June 2012
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An open letter to Atlanta’s Feminist Women’s... →
Your treatment policy and core values at the Feminist Women’s Health Center were recently brought to light online before several feminist communities — including fourth-wave trans feminists like me — on how your clinic adequately treats cis women and trans men.
Your clinic, in contradiction to its name, the Feminist Women’s Health Center, categorically treats men (trans men are still men),...
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feminist women's health center's response to my...
From Monday, but a recap for those who missed it:
transartorialism:
I wrote them a few days ago. Here’s the response I just got.
First of all, I would like to personally thank you for your suggestions and thoughts on the Trans Health Initiative Program here at the Feminist Health Center. As an organization dedicated toserving our community, we take your questions and concerns very seriously...
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Transgender kids get help navigating a difficult... →
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voice [verb, noun]
verb, noun
To affirm for the first time that one is not cis.
Voicing may coincide with coming out, or it may precede coming out on the order of several years. Voicing describes when a trans person first distinguishes themselves from cis people. To voice oneself might precede any self-awareness of concepts like “trans”, “transgender”, “transsexual”, or...
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disclosure [noun]
noun
The conscious, deliberate act of confiding trust in a person(s) or institution that one is transgender, has a transsexual body or, in some cases, is in some way gender non-conforming.
Disclosure is contrasted against coming out, in that disclosure may occur several times throughout the post-coming out lifetime of some trans persons, whereas for other trans persons it may never occur at...
an open letter to ira gray
queerandpheasantstranger:
(trigger warning: sexual violence, relationship abuse)
we are not gonna mess with telling you more than what’s already been said. here’s what we want you to do:
— write an open letter taking full responsibility for your rapes of e.w. and lauren, and your abuse of us and any other partners. do not mince words, do not explain yourself, just say outright that you are a...
