transgender

chronic illness

family

health

Bearing Life With and Alongside: On Masculinity, Pregnancy, and Medical Trauma

I hadn’t experienced transphobic violence in medicalized form before. But I’d experienced it in many others: in punches and pushes, through threats with weapons, or by being run off the…

Grover Wehman-Brown —

Nov 19, 2018

but make it fashion

personal essay

issues

The Implication of a Bag

“I was unwilling to buy a binder. It seemed like a declaration, the kind I was nowhere near ready to make yet. But for that winter, I had the bag.”

L. B. —

Nov 15, 2018

comics/graphic novels

queer masculinity

geekery

The Multifaceted Masculinity of the Dream Daddy Comics

“I can simply rest in this strange and beautiful world of homosexual daddies with expansive definitions of what it means to be masculine; given how raw and terrible I feel…

A.E. Osworth —

Oct 30, 2018

bathroom bills

transgender

politics + activism

MA’s Ballot Question 3 Is a Crucial Battle Over Trans Rights in Trump’s New Anti-Trans Hellscape

Massachusetts is considered a progressive vanguard when it comes to LGBT issues, and a loss there would be devastating. Question 3 was put forth by anti-trans organizers betting on the…

Rachel —

Oct 29, 2018

nicole maines

supergirl

tv reviews

Supergirl’s Nia Nal Is the Trans Superhero I Need

“Our identities shouldn’t require any external validation. But they do.”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Oct 23, 2018

donald trump

donald trump is not my president

politics + activism

“Trans People Don’t Exist” Added to Trump Admin’s Anti-Reality Agenda

This morning, the New York Times broke the story that the Department of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration is “[considering] defining transgender out of existence.”

Rachel —

Oct 21, 2018

josie totah

This Is A Coming Out Post

celebrities (vapid fluff)

Josie Totah Is Transgender: “Glee” and “Champions” Star Is Ready for a New World

“I almost felt like I owed it to everybody to be that gay boy. But that has never been the way I think of myself.”

Riese —

Aug 20, 2018

bad behavior

fullscreen

first person

Still Reeling That I’ve Made It

“No one knows, including me, that my overindulgence and competitive drinking is an attempt to assert the only masculinity I know. Toxic.”

Lazarus —

Aug 9, 2018

military

personal essay

first person

Uncharted Waters: A Trans Woman’s Journey Transitioning in the Navy

“Presenting as male every day hurts. When the ship is in port, it’s not as bad; I grow to hate coming in to work, but once the day ends I…

Vivian Valentine —

Jul 9, 2018

fullscreen

photoessay

politics + activism

Photoessay: NYC’s Trans Day of Action

Trans Day of Action took place on Friday in New York, inviting trans, gender non-conforming people and allies to mobilize and demand “access to both public and private spaces without fear…

Molly —

Jun 26, 2018

family

personal essay

first person

Every Trans Girl I Meet Is From the Future: Finding a Bereft Sisterhood

I find myself preemptively mourning the transgenerational communities and cliques and cults and clubs and covens of girls like me that could be and may not be.

Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard —

Jun 15, 2018

fx

pose

tv reviews

“Pose” Is Full of Trans Joy, Resistance, and Love

Pose is one of the most joyful shows on television right now, full of tenderness and heart. And it stars trans women of color! What more could you want?

Ari —

Jun 5, 2018