My 2012 highlights: January Schadenfreude Anyone? – It turns out that the lawyer trying to do away with trans marriage racked up YET ANOTHER ethics violation! Equality = Bathroom Bills = Rape: Reality Check –RadFems take up the exact same blood-drenched tactics used against them to take aim at trans folk. Nikki Araguz, Jewel Thief […]
Today I got a call from my best friend, Carolyn. Someone had broken into her home and stole all of her valuables, including the laptop she depends on. I road over to her house to sit with her while she waited for the police to show up. She’s had such a hard time of it […]
Twenty years ago, a now defunct trans newsletter captured a really interesting moment in trans history: a linguistic tipping point. As I’ve noted: “transgender” has been around since at least 1965; “transgender” was not “coined” by Virginia Prince; transsexuals have been using the term “transgender” since the 1970s; and, “transgender” was used in a modern […]
I’ve noted before how TERFs inspired the violence inflicted upon Stonewall hero Sylvia Revera. Until now, I wasn’t aware that their cruelty was extended to the transperson who coordinated and paid for overturning anti-gay NY laws: Women in the GLF were uncomfortable referring to Rivera—who insisted in using women’s bathrooms, even in City hall—as “she.” […]
Official Souvenir Program of the 1979 National March on Washington, Page 40 It should be noted that the organizer of the 1st MOW was Ray Hill from Houston, Texas. Trans Leader from Houston, Phyllis Frye (center, holding American flag) Phyllis Frye, leading the Texas contingent [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/71779612″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Official Souvenir […]
First of all, before I get into addressing her recent piece in the Advocate, I must own my own bias where Riki Wilchins in concerned. I’m not a knee-jerk fan of hers. I was around when she lobbied congress (along with Nancy Buermeyer and Winnie Stachelberg in 97, 98 and 99) telling them that trans folk were happy to be taken out […]
Is. Dead. The GenderReality blog was dedicated to asserting that: 1.) Virginal Prince coined transgender 2.) Transgender means heterosexual crossdresser 3.) Virginia Prince conspired to force transsexuals under the “transgender umbrella” 4.) You’re a sociopathic man if you disagree GenderReality was a perfect example of how the Prince Fountainhead Narrative poisoned trans discourse.
I think I should start this post with some back-and-forth arguing between one of the organizers of the first International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy (ICTLEP, 1992), Virginia Prince and her supporter: “Said another way, you trashed [Virginia Prince]! You stole her linguistic contribution to the community from the community and ran down […]
