Injustice at Every Turn
The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) just released a report on discrimination against trans and gender-noncomforming people, and the results are (predictably) horrifying. The report is based on the largest survey of trans and gender-nonconforming people ever taken in the United States, with 6,450 participants. [...]
...read moreTransgender Day of Remembrance
This is a guest post by C. L. Minou. C. L. Minou has written on trans and feminist issues for the Guardian’s Comment Is Free, Change.org, and Tiger Beatdown. She blogs at The Second Awakening. [TW for transphobia] I don’t remember when I first heard of the Trans Day of Remembrance. It must have been [...]
...read moreKye Allums, NCAA Basketball Player, Comes Out as Trans Man
I don’t know much about college basketball, but I know it’s a fairly big deal when a player comes out as trans. Kye Allums is on George Washington University’s women’s basketball team and is officially out as the first openly trans NCAA Division I player. Queerty points out that things might get dicey for him [...]
...read moreNew Report Shows Trans* People Experience Huge Gaps in Health Care Access
Earlier this month, the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force released the National Transgender Discrimination Survey Report on Health and Health Care (pdf). Reliable statistics on trans* people are notoriously difficult to come by, and among those that exist, many are outdated and/or derived from very small sample [...]
...read moreThe Shape of the Problem
What I wanted to talk about today is employment. I am currently unemployed, and have known very few trans people offline who weren’t in the same situation. It’s difficult to really get a true sense of the employment situation for trans people, since most studies are small, and few if any actually separate the sexes [...]
...read moreYou don’t get to out me
So far, I have avoided writing about trans subjects. Though that’s what I’m best known for here in Internet Land, it’s far from my only (or even dominant) interest in politics. I have layers, you know, like an onion or a parfait. Still, I have something that probably needs to be said. It’s basic, but [...]
...read moreStop right there, thank you very much
Two new fronts on the immigration fight in the US: In Nebraska, a small town called Fremont just passed a referendum today that will require tenants who are not US citizens to get an “occupancy license” from the city council in order to rent housing. Even residents of nursing homes will be required to get [...]
...read moreTopless Trans Women Told to Cover Up; But Not Arrested Because of “Male Genitalia”
Your WTF of the day, on so many levels. REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — Rehoboth Beach in Delaware isn’t a topless beach — but a few transgender women caused a stir by treating it like one. Police say passers-by complained after they removed their tops and revealed their surgically enhanced breasts over Memorial Day weekend. [...]
...read moreInternational Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. I’ve had a pretty intense day, so I hope you will excuse the lack of a substantial post, but I thought it was better marked this way than not at all! You can read about IDAHO at the site, where you can find information on the [...]
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Events in Remebrance of Amanda González-Andújar
You may have heard of the recent murder of Amanda González-Andújar. A man has been taken into custody in connection with her murder, which is undoubtedly good news, but González-Andújar is still gone, and hers is sadly yet another name to add to this year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance list of the dead. This Saturday, [...]
...read moreWe Are the Dead: Sex, Assault, and Trans Women
This guest post is a part of the Feministe series on Sexual Assault Awareness Month. C. L. Minou is a blogger and writer inhabiting a Great American Metropolis. In addition to her work at the Second Awakening, she has written for Shakesville, the Guardian’s Comment Is Free, and is a co-blogger at Tiger Beatdown. She [...]
...read moreTransgender Day of Visibility
Today’s International Transgender Day of Visibility. Started last year as a movement on Facebook, the goal of today is to increase visibility and celebrate transgender identity: “I went on Facebook and I was thinking… whenever I hear about our community, it seems to be from Remembrance Day which is always so negative because it’s about [...]
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