This is a quick reference guide to the development of the trans+gender lexical compound:

1960s

1965: Transgenderism = Transsexual

1969: Transgenderal = Full-Time Non-Op

1970s

1970: Transgendered = Transsexual

1974: Transgender = Umbrella Term

1974: Transgender = Umbrella Term

1975: Transg… Read full post »

As you may know, most of the TS Separatist leaders have moved on with their lives and the ones who are left seem to be the Ashley Love/Just Jennifers of the world who regularly make absurd and demonstrably false claims.  I will continue to both confront and make evidence-based correcti… Read full post »

I’ve seen so many arguments and misunderstandings pop up over the conflation of these THREE dimensions of what we collectively refer to as gender:

1. Gender Orientation: One’s subjective experience of one’s own physical sex.
2. Gender Identity: One’s culturally influe
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I decided to see for myself what all the fuss was about and watched the 6 available episodes. If you like assassin shows, it’s your standard fare. Now, about Sevigny’s portrayal of a pre-op transwoman… It’s good. At times my reaction to her portrayal of gender dysphor… Read full post »

Isis recently modeled political shirts that read, “Legalize Gay” and “Gay is O.K.” and I know what you’re thinking… You’re thinking that it’s cool that an out transgender woman is able to support one of the many political causes she ca… Read full post »

!!!Internet Drama Alert!!!!

Warning… what follows is ridiculous internet drama. You should probably just move on because Lisa’s bawing reaches heights heretofore unseen on this blog (which is saying something). 

Lisa has threatened “legal action” against me becaus… Read full post »

While in the past, Suzan and I have had significant disagreements over her radical rhetoric concerning trans history, I’ve noticed Suzan’s tone has mellowed and deepened. While she does not self-identify as transgender, I take no issue with that. Furthermore, since she is no long… Read full post »

Or not.

A lot has been made over a RadFem Cathy Brennan being “attacked” at a dyke event by event organizers and some cis and trans folk. After the “attack” shouting match happened, a few people made trollish statements about wanting RadFems to die.

Personally… Read full post »

Even though the Virginia Prince fountainhead myth is dead, TS Separatists still promote it as if it were fact. Today, the Separatists over at “GenderReality” tried to set the record straight on trans history. How did they set the record straight? They just asserted their ver… Read full post »

This Friday at 7 PM central on BlogTV, the separatist, Lisa McDonald will be debating that “transgender” comes from communism. I’m sure the debate will be full of conspiracy theory, non-sequiturs, ad homs and lots of quote mining… and on my side you… Read full post »

RadFem BS:

I find it amusing to watch RadFems and their TS Separatists lapdogs tie themselves into knots over trying to make the case that gender does not exists and that therefore, gender identity is BS.

Let me succinctly state what gender identity is: One’s subjective experien… Read full post »

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The above represents practically all that’s wrong about the transgender coinage myth that’s been propagated over the last 20 years. Let me just put that myth to rest with 3 s… Read full post »

I got to spend last week with Dr. Rawson who flew across the country to spend some time with the Houston transgender archive*. We spent a lot of time talking about the Prince fountainhead myth that’s been propagated over the last couple of decades. We talked about how some in the… Read full post »

I wanted to take a moment and address what it means to be a non-Separatist; that is, what it means to be an Inclusionist - part of the transgender community. The Houston transgender community has been an explicitly Inclusionist community since the 1960s. We toyed with separatism in the… Read full post »

For example, this Spring a few self-promoting and self-aggrandizing “transgender” bloggers, authors and “gender outlaw” entertainers (who actually financially and professionally profit by enforcing transgender socio-politics and umbrella-ism theory) are obsessing over

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Fantasy:

“GLAAD’s rule ‘only say transgender, never say transsexual’” – GLAAD according to Ashley Love

Reality:

From GLAAD's Media Guide

 ”… some transsexual people still prefer to use the term to describe themselves

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Ashley "I'm Colonized" Love

So, Ashley Love supposedly held a rally outside of a GLAAD meeting. She writes:

Though GLAAD does some good work, primarily for gays and those who support transgender socio-politics, we hold this education rally to inform attendees that the

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Love made yet another post asserting (without evidence, of course) that she’s a victim of the word “transgender,” that the evil transgender umbrella is evil and transsexuals were colonized:

Please... someone do an intervention on Ashley. NOW!

So, I replied…

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I’m sure Marti won’t be offended when I point to the HBS/separatist clique as a hugely American, white, privileged former male movement. These people give no respect to those before them who lived for decades as women with NO recourse to hormones, surgery or even a sympathetic ea

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I’m going to call it: the TS Separatist movement – as it has existed over the past 5 years – is dead. The foundational falsehoods upon which Separatism was built have been destroyed.  Furthermore, in an ironic twist, it’s been shown that the guy HBSers (… Read full post »

Why and when did transsexual people begin calling themselves transgender? According to some internet memes transsexuals began self-identifying as transgender due to a vast global plot by crossdressers^1,2 . According to this conspiracy, transsexuals by the millions were forced by the media³… Read full post »

From the Amazing Atheist’s blog (yes, that Amazing Atheist): http://blog.thatfatatheist.com/post/19571775653/feminists-even-a-feminist-would-hate

And more RadFem derp: “their arrogance and oppressiveness is amazing. It is funny though that they are so used to Feminists immediat… Read full post »

A few things that may be of interest from my research blog:

• Filisa Vistima’s Diary: Filisa Vistima was a 22-year-old pre-operative transsexual woman from Seattle. She volunteered at the Lesbian Resource Center (LRC). On March 6, 1993 Filisa took her own life.  What you’re about to rea
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From a 1989 speech given in San Antonio, Texas:

You may feel that a specific national broadcast or the efforts of a specific local group are not in line with your personal gender identity. This might be true, but the gender spectrum is a continuum, and for each of us,… Read full post »

Some FaceBook junkfood for your brain….

Dana Lane Taylor 

Cristan, who are the “separatists” that would be mad that this passed? I want to know so I can call them mean names. BTW, you deal with “facts” so I imagine you have a list who have condemned this… Read full post »