Transadvocate

Transgender rights and art

Antony and the Johnsons

Tranny Acopolyse, West Side Story Activism, Gender Identity and Utah's GLBT rights, and the coming Tranny apolypse

PAT, IFGE Conference, Radical Feminism, and the Godfather Transsexual

2009-02-16T10:20:00.001-08:00

Transgender janitor shocks elem. school parents

Stand P A T

Am I the only person offended by this?

Making the Jump: Those That Don’t

Cleveland Plain Dealer Reporters Can't Just Stick To the Story

A Conference Worth Remembering . . .

Radical Feminism

The GodMOTHER: Transsexual Mafia boss who wears lipstick and calls himself Kitty arrested by Italian police

Free to be he

Transgender ordinance to be reworked

Referencing The Styleguides On The Terms Transgender And Transsexual

Starting a conversation is sometimes awkward but usually a good thing

Transgender woman pleads guilty in husband's over-exercising death

Freedom of Thought vs. Genetics - Round One

Shemale Loving A-Rod, Thailand Take on Transsexuals, and Right Wing Asshole Watch

2009-02-10T12:08:00.001-08:00

A-Rod Likes She-Males? The Oddsmakers Love A-Rod

No penis, no job

Discrimination, rejection common themes for transgendered

THE TRANSGENDER ISSUE IN THE USA

“I don’t think my body was a mistake”

Homosexuality & the laws of moral physics

Why I Am NOT A Liberal Talk Show Host

OBAMA GAY, Trangender Wars, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T

2009-02-09T11:02:00.001-08:00

HRC Relishes Sudden Access To White House

Obama Fundie Watch

Revelations of Truth
Why I pray for our new president

Dr. Kenneth Zucker's War on Transgenders

ENDA
Transgender people plead for law change

Campaign Puts The “T” Back In “LGBT”

The Word Tranny
Show respect to trans community

HRC IFGE

Here We Go Again: IFGE Elects HRC’s Allyson Robinson To The Board

Queer Campbell's Soup, Evil Obama and the trannies, naming your vagina, and legally transbullying.

2009-02-06T10:46:00.001-08:00

ON THE SHOW TODAY

Transactivism in action!

Queer Buycott - Campbell's Soup

Transgender Non-Discrimination policies

Clarkston broadens non-discrimination policy

Extend Protections to Transgendered Community

Human Rights Campaign testifies on NH gender identity and expression bill

Christian response to these policies

Obama, Pelosi, Butt Heads – The Left Hand Not Knowing What The Other Left Hand Is Doing!

Something evil this way cometh and it has been elected to the White House

Using Transsexuals to Sell Your Product
Boscombe transsexual who stalked male nurse faces prison

A Case Of Trans Bullying

Lynn Conway's Trans News Updates: The webpage Zucker attempted to suppress

Dr. Zucker Fights Back, and the APA’s Special Exemption on Reparative Therapy Remains

Living the TransLife

Over the Hills and Far Away

world’s youngest transsexual
Britain's Got Talent torment of the boy who grew up to be Marilyn Monroe

Game show: Name that Vagina
Metaphors

Public Accommodations for Transsexuals, Manty Hose, And Christian Fundies Crying Wolf

2009-02-05T09:23:00.001-08:00

accommodation

Transsexual Woman Fights For Rights At Health Club

Men and Pantyhose
Say no to manty hose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6J-0S36MzQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaOX3f6Rd10

The T in fertility
The “T” in LGBT Family Building….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn0MoNaXULk

The Christian fundies decry special rights
Debate over special rights for transgendered

Christian fundies cry wolf, ignore their own issues
Article Discussion: Bill exposes people to harm

Transproofed Trailer
Transproofed

NHS's transphobic commercial
NHS exploits transsexuals in poster campaign

and the Transphobic jokes that follow the NHS's campaign
Is Chelsea captain John Terry a secret transsexual? Judge for yourself

Japan's Glass ceiling is pliable
Plaintiff with gender identity disorder wins damages suit in rare ruling

Transsexual parenting, second class, and the medical basis for transsexuality.

2009-02-04T10:12:00.001-08:00

Transgender: Being second class
Almost, but not quite

Who oversees the overseer?

Straight Jacket Problem:Lingustics, political correctness, and politics
Straight-jacket Problem

I personally believe that Singaporeans should be sensitive and
sensitised to issues on gender identity and sexuality, before they
willingly don the mass produced straight-jackets of gendered society.
In essence, transparency and the access to new/alternative sets of
knowledge should be created for ourselves by ourselves, through the
raising of this form of awareness.

What does it mean/take to be
man/woman? What does it mean/take to be
gay/straight/bisexual/pansexual/asexual/etc? What does it mean/take to
identify as or be transgendered?

Are you a masculinist masculine male man?

There
is another tension that exists, one that I have far greater difficulty
in communicating. I am weary of the culture of "political correctness"
that might shroud such a campaign/movement, taking into consideration
SinQSA strives for social integration. The paradox is there for all of
us to see when we become intolerant, forceful and righteous in our
attempts to fight these very same properties.

To avoid that, I
propose the "politically correct" use of terminology. A gay is not gay.
He/she is someone who identifies as gay. At the same time, "homosexual"
should be an adjective rather than a noun, the latter implying some
simplistic reductionism of a person's identity. This
linguistic/grammatical strategy is problematic too, as some members of
the sexual minority community are still oriented towards the previous
discourse of identification.

Gender identity policy in Fairbanks:
Fairbanks school board tackles gender identity policy

Medical basis for transsexuality
Two for the Reference Library

Christian Conservative Opposing -

GLBT schools:
Students Deserve Better than Gay Chicago School CEO Huberman

GLBT adoption:

California Government at its Worst

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OJA2xT0sk1M

What is a pregnant man?

Pregnant Man: Reloaded

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qrbggrhhg8o

Transsexual teen surgery:

Teen sex swap girl talks

The Transadvocate 1-3-09

2009-02-03T09:45:00.000-08:00

Diego Sanchez's appointment to Frank's office.
Frank’s New Face

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2fXIPpy8j0

North Dakota Anti-Discrimination bill
Rights bill affects all of us

Identity Politics
PG Article on Obama and racial identity

End of lesbian separatism
The end of womyn's lands?

Transkids treatment
Suppressing puberty with a view to sex-change surgery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MISMTywHdoY

Pumping Silicone

The Dangers Of Loose Silicone Injections: My Own Personal Horror Story

Transgender Bank Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaGbTr8B2o

Trans stuff

2009-01-30T09:55:00.001-08:00

Woman has rap sheet as man

Marriage equality and transgender people

Thoughts On The Equality Summit's Transgender Breakout Session

Book about transacceptance

10,000 Dresses celebrates transgender children

Trans resolution in Boston passes

Boston City Council passes resolution supporting transgender rights

How to address transgender people

The name game

Intolerant Jesus love

Pepsi ads, $$$, employee "training" push gay lifestyle

ACLU & Sexual Amputees Sue Illinois

and the refuting of that story:

Laurie Higgins - yet another phony expert

Diversity Lessons 101: Ex-Gay Survivors

Gender Theory

Utopian?

TA VID

2009-01-28T09:59:00.001-08:00

Christian Fundie Liars Club

Obama “Forcing” Christians To Embrace Homosexuality, Conservatives Warn

ENDA

ENDA: More important than marriage equality

Gender Marker Change in Mass.

Go MA!

ACLU to sue after state stops giving birth certificates to sex changers

The Next "Man Who Would Be Queen" Flub

20 years of changing hearts and minds: 20th Annual GLAAD Media Award Nominees

TA 1-27-09

2009-01-27T09:10:00.000-08:00

Obama

White House promoting 'anti-Christian' policies?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxQQ9zP5VOc

the opposite view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAuYGPaAs2I

Christians Bitching About Obama

Homeschooling and homosexuality

What do Americans think of gay rights?

Change We Never Imagined

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHlelAui5fs

Gays Bitching About Obama

Throw some gays overboard, again?

The New DNC Looks Like…

What do Americans think of gay rights?

red state update
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sddxf_0kPc

Non-Discrimination

Trans Dress Code Loss

Would It Kill You To Look Like A Man? Transgender Employees in Indiana

Allegheny County reviews nondiscrimination law

Trans Coming Out Story in North Dakota

Putting the pieces together

Gender and Theater

Gender Muck

Names and Pronouns

Local Issue

Bolivia Passes Constitution Containing Pro-Abortion, Homosexualist Language

Ruby-Sachs: Polygamy and Gay Marriage

HRC using entrance fee to L Word to count as donation

HRC: Gettin' Sneaky With It

GlAAD Media Awards
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular LGBT character}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31aPduNjAq0

TA 1-27-09

2009-01-27T08:30:00.001-08:00

Obama

White House promoting 'anti-Christian' policies?

Obama's Gay Agenda

Obama To Adopt Radical Gay Rights Agenda

Christians Bitching About Obama

Homeschooling and homosexuality

Gays Bitching About Obama

Throw some gays overboard, again?

The New DNC Looks Like…

What do Americans think of gay rights?

Non-Discrimination

Putting the pieces together

Trans Dress Code Loss

Would It Kill You To Look Like A Man? Transgender Employees in Indiana

Allegheny County reviews nondiscrimination law

Gender Muck

Local Issue

The Scandalously Radical Body of Christ

Bolivia Passes Constitution Containing Pro-Abortion, Homosexualist Language

Ruby-Sachs: Polygamy and Gay Marriage

HRC: Gettin' Sneaky With It

What do Americans think of gay rights?

Change We Never Imagined

GlAAD Media Awards
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular LGBT character}

The TA Video Stream -

2009-01-23T09:56:00.001-08:00

India's sodomy law

Repeal of India’s Sodomy Law

Bolivia's Constitution

Bolivia's New Constitutional Referendum Set For January 25

Hate crimes in Montana

Emotions run high at hate-crime bill hearing

Ted Pike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfjrzWakBjE

Refusing to be classified

http://content1a.omroep.nl/51d3083f6716b641f6e3937dc5a93171/4979f012/rnw/smac/cms/refusing_to_be_classified_20090124_44_1kHz.mp3

Calling ALL Trangender Individuals Now Casting

Are drag queens the new supermodels?

Drag queen super model contest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiehrN0-F88

Antony Hegarty's new album is a masterpiece with a green message

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjKWa0fzYAw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-qThnGw_64

http://www.amazon.com/Crying-Light-Antony-Johnsons/dp/B001MW0IY8

The Irresistible Temptation:Exploiting Our Dead

2008-10-09T07:07:00.001-07:00

Last year I wrote Photo Ops, Donations, And The Selling of Our Dead, when the Human Rights Campaign tried to hijack the Washington D.C. Transgender Day of Remembrance.

To refresh your memory, the founder of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, Gwen Smith, said of the day:

"The Transgender Day of Remembrance serves several purposes. It raises public awareness of hate crimes against transgendered people, an action that current media doesn’t perform. Day of Remembrance publicly mourns and honors the lives of our brothers and sisters who might otherwise be forgotten. Through the vigil, we express love and respect for our people in the face of national indifference and hatred. Day of Remembrance reminds non-transgender people that we are their sons, daughters, parents, friends and lovers. Day of Remembrance gives our allies a chance to step forward with us and stand in vigil, memorializing those of us who’ve died by anti-transgender violence."

Apparently that scope isn't wide enough for the folks in Orlando, Florida. They've set out to expand the day to Transgender Day Of Remembrance and Inspiration. Part of that "inspiration" is to fundraise for the Orlando Youth Alliance. I'm sure it's an oversight, but the Orlando Youth Alliance's website asks:

Are you curious about your sexuality?

Are you having problems dealing with the issues of your sexuality?

and states that:

Almost every GLBTQ youth has questions about their sexuality at some point in their life.

and their donation page, a goal of their fundraising efforts is to help build a:

24 hr safe house for those who have been kicked out of their homes due to their
sexuality.

Transgender children generally are kicked out of their homes for their gender presentation, not thier sexuality.

Another ironic aspect is that one of the sponsors is Tri-ess. Tri-ess describes itself as:

an educational, social and support group for heterosexual crossdressers, their partners, the spouses of married crossdressers and their families.

One only needs to look as far as their email list descriptions to get an idea of how transsexuals are viewed within Tri-ess:

Those of you with strong, militant transsexual attachments, please move on. This list is not for you. For the purposes of this list, those with "militant transsexual attachments" are defined as those who actively promote transsexualism.

Most of the people aren't on the TDOR list are transsexuals (or people living full time in their chosen gender), not crossdressers.

The Day of Remembrance isn't a day for inspiration or fundraising. It's a solemn day that should be revered as such. It's not a day to sell our dead for money or motivation.

Cross posted from Transadvocate.com