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Phyllis Frye: Grandmother of the Trans Community

Feb 19, 12

Views: 1428Over the last 24 hours, I’ve spent about 12 of them scanning Phyllis Frye’s 1970s trans documents. I don’t know that I can even put into words how those documents affected me. Most of us don’t know that we all owe Phyllis a debt of gratitude. In Houston, we trace our community back to...

Equality = Bathroom Bills = Rape: Reality Check

Jan 21, 12

Posted by Cristan in Accommodation, Featured

Views: 1233 Protections will allow men to dress as women “… in order to perpetrate crimes of homicide, rape, robbery [and] assault…” Sound familiar? It sounds like the arguments of TS Separatism and Religious Fundamentalists, doesn’t it? Actually, this quote is 40 years old and comes from a...

Floccinaucinihilipilification

Jan 14, 12

Posted by Cristan in Community

Views: 766This post is a collection of randomness that didn’t warrant its own post; so, I thought I’d lump it all together here… Dana Lane Taylor took down her site after I issued my challenge: After defending the show, ABC’s Work It was canceled and replaced with reruns. . Some YouTube comments...

HCC, It’s Time to Change

Nov 30, 11

Posted by Cristan in Accommodation

Views: 877As some of you might recall, in September TFA helped a transgender Houston Community College (HCC) student initiate an investigation after she was referred to as a “freak” in her English class. The comment was made during a classroom discussion of a paper written by the instructor, Donny Leveston, entitled “Taboo:...

Douchebag of the Year: Manuel Rodriguez Jr.

Nov 23, 11

Posted by Cristan in My YouTube, Right Wing Watch

Views: 677The Houston Press just came out with their much more PC version of this blog post title, “Turkey of the Year.” Unfortunately, I didn’t think that Turkey of the Year properly conveyed the disgusting behavior of this Houston Independent School District Board member, Manuel Rodriguez Jr. So, instead of calling him a...