A lot is going on, I know people are fund raising for Haiti, for Pakistan, for the Queensland flood. I come asking money for something else.

So why am I asking for money for something else, something that I personally will be donating to, because these court cases are important, because if a trans person can't get there document to match they have ( Read more... )

So I am currently working on a wiki for trans health, here is the twitter discription

#transwiki is a plan to see up a wiki to share evidence based info on trans medical and transition technology, a central place to read About hormones and blockers and surgery and voice training and risks and services and so on  It needs a lead as I have no ( Read more... )

Activism - I... gyah. I guess I'd call myself an activist, but I have all kinds of raeghaet for people who think that sitting at a computer and doing what basically amounts to yelling at other people for slightly problematic things they do is "activism." It kind of sours me on the word. I like doing things that I at least can hope would make a ( Read more... )

This is a cool project to map gender neutral and accessible toilets in Melbourne, know any toilets which don't assume you are able bodied, and pass as one cis gender consistently? Help by adding them to the map with this handy dandy form.

A trans woman's positive view of autogynophilia

15You have reportedly said that gender transition for an autogynephilic transsexual is sometimes comparable to "lifestyle" BD/SM for a sadomasochist. Do you really believe this?

Consider the following quotation:
"I'm happier now than I ever have been. Most people I meet are living their lives ( Read more... )

I have no interest in supporting the rights of those who seem to want to do that. I don't know what more to say that hasn't been said better by others, the police are not my friends, they are not the friends of those queers who are far more visible than me, and also of colour ( Read more... )

I would like to add ( Read more... )

I am re posting this as public.

I was reading the essay the end of genderqueer by Rocko bulldagger.

I was, I had to put it does, I had to write because it struck me, with why I hate the term political genderqueer when used by others to describe my experience and to speak over me.

Zie describes genderqueer as a political statement, as a performance ( Read more... )

Convicted rapist wants state to pay medical costs while incarcerated.


Well yes, we do in fact do that, or at least we should, the prison system not being an example of supportive community services. Anything else would be cruel punishment.

Quoting Ceder because zie is one of those people who makes me go, fuck yes a whole lot of the time.

I think the ( Read more... )

From the Australian:

“The ability to bear children is plainly not a gender characteristic of a male,” George Tannin SC said in the State’s submission to the appeal.

“The retention of such an ability must necessarily result in the applicant not possessing the gender characteristics of a male.”

What lurks behind this decision, of course, is the spectre ( Read more... )