We spoke to Alicia Garza, founder of Black Futures Lab, about the organization’s eye-opening survey

Six new memoirs by trans authors show the genre is growing far beyond its once-stifled roots

I fight for trans rights because of my trans sisters. It’s my small way of returning the love that has meant the difference between death and life

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

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

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

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

Vancouver Rape Relief excluded trans women from using its support services

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Trans is here and it is here to stay

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Why we have to make Black trans and gender nonconforming people a political priority

The evolution of the trans memoir

Finding refuge in trans sisterhood

Can trans women and radical feminists find sisterhood?

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Melting the ice around #MeToo stories in the queer community

The real price of transphobia

Why do Canadian conservatives love to pick on trans people?

One love story told two ways

You thought your coming out story was complicated?

Why silencing trans art endangers trans lives

Here, now and always: remembering transgender people every day

Transilience: a poem to mark Trans Day of Remembrance