TransAdvocate

“Facta Non Verba”, Latin phrase translated to “Deeds Not Words”
A good friend of mine, longtime national trans activist Courtney Sharp sent me something amusing she got in her Email box from the Human Rights Campaign. It was an Action Alert letter with a title at the top saying “2008, the Year To Win”:
“Should a leading [...]

The fallout from the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition acceptance of a grant from the Human Rights Campaign continues. This press release comes from the Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA).
Massachusetts Chapter of TAVA breaks ties with local advocacy group
January 11, 2008
Transgender American Veterans Association
Contact: Monica F. Helms
President@tavausa.org
www.tavausa.org
In a decisive move today, Michael West, the Chair of [...]

Susan Stanton has finally responded publicly to the fallout to horrible St. Petersburg Times article. Lou Chibbaro Jr. of the Washington Blade interviewed Stanton, saying:
‘Susan has said all along that she’s not like other transgender people,’ feature writer Lane DeGregory wrote in the St. Petersburg Times article. ‘She feels uncomfortable even looking at some, “like [...]

The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTCP) announced today:
MTPC is buttressed by milestone grants, including a $25,000 Civic Engagement Grant from Boston Foundation and $25,000 total in four phases from Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), including $10,000 immediately as a challenge grant to urge other organizations to follow suit. Other contributions are being made by [...]

This guest post comes to us from Gavriel Ansara. Y. Gavriel A. Levi Ansara is the founder and executive director of Lifelines Rhode Island, a statewide grassroots advocacy, education, and support initiative to meet the needs of transgender, transsexual, Two Spirit, genderqueer, and intersex (TGI) people. Gavi is also founder and coordinator of Tiferet, a [...]

by Vanessa Edwards Foster
Words in papers, words in books,
Words on TV, words for crooks …
Eat your words but don’t go hungry.
Words have always nearly hung me. — Wordy Rappinghood, Tom Tom Club “I’d rather be hated for what I am than loved for what I’m not.” — rapper Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys
For the [...]

by Vanessa Edwards Foster
I traveled round the world looking for a home.I found myself in crowded rooms feeling so alone. — Substitute For Love, Madonna
Baby, although I chose this lonely life it seems it’s stranglin’ me now.All the wild men, big cigars, gigantic cars; they’re all laughin’ at the lie. Oh, I’ve been used Ooo-ooh. [...]