The only thing that could make the “double your hatred, double your rage” duo of Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin worse would be to add Ann Coulter to the mix. But Bachmann and Palin have made Coulter even more irrelevant than she already was. Now Palin is stumping for Bachmann on the reelection trail, and [...]
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Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, and My Cognitive Dissonance
Posted in Commentary, tagged femininity, feminism, Michele Bachmann, politics, Sarah Palin on April 12, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Amanda Simpson Can Take It, but Can We?
Posted in Advice, Commentary, News, Observations, tagged Amanda Simpson, politics, trans women, transphobia on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Amanda Simpson is a very strong, intelligent, and highly qualified woman who no doubt anticipated a great deal of negative response to her appointment to the U.S. Department of Commerce. She’s been in the public eye for a while, albeit on a smaller scale, and she’s been out as trans, so she was probably well [...]
Amanda Simpson and the Trans Catch-22
Posted in Commentary, News, Observations, tagged Amanda Simpson, assimilation, being out, coming out, employment, politics on January 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The Obama administration’s appointment of Amanda Simpson, a trans woman, to the post of Senior Technical Adviser to the Department of Commerce is a major blip in the trans-history timeline that is being created as we speak for people to examine 50 or 100 years from now. But the announcement brings with it a kind [...]
The Bathroom Issue Rears Its Head Again (No Puns Intended)
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged civil rights, discrimination, legal, politics, restrooms on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m so tired of the bathroom issue (I said “issue,” not “tissue”), and it just won’t go away. Tomorrow (November 3) in Kalamazoo, Mich., voters will decide whether or not to uphold Ordinance 1856, which provides protections for LGBT residents of Kalamazoo in the areas of housing, employment, and public accommodations. This ordinance was adopted [...]
The Persecution of Mayor Eric Brewer
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged crossdressing, Eric Brewer, gender expression, politics, privacy on October 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
At first, I wasn’t going to write about this unfortunate situation, because the circumstances surrounding it are just so tawdry and despicable, but it makes me so angry that I am going to say a “few” words. Apparently, there are photographs circulating that are allegedly of Eric Brewer, the mayor of East Cleveland, in a [...]
Stu Rasmussen and My Bad Little Voice of Judgment
Posted in News, Observations, tagged gender, gender expression, gender identity, politics, Stu Rasmussen on July 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
There are so many trans people in the news lately that I can hardly keep up. This is good news for those of us who support visibility as a means of achieving acceptance and equality, and maybe bad news for those who would prefer to keep a lower profile. Stu Rasmussen is one of those [...]
Why I Like Sonia Sotomayor
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged gender, gender expectations, gender identity, gender roles, identity, politics on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t had a lot of time to read up on President Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, but in the brief profile that I’ve been able to put together by skimming various articles, I have no objection so far (not that anyone in Congress is breaking down the door for my opinion). But [...]
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Arizona’s SB 1070: Why It Matters to Trans People
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged discrimination, immigration, legal, politics, SB 1070 on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
There is a great deal of upset over the new bill in Arizona that appears to not only allow, but to require, a police officer to investigate a person’s status if that officer has any “reasonable suspicion” that the person is an “illegal alien.” It seems that the individual in question must produce immediate documentation [...]
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