I mean, I’m not sure I’m even comfortable drawing game-like analogies or syllogisms anymore. It’s beyond something I ever wanna compare to a ‘game,’ ever again. Read more

You’re ‘technically’ right, the same way they’re ‘technically’ not trying to draw a subconscious link by mentioning the two together as reasons for blocking section 1557, which specifically pertains to transition-related care.

Specious, indeed. Read more

As a trans* woman, I want to point out that they’re denying trans folx like me (DMAB) other unrelated services (counseling, hormone replacement therapy, etc) because they think there *might* be a specious link between this an abortion.

Blocking DHHS section 1557 over abortion services, something trans ladies like… Read more

Lookit, I made it into a dress.

I genuinely don’t find talking to a terrified, already-marginalized population about the ways you’re going to take care of them in exchange for their votes ‘pandering’ in any form. Read more

you might read the rest of my replies. Read more

They don’t. But I’m not in the position of having the luxury of bluffing that I’ll vote any other way.

My literal, actual survival depends on this election. Read more

I’m not suggesting that Hillary hasn’t done work for us. That’s the reason I’m voting for her, because she’s the best possible chance I have to exist as a free and independent American woman.

That said, there was this huge conversation about how Donald Trump mentioned ‘LGBTQ’ folks during his speech at the RNC.

I have a… Read more

Desistance is a myth. Read more

atta bunny. Read more

More to the point, please realize this original post asking to ‘remove Texas’ isn’t really what I’m asking for, given the context of the sentence I used immediately following to talk about the day we achieve equality under the law.

I am a transgender woman that grew up in Kansas, under a regime of oppressive,… Read more

If you don’t want to be a part of the system in Texas, don’t be. Get out. Your dollars directly fund a state-sponsored structure of transphobic legislation. Read more

The entirety of this decision is in limbo while the SCOTUS seat is at stake. This election, this issue, turns many transgender people like me into single-issue voters this election, but none of the Democratic candidates seem to see that, really.

Perhaps it’s because they spend 0% of the time on the campaign trail… Read more

Can we just cut Texas out of the US? Honestly, they are the ones putting up the biggest fight, stirring the pot the most.

As a transgender woman, I cannot wait for the day we finally get vindication and equality under the law. Every time we make progress forward, the conservative backlash forces us back into the… Read more

As a transgender woman — no matter how safe I feel in any kind of space or event, no matter who my friends are, or who I find myself alone in rooms with — I will always feel uneasy because California remains the only state to have banned ‘trans panic’ as an unjustifiable legal defense. Read more

Trans* lady reporting. Read more

This list of recommended criteria for vaginoplasty is cut from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Volume 7 in transgender standards of care, to which the “Real Life Experience” to which the Army is likely referring, based on my understanding of that statement. If so, this is actually…

You know, or her noted discriminatory policy on gay marriage. We could choose to selectively ignore that. We probably *shouldn’t* but hey, that’s what America’s best at. Read more

As a trans* woman, I wish he’d added: Even as the Affordable Care Act survived its last SCOTUS hurdle, most insurance companies will exclude transgender transition-related care from their policies. While it is true that some private company policies are increasingly inclusive of these life-affirming benefits, mosts… Read more

Why does this post not get more feedback?? If I could give you eighteen stars I would. This is as fundamental a problem with recognition of trans* identity as anything else. Read more