“An intimate conversation between me and my college friend, the noted author Alex Myers, on how the challenges of transition have evolved over the past decade.”
Bruce Jenner Doesn't Need to Pass To Deserve Respect
“No trans person does.”
Bruce Jenner in 1976. Image by Bob Child
From A Symbol Of Athletic Power To A Symbol Of Gender Transition
“In 2015, as in 1976, the public’s relationship with Bruce Jenner’s body will reflect American values. What are those going to be?”
The Ciswashing of Leelah's Law
“Response to White House support of a conversion therapy ban has erased the trans girl who inspired the proposed law.”
Mourning the death of transgender teen activist blake brockington
“Why are so many transgender teens taking their own lives and what can we do to prevent it?”
Being transgender in a transphobic society leads to moments of sheer desperation
Mental health interventions are necessary for trans people to stay alive, but there isn’t nearly enough effort to ensure that we have good reasons to live
More at the Guardian
Performing in the Vagina Monologues as a Transgender Woman
I played a role in a show about people with vaginas before actually having one myself.
More at Buzzfeed
Jennifer Laude's temporary grave in case her body needs to be exhumed during her tiral.
How the Killing of a Trans Filipina Woman Ignited an International Incident
"I think I killed a he-she," U.S. Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton said.
Read more at VICE
I was a child star in the Philippines. I'm glad no one notices me now
It’s one thing to be amused that a someone used to be a kid with braces; it’s another for their present self to be compared to a body they’re alienated from
Read More in The Guardian
The Cover of Whiteness
Darren Wilson and the New Yorker have the same problem.
Read More in Medium
The Queer Case of Luke O'Donovan
“He’s in jail for stabbing five men who used homophobic slurs while they beat him. Was it self-defense, or community justice?”
Transgender Violence is a #YesAllWomen Issue
“When we treat violence against trans women only as a trans issue rather than also a women’s issue, we deny the victims the womanhood they fought and died for.”
45 Years After Stonewall, The LGBT Movement Has a Transphobia Problem
“The story that isn’t told enough and, when it is, with too little force, is the degree to which trans people continue to be marginalized within the LGBT rights struggle, treated as tokens when convenient, yet denied the basic respect, rights, and resources needed for our equality.”
The New Girl in French: Summer Love in a Romance Language
“I had a boyfriend and ended up liking a girl for the first time, even though I wasn’t supposed to. The thing that made it more complicated was that I hadn’t always been a girl myself—I was raised as a boy then changed genders eight years before—and struggled with my attraction to other girls. And all this liking and falling, this aime-ing and tombe-ing, it was happening fast in French, a language I spoke at a third of the speed and ease of English.”
I Didn't Know I Was a Boy
Growing up without gendered pronouns.
'Coming Out' Doesn't Begin to Describe It: Message from a Trans Survivor
For trans people, revealing their history calls the truth of their gender into question.