Tag Archives: LGBT

Trans Elitism

Checking Our Own Internalized Transphobia Trans Elitism refers to the belief that some individuals or groups are inherently superior to others and deserve more privilege or power. This attitude can manifest in common forms, such as cultural elitism, intellectual elitism, … Continue reading

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Don’t Wait To Celebrate

Gender dysphoria is a common term thrown around between trans people and medical professionals. Gender identity disorder is a conflict between a person’s physical sex and the gender he or she identifies as. For example, a person born as a … Continue reading

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Singing A Song in a Strange Land

If God let the “saints” have their way in my life….I would be dead, sick, poor,homeless, and a failure. Although the tongues of the so called saint spoke those bad things on me, I have not succumb to not even one of those states of being. Continue reading

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Being and Living Your Gender Unapologetically

Transgender indivduals sometime are too busy trying to convince others of their gender so they put too much weight in how others perceive their gender and not how they perceive their gender. Of course, you have to consider how people perceive you on some … Continue reading

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Fire Viki Knox? Ummm NO!

Viki Knox is a New Jersey high school teacher that went on a anti-gay rant on Facebook. So LGBT groups are up in arms to get the teacher who has been at Union High School for 12 years fired. Diamond … Continue reading

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My BitterSweet 9/11 Experience

Diamond Stylz discuss her 9/11 experience.

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2011 Transfaith Summit in Charlotte, North Carolina

http://www.transfaithincolor.org/ July 29th- 31st 2011 Within the broad LGBT Movement, there have been problematic disconnects with the Transgender Community. These were particularly noticeable in the 2009 Employment Non-Discrimination Act’s political and social organizing efforts. Allies and members within the LGBT … Continue reading

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The Changing Storylines of The McDonald fiasco and Maryland Second Chance

My opinion this whole McD’s fiasco Claiming the bathroom and/or Trans status was the cause is the one cause that goes best with BOTH sides agenda…that why the story has changed over time on both sides….now that the shit has hit … Continue reading

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What is a Hate Crime? Not The McDonald’s Transgender Attack

Related Articles Isn’t This A Hate Crime? (gregghenson.typepad.com) Hate Crime? Transgender Attack (abcnews.go.com)

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Ticked Off Hypocrites With Mics

In an ideal world, we all would think like that and be the driving collective force for all of our rights. No one left behind, but no one lives in an ideal world. Continue reading

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