Tag: HERO

Dispatch From The Restroom Wars

| Nov 24, 2015 | Reply

Restrooms and locker rooms. The ban of many a trans woman’s existence. Should she go into the lady’s room to do what is necessary or should she hold it till she can get home. Many trans people plan their public outings around when they will be able to use the facilities or around a single stall restroom they are familiar with. Why the paranoia? Because of the straight world’s fear that trans women represent a threat to cisgender women in women’s “safe spaces.” Angela Gardner has some thoughts on the matter in a Dispatch From The Restroom Wars.

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Houston We Have a Real Problem (And it is not about bathrooms)

| Nov 16, 2015 | Reply

Babs Casbar Siperstien helped to get anti-discrimination legislation passed in New Jersey in 2006. That passage took a full court press and featured testimony from trans people and their families, a television ad and a lot of time spent walking the halls of the state capital. Babs feels that the efforts in Houston to get the HERO bill passed fell short in reaching many of the demographics that needed to be won over. See what she believes went wrong in Houston and how it could have been handled better.

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The Week In Transgenderism 11/9/15

| Nov 9, 2015 | Reply

The Week In Transgenderism is loaded with all the trans related news we could dig out of the Web! Today we learn that federal authorities have given an Illinois school 30 days to let a trans girl use the girl’s locker room. The Union for Reform Judaism supports the trans community. There’s a new Miss International Queen. The play Southern Comfort is looking for trans actors. There’s been big media reaction to the defeat of HERO. Sir Elton John weighs in on what Germaine Greer said about TGs. New info has come out about Roberta Cowell. A 5000-year-old tree has changed genders. There’s all that plus more news and a few TWIT Awards waiting for your attention in this week’s TWIT!

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