Or not… An absolute lie, did you say? A lie? Really? It might be of interest to know that in the 1974 3rd edition, this book uses transgender as an umbrella term. However, in this 2nd edition from 1965, transgenderism is clearly used as a term that might better describe the transsexual experience. In the […]
I want to take a moment to thank the lesbians in Sheila Jeffreys’ community for pioneering transsexual surgery. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/107923482″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] This is from an interview I did with the out gay individual who collaborated with with the lesbians from Jefferys’ community to create the first gender treatment center in […]
So, I just got final word that my research (you know, the research that’s supposedly fake) is getting published in Duke University Press’ peer-reviewed journal, Transgender Studies Quarterly. It’s really gratifying to know that the research that came out of the Houston Trans Archive has led the folks who write the history books to consider […]
I recently received the following email: I noticed you often use ‘transwoamn’ as one word as opposed to trans woman. Hate to be nit-picky but it’s cissexist “Trans” should be used as an adjective to describe “woman.” When the two are linked together, it becomes a noun all its own, distinctly separating it from other […]
Katy Stewart from the Texas Transgender Education Network asked me for some trans activism images for a project she’s working for. I thought I’d share them since (IMHO) they’re all interesting and some of them have not seen the light of day for 40 years: The Queens Liberation Front was an action arm of the […]
We would not have Gay Pride Parade if it was not for the transgenders. We would not have Gay Pride Week!
In the wake of the President’s historic speech referencing Stonewall, NPR ran a piece asking and purporting to answer the question, “So, what was Stonewall?” The article calls upon Martin Duberman, now 82, to retell the story of Stonewall. Martin Duberman published the first history of Stonewall in 1993. His history significantly featured trans folk. Bizarrely, the NPR author Liz Halloran […]
