Showing posts with label transgender issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transgender issues. Show all posts
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Morehouse College Opens Its Doors To Trans Masculine Students

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Morehouse College in Atlanta since 1867 has been the only all male college dedicated to the education of African American men.  It has a l...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Miss America 2019 Says Trans Women Should Be Allowed To Compete

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Today was the day 35 years ago that Vanessa Williams, who repped New York state, was crowned as the first ever Black Miss America back in ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Have A Wonderful 2018-19 School Year, Trans Family!

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The school year gets started for ten Houston area school districts including the Alief one I now live in tomorrow.   But the events in Ach...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

'Die Beautiful' Film Opening In The Philippines

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This is another film in which I wish the directors would have actually hired a trans woman or cis woman to play the trans protagonist Tris...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Hey Hollywood, Trans Actors Exist, So Hire Them!

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TransGriot Note:  Actress Trace Lysette on the Emmy's red carpet . One of the things I've been increasingly pleased to see is t...
Monday, August 15, 2016

'Strut' To Premiere September 20

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Laverne Cox won't be the only trans person I know that will have a television series debuting next month. Isis King will be one of th...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

2016 DNC Pre-Convention Trans Delegate Musing

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One of the things I'd like to see in that 2016 DNC transgender delegate contingent besides more people and continued ethnic diversity ...
Friday, June 24, 2016

End Of Trans Military Service Ban Coming?

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Good news finally for the estimated 15,500 trans people serving in our country's military. According to a USA Today report , the Pen...
Thursday, May 05, 2016

Dr. Jillian Weiss Talks About The DOJ HB 2 Challenge On CNN

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Earlier today on CNN attorney Dr. Jillian T. Weiss was on CNN's Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield to discuss the unjust HB 2 and the r...
Wednesday, May 04, 2016

The Conservafools Are Losing World War T

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Ever since they lost the Obergefell SCOTUS case last year, the conservative movement has decided to take out their anger about losing th...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Fellowship Of Affirming Ministries Trans Support Resolution

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During the Friday City Hall vigil for Shante and Willie , a resolution was read by Pastor Freedom K.D. Gulley of Progressive Open Door Chr...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Trans Woman Sexually Assaulted At Stonewall Inn

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To cap off last week being one of the worst weeks for trans kind in the US with the passage of the unjust HB 2 and anti-trans legislation ...
Friday, January 29, 2016

FAA No Longer Stigmatizing Trans Pilots

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I had the pleasure during my Air Marshal days of meeting the trans pilot who cleared the path for me to transition at work.  It was an e...
Tuesday, December 08, 2015

$20 Million To Be Donated For Trans Causes

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As someone who once upon a time was political director for NTAC from its founding until 2002 and died  currently sits on the boards of sev...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Happy Veterans Day 2015, Trans Vets!

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Today is Veteran's Day, the day in which we celebrate and honor our military veterans who either served or are currently serving in o...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

It's Not About The Bathrooms

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In the wake of our HERO loss, now that we have the local media's attention that we didn't have during the HERO fight, the Houston ...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

32 Members Of Congress Urge TSA To Reform Trans Screening Procedures

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One of my nicknames in the trans community is the Air Marshal for two reasons.   When I first got involved in community activism in 1998 I...