Transgender & Intersex: April 2010
NSFW: Representing Trans Women in Queer/Feminist Porn
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | April 29, 2010 3:00 PM |Last year I wrote about my film Doing it Ourselves: The Trans Women Porn Project as an attempt to represent trans women engaged in sexuality the way they wanted to be represented as opposed to what typically lines the shelves...Read More
Uniting the T and the LBG
Filed by Bil Browning | April 27, 2010 5:00 PM |Last year I celebrated my birthday in Washington DC with hundreds of friends and readers at the National Equality March. This year, I'll be celebrating in Phoenix, Arizona, and, of course, you're all invited. I'll be a plenary speaker at...Read More
Bad B movie poster: I Hate My Body
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 26, 2010 10:30 AM |Transexploitation! This actually looks like something I'd want to watch, if only to find out if they really deal with the issue. Any Bilerico friends know this film?...Read More
Sexual Orientation And Trans People
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | April 25, 2010 1:00 PM |I often hear said to me when I am out in the community, or read in comments and articles placed before me on blogs and in magazines and newspapers, a comment from some people who think that they have nothing...Read More
Congrats Number Four!
Filed by Monica Roberts | April 24, 2010 10:00 AM |The 2010 International Foundation For Gender Education (IFGE) Capital Conference started yesterday and will be running through the 25th. IFGE is a long time iconic organization in the trans community. It publishes the quarterly magazine Transgender Tapestry, does education on...Read More
MA trans rights bill gains momentum
Filed by Sara Whitman | April 22, 2010 4:00 PM |I hit that place in vacation where I actually calm down. It feels good. Only problem is, Jake has a fever. Poor baby. We were supposed to go parasailing today- perhaps it's the gods telling us no. It's been great...Read More
ENDA & Hostile Work Environments
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | April 20, 2010 2:00 PM |After discovering that my laptop has some rudimentary video capabilities, I thought I'd spare ya'll the usual wall of text post and give you a long video. You get to see me in my usual form when I write posts...Read More
Mistrial in Duanna Johnson's case
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 20, 2010 12:00 PM |The jury failed to come back with a verdict in the case of Bridges McRae, the cop who punched her and used pepper spray on a transgender arrestee after calling her a "faggot" and "he/she" and by her former first...Read More
The Return of the Pods
Filed by Rebecca Juro | April 17, 2010 10:00 AM |Yes, finally, after much delay, my first new podcast in about two years is up! Even cooler, you don't need to get it with I-Tunes or download it anymore. There's a nifty little player after the jump, with which you...Read More
University of Pennsylvania will cover gender confirmation
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 15, 2010 1:00 PM |The University of Pennsylvania's insurer will start to cover GRS related costs: In the next academic year, the Penn Student Insurance Plan will begin offering a new benefit for transgender students -- it will cover the cost of the gender...Read More
GLEE: Go Call Your Congressman
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | April 15, 2010 12:00 PM |Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury: I stand in the dock accused of defamation, of discrimination, by maligning the good intentions of GLEE, that favorite television show of the gays, by that most savage means and instrumentality of slander --...Read More
We're Paying Our Dues- So When Do We Get The Privileges Of Membership In American Society?
Filed by Monica Roberts | April 15, 2010 9:30 AM |Today is April 15 as many of you perusing this post are aware of. With the midnight deadline looming to get that check mailed off to the IRS, depending on whether you owe Uncle Sam or are waiting for a...Read More
Is GLEE Really A Friend of the LGBT Community?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | April 14, 2010 7:00 PM |In yesterday's episode of Glee, there is a comment about she-males. The thoroughly despicable, cartoonish Coach Sue is seen cutting a nerdy male student's ponytail and utters "there, you no longer confuse me with your shemale looks". "She-males" is a...Read More
Coming Out: Trans
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | April 09, 2010 1:00 PM |Coming out is a pretty important process. And it is a process. For trans people, coming out is made a little more complicated, and the degree of complication follows the sort of trans person they are. For some trans people,...Read More
Officer who held Duanna Johnson down testifies
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 09, 2010 11:30 AM |Updated after the jump with contact information for the newspaper. It's been almost two years since that disturbing video of one cop holding down while another cop beat a black trans woman, sending her to the hospital, was released. Both...Read More
Trans woman decapitated in Mexico
Filed by Joe Mirabella | April 08, 2010 12:00 PM |The body of a trans woman was found decapitated in Chihuahua, Mexico. Her body was found a kilometer away from her head. Authorities believe she was still alive during the decapitation because fear was frozen on her face. According to...Read More
African-American drag comedy: vintage albums
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 08, 2010 11:30 AM |Two now-obscure performers hamming it up to hilarious effects. I know nothing about them but their truly strange album covers speak volumes. Hope anyone doing research in this area can tell us more about them. So much has been lost:...Read More
Turn of the 20th Century Transformist
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 07, 2010 11:30 AM |I've found some fascinating vintage trans images from the 1890s - 1920s, including this gem. A bit of googling yielded the info that a postcard of Grandsart is in the Andrew M. Schwartz Collection on Cross-Dressing of the One Archives...Read More
A Prom and Pretty (Ugly) Things
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | April 06, 2010 7:00 PM |Secret proms being disguised as birthday parties. Social outcasts being left out and exiled. A school that has lied in court. And, once more, an example of some of the issues that surround all of this, and a reason why...Read More
"Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives" Fails, as a Movie and as a Concept
Filed by Rebecca Juro | April 06, 2010 5:00 PM |It's rare that a three-and-a-half-minute trailer tells you just about everything you need to know about a movie, but in the case of "Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives" the movie is everything you see in those few minutes but more... and...Read More
Fraternity, Sorority, Gender: 19th Century Lesbiana
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | April 06, 2010 11:30 AM |Something tells me there is more to this late 19th century postcard than meets the eye, though what meets the eye is certainly enchanting....Read More
Mark Angelo Cummings - Songs in the Key of F2M
Filed by Father Tony | April 06, 2010 9:30 AM |Within five minutes of my arrival at the Hollywood home of folk rock vocalist and acoustic guitarist Mark Angelo Cummings and his wife Violet, Mark took off his shirt to display his remarkable physique. (May all the handsome men I...Read More
Follow-up on a Flawed System: Is HRT in Prison Life or Death?
Filed by Keri Renault | April 05, 2010 10:30 AM |Last week's court decision overturning Wisconsin law that precluded transsexual inmates from receiving transition-related care raised the age old question of equality. Even fair-minded American tax-payers harbor conflicted feelings about subsidizing medical care for transgender inmates. I doubt I'm going...Read More
HRT in Prison: Life or Death?
Filed by Keri Renault | April 03, 2010 12:00 PM |Inmates aren't denied life saving drugs or medical care in Wisconsin prisons. Insulin is in ready supply for the diabetic inmate. Angina sufferers receive nitro quick same as asthmatics have access to an inhaler. Even in prison the right to...Read More
Beautiful Darling: A Positive Transgender Media Portrayal
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | April 02, 2010 9:30 AM |With all the talk about negative portrayals of transgender people in movies lately (and by the way, did you hear they're changing the trailer on the trashy one?), it's heartening to hear that some directors have class. From Wednesday's New...Read More
I'm Joining The NCTE Board
Filed by Monica Roberts | April 01, 2010 12:00 PM |I have an announcement to make that is probably going to come as a shock to people who have known me for a while. It's also going to come as a surprise to those individuals in the trans community who...Read More
