transphobia

Unless you’re talking explicitly about gay men, please don’t use the term ‘gay’ as a catch-all for our community. Image: Thinkstock.

Having Sex With Women Doesn't Make Me Gay

If I have sex with a woman, it does not make me gay. As someone who identifies as female, it doesn’t even make me a lesbian.

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We constantly are told it’s not that bad, even though all we have to do is scroll through Facebook to watch the numbers of homeless LGBTQ youth and trans deaths increase.

"Do I Pass?": Navigating Perfomances Of Genderfluid Identity

I always felt the reason I came out as genderqueer was so that I could finally feel like my body belonged to me — not some stranger.

But no, my body still belongs to society. My body still has to meet standards of people I don’t even know just so I can avoid being beaten or kicked out of the bathroom.

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I don't look quite the same (testosterone is one hell of a hormone) but I look pretty dang cute.

To The People From My Past Who Still (Intentionally) Misgender Me

I'm not a woman. I never was. Full stop.

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Ravish Me This . . . Top 5 Reads Of The Week

From gay porn to satire skewering masculinity, we know how to usher you into April right.

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Writer at six years old, photographed at a local ballet school

Let Him Dance: The Fight To Protect Gender-Expansive Youth

I don’t want this to be a conversation about a blonde boy with long hair — this needs to be a conversation about violence and suicide.

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When The Marginalized Are Safe, We're All Safer

Though the very foundation of American policing is rotten with colonialism and anti-Black racism, there are remedies that we can fight for today.

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When The Marginalized Are Safe, We're All Safer

Though the very foundation of American policing is rotten with colonialism and anti-Black racism, there are remedies that we can fight for today.

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Fellow Cis People: Let Leelah Speak—And Let's Get To Work

If the words of Leelah Alcorn's suicide note—penned by the tender hand of a teenager—make you uncomfortable, they should.

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