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A proud unapologetic Black trans woman speaking truth to power and discussing the world around her since 2006

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Black Pride: What Does LGBT Pride Mean To You

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TransGriot Note:  I was honored to be asked by Kellee Terrell along with other African-American TBLG folks as part of an EBONY.com feature...

Tom Joyner Morning Show Team Dips Into Transphobic 'Comedy' In Garner Case

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I'm a huge fan of the syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show that has a national listening audience of 11 million African-Americans.  B...

Tracey Lynn Garner Facing Second Murder Charge In Silicone Pumping Death

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Tracey Lynn Garner of Jackson, MS is now facing a second charge of depraved heart murder to add to the one she's facing concerning the ...

Amended Trans Human Rights Bill Passes Delaware House

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Yesterday in the Delaware House SB 97, the Gender Identity Nondiscrimination Act ran into a speed bump on its way to passage and out of the ...

Aww, Pam's House Blend To Shut Down July 1

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Sad and surprising news coming out of North Carolina as my blogging shero Pam Spaulding announced that after nine years, she is shutting ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Diamond Stylz-The Middle Ground

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Another thoughtful video by Diamond Stylz
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Delaware House To Vote On Trans Rights Bill Today

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All eyes in the trans community will be turned towards Dover, DE and the First State today as the 41 members of the Delaware House are poise...

Petition: Lift The US Ban On Trans Military Service

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The dirty secret about the 2010 DADT repeal is it only applied to the GLB portion of the community. Trans people were not included and we...
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Monday, June 17, 2013

Huge Social Security Win For Trans Community

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The worldwide trans community has been on a good karmic roll lately with either policy or legislative victories in various nations, and we...

Washington Watch-Racism And Lack Of Diversity In The LGBT Community

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I've talked about this subject for Lord knows how long in the seven years I've been writing at TransGriot, so it was nice to see the...

Evon Young Trial Defendant Billy Griffin In Deliberations

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Billy Griffin, one of the people accused of killing Milwaukee transmasculine rapper Evon 'Yung LT' Young took the stand in his own d...

TPOCC And NCTE Join Forces To Lobby For ENDA And Immigration Reform

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With a trans inclusive Employment and Non Discrimination Act (ENDA) once again being introduced in the 113th Congress in both houses on A...

Transmale and Transfemale Relationships

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Interesting topic from the BTMI YouTube channel.   In this video Christian Lovehall discusses relationships between transmasculine and trans...
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TransGriot Ten Questions Interview -Sabrina Samone

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Haven't done a TransGriot Ten Questions interview so far this year and it's past time I started doing them again.   This one fea...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Diamond Stylz-Love Is A Monster

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The latest video from my homegirl Diamond Stylz

Clock's Ticking On GENDA

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While there is good trans rights news about Delaware passing SB 97 out of committee and being solidly on the road to becoming the 17th stat...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Second Annual Nike LGBT Sports Summit Happening This Weekend

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The first half of 2013 has seen some interesting and dramatic events happening in the world of sports from a TBLG perspective with the com...

More TransGriot Ten Questions Interview Links

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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...

Darn, Still No South American Trans National Legislators Yet

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While South American nations have made outstanding progress on trans issues over the last few years and leaders are emerging like Venezuel...

Truth.Be.Told. Take Two IndieGoGo Campaign In Homestretch

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Learned recently about an IndieGoGo campaign which is focused on funding a pilot for a documentary TV series called T ruth. Be.Told . that ...
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Monica Roberts
Monica Roberts, AKA the TransGriot (Gree-oh) is a native Houstonian, GLAAD award winning blogger, writer, and award winning trans human rights advocate. She's the founding editor of TransGriot, and her writing has appeared at the Bilerico Project, Ebony.com, The Huffington Post and the Advocate. She works to foster understanding and acceptance of trans people inside and outside communities of color. Among her many honors are the Virginia Prince Transgender Pioneer Award, the Robert Coles Call of Service Award. the Barbara Jordan Breaking Barriers Award, and the 2020 Susan J Hyde Award for Longevity In The Movement
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