Month: June 2019

‘It’s like we’re not even human’: the reality of being a trans black woman in America | Life and style | The Guardian

‘It’s like we’re not even human’: the reality of being a trans black woman in America | Life and style | The Guardian:

A spate of murders in Texas has triggered old traumas and the harsh reminder of just how dangerous being trans black woman is.

JK Rowling Confirms Stance Against Transgender Women

JK Rowling Confirms Stance Against Transgender Women

Out of her 14 million followers, Rowling herself follows less than 700 people on social media, so it’s safe to presume her perspective aligns with that of the well known transphobe whose account is solely committed to espousing misinformation and dangerous rhetoric toward transgender women. This clearly isn’t another middle-aged moment. Instead, it seems more like Rowling unapologetically pulling back the curtain and finally ending what little left there was to speculate about with any optimism.

Skeletal Studies Show Sex, Like Gender, Exists Along a Spectrum

Skeletal Studies Show Sex, Like Gender, Exists Along a Spectrum

An increasing recognition of this complexity by researchers and the public has affirmed that gender sits on a spectrum: People are more and more willing to acknowledge the reality of nonbinary and transgender identities, and to support those who courageously fight for their rights in everything from all-gender bathrooms to anti-gender-discrimination laws. But underlying all of this is the perception that no matter the gender a person identifies as, they have an underlying sex they were born with. This represents a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of biological sex. Science keeps showing us that sex also doesn’t fit in a binary, whether it be determined by genitals, chromosomes, hormones, or bones…

Forsaken transgender pioneers recognized 50 years after …

Forsaken transgender pioneers recognized 50 years after …:

NEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) – According to LGBTQ legend it was Marsha P. Johnson, a black transgender woman, who threw the first brick at the Stonewall Inn 50 years ago, sparking the modern gay liberation movement.

Whether her act of rebellion was truly the first in the rioting is debatable, although she was “almost indubitably among the first to be violent,” writes David Carter in “Stonewall,” his 2004 book about the police raid on a New York gay bar that became a historic moment.

What is certain about Johnson’s role, at least for today’s transgender community, is that the stone she cast packed the most thunder.

Queer People of Color Led the L.G.B.T.Q. Charge, but Were Denied the Rewards

Queer People of Color Led the L.G.B.T.Q. Charge, but Were Denied the Rewards

Transgender people, drag queens, blacks and Hispanics played outsized roles during many of the earliest milestones of the gay rights movement. Today, however, these same groups have been denied many of the benefits of the revolution they sparked.

Self-Harm Isn’t Just Cutting

Self-Harm Isn’t Just Cutting

Self-harm is a way that people deal with deep emotional pain. Some say it’s a way for them to feel in control when everything else is spiralling out of control. Others say that feeling pain is better than feeling nothing at all. For other people, they are trying to blur the lines between physical and emotional pain. Whatever the reason though, when you think of self-harm you usually think of the following: