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Aleshia Brevard’s “The Woman I was Not Born to Be” is the best trans memoir I’ve encountered
“It was about who I was, about the boy I was presumed to be. I’d been subjected to all the traditional male training and none of it took.”
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A trans woman’s grandmother thanks Elliot Page for helping them by coming out: “I am proud”
Get your handkerchiefs out. Then grab an extra one.
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A transgender man’s diaries can help us learn what San Francisco was like decades ago
“Damn I’m going to be a gorgeous man,” Lou Sullivan wrote 40 years ago in one of his personal diaries. Sullivan, who died in 1991 at the age of 39 due to complications from AIDS, was a pioneering transgender activist in the 1970s and 1980s. His book Information for the Female to Male Cross Dresser […]
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How much we lose at the Supreme Court will depend on how much we ignore
If the court rules against LGBTQ rights, trans people who live outside of cities and states with inclusive nondiscrimination laws will need legal umbrellas. Here is one that some, though not all, might be able to use.
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Here are the top 10 books about trans issues that every cisgender person* should read
*Transgender people are encouraged to check them out too.
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The LGBTQ community can’t win our rights until we start making sure others can too
All forms of oppression are related and that they each impact our social identities.