The TransAdvocate
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TA is a place for grass roots trans advocates to comment on the issues currently affecting the trans community. The TransAdvocate exists to give a voice to trans advocates in a new media environment.
The TransAdvocate
3M ago
In this article, I will debunk the five arguments fascists currently use to target transgender people. All fascist movements are predicated upon the myth of categorical purity. Because the material reality of individual humans is not one defined by discrete category, fascism always seeks to conflate people with words and category. It is for this reason that fascism is incompatible with human flourishing ..read more
The TransAdvocate
2y ago
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) issues an alert over the rising number of state laws aimed at harming trans youth, the FBI just arrested a “gender critical” guy for threatening to bomb the dictionary over ..read more
The TransAdvocate
2y ago
Under political pressure for being too liberal from several far-right candidates, Abbott issued what is an effectively fake directive targeting trans children and their families ..read more
The TransAdvocate
2y ago
Dave Chappelle’s cisgender enablers repeatedly assert that anti-trans “jokes” are “just jokes” and not an essential aspect of the dehumanization process. So, let us put cisgender media’s claim to the test. The pushback against supporting ..read more
The TransAdvocate
2y ago
Cisgender media seems to want to have a “debate” over opinions about whether Dave Chappelle is offensive, and I can understand why. If we debate opinions instead of verifiable facts, cis media gets to perpetuate ..read more
The TransAdvocate
3y ago
I'm a white Texan that grew up a couple of blocks from the KKK headquarters in Pasadena Texas. I grew up at a time where the KKK and evangelical leadership teamed up to fight against queer employment equality. I grew up during a time where the KKK would pass out fliers with caricatures of effeminate gay men warning the public that people like that were vile, dangerous, and were a clear target of the Klan. Texas Republicans want to censor this history ..read more
The TransAdvocate
3y ago
An internal discussion within the trans community, originally known as the Cotton Ceiling, concerned itself with the way physical cisnormative beauty standards impact notions of desirability, how these biases relate to the fetishization of trans people ..read more
The TransAdvocate
3y ago
Anti-feminism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and racism are THE entry points to fascism. Remember, the FIRST Nazi book-burning was the burning of books from a trans clinic. Given that, would it surprise you to know that Hitler was quoted to motivate Trump’s insurrectionist crowd? While not all anti-trans activists are fascists and Nazis, anti-trans hate ..read more
The TransAdvocate
3y ago
Supporting trans, intersex, & NB scholarship with the dual presentation of the indie film, Queen of Cups ..read more
The TransAdvocate
4y ago
The Trans Disaster Relief Fund (TDRF) sent out an urgent request for donations to support transgender individuals and ..read more