perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2008
via The Bilerico Project:
The American Psychiatric Association has named the members of it’s working group to reassess the inclusion of Gender Identity Disorder in the forthcoming new edition of the DSM, the DSM-V. It could almost not possibly be worse. The list reads like a who’s-who of obsessed creeps who’ve made a career out of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 5th, 2008
I’m unsurprised in many ways at the media saga that has surrounded the pregnancy of Thomas Beattie. What’s really saddened me, though, is some of the pretty appalling comments I’ve seen made about him from within the trans community.
One of the awkward issues that many of us who are trans are going to face, whether […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2008
There’s a great ScienceDaily article going around about the work of Dr Simona Giordano, an English ethicist who is taking up the cause of trans youth who are being denied treatment because of arbitrary gatekeeper guidelines, and suffering lasting physical and psychological damage as a result.
Giordano has gone on the attack against the English clinics […]