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gender affirming surgery

A trans masculine person showing their post-surgery scars.

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

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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

gender identity

trans

A close up image shows two light brown hands clasped together. One person wears a white shirt has short, unpolished nails. The other person wears a light blue sweatshirt and has slightly longer unpolished nails and black line tattoos on their fingers and palm.

love + sex

How to Have Sex With a Transmasculine Partner

Transmasc people have our own unique desires and boundaries in bed, just like everyone else.

Quinn Rhodes —

Jun 12, 2023

gay statistics

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stubborn man with fingers in his ear holes

politics + activism

New Polls Reveal Alarming Number of Americans Are Wrong About Trans People, I Wonder Why

Most Americans support bans on gender-affirming medical care for trans youth and participation in sports for trans women — an agenda heartily endorsed by the media they consume.

Riese —

May 5, 2023

gender identity

trans

The silhouettes of two women are visible on a hill during sunset. They both have long, dark hair, wear backpacks and jeans, and hold metal cups in their hands. They sit on the ground and face each other. The woman on the left wears a red jacket and the woman on the right wears a blue jacket.

relationships

When One of Us Transitioned, Our Relationship Changed for the Better

By the time the lockdown lifted, she (Lucy) had kicked a life-long nail biting habit, and I (Summer) had come out as transgender.

Summer Tao —

Feb 6, 2023

death is sad

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society + culture

Mira Bellwether, Author of ‘F*cking Trans Women,’ Has Died

It’s clear that Bellwether wrote this zine because it absolutely needed to be written. Now it’s her legacy.

Ro White —

Dec 27, 2022

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politics + activism

Trans Texans Are Being Surveilled, This Is Everyone’s Issue

On anti-transness, surveillance, and why we should all be paying attention.

KB Brookins —

Dec 21, 2022

politics

reproductive health

Against a white tiled background, a white person's hand holds up a cardboard sign that reads, "MY BODY MY CHOICE."

first person

I’m Trans, I’m Trying to Get Pregnant and I’m More Pro-Choice Than Ever

Roe v. Wade has been overturned, today, as I lie here praying that I’m pregnant. And I have never been more pro-choice than I am in this moment.

R/B Mertz —

Jul 8, 2022

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transgender

gender

To the Trans Kids Reading This – Keep Glowing

You are eons beyond what they will ever imagine being possible. You are glorious, abundant, light personified.

shea wesley martin —

Jun 13, 2022

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sports

Cycling Has a Trans Exclusion Problem

Transphobic groups have picked cycling as a soft target for hate speech, and cycling’s governing body in the USA is doing nothing to protect trans athletes.

James Stout —

Jun 6, 2022

Intimate Geographies

queer sex diaries

A white person with mid-length wavy hair sits, with focused eyes and parted lips, behind a chess board

af+

Intimate Geographies: The Ecstasy of Filth

No one had ever made me feel small before, but Alice was six-two and could lift me like I was a potted plant.

Dust —

May 26, 2022

gender identity

trans

first person

Finding and Losing My Worth as a Trans Woman

Something had to change, because I’d never be free, be myself, if I kept it up. I decided to take the biggest risk yet, and started transitioning again.

miralazine —

Apr 28, 2022