Gender Menace

WARNING: Among posts supportive of transgender people, you may encounter transphobic items intended to assist in research and action to prevent transphobia.

Category: cisgender

The internet’s obsession with non-binary people: Data shows explosion of good and bad content

Non-binary people are talked about constantly online, generally by people who aren’t themselves non-binary. Rating: Transsupportive, Pink News, July 14, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

July 14, 2023
Sarah Jane Baker

Sarah Jane Baker, Trans Rights Activist was arrested (12/07/23) after Monday’s tweet from the Home Secretary. Rating: Transsupportive, Medium, July 13, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video 1 archive) (Video 2 archive) (Video 3 archive)

July 13, 2023
Being trans is a matter of semantics

Is it right to question why someone is trans? Or that gender is a social construction rooted in oppression? Coming out as a gender other than the one you were assigned at birth is a weird experience, partly because you have to overcome what society views as normative gender and partly because as you soon…

July 13, 2023
Top 5 States To Be Transgender In 2023

Transgender people are migrating across the country, and many are trying to decide which state they want to move to. This list shows the best states for being trans in 2023. Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, July 5, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

July 5, 2023
Media Body Shaming and Witch-hunt.

In a new low-point for the British media last week the usual suspects caused a week-long witch hunt for someone whose only crime seems to be drawing attention to high utility bills and being trans. That is how it started but it quickly escalated because the person in question, Mika Minio-Paluello, was also the mother who had…

July 5, 2023
I CAN’T FIND THE SENSE IN TRANSITIONING… My Response

Below is my response to a post written last week by someone who clearly has their own ideas about the transgender community and decided to be generous enough to share their thoughts with everyone else. They also followed up their views with years of supporting data compiled from the experts on YouTube. If you take…

July 2, 2023
Elon Musk claims use of ‘cis’ and ‘cisgender’ on Twitter is ‘harassment’, threatens to suspend users

Twitter owner Elon Musk has declared both ‘cis’ and ‘cisgender’ are slurs on the social media platform, warning people who engage in “repeated, targeted harassment” by using them face account suspensions. Rating: Transsupportive, Pink News, June 21, 2023 (PDF archive)

June 22, 2023
Ron DeSantis loses again in court on anti-transgender health law

A federal judge on Wednesday struck down regulations in Florida that banned government healthcare programs from paying for treatments like puberty-blocking medication and hormone therapy for transgender people. Rating: Transneutral, Business Insider, June 21, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Legal document)

June 21, 2023
Ohio lawmakers and religious lobbyists coordinate on anti-trans legislation

Communication on trans athlete bans, other anti-trans bills goes back years Rating: Transsupportive, Ohio Capital Journal, June 20, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

June 20, 2023
What is gender dysphoria anyway? (And who decided it had to be a thing?)

I introduced gender dysphoria in a previous article, “Body Positivity Whilst Trans”, as a fundamental feeling of discomfort with your body that can’t simply be willed away through positive thinking. I also mentioned in that article not understanding at first that I did experience this sort of discomfort, because I had a mistaken idea of what it…

June 16, 2023