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How Can Trans Women Deal With Erectile Dysfunction?

Summer Tao

Mar 6, 2025
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The Many Ways Trans Women Find Sapphic Love

Eva Reign

Aug 15, 2024
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‘Land of Women’ Is Must-Watch Fun TV — Especially for Gay Trans Girls

Drew Burnett Gregory

Jun 26, 2024
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Welcome to the Dollhouse: With a New Musical, Trans Artists Honor Another

Drew Burnett Gregory

May 17, 2024
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One Year Being Out as a Trans Woman in Texas

Lisa Laman

May 17, 2024
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The History and Future of Trans Women in Action Movies

Lisa Laman

Apr 23, 2024
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4 Moments During My Transition When Womanhood ‘Clicked’ for Me

Summer Tao

Apr 18, 2024
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Here’s to Another Year of Legally Being a Man

Summer Tao

Feb 27, 2024
politics + activism

Brianna Ghey’s Murderers Have Received Life Sentences — Is That Justice?

Drew Burnett Gregory

Feb 6, 2024
gender

How To Support Your Transitioning Partners and Friends

Summer Tao

Jan 19, 2024

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How Can Trans Women Deal With Erectile Dysfunction?

Erectile dysfunction is consistently counted among the most common sexual disorders. It’s also a topic close to my heart (and other organs) because I experience it.

Summer Tao —

Mar 6, 2025

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Trans lesbians: a black and white collage of five queer trans women

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The Many Ways Trans Women Find Sapphic Love

“As a trans woman, lesbian is about how I understand my gender as completely separate from men. I don’t ascribe my gender to perform for men. It gives me space…

Eva Reign —

Aug 15, 2024

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Land of Women trans: the three leads of the series sit on a bed next to each other with the trans daughter/granddaughter in the middle

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‘Land of Women’ Is Must-Watch Fun TV — Especially for Gay Trans Girls

In the second episode, before we learn of her transness, Kate gets flustered in a meet cute with a lesbian mechanic. This allowance of a trans girl, first and foremost,…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jun 26, 2024

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Doll/Girl musical: black and white glamor shots of Lisa and Murphy bookend a color selfie of Murphy, Carmen, and Lisa.

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Welcome to the Dollhouse: With a New Musical, Trans Artists Honor Another

Doll/Girl, a musical portrait of trans artist Greer Lankton, is exactly what’s been missing from the American theatre.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

May 17, 2024

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A close up of a woman's face with matching reddish-orange lipstick and nails.

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One Year Being Out as a Trans Woman in Texas

Everything’s bigger in Texas. That includes the resilience of our trans community.

Lisa Laman —

May 17, 2024

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Trans women in action movies: a collage of images from Jolt, Escape from LA, The Assignment, and Monkey Man.

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The History and Future of Trans Women in Action Movies

The Matrix blew open the doors for what action movies could accomplish — why hasn’t it led to more trans-focused action cinema?

Lisa Laman —

Apr 23, 2024

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4 Moments During My Transition When Womanhood ‘Clicked’ for Me

1. When targeted ads began spooning wedding crap onto my feed.

Summer Tao —

Apr 18, 2024

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a collage of statues, documents, and women's faces with the eyes lined through

gender

Here’s to Another Year of Legally Being a Man

This year marks my fourth year of being a feminine catastrophe. Except my paperwork still claims that I’m some f*cking guy.

Summer Tao —

Feb 27, 2024

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A young person at a vigil for Brianna Ghey holds a candle in one hand a sign that says Protect Trans Youth in the other

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Brianna Ghey’s Murderers Have Received Life Sentences — Is That Justice?

The truest form of justice is prevention.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Feb 6, 2024

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a friend applying makeup to a transfemme person, demonstrating a way to support transitioning partner or friend

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How To Support Your Transitioning Partners and Friends

It can be helpful to see a transition as smaller, interlocked transitions.

Summer Tao —

Jan 19, 2024

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The book cover of Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery, which features a pair of red lipsticked lips with a cigarette hanging out

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Grace Lavery on Her New Memoir “Please Miss,” Sex Writing, and the Trans Glamour of Nicole Kidman

“When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Feb 8, 2022

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In a cropped image of a pelvis, a person with pale skin and multi-colored fingernails rests their hand on their hip. They're wearing white underwear with ruffles along the edges.

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Muffing 101

For trans women who experience genital dysphoria, being penetrated in the front can be really meaningful.

Tobi Hill-Meyer —

Feb 7, 2022