Archive for the 'media' Category
The Fundie’s Handbook
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. That’s the way I see it, and with the steamroller momentum of birtherism, teabagging, speechies, marriage protection and the like, one can’t help but just want to take the easier road of rolling with it. Even my home Province of Alberta, Canada is swinging to the right like never before, cutting GRS funding, [...]
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Sprinter Caster Semenya has been placed on suicide watch in the wake of leaked tests apparently showing evidence of intersexuality as well as the negative press she’s received. The news of this has prompted Lord Coe, a vice-president of the IAAF (which oversees the World Championships), to push for mandatory pre-emptive gender testing, to [...]
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(I have to apologize for mostly having to cover everything in a recap, rather than being able to cover everything as it happened. It’s possible that as a consequence some of the links may have become invalid as media phases out old news pages or moves them to members-only sections.)
10,000 people turned out for [...]
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Hey, “Advocate!”
Hey, “Advocate!”
If your “magazine” is going to stoop so low as to put quotation marks around a transsexual woman’s name and pronouns in order to characterize her as a gay male so that her attempt to wed becomes annexed by your take on same-sex unions, don’t be too surprised if we transsexuals don’t take too [...]
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Almost A Person
(Part of GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine’s coverage of the delisting of GRS in Alberta)
It came in as registered mail. This was good news of course, so when I’d received the notice, I ran down to the postal outlet to collect the envelope that would have news about my eligibility for surgery. I knew what the [...]
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Disposable
It’s not really “murder” if the victim is disposable.
That’s the theme that keeps resurfacing when trans panic defenses are used to effectively stave off any chance of serious sentencing for the murder of a woman who happens to have a penis or a man who happens to have a vagina. We’re supposed to accept that [...]
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When Finance Minister Iris Evans discussed the Province’s decision to delist Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS) on the day after the budget was handed down, she said, “I didn’t even know we covered that.” Reportedly, there was a look of hate in her eyes as she said it (I didn’t see the report, but have heard [...]
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A Shoe Too Far
Former U.S. President George W. Bush has decided to join the public speaking circuit, because he’s oh so good at that. His first venture brought him to Alberta.
“This is my maiden voyage. I can’t think of a better place to give it than Calgary, Canada.”
Maybe it’s telling that my stomping grounds, Canada’s “Little Texas” were [...]
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Q: When is reparative therapy not reparative therapy?
A: When the patients are gender variant children. Then it’s okay, or so the implicit judgment from the American Psychiatric Association would still seem to say. But more on that in a moment.
The debate surrounding one of the controversial doctors assigned to revise the diagnoses used for either [...]
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GLAAD named WTHR coverage of the murder of Taysia Elzy and Michael Hunt as a Worst for December 2008. They say:
“A December 28 crime report on WTHR.com detailing the murder of a transgender woman and her boyfriend in Broad Ripple, Indiana used the incorrect name, the wrong pronouns and described the transgender victim’s life in a [...]
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