Tag Archives: transphobia

It’s about time for some trans issues wins

By Jos | Published: December 1, 2011
TweetI got kind of emotional reading Miriam’s story yesterday about ob-gyns being told to prepare to treat transgender patients. This is a huge win in the area of health care access, a major issue for trans folks. It’s a win on an issue that’s particularly close to my heart, the intersection of reproductive and sexual [...]
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Transphobic ad campaign puts gender anxiety on full display

By Lori | Published: October 4, 2011
Tweet A really disturbing and transphobic advertisement showed up in Canada’s National Post the other day, pictured above. I won’t link to their website because they don’t deserve the traffic, but suffice to say it has “stop corrupting children” in the title. Because as we all know, trans folk, gender non-conforming people and allies are all [...]
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The New York Post’s latest headline fail: This one’s transphobic!

By Jos | Published: September 29, 2011
TweetI am so over the New York Post. Here’s the latest headline from the newspaper that always sucks: Of course the article itself is a gem, too: the first sentence is “From same-sex marriage to sex-change surgery!” First they let the gay people marry, then they let the trans people have health care! It’s the [...]
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10-year-old trans girl on being bullied by adults and accepted by her peers

By Jos | Published: September 15, 2011
TweetI love it when we get to hear from young people about what’s going on in their own lives. Too often, the voices of those most impacted by youth issues are ignored in favor of adults. So I was glad to read the words of a 10-year-old trans girl in England who returned to school [...]
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Adam Corolla thinks we should change “LGBT” to “yuck”

By Samhita | Published: August 16, 2011
Tweet Adam Corolla has made a career out of being a racist misogynist bully, so it is not much of a surprise that when given the opportunity he goes on hateful anti-gay and transphobic tirades. When faced with the discussion of sexual-orientation based bullying and suicide in schools and the case for why Bert and [...]
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