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Picture Blogging: February 2013
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Intro to Transgender Issues: Substance Abuse
I gave a presentation with Sandy Jones (HACS) on Substance Use issues within the trans population at a conference today. Here’s the intro from the handout: Working with transgender clients can raise fundamental questions of policy. A trans client’s presence can challenge long held assumptions and belief systems about the very nature of gender. Not…
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Interview With an Actual Stonewall Riot Veteran: The Ciswashing of Stonewall Must End!
We would not have Gay Pride Parade if it was not for the transgenders. We would not have Gay Pride Week!
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Federal Updates: New VA Trans Directive & ENDA via Executive Order?
ENDA via Executive Order On social policy, Obama is reconsidering whether to issue an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. When he decided not to issue such an order last year, the White House said it would prefer to pass a law applying to gays…
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“So, what was Stonewall?”
In the wake of the President’s historic speech referencing Stonewall, NPR ran a piece asking and purporting to answer the question, “So, what was Stonewall?” The article calls upon Martin Duberman, now 82, to retell the story of Stonewall. Martin Duberman published the first history of Stonewall in 1993. His history significantly featured trans folk. Bizarrely, the NPR author Liz Halloran…
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The TransAdvocate
Yes. You’re reading that correctly. Marti asked me to become the managing editor of the transadvocate. Marti has done some amazing things with her site and I hope to be able to continue her work. BTW, I recently interviewed Marti so that her story as a trans activist would be preserved at the TG Archive. I…