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Sterilization and Trans Genocide
With respect to my last post, Battybattybats writes: But it is worth taking this further, because in much of the world to obtain basic rights and essential services as a transgender person that cis...
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Patriarchial Violence and Women’s Penises
“A [woman's] penis is a weapon. A sword. A knife. Dominance and sexism incarnate.” Yes–a weapon against her. A weapon threatening her life, a weapon demanding her submission to both male and cissexual...
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Violence, Racism, and Neo-Liberalism, or Why I’m not upset over prop 8
That’s right, I’m not upset about prop 8. Consider this a calling out, if you need to. It’s not that I’m happy about it–I’m not–or that I don’t think it’s a bad thing–it is–or something that will have...
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Philly Trans Health Conference 2009 Accepting Workshop Proposals
What the title said. From their email: The Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference committee is currently seeking workshop, panel, and symposium proposals for its 2009 conference. Providers Day [June 11,...
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You call those statistics? What reality are you living in?
So, what’s one of the first things out of people’s mouth’s about trans people? We’re so rare, no one’s ever met us before, etc. The psychiatric community has, for the most part, invested heavily in...
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Female Sexuality and The Two-Type Theory: Why “Autogynephilia” Matters
As with my post about the Standards of Care, I find myself not wanting to wade into the fray about Bailey/Blanchard/Lawrence or ‘autogynephilia’. It’s petty, it’s the same damn thing everybody’s always...
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What is Justice? (Dedicated to Angie Zapata)
This is wonderful. I am *so* glad that the jury understood that killing trans women is wrong, that killing individual trans women to threaten/do violence to the entire community is wrong, is *worse*...
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Combatting “Combatting Ignorance” Part 1: Whose Ignorance/Who’s Ignorant?
This is the first in a three four part series. The second is here and the third here. When the fourth is posted and written, I’ll link it here. “Ignorance.” It’s one of the most commonly cited “roots”...
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Combatting “Combatting Ignorance” Part 2: How Could You Have Known? –You...
This is the second in a three four part series. The first is available here and the third here. I’ll link to the fourth once it’s up. So, last time I talked about the ways that using the concept of...
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Combatting “Combatting Ignorance” Part 3 (of 4): Cis Denial, Self-Knowledge,...
This is the third in a three four part series. See the first and second posts. I’ll link to the fourth here once it’s up. My three part series just became a four part series, as I realized the issues...
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