Transgender Student Rights
An important report from Ebony on African-American trans folk:
“Though February has passed, there is never a bad time to get reacquainted with African American history makers- the events that shaped our lives, our heroes and “sheroes.” Over the last few years we’ve been paying closer attention to the accomplishments of Black gay and lesbian people such as Bayard Rustin. But there is another group of African Americans who have shaped our people’s history: transgender people. Transgender African Americans have been active contributors to history, even though they have often been overlooked. Their presence and contributions are not a recent development, but can be traced back through the centuries.”
Read the whole article here.
I wish for no one to be labeled as a “(wo)man”, or even as “(fe)male-bodied”, because of their anatomy. I wish for the chance to describe my own body and to name my own parts.
I wish for discussion about how to come to terms with my body, how to…
(via lgbtadvocate)
Culturally, socially, and physically, we assign humans a gender based on appearance. Popular culture has very rigid definitions of ‘male’ and ‘female’ and imposes them on today’s youth at any costs. Seventeen, Teen Beat, the list goes on. How to make the cute boy in…
(via lgbtadvocate)
This study brings to light what is both patently obvious and far too often dismissed from the human rights agenda. Transgender and gender non-conforming people face injustice at every turn: in childhood homes, in school systems that promise to shelter and educate, in harsh and exclusionary workplaces, at the grocery store, the hotel front desk, in doctors’ offices and emergency rooms, before judges and at the hands of landlords, police officers, health care workers and other service providers.
(From page 2 of the report)
(thanks to the anon who wrote in to fuckyeahsexeducation for the heads up)
(via transgenderstudentlife)
This has been around before, but perhaps if enough stuff like this is put out there it can make a difference.
(via transgenderstudentlife)
Reed Erickson was the first person ever to legally move from female to male in the United States. Surgeons at Johns Hopkins had overseen his transition in 1965.
(via transgenderstudentlife)
Here is a jumbled list of links around gender neutral pronouns and gendered language in general.
- http://aetherlumina.com/gnp/ - a gender neutral pronouns FAQ
- http://genderneutralpronoun.wordpress.com/ - outlines the history of gender neutral pronouns in English and details some sets of…
