Transgender Day of Remembrance We live in a sick society in a lot of ways. It allows racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia… The list goes on! However, today is the day when we remember a segment of society which our culture views as disposable. Trans people. Per capita, there is no other group of people with [...]
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When I hear the shocked hysteria about the gay/lesbian/trans lifestyle, it always raises a giggle. I love it when the conservatives use these phrases because it shows how isolated and myopic they are. You see, there is a gay/lesbian/trans lifestyle, but the only reason for that is because the hetero and cis communities create an [...]
Recently, busses have been popping up over London with a rather controversial message on them: It’s certainly not the sort of message one expects to see in today’s Britain and various Christian organisations thought so and complained to the Advertising Standards Authority trying to get it banned. I’m very happy with the news today that [...]
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For some reason, certain cis people are convinced that letting people use the toilet which matches their gender is going to end up with a rash of hideously horrible behaviour, flashing and violent sexual activity. In both the US and the UK, this is a big issue at the moment and it is getting a [...]
An article at the Bilerico Project (by Renee of Womanist Musings fame) talking about the continual speculation regarding CNN’s Anderson Cooper and his sexuality got me thinking (as Renee all so often does!) We’d been having some similar (heated) discussions about being trans people being out on a TS group just before Christmas and then [...]
Thanks to Italy’s progression as a modern European state, the Vatican is finding itself in a little bit of bother. With Italy strongly supporting the recent UN resolution against imprisonment, torture and execution of LGBT people and the Vatican being as bigoted and reactionary as ever and disagreeing with it, the Vatican needs to find [...]
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I’ve avoided saying something about the pope’s statement on gender and the importance of saving humankind from of it largely since the speech is so vague that there are a thousand ways to interpret it. I honestly don’t know what the pope meant to say. I have my fears about what he meant, though, and [...]