June 2012
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TRANSGENDER AND GENDER NONCONFORMING STUDENTS:... →
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Abbe Land, Director of the Trevor Project explains... →
In light of the breaking news that the Supreme Court has upheld the entirety of the ACA law (known to most as Obamacare), I thought it valuable to share Land’s article from yesterday’s Huff Post blog.
There are definite benefits to the ACA, especially for LGBTQ youth who suffer disproportionately from health disparities. For the first time, insurance companies will face new...
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(Re)establishing a positive relationship with my...
There is a common theme within trans stories and histories of a person vs. their body narrative. Most obviously, there is the “trapped in the wrong body” narrative. Even for people who do not describe their trans experience as having been born in the wrong body, there is still a duality between person and body almost always present. For many of us, our bodies are the locus of our...
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Something our cis allies sometimes forget:
thedangerfox:
When people tell other people you’re trans*
That sucks.
The decision to disclose trans status and/or history is solely up to the individual with those experiences. PLEASE DO NOT DISCLOSE A PERSON’S TRANS STATUS OR HISTORY WITHOUT THEIR EXPLICIT PERMISSION TO DO SO.
