Category Archives: Transsexual and Transgender related issues

Cartoon: Special Treatment

If you enjoy my political cartoons, please consider supporting them on Patreon. TRANSCRIPT Panel one shows a man wearing a suit and sitting behind a desk, talking to a woman who looks unhappy about what he’s saying. The man is … Continue reading

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Please call or email to ask that Nina Chaubal be freed #freenina

Trans Lifeline is a suicide prevention help line for trans people. The co-founder of Trans Lifeline, Nina Chaubal, is currently in ICE detention and being threatened with deportation: Trans activist detained in Arizona and threatened with deportation due to bureaucratic … Continue reading

Posted in Immigration, Migrant Rights, etc, Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 1 Comment

Cartoon: Dear People Who Are Neither My Doctor Nor My Lover….

Check out my new cartoon, created in collaboration with our own Grace Annam, and published by the nice folks at Everyday Feminism. If you enjoy my cartoons, you can support them (or just read a whole bunch more of them) … Continue reading

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Cartoon: Where Am I Supposed To Pee?

My new cartoon, co-written with our own Grace, is now up at Everyday Feminism! Please check it out. (If you enjoy cartoons like this, you can help me make them by supporting my Patreon.)

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Trans People: Still Using Bathrooms, Still Not Assaulting Cis People In Them

Recently, in another thread, RonF offered an opinion on trans people using bathrooms. I wrote a reply, and then decided that it was too far off-topic for that comment thread. So here it is in its own post. RonF: But … Continue reading

Posted in Homophobic zaniness/more LGBTQ issues, Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 29 Comments

Now This Is a Hotel Manager Who Should Definitely Be Fired

911 Audio: Hotel Manager Reports Guest For Being Transgender – BuzzFeed News Meagan Taylor and her best friend, who are both transgender women, were traveling through Iowa on July 13 to a funeral for her best friend’s brother when they … Continue reading

Posted in Prisons and Justice and Police, Race, racism and related issues, Sex work, porn, etc, Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 9 Comments

Three Points Regarding The No-Platforming Of Germaine Greer

Quick summery: Germaine Greer, a second-wave feminist famous for her 1970 book The Female Eunuch, was invited to give a speech at Cardiff University. Ms. Greer’s transphobia is well-known, gross, and undeniable. Rachael Melhuish, the Women’s Officer at Cardiff Unversity … Continue reading

Posted in Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc., Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 127 Comments

The Mint Garden- a place to discuss trans people’s gender

IMPORTANT NOTE!  For technical reasons having to do with the way this web site is managed, the original thread timed out and cannot be re-opened for comments.  So, we have created this page, where comments should remain open indefinitely, to … Continue reading

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“American Reflexxx,” a short film showing mob hatred of gender ambiguity

Content warning: This short film contains extreme transmisogyny, a hostile mob, violence, and is disturbing. The film has a style of editing that makes it difficult to watch, even apart from the content; if the editing makes it hard to … Continue reading

Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 22 Comments

Malta Just Showed Us What Our Gender Identity Laws Should Be

Malta has just become the world’s leader in intersex rights, and perhaps in trans rights as well. From Feminist Newswire: Malta’s parliament just passed new legislation that allows self-determination of gender (with a simple process to legally change gender), and … Continue reading

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