have partaken of chest surgery if given the finances (that is a 91% that desire top surgery). Perhaps the most interesting statistic is that of all of the trans men surveyed, none had undergone sex reassignment...
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Transition
So Friday afternoon someone asked me the weirdest question when they realized I was trans. She signed “becoming a boy or a girl?” The fact that it wasn’t obvious was an interesting insight. Clearly she wasn’t sure of my birth sex. So it told me that my original birth status was not clear to everyone which is good because it means I’ve managed to look more male...
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Reddit for Trans →
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Mitt Romney faces up to five years in jail and a... →
thambos:
taylortalkstrash:
stfuconservatives:
In January 2010 the former Massachusetts governor proudly cast a ballot for Republican Scott Brown in the special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. He didn’t own property in the state at the time, and had registered to vote listing his son’s unfinished basement as his residence. Massachusetts law defines a residence for voter...
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I Am Transgendered.com →
Name aside, I Am Transgendered is a listing of support group, service and advocacy organizations for trans people.
Dead Week and Finals Week
I’m gone for a while.
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“I think you should think about this a lot, it’s a BIG decision.”
– In regards to my transition from a cis person. My response:
That’s fine. But the next time you run into someone like me, don’t suggest that they think about it. We think about it every second of every minute of every hour of every day of our lives to date. Have you ever thought...
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Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
transawareness:
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your...
Social Experiment: When women drug men →
icecheetah:
beingdanny:
precisely.
I cannot comprehend why people would act like that if they saw it happening.
Thing is, this really isn’t new news to me. Been seeing it for a while that the majority of people don’t care if someone is drugged, raped, sexually abused, or physically abused. I’ve had a lot of guys trust me enough to actually cry in front of me, knowing I...
