December 2011
37 posts
Manning defense’s focus on gender identity... →
“Our opinion is there is no correlation between anything he has done and gender identity disorder,” agreed Dru Levasseur, a transgender rights attorney with Lambda Legal.
“This plays into stereotypes that are not true,” he continued. “There are a lot of gender identity disorder people fighting for their lives to be respected and understood as human beings who need equal access to the law. This...
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Bieber never believed in Santa →
Oh, Bieber. I love how his mom is an authority on what fairytales do or don’t exist.
“My mom always told me there wasn’t a Santa,” Bieber says in a new interview with AOL Music. “This was her logic: She thought if I grew up knowing about Santa then finding out he wasn’t real, that it would be like she was lying to me. And then when she told me about God, I...
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“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I...”
– Susan B. Anthony (via twisted-dimensions)
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The Heterosexual Questionnaire
From: http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/04/heterosexual-questionnaire.html
“The Heterosexual Questionnaire was created back in 1972 to put heterosexual people in the shoes of a gay person for just a moment. Questions and assumptions made of Gays and Lesbians that are unfair, are reversed and this time asked to the straight people. This is a fun survey, but also an activist survey....
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HUGE effin' "Thank You"
Dear followers,
You should follow the Queems! I <3 them.
thequeems:
We’d like to say “THANKS!” to everyone who we follow here on tumblr, those who follow us, reblogs, likes or simply supports the movement of strong, female, queer, self-loving, and/or Black people everywhere!
You guys are great!
:) The Queer Musketeers
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A Transgender Man of Color Shares his Story →
fuckyeahftmsofcolor:
James Newton, 29, of Norcross, Ga., a suburban community near Atlanta, got a rude awakening into what it sometimes means to be a black man in America.
Moments after officially getting his name changed from his female birth name at the county courthouse, he noticed a woman looking back at him in the parking lot. With every step he took toward his car, recalls Newton,...
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GID Reform Advocates: Because our identities are... →
The vision of GID Reform
It is time for the medical professions to affirm that difference is not disease, nonconformity is not pathology, and uniqueness is not illness.
It is time for culturally competent psychiatric policies that recognize the legitimacy of cross-gender identity and yet distinguish gender dysphoria as a serious condition, treatable with medical procedures.
It is time for...
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Remove Transgender from the DSM-5 →
I just wrote a paper about this! I even cited the petitioning chairman in my paper. :)
