A recent social media exchange has brought back the arguments that "Pride isn't needed" and that it is somehow "too much" and "shoving it down our throats" again. This inspired the following satire. I am considering a series of satires for Pride

This Pride, refuse surrender. Dream boldly, center the vulnerable, build trans liberation through solidarity—no apology, no compromise.

An analysis and response to Brianna Wu's comment on my essay " I Will Not Make That Trade_"_

Brianna Wu left a comment on my last essay that I want to take seriously. Not because it landed, it mostly didn't, but because buried inside the

The Cruelest Arithmetic

The world is not our only oppressor.

Watch what happens when oppression does its work long enough, effectively enough: you begin doing it to yourself. Not because you're weak, but because you've learned the lesson too well. You absorb the cisheteronormative logic so

A Manifesto for Liberation Now

The Fact of Our Binding

James Baldwin wrote: " Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." But there is something else Baldwin understood, something that sits beneath every essay he wrote, every warning he

A reflection on the International Day of Pink

In 2007, at Central Kings Rural High School in Nova Scotia, Canada, two high school students, David Shepherd and Travis Price, witnessed a classmate being bullied for wearing a pink polo shirt to school. Shepherd and Travis Price, witnessed a classmate being

The Quiet We Refuse

There is a trap built into the floorboards of being trans. You feel it every time you smile at a stranger who stares too long, every time you soften your voice to keep the peace, every time you say "it's fine" when

Transmedicalism and the Refusal of Victimhood

The Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS) and transmedicalist [1] trap is perfectly designed because it works in two directions at once. It reaches inward and outward simultaneously, and both movements depend on the same broken premise: that victimhood is the price of legitimacy.

Inward, it

Here's Why.

About every ten years or so I find that this debate rears its ugly head. A little over a decade ago, some professional trans folks took up the challenge and deconstructed, debunked, and documented some of the debate and core issues. As things in the US