Word: transgenderism
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BOSTON—Members of Boston’s transgender community gathered last night as part of an annual effort to remember the victims of violence against transgendered individuals.
Her roommate Kathleen Frey, a transitioning transsexual who met Campbell through the Tiffany Club, a Waltham-based social group focusing on transgender issues, says she’s had dozens of makeovers. “I’m getting pretty good at makeup,” she says, ?...
Today, the 20th of November, marks the 5th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. Founded in honor of Rita Hester, who was murdered in her Allston apartment on November 28, 1998, the day is meant to commemorate the trans people who have lost their lives to hate violence. The day exhorts...
Trans activists have done vital and significant work in recent years, albeit with little help from progressive, feminist, and queer communities. Transphobia is as grave a problem there as everywhere, and the relevance of trans concerns to other movements is under constant attack. The inclusion of trans concerns in extant...
As Sylvia Rivera, founder of the Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries, has said, “After all these years, the trans community is still at the back of the bus.” Queer and progressive activists need to acknowledge and work through their own transphobia, if they...