Category: Civil Rights

Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival

Most of the Womyn that come to fest really don’t care whether you’re straight or not as long as your not trans. – D.M., Festival Supporter, July 4, 2012 It’s been 23 years since the MWMF became a symbol of all that’s wrong with cis-privilege and some might wonder why the fight to end cis/trans segregation at […]

Learn To Hate

  Jesus… I hate it when bigotry is framed as an inherent right. Before you can hate, you must first be taught to vilify and dehumanize your target. It’s only after this process has taken place that you can view an entire class of people with suspension and conclude that segregation is appropriate. This process […]

The Gay Agenda: It’s Real

I’m sure you’ve heard about this thing called, The Gay Agenda. Right wingers have been talking about it for quite some time now. Have you ever read it? I bet you didn’t know that there is a very real Gay Agenda. You see, it all started back in 1978 when the Houston queer community came […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Look Back at the T in the 1979 “Gay March” on Washington

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 […]

Trolling the Troll

A RadFem has been trying to troll me for about a week. She not only asserted that I’m male, but that I’m emotionally unstable, that by boobs aren’t perky and that I need to get surgery for that. Has anyone else noticed that some RadFems seem to morph into an amalgam of Ralph Kramden and […]

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