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Friday, September 05
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Some people under the transgender umbrella elect to undergo hormones and/or Sexual Re-Assignment Surgery (SRS) in order to transition into the gender that feels more appropriate for themselves. People often say "sexual orientation is not a...
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Tuesday, September 02
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"LGBT" is an acronym that stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. It refers to the diversity of sexual and gender identity amongst us. Originally the acronym started as GLBT, but due to feminism and the advance for equality...
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Friday, August 29
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"Stonewall" refers to the historic event and location at a gay bar/inn in New York City that was raided by the police on June 28th, 1969. Police raids were common on homosexual establishments, but the "stonewall riots" were significant...
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Thursday, August 21
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"Cissexism" is the belief and treatment of transgender and/or transsexual people as inferior to cissexual (non-trans) people. Read more...
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Thursday, August 21
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The American Psychiatric Association is currently in the process of putting out their new Diagnostic Statistical Manual which deals with all aspects of psychiatric disorders and issues. Currently transgender people are unfairly labeled as having...
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Thursday, August 21
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. . . Well there aren't three yet actually, but gay Colorado businessman Jared Polis was the surprise winner last week in a highly competitive Democratic primary and is the heavy favorite in November in his bid to be the... Read more...
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Tuesday, August 19
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The folks at QueerToday.com, who've long captured our hearts and minds by being one of the biggest thorns in the side of the radically anti-gay MassResistance group, are now turning their sites to an organization that conventional wisdom would...
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Friday, August 15
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Tyra Banks made history this week by announcing that her show America's Next Top Model will feature Isis a transgender model among the contestants. Fox News (the gay & trans bashing network) can't seem to go a week without making provocative...
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Friday, August 15
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"There appears to be little in the way of a comprehensive cisgender (non transgender) privilege list. These lists are generally written in the first person relative to having the privilege. Number #1 speaks to both heterosexual and cisgender...
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Friday, August 15
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FOX thrives on making fun of anyone they perceive as "different". Recently, their target was pregnant trans man Thomas Beatie. This week it was America's Next Top Model transgender contestant Isis. GLAAD has called on the network to...
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Thursday, August 14
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"***" is a term mostly used as a slur against transgender, and pre-operative transsexuals. A "***" is a biological male who has gone through partial transition to present as female. They usually have breasts but still maintain...
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Wednesday, August 13
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On this fall's cycle of "America's Next Top Model," there will be a first in a contestant named Isis. No, it won't be because she's aesthetically unpleasant (as you can see from the pic). No, she won't be notable because...
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Wednesday, August 13
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The new season of America's Next Top Model begins on September 3, and will for the first time feature a transgender contestant, named Isis. Says Isis to Us Weekly: "My cards were dealt differently. I like to help people [as... Read more...
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Tuesday, August 12
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Former pro basketball player John Amaechi is blogging from Beijing! BrightSide: Restaurant/bar funded by Heath Ledger before his death to open in Brooklyn. Murdered trans woman Angie Zapata mourned in Colorado. The Atlantic publishes a whole bunch...
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Sunday, August 10
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The Democratic Party platform just approved yesterday and headed to the convention in Denver for final adoption represents some progress on nuts-and-bolts gay rights positions but is a rhetorical retreat of sorts -- at least that's been the...
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Saturday, August 09
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"FtM" stands for female to male transsexual or transgender. The individual was born female but has taken steps to present as male in accordance with their gender identity. Read more...
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Monday, August 04
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Michelangelo Signorile talked to Carla Lewis, a transgender woman and lesbian who runs the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition. Lewis was inside the Tennessee Valley Universalist Unitarian Church when 58-year old James Adkisson opened fire...
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Friday, August 01
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"Dallas Transgender advocates and allies have committed to a continuing a protest at Crews Inn, a Gay bar in Dallas Texas, in response to the expulsion of a transgender woman from the bar on Tuesday July 15, 2008." Contact Kelli Busey...
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Thursday, July 31
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"Tranny" is a short form of saying transsexual or transgender person. It has been used a pejorative word but recently has been reclaimed by trans activists as a word of pride and self identification. Read more...
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Wednesday, July 30
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An arrest has been made in the murder of Angie Zapata, a transgender woman who was beaten to death last week in her home in Greeley, Colorado: "Alan Ray Andrade, 31, was arrested in Thornton on Tuesday and faces second-degree... Read more....
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Monday, July 28
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California marriage ballot measure language changed: "Proposition 8 on the November ballot had been described as a measure to limit marriage between a man and a woman. But the Secretary of State's office says that description was changed...
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Monday, July 28
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Catherine Cusic, a 63-year-old lesbian who bought a ticket to the Human Rights Campaign dinner in San Francisco on Saturday night, said she stood up to begin distributing material (presumably in protest of the HRC's position on ENDA) during...
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Monday, July 28
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined other California political figures in deciding not to attend Saturday night's Human Rights Campaign dinner in San Francisco. Villaraigaso was reportedly the headliner: "The Human Rights Campaign...
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Monday, July 28
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The Human Rights Campaign/ transgender community rift continues. This report from San Francisco: Keeping the T in LGBT [Castro in the Streets] Read more...
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Friday, July 25
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"Petition requesting Reverend Gene Robinson, Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire, to not attend the Black Tie Human Right's Campaign (HRC) Dinner in Dallas Texas on November 22, 2008. It is the belief of the signers of this petition...
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Thursday, July 24
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Angie Zapata of Greeley, Colorado was beaten to death last week in a crime her family and friends suspect had something to do with the fact that she was transgender. Fort Collins Now reports: "Police did not say whether Zapata’s... Read more...
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Thursday, July 24
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Thomas Beatie, the trans-man who recently gave birth, has reportedly sold his baby photos to People magazine for a whopping $300,000: Pregnant Man's Baby Photos: $300,000 [Gawker] Opportunistic new fathers nationwide will today glue beards to...
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Wednesday, July 23
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This morning on Good Morning America, photos of pregnant trans man Thomas Beatie's three-week-old daughter Susan Juliette were revealed. I've screencapped a few of the photos here and clipped the segment, AFTER THE JUMP... Previously Pregnant...
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Tuesday, July 22
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"We petition The Right Reverend Gene Robinson, Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire, to not attend the Black Tie Dinner Dallas Texas on November 22, 2008. It is the belief of the signers that the discriminatory policies of the main benefactor...
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Tuesday, July 22
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There’s been no such thing as the summer doldrums this election season, what with fevered speculation over running mates and overseas trips with dueling photo ops set up to appear more “presidential.” Far more consequential, if much less made-for...
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