Tonight I went to the Transgender Day of Remembrance memorial in Boston. The city where this sad tradition was started in honour of Rita Hester, a local transgender woman who was murdered in 1998. And honestly, I’m having kind of a hard time. TDoR is always difficult for me. Surprisingly, I haven’t cried yet. But … More Preserving the Transgender Day of Remembrance: A memorial for our dead
As I sit here in my room in Springfield, MA, typing these words, I have tears running down my face. It’s the week when we observe the Transgender Day Of Remembrance and I’ve just read another news story about a transgender woman who was murdered. Honestly, I read a lot of these types of stories. … More Santa Monica Boulevard Through Hollwood
So, as many of you might know, my incredibly adorable and emotionally opinionated, old hippie Mom made quite a splash this week. She had the chance opportunity to meet Vice President Joe Biden, who was coming out of the Democratic Party Headquarters in Sarasota Florida when he spotted my Mom’s big blue eyes and made … More My Mom, Joe Biden and I all agree, Transgender Discrimination is the ‘Civil Rights Issue of Our Time’
This is my open response to the entry entitled “I Don’t Care” on the “Enough Non-Sense” blog. Hmmmm. Well, I’ve got a lot of disagreement with the things you state here, but clearly I’m reading and so are others. This tells me there are many out there who feel as you do. I’d love to … More I Do Care
I‘m going to say something here that is bound to get me in trouble. I believe that not only do trans people of all types need to band together in a unified “transgender” movement, despite our individual differences. I also believe we have an important place in the larger LGBT movement. Not only that, but … More Time To Stand Together
I wrote this as a response to an excellent post in The Bilerico Project discussing the validity of the term “transgender”. There is quite an interesting discussion developing in the commentary section following the post and I felt compelled to have my say. I highly recommend checking it out. Here is the link: “Should We … More Some Thoughts On The Word “Transgender”
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