gqid:

I’ve been getting lots of questions on Genderqueer Identities in regards to coming out lately. I continue to welcome questions, but I would also like to make a masterpost of resources I tend to recommend to people - this is a work in progress. Please note, you should not feel…

i-am-river:

RadFem

The Doctor does not approve

moobar4lyfe:

TransCouchNetwork is “a couchsurfing network intended to connect trans people in need with safe and supportive places to crash. if you have or are in need of a couch, floor, or spare room, send an ask or submit with any relevant information you’re willing to share and we’ll try and connect you with other couch lenders or surfers near you.” This is great! Let’s spread the word!!! (http://transcouchnetwork.tumblr.com/)

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A New Jersey man was acquitted Friday of the 2010 murder of transgender lingerie model Victoria Carmen White.

A jury in Essex County, N.J., found Alrashim Chambers, 25, of Newark, not guilty of murder, bias intimidation, and two weapons charges, New Jersey’s Star-Ledger newspaper reports. Chambers, who took the stand in his own defense, denied having anything to do with the killing and painted another man, Marquise Foster, who took a plea deal in exchange for testimony against Chambers, as the perpetrator.

White, 28, was shot to death September 12, 2010, in her cousin’s apartment in Maplewood, N.J. She had met Chambers at a bar earlier that evening, and he had gone to the apartment with her. Also present were Foster and two women, including the cousin. But the women were in another room at the time of the shooting and did not directly witness it. The women said they heard someone yell “You a dude?” and heard gunshots, but they could not identify the speaker or the shooter.

Foster had testified that Chambers had been hugging and kissing White and became enraged when he suspected she was transgender, then shot her. But Chambers said he was not in the apartment when White was shot, having stepped out and been unable to return because a door in the vestibule was locked. He said he saw Foster come running out, but Foster didn’t tell him what had happened. Chambers also said he didn’t know White had been killed until he saw news reports two months later that described him and Foster as suspects. Both men turned themselves in to authorities shortly thereafter. The gun used in the killing was never found.

Prosecutor Eileen O’Connor said White’s gender identity provided the only motive for her killing, yet the bias intimidation charge did not figure significantly in the trial, the Star-Ledger reports. White had undergone gender-reassignment surgery 10 years earlier.

O’Connor told the paper that she and White’s family were disappointed in the verdict, “but we put forth all the evidence in the case and did the best we could under the circumstances.”
 

(By Trudy Ring, The Advocate)

freedominwickedness:

editorialhedgehog:

So I’m pissed off as all fuck right now. Have been for a while.

Rooted out one reason.

My little sister has the typical acne-splotching that comes with puberty. She voiced insecurities about it.

So she was placed on a hormone suppression…

homoeroticsubtxt:

really annoyed when people who profess to be conscious of gender diversity, or are actually non-binary themselves, post feminism 101 things like “only women can experience sexism!!! and men can’t!!!!!!!! this is not difficult!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Like

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ok if you’re aware…

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pandalot:

You are good at something, stop lying to yourself. You’re good at breaking down comic book plots, cooking ramen perfectly, making your friends happy, knowing the time without looking at a clock, getting the perfect ending at RPG’s, or figuring out the twist ending to movies. Don’t let society tell you your talents are meaningless because they don’t serve an economical purpose. Your talents reflect your interests and passions, and what’s important to you is important.

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trans-spirituality:

Photo essay by Indonesian photographer Karolous Naga. Last year, his work on Kamis—an Islamic school for Transvestites and Transsexuals in Yogjakarta, Indonesia—was featured on Invisible Photographer Asia.

“Though people will find this place silly and nonsense, but learning the wisdom of Allah is every Moslem’s right, including transvestites!” said Maryani, 48 years old transvestite and founder of Pesantren Senen – Kamis, a Koran School for transvestites and transsexuals in Notoyudan, Jogjakarta – Indonesia.

Today the “Senen Kamis” Koran School has more than a hundred members from the transsexual community. The members come from nearby cities like Semarang, Jakarta and Surabaya to learn the Koran and its wisdom. Although the boarding house operates twice a week – as its name “Monday – Thursday” – its members gather there every afternoon to learn the Koran, chant in Arabic rhyme or just for a rest after working as street musicians. Lots of these [trans people] earn money by becoming street musicians, collecting pennies after pennies the whole day from the people who pass them by. Some with make-up skills become make-up artists at night clubs, and some even own their own small beauty salons. Most also work as prostitutes during the late hours of the night in fear of being harassed by society and religious organizations.

Submitted by headingforangels, who says, “Hope it will help shed some light on how many transgendered Muslims live out their faith.”