trans

featured

trans

issues

I’m Going To Keep On Cruising at the Men’s Only Club

I’ve always been struck by the mostly silent language of cruising.

Vera Blossom —

Aug 22, 2024

featured

gender affirming surgery

issues

My Top Surgery Was Complicated. I Don’t Regret It

We rarely hear about how healing can be an iterative and potentially complicated process.

E. Goldblatt Hyatt —

Aug 19, 2024

featured

olympics

sports

The Olympics Have Always Been a Battleground for Gender Panic

Once again, the conversation on sex testing women’s sports has blasted back into our international consciousness, and people are debating everything from the efficacy to the necessity to the injustices…

Stef Rubino —

Aug 13, 2024

featured

trans

society + culture

Rio’s Runway, Reimagined: Transmasc and Nonbinary Performers Expand Brazil’s Ballroom Scene

Transmasc and nonbinary performers take the stage in Rio de Janeiro’s Ballroom scene, expanding interpretations of Ball culture and embodying new forms of gender play and expression. Serving as a…

Hannah McKenzie —

Apr 11, 2024

trans

book features

Why I’m Compiling Queer and Trans Goodbye Letters to Places We’ve Left Behind

I stand with the grief of maps and the ways I bittersweetly still carry the places I left.

Lexie Bean —

Apr 3, 2024

trans

first person

Uncertainty and Disquiet: My Non-Consensual Childhood Circumcision as a Trans Woman

At the time, I didn’t know that I was experiencing a contentious procedure that would leave me physically scarred and emotionally wounded. I did it because I was told I…

Summer Tao —

Feb 20, 2024

featured

skincare

beauty

Leola Davis and Pansy Esthetics Are Here to Queer Skincare

“I wanted to create a space where the queer community could get care and treatments geared specifically toward them and their skin and body.”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jan 25, 2024

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gender affirming surgery

health

Healing After Top Surgery: Expectation vs. Reality

What’s it like to walk down the stairs with nothing bouncing? What’s it like to feel a seatbelt flat against me? What’s it like when my girlfriend lays her head…

Max Gross —

Jan 11, 2024

trans

geekery

Queer Dungeons & Transgender Dragons: Exploring Gender Through Imagined Worlds

In D&D, your character’s gender is entirely yours to invent. When you’re already embodying the experience of a half-elf or a cat person, playing a person of another gender isn’t…

Rowan Zeoli —

Dec 11, 2023

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for them

holigays

Holigay Gift Guide: Things Marketed To My Former Gender That I Actually Want

I was always bad at being a girl but now, with inflation, fast fashion, and heightened capitalism…I am so glad I figured out I was trans years ago.

Motti —

Dec 10, 2023

trans

transgender

health

Testosterone Can Grow Prostate Tissue and Other Things They Don’t Tell You About T

Trans people and medical professionals have a lot to learn from each other.

Max Gross —

Nov 21, 2023

af+ personal essay

BEGIN AGAIN

af+

In The Movie Depicting My Childhood

“Legislators pass laws enabling families to control children and defund social services that support them, all in the name of protecting the wealthy, white, girl body. These policies, which are…

Stacy Grover —

Nov 16, 2023