In the event that any of the (trans or partnered with trans) people on this list feel up to responding to an entitled gender studies major who is exercising her cisgender privilege by challenging trans people to prove that their gender dysphoria is in fact actually related to gender, here is a great way to raise some consciousness.  Maybe.  ( Read more... )

I got this from Mae's blog. Please sign the petition and take a stand against hate crimes.

Please support our campaign for justice for Erika Keels, a 20-year-old, black, trans woman who was killed in Philadelphia this spring ( Read more... )

I live in a liberal oasis. It's wonderful. Melanie and I can hold hands in the grocery store, address each other as "honey" on the bike path, give each other pecks on the cheek in restaurants, and nobody bats an eye. We're just another boring twenty-something couple, even though both of us are women ( Read more... )

I don't know how many of you watched "The Colbert Report" last night, but he did it again. During a segment about how his "adopted daughter," (a leatherback turtle named Stephanie) lost a race from Costa Rica to the Galapagos Islands, he made a LOT of transphobic jokes. Overall, the segment was funny-- as is the show in general. I'm a fan. But ( Read more... )

So, I was watching my favorite drag conservative last night--Stephen Colbert, of course. I call him a "drag conservative" because I find it an apt description of what he does. Drag queens are men who dress up as women and exaggerate female stereotypes for entertainment. Colbert is a liberal who presents as a conservative and exaggerates ( Read more... )

Just saw something on TV that pissed me off ( Read more... )