The ‘T’ Word

huffingtonpost.com – Jennifer Finney Boylan – Author, ‘She’s Not There,’ ‘I’m Looking Through You’ and ‘Stuck in the Middle With You’

Hey, can we have a conversation about the word “tranny”?

It’s a word that is generally considered dehumanizing a…

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I Was a 9-Year-Old Drag Queen

huffingtonpost.com – Mark S. King – Blogger, MyFabulousDisease.com; author, ‘A Place Like This’

“We’re born naked… and the rest is drag.” –RuPaul

When I was 9 years old, I took my parents’ album of the Broadway musical Damn Yankees and memoriz…

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Lost in Trans-lation

huffingtonpost.com – Nadia Cho – Student, University of California-Berkeley

Nothing is more heavily enforced in our society than gender. We assume that gender is predetermined, that being a man or a woman is black-and-white, that our genitalia clear…

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How to Tell Your Partner You’re Transgender

huffingtonpost.com – Toni Newman – Writer, law school student and author, ‘I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman’

Living the life of a transsexual can be really hard. I know I don’t have to tell you that. But while the day-to-day can be difficul…

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