Twitter is a dumpster fire and I’m tired of getting burned

So I deactivated my Twitter account…

New Book Highlights Women & Nonbinary People Rewriting ‘HERStory’

The activist ethos of the current collection of young people of color may end up being the lasting impression of their generation. In the face of rising white supremacy, young women of color have responded with activism. It was young students and queer people of color who organized to oppose and co

The Issue with Meghan Murphy’s Gender Class Analysis

It leaves out a range of personal experience

On Trans Day Of Remembrance, I Ask: How Many Have Been Forgotten?

My own experience opens up the terrifying possibility that more trans people than we know have taken their life or tried to. Today we mark yet another Transgender Day of Remembrance, a holiday for trans people to remember those friends of ours who’ve passed over the last year. Frequently, events fo

The Women’s March Movement Is Still Struggling On Trans Inclusion

The Women’s Convention showed me that organizers are committed to inclusion —and that they still have a ways to go. When the Women’s March happened in January, the imagery of the pink pussy hats and the rhetoric surrounding vagina- and-uterus based definitions of womanhood were found to be a somewh

The Emotional Toll Of Covering Trump’s Military Trans Ban

Covering trans issues as a professional means I need to maintain a certain distance. But no matter what, these issues affect me as an… I was editing an essay when the first email notification came in, but I ignored it. Then came a second, and a third in quick succession. Curious, I switched tabs to

Should Feminists Embrace The ‘Right To Die’ Movement?

The answer is complicated. The defining feature of feminism, for me anyway, is freedom of choice — especially when it comes to bodily autonomy. This is why we march for Planned Parenthood and fight back against restrictive…

The Strange, Sad Case Of Laci Green

She built a community to protect the abused. Now she’s on the side of the abusers. What happened to YouTuber Laci Green? Anyone who’s marginalized knows the dangers of online harassment — and YouTuber Laci Green, who rose to prominence by conducting online sex education content on behalf of Planned

The Lollerskates Theory at the Heart of the Canceled Left Forum Panel

“Hormones can’t melt biological sex”

How Our Society Harms Trans People Who Are Also Autistic

What happens when you have to combat not only transphobia, but also ableism? Treating both autism spectrum disorders and transgender identity as a single mental disorder is harmful to each group of people — but it has a disproportionate impact on those who fit both labels/

As a trans woman who dates men now and women before transition, I am quite literally a straight…

All I ask is that you consider who gets harmed by exclusions. It’s most often the most marginalized, despite the best of intentions.

About Being “Real”

An onslaught of liberal editorials ask: what does it mean to be a “real” woman?