Is The New York Times Collaborating With Anti-Trans Lawmakers?

It is starting to feel like the New York Times is collaborating with anti-trans lawmakers to give platform to the lies and distortions that have enabled state legislative attacks on trans people to gain momentum over the…

Expanding Trans Media Representation: Why Transgender Actors Should Be Cast in Cisgender Roles

My Intersection with Being Trans and Fatphobia

An Essay by Katelyn Burns

CW: suicide discussion

What Unique Problems Do Non-Binary People Face?

So. Up front. This is going to be a really personal post, and if you aren’t comfortable knowing very personal things about me or can’t respond maturely, step on past.

A Boy, Mistaken

I remember the anxious excitement I felt the day the women in my family gave me a makeover. They curled my short hair and sprayed…

On The Antioch Review, Daniel Harris, and Transphobia

In an extraordinary post from the 1st of May, The Antioch Review — a literary journal whose name, in…

Gender’s in my pants? What pants?

It was Mother’s Day, 2014. Everyone had just departed and I was now left to tidy up the house. I’d cooked for the family, as in years past. Finally, everyone knew I was transgender. I changed out of the pants I’d been wearing and into a dress while I cleaned. That…

“I Mean, You Have Tits Now”

We saw each other for the first time in two decades at our 20th high school reunion. “I mean, you have tits…

The Annihilating Gaze

My dentist performs a breast exam

Explaining a Non-Binary Transition.

I guess that will be the challenge for Neutrois, the battle for acceptance.

Neutrois are in some ways humans who wish to remove the biology of gender from themselves and the battle is being accepted for detaching themselves from being human…