On The Rebecca Juro Show: HBS

by Marti Abernathey

 
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Categories: podcast

Walking Through the Valley of Shadows

by Mercedes Allen

(As I’d mentioned, it’s time to move on from the previous discussion. I admit, I probably wouldn’t have reacted as badly if the debate hadn’t touched on something that was freshly raw for me personally, but as it is still a raw nerve, we’ll leave the HBS thing be. I thought I’d go [...]

(As I'd mentioned, it's time to move on from the previous discussion. I admit, I probably wouldn't have reacted as badly if the debate hadn't touched on something that was freshly raw for me personally, but as it is still a raw nerve, we'll leave the HBS thing be. I thought I'd go with something far less controversial. Politics is being overdone right now, what with all the stuff on the primaries, so I thought I'd take on Religion. ... Read More

Categories: Christianity, Spirituality, Trans, Transgender in History, gender, gender binary, gender identity

YouTube Transextravaganza

by Marti Abernathey

My Trans Monster

SpeakOUT - Transgender Issues

OUt for the Holidays

Ryka Aoki de la Cruz

My Trans Monster SpeakOUT - Transgender Issues OUt for the Holidays Ryka Aoki de la Cruz Read More

Categories: youtube

From Pride At Work

by Marti Abernathey

From the wonderful folks at Pride At Work:
Poll after poll show working families view health care as one of the most important issues facing our country today.
But we know these polls only tell part of the story. We want to know more–more about how the health care system affects you and your family.
Take our Healthcare [...]

From the wonderful folks at Pride At Work: Poll after poll show working families view health care as one of the most important issues facing our country today. But we know these polls only tell part of the story. We want to know more--more about how the health care system affects you and your family. Take our Healthcare Survey Do you have health care coverage for yourself, for your partner? Does your employer offer domestic partner benefits? Are you left out of many healthcare plans because ... Read More

Categories: trans health

The (lack of) space between homophobia and transphobia

by Marti Abernathey

I asked to cross post this post from Bilerico. It  was written by Alex Blaze

Through an unlikely chain of blog posts, Waymon’s entry about a gender identity inclusive anti-discrimination ordinance in Montgomery County, Maryland, started a discussion that made it halfway across the blogosphere to one of the more popular radical feminist blogs out there. [...]

I asked to cross post this post from Bilerico. It  was written by Alex Blaze Through an unlikely chain of blog posts, Waymon's entry about a gender identity inclusive anti-discrimination ordinance in Montgomery County, Maryland, started a discussion that made it halfway across the blogosphere to one of the more popular radical feminist blogs out there. Heart, the aforementioned radical feminist blogger, writes about the real transbigotry in an attempt to take advantage of the T-folks' internal disputes to distinguish the good transwomen ... Read More

Categories: homophobia, transphobia

Gender Fundamentalists

by Monica Helms

Many of us in the LGBT community are painfully aware of the religious fundamentalists who have such a wonderful time coming up with lies and fear tactics to throw out to the uneducated masses. They know full well that a great deal of those Americans will believe anything they are [...]

Many of us in the LGBT community are painfully aware of the religious fundamentalists who have such a wonderful time coming up with lies and fear tactics to throw out to the uneducated masses. They know full well that a great deal of those Americans will believe anything they are told, if you follow it up with “Praise the Lord.” Of course, their true God is the Almighty Dollar, which they get in abundance ... Read More

Categories: HBS

Welcome!

by Marti Abernathey

I want to welcome new Transadvocate contributors Monica Helms of Trans Universe and Mercedes Allen of Dented Blue Mercedes!
Please take a minute to show them some TA love.

I want to welcome new Transadvocate contributors Monica Helms of Trans Universe and Mercedes Allen of Dented Blue Mercedes! Please take a minute to show them some TA love. Read More

Categories: tidbits