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fuckyeahasiandykes:

 Finding the cisgender angle in the latest news stories

This is AMAZING. Cis journalists tend to point out completely irrelevant details when writing about trans people; this blog gives the same treatment to cis people, showing how ridiculous it is.

Examples:

“Rebekah Brooks - as she started to call herself following a second marriage - courted power but avoided publicity.  She started receiving female hormones via her ovaries during her first puberty, and intends to continue with them.”

“Smith, who never transitioned and has non-surgically altered genitals similar to those of a pre-operative trans woman, is normally seen on screens but appeared in person on Friday.”

Posted by Midwest GenderQueer 4 September 593 genderqueer Permalink

cassket:

The Brown Boi Project has just released Freeing Ourselves, a new health guide for transgender men and masculine-identified women of color:

Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Boisserves as an exciting new tool for empowerment, as transgender men and women on the masculine spectrum continue to face a health sector in which they are largely invisible. For people of color in these communities, who are often uninsured, these challenges are often compounded; high levels of unemployment, discrimination in public service delivery, and income inequality are the norm, not the exception.

It’s no news that LGBT people of color are incredibly marginalized when it comes to access to competent and affordable health care. I don’t doubt this guide will a much-needed tool for this community to advocate for their health and well-being — and in a personal and empowering way.

Posted by Midwest GenderQueer 4 September 122 genderqueer Permalink

“Midwest organization…dedicated to the facilitation and actualization of physical, emotional, and social wellness for the transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, fluid, gender questioning, gender variant, and queer populations of the greater the Midwest region of the United States through advocacy, activism, community-building, education, and resource creation.”

Posted by Midwest GenderQueer 28 August 13 Permalink