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Transgender People: Remember, Bigots Are a Smaller Minority Than You Are
If I had to give one piece of advice to trans people, other than be yourselves, it would be this: you may be a minority in this world, but remember that the people who hate you and discriminate against...
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Transgender Issues: Illinois Family Institute Member Speaks Out Against...
Sigh . . . It troubles me when I see anti-transgender statements made by laymen who may not have any real medical knowledge of what they speak. Think Progress is reporting that a member of the Illinois...
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Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigils
An international Transgender Day of Remembrance site has a list of vigils around the world, including one in Montreal. Click here to see the list. Transgender Day of Remembrance is officially Tuesday,...
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Anti-Transgender Violence: Why Do They Hurt Us?
Photo from 2006 L.A. rally by Susan Forrest, LA Indymedia. So . . . why? Why do some people hate us? Why would they want to kill us? It would be easy to blame some religious institutions for their...
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Anti-LGBT Hate Crime Statistics: Reading Between the Numbers
I was wondering in a recent post about the anti-LGBT hate crime statistics compiled by the FBI in the United States. In short, they showed a rise in hate crimes against LGBT people while showing a...
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Anti-LGBT Nations: Uganda Is Not the Only One
There’s a good piece on the Irish Times site looking at Uganda’s proposed anti-gay bill and why diplomatic moves by other nations are need to stop it from going through. Of course, there are moves...
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Transgender Rights: “Straight” Guy Speaks Up
I have no doubts that a lot of “straight” guys support transgender rights, even if they would never date a trans person. They’re just good guys who support equality for trans people — and, no doubt,...
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Quebec Government: Please Differentiate Between Transphobia and Homophobia
I’m happy to see that Quebec has launched a campaign to raise awareness and fight homophobia and transphobia. The province will run TV and radio advertisements, and also has set up a site where people...
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Media, Please Use the ‘Transphobia’ Word More Often
“Transphobia” is not a word you see very often in mainstream media headlines. Take the most recent big LGBT story in Quebec, including one on our site. They all use the word “homophobia” in their...
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UFC Suspends Matt Mitrione for Transphobic Outburst — report
I wasn’t going to give UFC heavyweight Matt Mitrione’s “offensive, transphobic” comments about Fallon Fox any attention here when I saw them earlier today, but it is worth mentioning now that Mr....
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Transgender Issues: Subtle Discrimination in the Workplace
A TV show I watched (on DVD) the other day reminded me of the discrimination trans people face sometimes in the workplace. The character was a Female-to-Male transitioning person who came out to...
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Transgender People: Remember, Bigots Are a Smaller Minority Than You Are
If I had to give one piece of advice to trans people, other than be yourselves, it would be this: you may be a minority in this world, but remember that the people who hate you and discriminate against...
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Transgender issues: Discrimination in Quebec?
In my other blog, a trans reader from Montreal commented about some of the discrimination she has faced on the streets and in other public settings in this province. We tend to think of Quebec as...
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Reward offered in attack on transgender woman
A reward of $25,000 has been offered in Los Angeles for information leading to the arrests of a group of people who brutally beat a trans woman there last month. (I reported the incident in both my...
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Transgender issues: California parents panicking
So, at least one parent in California — Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peak — says one of his two teenage sons will not be returning to public school because, ohmygawd! the lad might encounter a...
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‘Last Flail of the Homophobes’ in New York City?
What is going on in N.Y.C.? With the death of a trans woman, Islan Nettles, 21, on Thursday after an assault five days earlier, the number of hate crimes against LGBT people in that city has climbed to...
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LGBT issues: Standing up to bigotry
I sometimes wonder about the militancy of LGBT people — particularly trans people. Sometimes it seems like LGBT people are a little bit oversensitive. But a reported incident of transphobia recently...
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LGBT issues and the lunatic fringe
As I scroll through my google feed of “news articles” on LGBT issues, I’m wondering why we, in traditional, alternative and social media, give so much attention to the rantings of some religious...
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Winter Olympics: Will LGBT visitors feel “comfortable” in Russia?
So, President Vladimir Putin of Russia is trying assure LGBT athletes and spectators that they will be “comfortable” during the Winter Olympics in Sochi this winter. According to Advocate.com: Putin...
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Transgender issues: Discrimination
This week, trans people and their friends remember trans people who were killed in acts of transphobic violence around the world . . . 238. That’s the official number of trans people who were murdered...
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