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The Right-To-Bully Law

Jan 05, 12

Posted by Cristan in Accommodation, Christianity, Featured

Views: 766The Family Action Council of Tennessee (FACoT) is upset because students who are preacher-programmed homo/transphobes can no longer strut the Tennessee school hallways damning GLBT people to hell due to Tennessee’s anti-bullying law. On their website, FACoT claims: Tennessee law contains several provisions...

Republicanism is Political Heroin

Nov 10, 11

Posted by Cristan in Christianity, Featured, Islam, Right Wing Watch

Views: 656Here’s the Texas Republican leadership in all its glory. This is the guy Texas Republicans believe to be the embodiment of Texas Republicanism… so much so that they made sure that he became the longest continuously serving current U.S. governor. Moreover, since this is what Republicanism looks like he was elected...

Attitudes about TS and CD People as a Group in 1959

Jul 19, 11

Posted by Cristan in 1950s, Christianity, Civil Rights, Eras, Fundamentalism, History, Language, Language Wars, Marriage Equality, Religion, Right Wing Watch

Views: 1107Some claim that the reason transsexual people have not yet gained full equality under the law is that there exists a word that is inclusive of both transsexuals with crossdressers: “transgender”. In their minds, it is this tangential connection to the crossdresser – not the oppressive system – that’s the...

In 1934: “Sex Change for Youth Turned Down By Parents”

Jul 15, 11

Posted by Cristan in 1930s, Christianity, Eras, History, Religion

Views: 1801 The Circleville Herald, July 11, 1934: Sex Change for Youth Turned Down By Parents ST. CLAIRSVILLE, July 11 — Parents of Glen and John Deltrich, 16 and 17-year-old brothers, who are expected to die within a year because of a strange paralysis which strikes only male members of the family, today refused to allow their...

A Covenant House Win!

Feb 09, 11

Posted by Cristan in 2010s, Accommodation, Christianity, Civil Rights, TG Center

Views: 1147Over the past week, I’ve struggled with the best way to recount the long and sometimes painful story of how Houston’s Covenant House youth shelter began supporting Houston’s homeless transgender youth population. My own history as an advocate within the transgender community is directly tied to Covenant...