On July 17, 2008, Angie Zapata, a happy and beautiful transgender woman who was only 18 and living on her own for the first time, was brutally murdered in Greeley, Colorado by Allen Andrade because she was trans. Her murderer, of course, claims that he beat her head in with a fire extinguisher until she [...]
Filed under: Hate Crime, Law, News, Transgender | Tagged: Allen Andrade, Angie Zapata, Greeley CO, Hate Crime, Kelli Anne Busey, trans panic | 1 Comment »
Attorney and law professor Jillian Weiss has posted another interesting article over on Bilerico. This one concerns the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which held that laws making sex between consenting adults of the same sex a crime (aka “sodomy” laws) are unconstitutional, and whether and how that decision can be [...]
Filed under: equal rights, Law, Transgender | Tagged: Diane Schroer, Jillian Weiss, Library of Congress, same sex marriage, sex discrimination, The Bilerico Project, Title VII, transexual, Transgender, transsexual | Leave a Comment »
Hi Everyone, This one may be short, we’ll see what happens. The other day I was reading someone’s blog (I’m really sorry I forgot where I originally saw this. If anyone knows, please give credit where credit is due.) and was guided to the following link: Intersex Infant surgical abuse. PLEASE watch the video. It [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Education, Health, Transgender, Video | Tagged: Alice Dreger, intersex, J. Michael Bailey, Transgender | 1 Comment »
I haven’t posted anything here in a while, normally I just use my own blog for stuff. I thought this video was worth posting here because it concerns the entire trans community. I’ve been wanting to make this video for a while and I finally got around to doing it, so here it is.
Filed under: Commentary, Transgender, Video | Tagged: costs, transition, Video, vlog | Leave a Comment »
My friend Michael is one of the organizers of, and the webmaster for, the Central Arizona Gender Alliance. Recently, he asked me to write a profile of myself to be posted as the feature story on the CAGA website for January 2009. Rather than start from scratch, I adapted my “Who I Am and Why [...]
Filed under: Commentary, Education, Transgender | Tagged: activism, Arizona, caga, community, violence | Leave a Comment »
Over at Helen Boyd’s blog, the question comes up of whether partners of transpeople identify as being under the LGBT umbrella – Helen herself says “I’m the Q that gets left off a lot,” which makes sense to me. I wanted to leave a comment but I’ve never been able to successfully register on Helen’s [...]
Filed under: Commentary, Life Experiences, Transgender | Tagged: glbt, helen boyd, LGBT, partner, queer, spouse | 2 Comments »
Hi Everyone, I have a few very important things (I feel they are at least) to discuss. I would like to bring to your attention of a few new regulations that have been put forth that could have some very disturbing realities for transgender people (Heck, the whole LGBT community for that matter). I’m on [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Health, News, Transgender | Tagged: "Provider Conscience" rule, Family and Medical Leave Act, National Center for Transgender Equality, NCTE, Transgender | 2 Comments »
The discussion on various Yahoo groups that I belong to regarding the impact of the same-sex marriage bans just enacted in Arizona, California and Florida on marriages involving one or more transgender partner continues. I’ve previously posted about those issues here and here. This is my most recent addition to that discussion:
Filed under: Commentary, Education, Law, Transgender | Tagged: gay marriage, marriage equality, same sex marriage, transexual, Transgender, transsexual | 1 Comment »
Review: Law and Order SVU: Transgender Teen
Over on her “A T Revival” blog, Lori posted a review of last night’s episode of Law and Order: Special Victim’s Unit. As I was in a very drowsy state as I tried to stay awake to watch it, I’m grateful that she wrote down her summary and opinions, filling in the parts I missed. [...]
Filed under: Commentary, Transgender, Video | Tagged: law & order, nbc, review, special victims unit, svu, television, Transgender, transgender children, tv | 4 Comments »