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• November 20th – Transgender Remembrance Day

  
  Tasithoughts's Weblog — Authority: 128
  Within the LGBT rights movement is the Transgender community.  This is often the group that probably has the toughest obstacles on the road to equality issues than any demographic in across LGBT peoples. They face both prejudices outside the community and even within the community. Some of those prejudices have ...
  4 hours ago

• First Event 2010: One Big Happy Transgender Family

  
  The Bilerico Project — Authority: 690
  I will be presenting a keynote address at " First Event 2010 " in Peabody, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. First Event, an annual event presented for the past 29 years by The Tiffany Club of New England , will be held January 13-17, 2010. The Tiffany Club is the oldest and largest transgender support ...
  9 hours ago

• m. backes, about medical marijuana: part 2— unraveling LA city atty’s pesticide story (2060)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 129
  Pesticides & Politics, Part 2 the second of two guest blogs concerning medical cannabis safety by M. Backes November 11, 2009 The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office found 5.25% of the cannabis samples tested from purchases made at Los Angeles dispensaries (3 out of 52 samples) to contain pesticide ...
  12 hours ago

• m. backes, about medical marijuana: part 1—unraveling LA city atty’s pesticide story (2059)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 129
  Pesticides & Politics, part 1 (This is a guest blog by M. Backes, responding to allegations by City Attorney Carmen Trutanich about pesticides on medical cannabis.) October 15, 2009 LA City Attorney, Carmen “Nuch” Trutanich, has been all over the media trying to convince Los Angeles that a ...
  12 hours ago

• “I Am My Father’s Son”

  
  Mombian — Authority: 474
  Here is the sixth in my series of quotes from Who’s Your Daddy? And Other Writings on Queer Parenting . I’ll be running them for a couple of weeks courtesy of the book’s editor, Rachel Epstein. I’m choosing the quotes I feel are most intriguing and thought provoking; I don’t always agree with the ...
  13 hours ago

• john hoeffel, latimes: AMA jumps into medical cannabis fray (2058)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 129
  Medical marijuana gets a boost from major doctors group The American Medical Assn. changes its policy to promote clinical research and development of cannabis-based medicines and alternative delivery methods. By John Hoeffel November 11, 2009 The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal ...
  23 hours ago

• tonight

  
  Femulate — Authority: 130
  I am all dolled up and ready to attend a semi-formal/formal tonight. The advertisement for the event reads "Formal Attire Encouraged," while a past attendee informed me that it is really a "semi-formal" event, yet all the photos Ive seen of the event show women in long formal gowns. No matter, I am wearing a ...
  1 day ago

• Putting on the brakes: An apology

  
  The Bilerico Project — Authority: 690
  As Antonia said in my last posts comments, " My dear, you certainly stepped into it ." It has come to my attention that my counterpoint article on trans exclusion/inclusion has made the rounds on e-mail lists, forums, and the desks of executives at a few national LGBT organizations. Just like in any game of ...
  1 day ago

• Rocky Horror and the Holy Grail, or: The Problem with Defining to Exclusion

  
  Dented Blue Mercedes — Authority:
  As communities rise from the margins, they undergo a process of introspection, microscopic self-examination and self-definition.  It’s a process of healing, throwing off the ill-fitting definitions that had been imposed previously by a majority that didn’t experience and most often didn’t understand what it was ...
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• Hong Kong Transwoman Fights For Her Marriage Rights

  
  TransGriot — Authority: 579
  Heres another example of the how the GL push for same gender marriage has had a deleterious effect on the ability of transpeople to get married . Thanks to my sis Leona Lo, I heard about this Hong Kong case . Trans people in South Korea, Singapore, Japan, parts of Europe and even parts of mainland China have the ...
  1 day ago

• vintage femulators

  
  Femulate — Authority: 130
  As a child of the 1950s, female fashions of the late 50s and early 60s left a big impression on my developing psyche. As a result, today I favor fashions that recall the styles of that era. I actually own some vintage clothing and have worn some of those items out en femme . In addition to wearing retro and vintage ...
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• The Eternal Question

  
  Queer Visalia — Authority: 127
  I know gay boys and girls get all excited about shiny and with the Droid’s recent release it’s only a matter of time before the bitter rivalry between the iPhoners and Droidette’s heats up. So in the spirit of helping y’all decide on which one you’ll be getting for yoursel….. er, I mean that special ...
  2 days ago

• Victory for eunuchs in India

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 625
  Download audio file (1113095.mp3) Download MP3 India’s election commission announced it will allow eunuchs and transgender individuals to describe themselves as “other” instead of male or female when filling out official documents. Anchor Marco Werman finds out more from the BBC’s Rupa Jah in Delhi.
  2 days ago

• When Its Not Your Fight

  
  The Bilerico Project — Authority: 690
  So for my first actual contribution, Im going to talk about something thats been on my mind of late. Some of it is informed by Austens recent posts , but for the most part its informed by the direction Ive come to feel that things must go in order to make headway in our quest for equality and equity . And I ...
  2 days ago

• Now this is a pageant I can get behind

  
  Feministing — Authority: 733
  Miss Indian TG Arizona 2007-2009, Ricki Quintero, White Mountain Apache Who thought a pageant could actually serve the better good? The 2009 Miss Indian Transgender Arizona Pageant is being held in Phoenix on December 13th this year. The pageant is a collaboration of a LGBT individuals, groups and programs within ...
  2 days ago

• Now this is a pageant I can get behind

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 162
  Miss Indian TG Arizona 2007-2009, Ricki Quintero, White Mountain Apache Who thought a pageant could actually serve the better good? The 2009 Miss Indian Transgender Arizona Pageant is being held in Phoenix on December 13th this year. The pageant is a collaboration of a LGBT individuals, groups and programs within ...
  2 days ago

• India: "O" Is For "Other"

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 717
  Voters in India will now have the option of identifying themselves as male, female, or "other" on ballot forms. Indian election authorities Thursday granted what they called an independent identity to intersex and transsexuals in the countrys voter lists. Before, members of these groups -- loosely called eunuchs ...
  2 days ago

• Esmeralda’s Horrible and Hopeful Story

  
  The Unapologetic Mexican — Authority: 514
  From the Restore Fairness Blog : Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda, a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico, who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice. Kept in a segregated cell with other transgender detainees, Esmeralda never realized ...
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• Taking up the slack

  
  TransMarried: Transgender Couple, married and happy about it — Authority: 111
  I’ve learned more than I care to say about cancer, but the most surprising thing is that it completely takes over your life. Every weekday has at least one appointment for something –doctors, labs, scans, physical therapy and etc. Each week is regulated by where you are in the chemo cycle. Week one, you can do ...
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• Third gender in India

  
  The Bilerico Project — Authority: 690
  I know that people often point to understandings of gender and sex that include more than two options, but have you ever seen a system of understanding sex that rejected the binary in a modern states government ? (Let me know if Im wrong there; I just cant think of one.) Indias done just that, by allowing people to ...
  2 days ago

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