Transphobia
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Talking Dworkin with trans folks who were taught to hate her
I’m sharing this Reddit conversation since it covers the way trans people were taught to view Andrea Dworkin (and radical feminists, in general). In response to a post from The Conversations Project, Transcience wrote: I reply: Suchega_Uber responded, saying that while my response was illuminating, it really didn’t deal with the idea that if society…
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Trump scam artist gets me instead of my grandmother
I was at my grandmother’s house today when the phone rang and I picked it up. A man with a thick accent informed me that I, [insert horrible mispronunciation of my grandmother’s name here] had won the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes worth 2 million in cash and even a new BMW. I thought it would be…
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My Saturday: abortion clinic defense & speaking at TDOR
The first is a video I took of a particularly obnoxious anti-abortion protester: I was then invited to speak at the Houston Trans Day of Remembrance at the University of Houston:
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The week HERO was voted down
It’s been a tough week. While El Paso, San Antonio, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Austin and even HISD have trans inclusive non-discrimination policies, an argument popularized by Houston’s KKK swayed voters to vote down protections for vets, the differently abled, women, racial and ethnic classes and others because, as the Klan did in the 1980s, anti-equality activists told…
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RadFem Reboot
I’m fairly happy with the response I’ve received from radical feminists of all ages who are trans inclusive and want their stories and voices heard. As it was with the so-call “TS Separatists” who sparked my interest in the etiology of “transgender,” the TERF crew sparked my interest in understanding how it was that “Radical…
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A trans feminist perspective on the NY Times piece
While the first half of the article titled There Is No Reason to Deny Trans People Necessary Medical Care does a good job at deconstructing the fraudulent, entitled and obtuse assertions featured in a recient NY Times piece, it is the latter half of the article that, I felt, is useful as a compacted overview of…