Frustration

admin on August 5th, 2009

The thing called “male privilege” is very real. Men do maintain a role in this world dripping of privilege which allows them to behave despicably to women. This behaviour starts with disparaging concepts and stereotypes of women, leads on to views of the role of women in this world which keep women down and on [...]

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admin on July 27th, 2009

It’s funny how being trans has started to be ‘cool’ in certain communities. The thing is, being trans is most definitely not cool… It’s a pain, it’s horrible and it’s something that destroys lives. My biggest wish? It’s to not be trans. No, that doesn’t mean I would like to live as a man (that [...]

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admin on December 20th, 2008

Imagine taking a trip to see your parents in Bangladesh and upon arrival being kidnapped, bundled into a tiny room and then forced to take sleeping tablets. Imagine then being tied up, thrown into a private ambulance and driven to a psychiatric hospital where you’re given a large dose of anti-psychotics. In this state, unable [...]

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admin on November 21st, 2008

Scandinavia has a reputation for being ecologically aware, politically correct and generally the good guys of Europe. For a lot of us, the odd-ones out are the Norway and the Icaland because of their continued whaling, a frankly barbaric act. There has been tremendous protest against their whaling policies, but I wasn’t aware that there [...]

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admin on November 18th, 2008

I came across this story on a forum I read: Some Abortion Foes Shifting Focus and was pleasantly surprised by the first couple of paragraphs: Frustrated by the failure to overturn Roe v. Wade, a growing number of antiabortion pastors, conservative academics and activists are setting aside efforts to outlaw abortion and instead are focusing [...]

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admin on October 20th, 2008

The furore around the Stonewall Journalist of the Year award going to Julie Bindel has highlighted in Europe the same complete lack of concern that the LGB_QI world shows transpeople that was seen by the Human Right’s Campaign’s lack of support for a trans-inclusive ENDA in the US. What we’re seeing here is an institutialisation [...]

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admin on August 24th, 2008

Passing is such a tender thing. It seems that for a lot of us, it’s the holy grail and I think that’s understandable: We’ve been female in our minds since childhood, now all we want to do is to get rid of every trace of that male past and live as who we really are. [...]

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admin on August 5th, 2008

I travel quite a bit with my work and not being on the short side (OK, 1m84 is more on the too tall side) I don’t find economy class all that comfortable. If I can cross my legs, I consider that good leg space and whilst that’s not an all too common occurrence, it does [...]

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admin on July 22nd, 2008

Again, from Hoyden About Town . Please repost this if you care about homophobia, transphobia and discrimination being eradicated from our society. I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian. I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual [...]

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