A reader writes: “As a cis-gendered man who tries to be an ally, I wonder what your take on the situation is and if there is something more I can follow up with or if there are suggestions for how to handle this in a better way in the future. “I am a graduate student [...]
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Ask Matt: Allies Stepping Up and Stepping In
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged allies, community, discrimination, etiquette, transphobia on November 10, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Ask Matt: Teaching Teachers About Trans Issues
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged discrimination, education, privacy, trans education, transition, transphobia on October 3, 2011 | 15 Comments »
A reader writes: “I will be talking and teaching teachers about being transgender and working with them to create a safer school climate and a respectful school climate. This particular school is getting its first trans boarding student. Several teachers have asked about the other students, as in, ‘They should be told that the new [...]
Ask Matt: Dealing with a Transitioning Coworker
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged discrimination, employment, gender expectations, gender expression, legal, transition on August 18, 2011 | 34 Comments »
A reader writes: “I have a coworker who, over the course of the four years we have worked together, made the transition from a man to a post-surgery woman. “I have tried to be supportive of each phase of the transition, but my coworker has made it increasingly difficult. Each phase was a surprise – [...]
Ask Matt: Can a Trans Man Adopt a Child?
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Information, tagged being trans, discrimination, family, legal on August 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A reader writes: “I am wondering if there are any other transgender people who have started and/or gone through the process of adopting a child ‘post’ transition (gender marker, name change, etc.), and if so, were you successful in adopting? What were the challenges? (I know about the standard background checks.) “I am specifically looking [...]
Ask Matt Minis: Turning to My Readers for Answers
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Information, tagged being trans, bodies, discrimination, education, health care, hormones, surgery on August 1, 2011 | 13 Comments »
I have received several Ask Matt questions that are factual in nature, and that I am hoping readers with specific knowledge and expertise can answer. I am offering a short answer to each and then turning to readers to provide information that I might not be aware of. I know that I have readers out [...]
Ask Matt Monday: Transient Trans People in LGBT Programs
Posted in Ask Matt, Information, Observations, tagged being trans, community, discrimination, LGBT, transphobia on May 2, 2011 | 26 Comments »
A non-trans lesbian acquaintance recently asked, “Why are trans people so transient in the LGBT community?” She runs a program at an LGBT center, and she said that trans participants seem to come and go in her program as well as in other programs that the center provides. She wondered if this kind of off-again, [...]
Ask Matt Monday: Comments on the Maryland McDonald’s Assault
Posted in Ask Matt, Commentary, Observations, tagged crime, discrimination, hate crimes legislation, Internet, legal, restrooms, transphobia on April 25, 2011 | 17 Comments »
A few people have asked me what I think about the brutal attack on a trans woman by two other women at a McDonald’s near Baltimore, Maryland, last week. A McDonald’s employee filmed the attack, and the video is all over the Internet. If you have not yet seen it, beware – it is quite [...]
Show Us Your Genitals! and Other Gender Weirdness
Posted in Commentary, News, Observations, tagged bodies, discrimination, employment, family, gender expression, legal, surgery, trans men on April 14, 2011 | 25 Comments »
I don’t know how people have the time to get upset about all the things they get upset about, but once again, we’ve got people worrying about non-issues, as if we’ve actually solved all the real problems in the world and have to dig up stuff to keep us shocked and offended. First of all, [...]
Rep. Chris Lee: When Trans in a Headline Matters
Posted in Commentary, News, Observations, tagged discrimination, Internet, politics, sex, transphobia on March 3, 2011 | 16 Comments »
I have written before about the use of the terms transgender and transsexual in headlines. In many instances (far too many), the press goes after these words as if they were gold – and in a way, they are, if you want to sensationalize your news and get as much traffic as possible to your [...]
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I Can’t Get Over Being Told to ‘Get Over It’
Posted in Commentary, tagged allies, discrimination, language, transphobia on November 7, 2011 | 40 Comments »
It’s amazing what’s expected of us as trans people. We’re supposed to watch our trans sisters succumb to unspeakable brutality on a constant basis. We’re supposed to ignore the fact that we can be legally fired in thirty-eight states simply because we’re trans. We’re supposed to “understand” when we are denied admittance to public places [...]
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