PSA: Your Transphobia and Body Shaming Isn’t Radical
On Thursday morning, six cities across the country were greeted with a purportedly radical political art installation – an enormous statue of naked Donald Trump, installed right in the center of their...
View ArticleJudge rules company within rights to fire employee for being trans
Last Thursday, a federal court judge in Detroit ruled that a funeral home had the right to fire Aimee Stephens because she came out as trans. This case adds to the climate of transphobia our country...
View ArticleWe Must Act Now in the Face of Transphobia
We’re only days into 2017 and three trans people have already been murdered. During the first week of the year, Mesha Caldwell, a Black trans woman, was found shot to death in Mississippi. Three days...
View ArticleTake Action: Stop Texas Bill Targeting Trans Students
The Texas legislature just came back into session — and immediately started targeting transgender students. On Friday, a key Senate committee voted 8-1 for S.B. 3, a bill that would bar transgender...
View ArticlePSA: Support Trans People But Not the Military
“Imperialism is still imperialism even if the soldiers are queer. Sorry.” — Kat Blaque Today was shitty. In a series of tweets this morning, President Trump announced that transgender people will no...
View Article#MeToo: Don’t Make Trans and Queer Survivors a Footnote
It’s been a rough month to be a survivor on the internet. While many important conversations have been re-ignited by #MeToo and around high-profile perpetrators like Harvey Weinstein, George H.W. Bush,...
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A Feminist Trans Day of Remembrance Reading List
Yesterday was Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day dedicated to honoring of all those killed by transphobic violence around the world. The day began in Boston in 1999, when friends and chosen family...
View ArticleTrump targets transgender prisoners — but he’s not the first
In the latest attack on trans people’s safety, the Trump administration announced that they will assign incarcerated transgender people to prisons based on the sex they were assigned at birth. The...
View ArticleThe U.S. is Denying Trans Women Passports
In a Twitter thread posted last week, Janus Rose, a tech researcher based in New York, reported that the State Department “retroactively invalidated” the change of gender marker on her passport from...
View ArticleLegal protections for trans Massachusetts residents hang in the balance
On Election Day, Massachusetts voters will decide whether or not to uphold an existing anti-discrimination law that protects trans people’s access to public accommodations. As the first statewide...
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