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Feministe.us – Posted by: Holly
“I didn’t know what to do. My own dad was so tough on us – always saying things like “Be a Man!”
My father’s voice cracks with grief as he continues. “I thought I had to – like he used to say – whup the sissy out …
Maroon.UChicago.edu – By Rhema Hokama
Earlier this quarter Luka Carfagna and a group of friends showed up at Stagg Field for a kickoff IM men’s soccer match. But after arriving at the stadium, student IM representatives told Carfagna that he couldn’…
TorontoIst.com – By Marc Lostracco
There is little more dreadful for a parent than unintentionally hurting one’s own child. There is little more traumatic for a child than having something they dearly want taken away from them. A Toronto psychologis…
NPR.org –
by Alix Spiegel
New Therapy Would Buy Time to Resolve Gender Crisis
All Things Considered – Note: To protect the identities of this family, NPR has used only first names.
Robert and Danielle instituted an “only-in-the-house” rule w…
TheStranger.com – by Paul Constant
I’m a straight guy with no interest in sports and almost no body hair. What makes a man masculine? The question led me to a doctor’s office, a therapist’s couch, and a drag bar in Tacoma.
I’ve never been a manly…
LoHud.com – By Marcela Rojas – The Journal News
Brewster High School student Michael Loscalzo said he was scared to go to school yesterday, given all the attention he’s received for his recent decision to start dressing as a girl.
But as the day …
LasVegasSun.com – By Abigail Goldman
The hairdresser who bleached Raven Navajo’s roots in jail wasn’t given much time or many tools, so the result was more mine shaft canary than blond – dingy yellow hair fried so thin it seemed to float on static e…
BayWindows.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Associate Editor
Wakefield High School was a war zone for Diane Difraia. She preferred sweats and t-shirts to hip-huggers and girly tops. On the athletic field she was so aggressive her coaches told her to play wit…
MCV.e-p.net.au
Jody Horowitz considers the status of drag queens in the queer community.
Drag queens made me nervous when I was an adolescent and navigating the quicksand of my awakening sexuality.
I was convinced they were the worst possible …
Xtra.com – Vivian Belik
Trans Youth / Activists chipping away at multiple barriers
Before coming out as transgendered, 14-year-old Mackenzie Sawatzky walked six hours from her town of Stonewall. She spent three nights writing and sleeping on the …