For all you folks involved in radical activism, I wanted to point out some egregious nonsense recently published in the most recent Slingshot Collective newspaper. You might want to give this a read before purchasing a 2013 Slingshot Organizer or subscribing to the newspaper.

( Cut for lots and lots of cissexism, and a fair bit of sarcasm in response. )

I see that new research at Northwestern University indicates that bisexual men do indeed exist, in contradiction of a 2005 study from the same institution that appeared to show the opposite.

So far, so duh. The interest from the point of view of this group is that the leader of the earlier study was J. Michael Bailey, author of The Man Who Would ( Read more... )

hey ( Read more... )

I'd just like to take a moment to draw attention to something my MP, Julian Huppert, said yesterday in committee in respect to transgender people and identity documents, the selected transcript is taken from here. For background, the committee is engaged with dismantling the previous government's Identity Cards Bill, in which transgender people ( Read more... )

In the previous thread (http://community.livejournal.com/transgender/2298347.html) the OP posed the following question:

do you get told how brave you are for being trans? Does it piss you off as well? Do you have any more thoughts on why it might cause such a strong reaction? I'm sure ( Read more... )

Via juliaserano - a petition to remove transvestic fetishism/disorder from DSM V can be found here.

http://michiganmessenger.com/33506/paul-scott-targets-transgendered-people-in-race-for-secretary-of-stateRead more... )

http://michiganmessenger.com/33506/paul-scott-targets-transgendered-people-in-race-for-secretary-of-stateRead more... )

Thursday, January 21, 2010 ( Read more... )

Just in via headline-sampler in my Yahell Mail...

Conservatives shop sex ops ban to GOP

The federal government would be banned from funding sex change operations and other services for transgender individuals if social conservative activists get their way.

There’s no sponsor yet for an amendment to the health care overhaul - and it may remain in the ( Read more... )