Transgender & Intersex: May 2011
An Open Letter to Employers
Filed by Guest Blogger | May 31, 2011 9:00 PM |Guest blogger Jessica Bussert, the mother of Betsie Gallardo, has experienced incredible barriers to employment in Indiana. Here, she pleads for employers to give her - and other transgender people - a chance. Read More
(Un)heard: Transmasculine People of Color Speak
Filed by Jason Tseng | May 31, 2011 3:30 PM |Black, trans, and living in rural Ohio is not what you usually think of when you think of the LGBT movement. Read More
Model Andrej Pejic Bashed by FHM Men's Magazine
Filed by Jake Weinraub | May 29, 2011 3:45 PM |FHM named gender-bending model 98th sexiest woman in the world to the excitement of many, but it turns out the joke's on them.Read More
Transvestic Disorder: The Overlooked Anti-Trans Diagnosis
Filed by Kelley Winters | May 28, 2011 10:00 AM |The new edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders features two entries regarding the trans community. While Gender Dysphoria is already well-known, Transvestic Disorder is less discussed. Both merit attention and action from advocates. Read More
Nikki Araguz Arrested on Theft Charges
Filed by Bil Browning | May 27, 2011 3:00 PM |A Texas court ruled this week to invalidate the marriage between Thomas Araguz, a firefighter killed in the line of duty, and Nikki Araguz, a transexual woman. Now Ms. Araguz has been arrested in connection with the theft of a Rolex watch.Read More
Widow Araguz Denied Death Benefits by Texas Court
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 26, 2011 11:00 AM |In a perhaps unsurprising development, a Texas court ruled yesterday against Nikki Araguz, an intersex transsexual woman married to firefighter Thomas Araguz, who was killed in the line of duty.Read More
A Trans and Cis Queer Women's Dialog
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | May 25, 2011 6:30 PM |There's a joke going around that events, community spaces, and resources labeled "women and trans" have an unwritten addendum "(but not both)." The reality is that there are few queer spaces specifically for trans women and cis women.Read More
Hao Hot: Vintage Male Impersonator
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 25, 2011 2:00 PM |A stunning photo of vintage Chinese actress Ting Hao in perfectly tailored drag. I love the shadow. via softfilm.blogspot.com...Read More
Nevada Governor Approves Gender Identity Protections
Filed by Adam Polaski | May 25, 2011 11:45 AM |Nevada becomes the fourteenth state to outlaw employment discrimination based on gender identity or expression.Read More
Largest Trans Fundraiser. Ever.
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 24, 2011 5:00 PM |The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund raised over $100,000 in a single night. Read More
The MSNBC Anti-LGBT Hate Connection
Filed by Rebecca Juro | May 24, 2011 11:15 AM |Have you ever wondered why you never, ever see transgender-identified guests appear on supposedly liberal and progressive MSNBC? Don't you think it's kind of odd that even lesbian and gender-variant Rachel Maddow completely erases trans people from her coverage?Read More
FOX News' Medical A-Team Attacks Chaz Bono
Filed by Jake Weinraub | May 20, 2011 3:00 PM |Building off of Austen Crowder's post earlier today about how right-wing media is taking up Chaz Bono's increased visibility, we have yet another violently transphobic statement from Dr. Keith Ablow, member of FOX News' "Medical A-Team." FOX News published the...Read More
Trans Visibility Sparks Right-Wing Blogosphere Explosion
Filed by Austen Crowder | May 20, 2011 11:00 AM |They say that no press is bad press, and Chaz Bono's making lots of press. The good news? He's using his fifteen minutes to plant discuss the need for protection and understanding. (He's also pimping his book, but how can...Read More
Kye Allums to Leave College Basketball
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 19, 2011 9:30 AM |Kye Allums, the trans man who made headlines last year when he announced his transition but decided to put off physical transition and continue playing college women's basketball to keep his scholarship, has quit the basketball team his senior year:...Read More
ACLU Files Suit On Illinois Refusal To Correct Birth Certificates
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 19, 2011 8:30 AM |The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Illinois Department of Public Health for refusing to correct birth certificates of transgender and transsexual people, requiring proof they have undergone a series of sex-reassignment surgeries before they can change the...Read More
Police Officer who Beat Duanna Johnson Gets 2 Years Prison
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 18, 2011 9:30 AM |Bridges McRae, the police officer caught on video beating Duanna Johnson, a black, trans woman who was being detained on prostitution charges that were later dropped, has been sentenced to two years of prison and two years probation. That time...Read More
Harvard LGBTQ Policy Journal on Trans Identification
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 17, 2011 12:00 PM |Harvard University's LGBTQ Policy Journal at the Kennedy School of Government recently published an article by Harper Jean Tobin, Fair and Accurate Identification for Transgender People. Ms. Tobin, a lawyer who works for the National Center for Transgender Equality as...Read More
McDonalds Attackers Indicted on Hate Crimes Charges
Filed by Bil Browning | May 17, 2011 9:30 AM |Teonna Brown, one of the two women seen attacking a transgender woman in a Baltimore McDonalds, will be facing serious legal charges after a grand jury indictment Monday. Equality Maryland sent over a statement shortly after the grand jury's decision...Read More
A Thank You Note to Projectors
Filed by Bil Browning | May 15, 2011 10:00 AM |This excellent thank you note hit my inbox recently. It's meant for you guys. Remember Chris Mosier, the trans athlete competing for a sponsorship from an athletics company? Bil, I wanted to follow up with you and say thank you...Read More
Reluctance about Chaz Bono, 'The Reluctant Transgender Role Model'
Filed by Jessica Max Stein | May 13, 2011 8:30 AM |Chaz Bono seems to be having his fifteen minutes of media, with the recent documentary Becoming Chaz, his new book Transition, and a flurry of accompanying publicity, including Cintra Wilson's dismaying New York Times Sunday Style section cover story "The...Read More
Chaz Bono on David Letterman About His New Book
Filed by Karen Ocamb | May 12, 2011 4:00 PM |Chaz Bono appeared on the David Letterman show on CBS Wednesday night, May 11, promoting his new book, Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man. This is Part One (thanks to indigenous2logic): Part two is after the jump....Read More
Chaz Bono Comes Out For ENDA
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 12, 2011 12:00 PM |Chaz Bono gave an interview to New York Magazine on Tuesday, talking about his documentary, shown on the OWN Network. In the interview, he was asked "What do you think is the main issue for the trans community right now?"...Read More
Seattle Mayor Says Transitions Should Be Covered for Employees
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 12, 2011 10:30 AM |The Seattle LGBT Commission has an effective way of talking about how some healthcare providers deny medical treatment related to transitioning. From The Slog: When most of the city's approximately 10,000 employees seek mental health care, steroid treatments, or a...Read More
What Does Discrimination Cost?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 11, 2011 12:00 PM |A new research study released today by The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy shows that employment discrimination against transgender residents of Massachusetts likely costs the Commonwealth millions of dollars each year. The findings...Read More
Action Alert: Texas Legislature Mulls Voiding Marriages, And One In Particular
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 10, 2011 9:30 AM |Texas law allows transsexual and intersex individuals to get married upon the presentation of a court order recognizing sex reassignment. This change honors the self-identification rather than basing access to marriage licenses on sex assigned at birth. The Texas Senate...Read More
Freethinking 1940s: Queer Studies
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 09, 2011 9:30 AM |A fascinating eBay find, these three pamphlets (known as "blue books") from E. Haldeman-Julius, a socialist reformer and atheist who published several radical works on sexuality by freethinkers in the 1940s....Read More
Trans Woman Attacked at McDonald's Meets Woman who Saved Her
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 08, 2011 4:00 PM |Chrissy Polis, the woman attacked in a Baltimore-area McDonald's, meets the woman who saved her....Read More
The Cheerful Miss Nikki Adams
Filed by Father Tony | May 06, 2011 4:00 PM |On Sunday, April 3rd, in honor of her work at Fort Lauderdale's Broward House, the often crowned Nikki Adams was named a "Community Star of the Year" at the Pride Center's annual "Stars of the Rainbow" awards ceremony. A new...Read More
NY Governor Paterson To Be Honored At Trans Event. Why?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 06, 2011 12:00 PM |The progress of transgender and transsexual civil rights has been slow and halting in New York State, but there is no surer mark of progress than when the powerful bend to notice our struggles. On Monday, May 23, 2011, the...Read More
Lady in Pearls: Vintage Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 06, 2011 10:30 AM |I love this vintage image and the expression on her beautiful face. Her lips are amazing. The photo looks like it might be from the 1950s, but since there was no information to accompany it, I'm left wondering if she...Read More
Camille Paglia Says Chaz Bono 'Mutilated' his Body
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 06, 2011 9:30 AM |While I appreciate commentators who eschew popular opinion and conventional wisdom, priding oneself in being a contrarian-for-the-sake-contrarianism doesn't necessarily mean that someone is right. Which is probably why I never really got into Camille Paglia's work, although it should be...Read More
Trans Golfer Gets Golf Associations to Change Policy
Filed by Alex Blaze | May 04, 2011 3:00 PM |Lana Lawless, the trans woman who sued the LPGA and the Long Drivers of America after she was refused the ability to compete as a woman, has settled her case. Both organizations have both changed their rules on trans women...Read More
Transgender Law Institute 2011 Schedule Announced
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 04, 2011 12:30 PM |Soon, it will be time again for the Transgender Law Institute at the National LGBT Bar Association Conference and Career Fair. Last year's TLI, our first, was a great success, with over 75 lawyers in attendance. Our planning committee has...Read More
Allegations of A Hoax: Was A Trans Woman Banned For Life From The Las Vegas Cosmopolitan?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 02, 2011 5:00 PM |In my dozen or so years in the trans community, I have seen many surprising things. One consistent phenomenon is the willingness of people to act out dark fantasies of prejudice, discrimination and violence against trans people. Another consistent phenomenon...Read More
Comment of the Week: Jane Fae
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 01, 2011 7:00 PM |On Alex Blaze's entry Trans Woman Banned from Hotel for Life for Going to Bathroom, discussing the case of a Las Vegas casino, The Cosmopolitan, Projector Jane Fae commented: I SO don't get this. Just what is the US obsession...Read More
