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Displaying all articles tagged:

Trans

Can trans women and radical feminists find sisterhood?
Power

Can trans women and radical feminists find sisterhood?

The debate over whose lives and rights are more important distracts from revolutionary work that could benefit us all

By Kai Cheng Thom
Meghan Murphy, the Toronto Public Library and fighting transphobia: an explainer
Hate Watch

Meghan Murphy, the Toronto Public Library and fighting transphobia: an explainer

Everything you need to know about the anti-trans speaker, the library and the trans activists and allies fighting against them

By Arvin Joaquin, Cameron Perrier, Erica Lenti
I’m trans and studying for a career in an industry dominated by straight men. The microaggressions are getting to me. Should I drop out?
Ask Kai: Advice for the Apocalypse

I’m trans and studying for a career in an industry dominated by straight men. The microaggressions are getting to me. Should I drop out?

By Kai Cheng Thom
A millennial and senior trans activist discuss the future of trans advocacy in Canada
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

A millennial and senior trans activist discuss the future of trans advocacy in Canada

Rupert Raj and Tatiana Ferguson talk community organization, early and late-life transition

By Xtra Staff
The guy I’m dating is really into trans women. Is it love — or a fetish?
Ask Kai: Advice for the Apocalypse

The guy I’m dating is really into trans women. Is it love — or a fetish?

By Kai Cheng Thom
Does the concept of a ‘trans brain’ help or hurt our communities?
Opinion

Does the concept of a ‘trans brain’ help or hurt our communities?

It supports a ‘born this way’ narrative, but the idea of a biological source of transness raises more questions than it answers

By Alex V Green
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Why Vancouver’s funding cut to a women’s shelter is a win for trans rights
Opinion

Why Vancouver’s funding cut to a women’s shelter is a win for trans rights

Vancouver Rape Relief excluded trans women from using its support services

By Adrienne Smith
Melting the ice around #MeToo stories in the queer community
Power

Melting the ice around #MeToo stories in the queer community

Queer community doesn’t lack for discourse around sexual abuse. Yet for all of our talk, not much seems to have significantly changed—there are still victims, and there are still abusers.

By Kai Cheng Thom
The real price of transphobia
Opinion

The real price of transphobia

The demonization of trans people is a relentless hurt with few escapes, one that hinders our search for joy

By Gwen Benaway
Why do Canadian conservatives love to pick on trans people?
Opinion

Why do Canadian conservatives love to pick on trans people?

As it becomes less acceptable for conservative politicians to express anti-woman and anti-gay hatred, trans people have become their new targets

By Alex V Green
One love story told two ways
Love Like Mine

One love story told two ways

“I think I’m trans, too,” I said. “That’s okay,” he said, “I know.”

By Dylan Morrison, Rowan Morrison
You thought your coming out story was complicated?
Love Like Mine

You thought your coming out story was complicated?

I was a lesbian who turned straight overnight. Then my husband came out as a trans woman.

By Lindsay
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Why silencing trans art endangers trans lives
Trans

Why silencing trans art endangers trans lives

This unspecified threat that cis people express in relation to trans art is resulting in that trans art being censored

By Katie Sly
Here, now and always: remembering transgender people every day
Trans

Here, now and always: remembering transgender people every day

Trans is here and it is here to stay

By Terrence Abrahams
Transilience: a poem to mark Trans Day of Remembrance
Video

Transilience: a poem to mark Trans Day of Remembrance

By Xtra Video
This documentary celebrates the life of murdered BC trans woman
Video

This documentary celebrates the life of murdered BC trans woman

By Xtra Video
The question of my trans-ness has a complicated answer
Love & Sex

The question of my trans-ness has a complicated answer

It’s not F to M, it’s F to something else entirely

By Katie Sly
A year after the trans-rights bill, fear and loathing run rampant
Opinion

A year after the trans-rights bill, fear and loathing run rampant

Hundreds applaud fear-mongering and bigotry at anti-trans panel

By Arshy Mann
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