Friday, July 05, 2013

ENDA Set For July 10 Senate Committee Vote

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The long delayed Employment and Non Discrimination Act (ENDA) will finally get a Senate committee vote. The bill if passed would prevent di...
Thursday, July 04, 2013

Arrest Made In Racially Charged Denardo Pizzeria Attack Case

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On June 23 there was a 3:15 AM EDT incident in a Washington DC pizzeria in the 1800 block of 14th St. NW that went viral due to it being fil...

One Of The Killers Of Evon Young Convicted

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Billy Griffin's trial may have ended in a hung jury on June 17, but that wasn't the case for Ashanti Mcalister The 18 year old Mc...

Suspect In Vivian Diego Beating Case Pleads Not Guilty

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21 year old Nicol Shakhnazaryan, one of the alleged perps arrested June 20 in the vicious beating of Vivian Diego has plead not guilty to ch...

5 Million Hits!

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(singing) 5...5 million..5 million blog hits! Thank you TransGriot readers for helping me reach another blogging milestone as of 2:43 AM...

Once Again, How Do I Feel About My Country, And How Does My Country Feel About Me?

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Today is July 4, 2013, the 237th birthday of the United States, and I'm not in a celebratory mood as this Independence Day arrives. Th...
Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Colorado Civil Rights Division Lets Coy Pee In Peace

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The Colorado Civil Rights Division has ruled in favor of 6 year old trans kid Coy Mathis, who was barred from using the girls' restroo...

2013 Shut Up Fool Of The Year Midyear Review

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On January 30, 2009 I began what has turned out to be one of the more popular features on TransGriot in my weekly Shut Up Fool Awards.   ...

B. Scott Ain't Accepting BET's 'Apology'

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BET thought they had quelled the growing blacklash (pun intended) over their homophobic dissing of B Scott at Sunday's BET Awards with ...

Deoni Jones Trial Delayed Again In DC

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Gary Niles Montgomery was arrested and charged with the murder of 22 year old Deoni Jones back on February 12, 2012 , but the wheels of just...
Tuesday, July 02, 2013

BET Apologizes To B. Scott For Awards Show Drama

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Diamond has commented on it in her latest video blog along with other people in the blogosphere and outraged fans of multimedia personalit...

Georgia Cis Woman Asked To Prove Femininity To Correct Birth Certificate Error

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For those of you who are skeptical of the point I repeatedly make that Black trans issues are Black community issues as well, I submit that ...

2013 Williams Watch-WTF? Serena's Out at Wimbledon

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For the first time since 2007, the list of Wimbledon women's champions will have someone other than a Williams sister on it. After winn...

Diamond Stylz Comments On The BET-B Scott Controversy

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Catching up on all the news I missed while traveling, and I'm just hearing about BET hiring the androgynous B Scott and then demanding...

Mile High Chillin' With My Family

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Moni's was in the middle of her just concluded family reunion in Colorado's state capitol over the weekend just relaxing. The reas...
Monday, July 01, 2013

We Must Do Our Part To End Anti-Trans Violence

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When I left for my family reunion trip to Denver a few days ago I was discussing along with many people in the DC local and national trans c...

Back Home Again From Denver

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I'm back home after a 2200 mile roadtrip across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado to Denver for a family reunion.  My share of the ...

UH Offically Joins The American Athletic Conference

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A lot of soap opera worthy things happened since I wrote that November 2011 post about the University of Houston joining the Big East Conf...

Happy 146th Birthday Canada!

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Happy Canada Day TransGriot readers! Today is Canada's 146th birthday, and it would have been an exceptional and more joyous one fo...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Being A #GirlLikeUs Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of

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One of the things I learned early from my trans mentors and I (and we as a community) have to constantly focus on is dealing with the shame ...