Saturday, February 23, 2019

Trans Girl Gets Callback For Miss Puerto Rico Universe Pageant!

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A few weeks ago my sis Joanna Cifredo and I were on the phone catching up with each other about the events that had transpired in our live...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Trans Soul Singer Jackie Shane Joins The Ancestors

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Sad to hear the news via her record company that Grammy nominated trans soul singer Jackie Shane has passed away at age 78. Shane was b...

NC Trans Inmate Denied Housing Transfer To A Female Prison

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37 year old Kanautica Zayre-Brown acknowledges she broke the law, and as a consequence of it is now serving a nearly ten year sentence aft...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Martina Navratilova Comes Out As A Transphobe

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As you longtime TransGriot readers are aware of, I am a huge tennis fan and played on my high school's varsity tennis team. I not on...

House Armed Forces Committee Hearing On Trump Trans Troop Ban Happening Soon

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This is why elections matter. When the Democrats got control of the US House, what that also meant is that when this session of the 116t...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Blog Was Deleted, Now It's Back Up

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As many of you TransGriot readers are aware of by now, a few hours ago this blog was deleted for some still as unknown reason by Google/...
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Sunday, February 17, 2019

Thai Trans Businesswoman Running To Become Thailand's Prime Minister

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Been saying for a while that trans people in the US needed to run for public office so that we help craft the laws that govern us. Out t...
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...

Payless Shoe Source To Permanently Close

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Payless Shoe Source for trans women has been for years one of the go to places to find nice fashion forward shoes, boots and sandals in ou...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Happy Valentine's Day 2019

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Today is Valentine's Day.  As has been the case for the last decade, I bought my own candy, have a bottle of wine and have a stack of ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Rest In Power Sarah DePalma

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We in the Houston trans community knew this day was coming because she had been valiantly battling Parkinson's Disease since 2006, but...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Rest In Power and Peace Miriam Rivera

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2019 is already turning into a less than stellar year for the House of Xtravaganza.  The iconic New York ballroom community house has al...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

2019 TransGriot SUF Lifetime Achievement Awards

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It's that time again TransGriot readers!   This is the day that I reveal unto you which fools have parlayed their unmatched capacity f...
Thursday, February 07, 2019

Upcoming One Day Local Elections 101 Campaign School

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On February 16 I will be joining an amazing lineup of local party officials, former candidates, elected officials and campaign professiona...
Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Shea Diamond Nominated For A GLAAD Media Award!

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I'm not the only Black trans person who will be watching and waiting to see if I get a GLAAD Media Award when those shows happen in LA...
Monday, February 04, 2019

A Trans Homecoming Queen Reigns In Forsyth County, GA

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Forsyth County, GA has a long, ugly history for the peeps in the ATL metro area of being a hotbed of racism and homophobia deep in the hea...