Transgender & Intersex: August 2011
Don Lemon Keynotes at NLGJA: Both of Them Need To Get Up To Speed
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 29, 2011 10:00 AM |Don Lemon and the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists' Association have something in common. Read More
Comment of the Week: Capitalist Piggy On Socarides' Marriage Equality
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 28, 2011 4:00 PM |Projector Capitalistpiggy says Richard Socarides, president of Equality Matters, is wrong when he says marriage equality will help trans rights.Read More
Who Am I?
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 28, 2011 11:30 AM |Being trans means complicated, abstruse debates, and I'm sometimes left wondering who I am. Read More
Beth Elliott's Rebuttal of the Brennan-Hungerford Letter
Filed by Guest Blogger | August 26, 2011 3:30 PM |Guest blogger Beth Elliott has written a rebuttal to the Brennan-Hungerford submission to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.Read More
Philly Tabloid Says Prison Officials Too Easy On Transgender Inmate
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 26, 2011 10:30 AM |What is happening to Jovanie Saldana after she reported a sexual assault by a corrections officer?Read More
Don Lemon Foiled Again by the Transgender Thing
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 25, 2011 10:00 AM |The media must move beyond questions about surgery and facial hair, and ask how trans people are navigating in the world. Read More
Watch: Don Lemon and Ashley Love Spar Over Words
Filed by Karen Ocamb | August 23, 2011 3:00 PM |Last month, the CNN anchor was interrupted at the NAACP's LGBT town hall meeting. Love said she considered Lemon's exclusion of transsexuals and transgenders an insult when he said he intended the discussion to be all-inclusive.Read More
Trans Inmate Transferred From Female to Male Prison
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 22, 2011 4:30 PM |A transgender inmate is transferred to a men's prison after filing a sexual assault charge against a corrections officer.Read More
Socarides On Trans Rights: Eat Your Cake And Have It Too
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 22, 2011 9:00 AM |Gay leaders' assurances that marriage equality will lead to transgender rights falls on deaf ears. Read More
Go To Hell, Receive $50,000
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 19, 2011 3:00 PM |A San Francisco woman recently exorcised her demons by means of a cash settlement. Read More
Argentine Legislature Debates Trans Rights
Filed by Adam Polaski | August 18, 2011 10:00 AM |Today, Argentina's legislature will begin to formalize debate around a proposed gender identity act, which would allow trans people to easily correct their name, gender, and image in public records. Here's an example of L, G, B & T working together. Read More
Life Directions
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 18, 2011 9:00 AM |"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood," wrote Robert Frost. How about a dozen?Read More
Yvonne Cook Riley: The Invention of Transgender
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 16, 2011 11:00 AM |Yvonne Cook-Riley is a founder of the transgender movement. She gave an interesting history of the invention of transgender as a word and as a movement. Read More
Cuba's First Trans Wedding
Filed by Bil Browning | August 14, 2011 3:30 PM |Cuba celebrated their first transgender wedding ceremony - complete with American diplomats some of Cuba's best known dissidents. One can only imagine how festive the reception was!Read More
Jennifer Boylan on Trans Rights in the NY Times
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 12, 2011 11:00 AM |Jennifer Boylan's NYT op ed this morning on trans rights uses the metaphor of a ventriloquist's dummy. How apt.Read More
Threats of Violence By Trans Advocates Must Be Condemned
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 09, 2011 3:00 PM |We cannot remain silent when threats of violence are made in our name. Read More
Gender Discrepancy as the 'Sickness Unto Death'
Filed by Drew Cordes | August 09, 2011 11:00 AM |Each of Kierkegaard's identified forms of despair is paralleled in the struggles of gender-nonconforming individuals to identify their True selves and integrate their ideal gender expression with their identity. Read More
Incarcerated Trans Prisoners Entitled To Medical Care
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 08, 2011 2:30 PM |Lambda Legal and the ACLU win a second round in the fight to declare a Wisconsin law specifically denying health care to trans inmates unconstitutionalRead More
Outside the Gender Boxes: A Political Theory of Gender
Filed by Jos Truitt | August 08, 2011 12:30 PM |We need to work against the construction of two essential gender boxes, the forcing of everyone into one or the other, and against the linking of power and resources to these boxes. We need to work for the liberation of people who have failed to conform. Read More
TSA's Mistreatment of Trans Employee Leads to Sensitivity Training
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 07, 2011 10:00 AM |A lawsuit by a transgender employee of the Transportation Security Administration resulted in sensitivity training for LAX managers. Read More
Harmony Santana Triumphs In Gun Hill Road
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 06, 2011 12:00 PM |Harmony Santana delivers a complex performance portraying the realities of early transition and familial gender politics with an insight rarely achieved in film.Read More
Less Than Woman, Less Than Human
Filed by Mercedes Allen | August 04, 2011 5:00 PM |In a paper to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, Cathy Brennan and Elizabeth Hungerford explicitly oppose the extension of basic human rights to transsexuals, under the premise that providing protections under the classes of gender identity and gender expression "erodes" womens' rights.Read More
McDonalds Trans Attacker Pleads Guilty
Filed by Bil Browning | August 04, 2011 4:15 PM |Teonna Monae Brown, the woman who attacked a transgender McDonalds patron in a Baltimore suburb, has pled guilty to one count of first-degree assault and a hate crime charge. Prosecutors are asking for a sentence of five years in prison for the attack.Read More
Another Trans Spiritual Retreat
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 04, 2011 9:00 AM |I'm off again to the long-running "Kindred Spirits" trans spiritual retreat in Hot Springs, North Carolina. Read More
National Motor Vehicle Admin Group: Change Trans IDs
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 03, 2011 7:00 PM |The AAMVA recommends that trans drivers be allowed to change gender markers on driver licenses. Read More
