Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts
Friday, May 17, 2019

The Equality Act Passes House!

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HR 5, also known as the Equality Act, would add gender identity and sexual orientation to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.   How apropos that...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Colin Kaepernick To Get Settlement In NFL Collusion Case

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Had a feeling when the arbitrator ruled in Kaepernick's favor last August against the NFL's attempt to get summary judgement on t...
Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Tokyo Passes Law Banning TBLGQ Discrimination

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For those of you who reflexively hate on the Olympics and fixate on the infrastructure costs associated with hosting an Olympic Games,...
Wednesday, May 02, 2018

NH Senate Gets It Right This Time, Passes Trans Rights Bill

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So how long will my transgender brothers and sisters in the Granite State have to wait for their legislators to pass laws that allow them ...
Sunday, April 08, 2018

Trans World, Stop Bashing Trans Sex Workers!

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"I know sex work to be work.  It's not something I need to tiptoe around. It's not a radical statement, it's a fact.&quo...
Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Anchorage Anti-Trans Proposition 1 Defeated!

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While many of us were heading to bed in the Lower 48, the citizens of Anchorage, Alaska were counting ballots in the latest trans rights b...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

Hertha Berlin Takes A Knee In Germany

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The NFL players taking a knee just got additional support from their fellow athletes across The Pond who play the other football. The Ge...
Friday, June 02, 2017

It's Not 'Talking Politics' To Cosign Oppression

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This is a guest post from my Arizona homegirl Toni D'orsay.  She's tired of people who use the term 'talking politics' to ...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Boy Scouts To Allow Transmasculine Boys To Join

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Some good news today from an unexpected source in the Boy Scouts of America. The BSA has had a longstanding ban on transgender people jo...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Target Stands With Us- Stand With Them This Holiday Season

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As Dr. King once said,  the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he sands in ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

C-16 Trans Rights Bill Passes House of Commons, Heads To Senate

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Some wonderful news for our Canadian trans cousins that happened in the runup to TDOR. On November 18, Bill C-16, also known as the Tran...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Bishop Yvette Flunder's Post-Election Message

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I had the honor and pleasure of finally meeting a few months ago the amazing Bishop Yvette Flunder when she came to Houston to speak at th...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Miss Me With That 'ISIL KIlls Gays' BS, Trump Surrogates

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Was laughing my behind off when I was sent this link to a story by my Dallas homie Rafael McDonnell featuring this  kneegrow Trump surroga...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Texas v. USA Case Hearing In Wichita Falls Friday

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For those of you in the Wichita Falls area, the unjust federal transphobic lawsuit that Ken Paxton filed is going to get another hearing ...
Monday, September 12, 2016

12 Year Old Mexican Child Attempts To Stop An Anti-Gay Protest

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And it is written in the Bible that a little child shall lead them. In a protest reminiscent of the 1989 'Tank Man' protest of a...
Friday, September 02, 2016

African-Americans, Poor Whites and Latinos Know What America Has To Lose

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You TransGriot readers know how much love and profound respect I have for the Rev. Dr William J. Barber, and once again this moral human r...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

HERO Passage 2nd Anniversary

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It may have been one small step in the human rights evolution for many cis and straight Houstonians, but for those of us in LGBT Houston, ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

KKK Joins World War T

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If you needed any more convincing that trans human rights is the civil rights battle of our time, look no further than hearing the interes...