I like to do the news on Sunday, or Monday at the latest. Today is Tuesday and I’m scrambling to compile the weeks trans* news. Sorry about that. I’m taking part in Camp Nanowrimo, it’s sucking up all my writing energy like some lame sparkly vampire. Compiling news by hand takes forever, if only I had more… Read more
Week 28’s News – Rob Ford is being, well, Rob Ford and more religious bigotry creeping into Canada. Rob Ford’s ‘spendaphobic’: Mayor’s not against gays, he’s just against funding them, Doug Ford says Asked about Mr. Ford’s controversial vote Thursday against a study on a shelter for homeless gay youth and about his refusal to… Read more
Ignoring the transphobic slurs thrown by Joan Rivers, because all she wants is more attention, here’s this weeks Trans News! Largest Study to Date: Transgender Hormone Treatment Safe More than 2000 patients from 15 US and European centers participated in the retrospective study, called Comorbidity and Side Effects of Cross-Sex Hormone Treatment in Transsexual Subjects,… Read more
Here’s the new roundup, as usual this is in no particular order. If you think something really important is missing please add it in the comments below, thanks. Two more trans women killed this week in the USA, Yaz’min Shancez and Tiffany Edwards. I think that’s 104 trans murders so far in 2014. “Trans women of… Read more
The phrasing* is outdated now but facts remain facts. Without trans, gay, bi, drag and lesbian – butch and femme – people protesting at Stonewall North America would be very different and more oppressive toward LGBT folks. It wasn’t the first such riot in America, that seems to be from Los Angeles in 1959 where “Gay… Read more
I’m not really sure what’s up for debate here, but let’s dive in because a debate still seems to exist somehow. The word tranny is seen as a slur by most of the trans* community, both male and female. I can’t say all, because generalising. No large subset of people will ever 100% agree on… Read more
We’re bias on this site. React to that as you will, but our bias is toward transgender issues, that’s what we’re going to be writing about the most. Read more
