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admin on October 10th, 2010
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Yesterday, my lovely girlfriend and I were shopping in Hamburg. After a really fun day out, we returned to the car which was parked in the Gertrudentor car park next to the Europa Passage shopping centre. Unfortunately, this car park has the slowest lifts on the planet – I can feel the wrinkles growing as [...]

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admin on April 4th, 2009

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 [...]

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admin on January 6th, 2009

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 [...]

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admin on December 13th, 2008

One of the reasons* a lot of radical feminists hate trans people is that we are a wrench in the works of their supposed nirvana of a gender-free world. You see, trans people see very clearly that their physical gender doesn’t match the gender they identify with. We’re mostly very sure about what our true [...]

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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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