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San Antonio: not as mature as their children
For the past month, the adults of San Antonio have been wringing their collective hands in very public displays of “concern” over a city ordinance that would extend equality to *gasp* trans citizens. While the notion of trans/cis equality has set the adult’s tongues awaggin, their children already extend this equality to trans children. San…
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California Trans Bill Freak Out
Supposedly, as the RadRight narrative goes, the California bill protecting trans kids in school is anarchy and madness. Unsurprisingly, TERFs and H-BSers jumped on that narrative: You know what? BS. Here in TEXAS – yes, conservative TEXAS – we’ve had these California-style policies in effect for YEARS. And you know what’s happened? Nothing… Except trans kids…
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TERFism: the MAAB/FAAB binary
Anti-trans RadFems, AKA Trans Exclusionary RadFems (TERFs) – not to be confused with non-hate radical feminism (AKA, feminism) – claim that gender is a fallacy. As an ironic (though the irony is completely lost on them) substitute, they’ve invented a binary system they call FAAB and MAAB. Once someone is Male Assigned At Birth (MAAB),…
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The post wherein I talk about getting published
So, I just got final word that my research (you know, the research that’s supposedly fake) is getting published in Duke University Press’ peer-reviewed journal, Transgender Studies Quarterly. It’s really gratifying to know that the research that came out of the Houston Trans Archive has led the folks who write the history books to consider…
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Outing the Troll’s Glass House
If you self-identify as being trans, you may have been trolled by Just Jennifer and/or Kamododragoon. Just Jennifer is Jennifer Usher and is fairly renowned for her excessive and cruel trolling of trans folk. For years, Usher has set herself up as the arbitrator of both transness and womanhood. Kamododragoon is Nick Chaleunphone is the male-identified version of…