Tag Archives: Transgender Issues
Matrix director Lana Wachowski promotes new film after transition
TweetThe director of my favorite movie The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded (real Matrix fans like me pretend the third movie in the trilogy doesn’t exist) has transitioned and is the first director in tinsletown to come out as transgender. Lana Wachowski announced that she was transitioning nearly a decade ago but now in promotions for [...]
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Overheard in public: a positive trans birth story
Tweet I was lounging in Boston’s Public Garden last week when two families with infants and young children sat down next to me. They were white and presumably cis, straight couples (confirmed by their conversation). While the kids watched the ducklings, the parents started telling birth stories – they were close enough and talking loud [...]
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Video: Janet Mock and Isis King on media representations of trans women
TweetWatch this: (The video is closed captioned). So good right? I especially love the way diversity of opinion on language is represented as both personal and political. Janet and Isis rock. Tweet
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Enough with “I date women and trans men”
TweetI’m traveling on the east coast right now, which has thrown me back into the kind of queer, mostly female assigned community that exists in the “I date women and trans men” frame (I’m not saying this doesn’t happen on the west coast – but I’ve found alternatives way more easily). This is a big [...]
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Breaking: Health care law protects against gender identity discrimination