This has been one amazing year for Laverne Cox in which she has broken ground for transkind on one level or another.  She was the first tr...

University of Ghent professor Petra De Sutter has become the second serving trans parlimentarian in Europe after recent elections in her na...

More trans history will be made in Washington DC today as the Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge is set to become the first out trans pastor to prea...

This post is probably going to come as a surprise to some people who have seen the long history of transphobic shenanigans emanating from DC...

You know it has to be important for me to miss Scandal (that's what DVR is for anyway), but tonight along with Cristan Williams and Kat...

April Ashley is one of our pioneering trans people and was honored last year with an MBE for her lifelong human rights advocacy.  It's...

I have an upcoming TransGriot Ten Questions interview on the blog for the first time in nearly a year.  That's too long an interval betw...

If you're wondering why  this issue between girls like us and the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival keep popping up repeatedly, it'...

Here it is, the 3rd Annual incarnation of the TransGriot African-American Trans History Quiz.   It's an open Internet test and some of...

Two years ago I started compiling a Black trans history quiz on this blog after getting a little perturbed over my observation that Blac...

I wrote about this when it happened back in June , and in a morning investiture ceremony held at Buckingham Palace last Thursday, trans ...

We have one more day to go in this 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, sixty days to go until Election Day. and this DNC con...

When I say in my posts that the Democratic Party has an inclusive big blue tent, I'm not kidding   One of the things I'm most prou...

The US Olympic Track and Field Trials (called Athletics to the rest of the world) will kick off today and run through July 1 in Eugene, OR...

When Sen Tom Harkin (D-IA)  convenes the Senate committee hearing on ENDA later this morning, one of the five people sitting at that table w...

The ranks of trans politicians around the world just increased by one.   Congrats to Yollada 'Nok' Suanyot who made history in her h...

With the eyes of the world focused on Toronto for a historic finals night for the 2012 Miss Canada Universe pageant, 23 year old Jenna Tal...

If people thought I was kidding about the point that I've repeatedly made about Black transpeople being integrated into the kente clot...

TransGriot Note: Hey TransGriot readers, while I'm not writing at the Huffington Post (yet), this is about a big an honor as you can g...

If you're wondering who were some of my influences in terms envisioning a unified and inclusive trans community, one of them is my act...