“As long as his contours didn’t give his secret away, ‘Jay’ was a clean slate, a boy who could be anyone.” For three years, Casey Parks chronicled the life of a transgender teenager in Washington State. This is part one in a three-part series.
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A Transgender-Military Reading List
Thousands of people in the U.S.’s all-volunteer military are transgender.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Poor, Gay, Black, and Southern: America’s Hidden H.I.V. Crisis
If you have H.I.V in New York or San Francisco, you can life a long, healthy life. Not so if you live in the Southern United States and you’re poor, black, gay and/or bisexual.
Posted inEditor's Pick
America’s Hidden H.I.V. Epidemic
Ground zero in the AIDS crisis happened on June 5th, 1981, when the C.D.C.’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report identified five cases of pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in previously healthy white men in Los Angeles. The sixth case — a gay African-American man who had contracted PCP and cytomegalovirus — went undocumented and that critical omission […]
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
How to Disappear
For Alex DiFrancesco, coming out as transgender—even to themself—wasn’t possible without first disappearing.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
On Being Trans, Disabled and Using the Washroom: ‘I have a right to exist safely in public spaces.’
Christian McMahon so rightly reminds us that everyone has “a right to exist safely in public spaces.”
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I’m Trans, Disabled, And Tired Of Fighting To Get Into Bathrooms
Christian McMahon remembers growing up transgender and disabled and implores us to remember that acknowledging someone’s humanity is a lot more than simply allowing them to use the washroom they prefer. Acknowledging his unearned privilege as “a small white man with a disability,” he reminds us that everyone deserves the basic human “right to exist […]
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Biological Clocks and Biological Gender: Trans Women and the Dream of Pregnancy
Belle Boggs writes in Guernica, exploring what the possibility of uterine transplants — no matter how remote or unaccessible the science is — means for trans women.
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Mother Science
Uterine transplants are frontier science, but they offer hope of possibility for trans women and others seeking parenthood.
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In Makeover Culture, Authenticity Doesn’t Come Cheap
If the “real” self is inside us, why do we constantly seek to transform our outer surfaces?