I will be arriving at Arisia on Thursday afternoon, pre-con, and leaving Wednesday morning (well past con, giving me time to go to Dead Dog on Monday night, and then wind down and mentally unpack on Tuesday ( Read more... )

Hunters shoot intersex deer

Imagine that, intersex animals exist, too!

Polish town officials decide that Winnie the Pooh is intersex, or castrated, or something

Except not like that.

I dunno, NBC. I just don't know.

And then there was this story in the Washington Post about Michael Phelps' girlfriend ( Read more... )

Yahoo news article hereI thought things were getting better because the article opens by using Manning's correct name, Chelsea. Then the article gives her former name. Which, while problematic to do for trans folks (implying that Chelsea isn't her "real" or "valid" name), I can also see editors saying (in my imaginary world where people might ( Read more... )

As some of the commenters have pointed out.

Article here.

From Buzzfeed. The comics are here. (One has images which are NSFW ( Read more... )

Article and photos here.

"Sparked by a tragic incident of violence and hate, photographer Chloe Aftel's portrait project "Agender" shines a spotlight on the beautiful complexities of the genderqueer and neutrois communities."

(Comments are as comments do. If you don't care and this doesn't affect your life in any way, do you think you're doing ( Read more... )

I ran into this book in the library today. I flipped through it, since it claimed to have an answer for every question you have ever asked yourself. (Really!)

I was disappointed. While it does seem to be a good resource for gay and lesbian youth, and I don't dispute that ( Read more... )

Time magazine has a feature story about being transgender in the United States (link to the Think Progress article about the article, since the Time article itself is under a paywall ( Read more... )

I've recently seen people online saying how utterly sick they are of cis people (by which they mean people on the internet who THEY READ as cis, not even people who have self-identified as cis) telling others their preferred pronouns, presumably because there are those who take this as insulting to trans people, who "really" need to tell others ( Read more... )

People are talking about this book, mostly good things.

The book centrally deals with mental illness. How good a job does it do?

The protagonist also has a transgender lover. How well does the book deal with transgender issues (as well as any other LGB issues that arise in the book)?

Thanks!