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• Heroes star tweets transphobia

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 140
  Heroes star tweets transphobia Read more….
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• Heroes star tweets transphobia

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 140
  Heroes star tweets transphobia Read more….
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• Internalized transphobia

  
  The Thang Blog — Authority: 125
  The first night of tech for Trans Form was last night, and I’m kind of a mess. (For those of you who aren’t theatre people, tech refers to technical rehearsals, where lights/sound/etc are set. It comes before dress rehearsals and/or previews, the final rehearsals before a show opens.) The show is going fine, ...
  2 days ago

• Trans-Sexualization in Academia (Guest Post)

  
  Questioning Transphobia — Authority: 566
  Written by Kittyburger, originally posted here . There’s going to be a little bit of trans-feminist ranting strewn in here, so bear with me ;) A definition is required to begin with: The word “cissexual” was coined in the early 1990s. General records seem to indicate Patrick Califa invented it. The meaning ...
  3 days ago

• The Transphobe Who Can Ruin Your Day

  
  Questioning Transphobia — Authority: 566
  Guest post by Lucy, who originally posted here Just when I was hoping that Julie Bindel had moved on from being actively transphobic, she’s appeared in an, at-best, centre-right magazine called Standpoint (What the heck is a feminist, especially a self-proclaimed radical lesbian feminist, doing cosying up with ...
  3 days ago

• As Uganda regresses, Spain progresses

  
  gay persons of color — Authority: 420
  As international condemnation grows for Ugandan MP David Bahatis anti-gay bill, which proposes, among other things, life imprisonment for anyone convicted of having gay sex, a man in Spain has become the first to receive an official letter apologizing for his past imprisonment for being gay. In 1976, 17-year-old ...
  4 days ago

• Swedens Gunilla Carlsson stands up to Ugandan homophobes

  
  gay persons of color — Authority: 420
  Swedish development assistance minister Gunilla Carlsson reportedly suggested last week that her country could cut aid funding in Uganda if an anti-gay bill, which calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of having gay sex, passes into law. The new "aggravated-homosexuality" crime would also mean jail time ...
  6 days ago

• Words Have Consequences

  
  TransGriot — Authority: 589
  Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me. Weve all heard that old nursery rhyme. However, if you pay attention to the ebb and flow of historical events, one constant is that words have consequences and ripple effects for real people. It is the words that precede the sticks and stones ...
  1 week ago

• Catholic Church Already Hatin For The Holidays

  
  TransGriot — Authority: 589
  Can me and my transisstahs go through this holiday season without being verbally attacked by faith based haters, the Catholic Church, conservative media or conservative Black megachurch preachers? Monica Roberts November 27, 2009 Nope. The post I wrote asking if we could go a month without any holiday ...
  1 week ago

• Turkey: latest LGBT news/links

  
  Unzipped: Gay Armenia — Authority: 425
  1. Gay refugees flee persecution but remain at risk ( WorldFocus ) Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) refugees are among the most vulnerable refugee groups in the world today, according to Neil Grungras, the executive director of Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration (ORAM).[...] ORAM is ...
  1 week ago

• Seroprevalence amongst trans women

  
  Questioning Transphobia — Authority: 566
  cross posted at Harlot’s Parlour Since yesterday was World AIDS day I thought I’d drop some stats about seroprevalance amongst trans women, especially sex workers, worldwide. Studies about HIV infection rates amongst trans women populations overall: *  14% amongst trans women in Puerto Rico ...
  1 week ago

• Anti-trans? Or just anti-poor thinking?

  
  CaroLINES — Authority: 137
  I gather that a few people think Im anti-transgender, because I point out flaws in some of justifications. Or because I refuse to accept all of their claims, without question. One or two have suggested that Im some kind of self-hating tranny: a bit like all those homophobic gay Republicans we keep hearing about. At ...
  1 week ago

• Ten Ways Homophobia & Transphobia Affect Straight People

  
  Queers United — Authority: 474
  1. Homophobia and transphobia force us to act "macho" if we are a man or "feminine" if we are a woman. This limits our individuality and self-expression. 2. Homophobia and transphobia put pressure on straight people to act aggressively and angrily towards LGBTQI people. 3. Homophobia and transphobia can make ...
  1 week ago

• Bad PR For Macs

  
  TransGriot — Authority: 589
  Been a couple of PR nightmares pop up for Apple lately. First theres the unwanted photo of Bigot Harry Jackson using one of their computers to read his speech hating on the DC marriage issue during the pubic commentary phase. But at the same time, Apple cant help the fact the bigots like their computing ...
  1 week ago

• The Cleveland Show Features Transphobic Episode

  
  Queers United — Authority: 474
  The Cleveland Show an animated series spin off of the Family Guy which appears on Fox has created a disgustingly transphobic episode. The character Auntie Mama a beloved but "outrageous" woman who is overtly sexual and has poor manners is discovered by Cleveland to have a penis. Cleveland immediately declares her a ...
  1 week ago

• Labour Wants to Make “Same Sex Education Lessons” to 5 Year-Olds Compulsory

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 606
  By Tom Gower–The Labour Government has announced that it will introduce  “Gender Equality Lessons” to children from the age of five as a means of tackling “domestic violence, homophobia and transphobia” — but will steer clear of mentioning honour based killings. In terms of the plan, “personal, social ...
  1 week ago

• The Abuse of an Asylum Seeker

  
  The Jaded Hippy — Authority: 416
  Via Questioning Transphobia and VivirLatino I found the story of Esmeralda: 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 ...
  1 week ago

• CBS Ditches AP Stylebook for Transphobic Screed

  
  The Transadvocate — Authority: 511
  Apparently CBS has decided that the AP sytlebook is too tame for its content, and would rather go the way of Jerry Springer. The title of a post over at CBS News blares “ Cross-Dressing Killer Robert Kosilek Wants You To Pay For Hair-Removal Treatments Behind Bars “. I applaud the writer, Ryan Smith, on his ...
  2 weeks ago

• Seth Macfarlane Attacks Trans Women On The Cleveland Show

  
  Womanist Musings — Authority: 638
  The Cleveland show continues to be a hot mess.  Week after week it targets the most vulnerable members of our society.  MacFarlane has no witty repartee for the reduction of White, cisgender males of class privilege. Apparently men that look like him are above ridicule.  Often the defence of his actions is that he ...
  2 weeks ago

• I Do Not Consent: Musings on Sexual Terrorism

  
  black girl blogging. — Authority: 111
  This is a re-post from JoNubian’s blog . A painful truth is that rape plays to big a role in the lives of one two many of the women closest to me. I hope that both cis and trans women continue to tell their truths about rape and that men join us in breaking the cycle of rape culture. I am the history of rape ...
  2 weeks ago

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