Category: Medium
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I Am Not Proud to Be Transgender
Today — June 1 — marks the beginning of Pride Month 2023, a nebulous period both for those in the rainbow community as well as out. Medium, June 1, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Bloody roses — deconstructing the predatory trans* women myth
Simple question for you: how many women were convicted of sexual assault or other sex crimes in the UK since 2018? Try to Google the answer and you will the UK government’s Office of National Statistics has not publicly provided the sex of convicted sex offenders. It has for the victims, along with a range…
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Body positivity whilst trans
Sometime around April 2021, I did something very brave: I looked in the mirror. Rating: Transsupportive, Medium, May 30, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)
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Target’s Capitulation To The Anti-Trans Mob and The Pitfalls of Corporate Pride
As soon as Pride month rolls around, we are greeted with a huge number of corporations paying lip service to Pride, usually by changing their social media profile pictures so that their logo is shown with the rainbow colors as a supposed expression of support. Correspondingly, we are also given a number of very surface-level…
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Mapping the transphobia/far-right Twitter nexus
The convergence between “gender critical” anti-trans activists and the far right is becoming increasingly apparent. Posie Parker’s Let Women Speak rallies are attended by anti-abortion campaigners and Sieg Heil-ing Nazis. The LGB Alliance have found a new home at 55 Tufton Street alongside neoliberal and climate-misinformation think tanks. And fascist group Patriotic Alternative (PA) have been leading anti-drag protests. Rating: Transsupportive, Medium, May 23,…
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The hyper fixation on bathrooms and sports teams
There is so much more to the trans struggle Rating: Transsupportive (except for sports), Medium, April 21, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Transphobia and the weaponization of womanhood
Throughout most of human history people assigned female at birth have been treated as chattel, property used to further dynasties, brood mares, and disposable in times of struggle. Even into the 21st century globally women are lesser citizens of most countries, their rights curtailed to conform to various ideologies. Yet, even within societies that valorise…
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We never pass — even if we do
A friend of mine started her transition in her twenties. She had always had narrow shoulders, small hands, a feminine face, full hair, and a slender body. She lives stealth, but although she passed by even the strictest norms of today’s society, she wasn’t happy with her face. So she had facial feminization surgery (FFS)…