Last May, a few of us were involved in protesting outside a performance by the musician, "Bitch", as part of the "Queer up North" event in Manchester. My account of the event can be read here. To give a summary, Bitch is someone who performs at the Michigan Women's Music Festival, which gained infamy for excluding trans women (sometimes by force), ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, Barney Frank spoke for a lot of people when he made this statement after the ENDA debacle of 2007:

Being in the legislative minority is easy - pulling together to block bad things does not require a lot of agonizing over tough decisions. Being in the majority is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, we ( Read more... )

"Getting the truth in front of the American public is no small undertaking. Extremist groups are not only attacking equal rights we've already won - they are raising millions to shut down progress on victories yet to come ( Read more... )

I posted this as a response to NH not passing trans rights, but I would like more people to see this ( Read more... )

Okay, let's review what happened.

The Human Rights Campaign, an organization with a history of both directly and indirectly working against trans rights in order to secure gay rights, secured the passage of H.B. 436 by arranging for H.B. 415 to be unanimously declared Inexpedient to Legislate. That means H.B. 415 is not just "dead" but ( Read more... )

I just saw the latest posting of a recent ruling by the New Hampshire legislature on bathrooms. Though it should be passed on here. Worth reading, and really really pissed me off ( Read more... )

This correspondance was between Anne Vitale, PhD, and a friend, who is currently completing a Bachelor's degree in Psychology.

Anne Vitale is a trans psychologist who is relatively known for her theory of Gender Expression Denial Anxiety Disorder (a long name for what is essentially dysphoria). She is also a member of WPATH, and a specialist of " ( Read more... )

I don't feel this one qualifies as "controversial", but I'll perfectly willing to tag it if a mod asks me to.

Despite its high profile, the cause of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights continues to stand out as the one major area of civil rights in which relatively little progress has been made. Fanatical ( Read more... )

I have an ACLU contact regionally and she has been helping me with some things as I work on a project and she sent me a bunch of pamphlets. They are the ACLU's Trangender People and the Law Pamphlet. These are very informative and you can find them at www.aclu.org/lgbt I was also looking around their site and they had some some other stuff that ( Read more... )

From an e-mailDavid Solomon has created a petition on the government petitions webpages, calling for legal recognition of third gender status in the UK ( Read more... )