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Subjectivists and Perceptionists: refining the “scientific” definition of “transgender”

Take a look, if you will, at the composite featured image.  There’s a story behind this picture. It’s from my second module in a PowerPoint series titled The Transgender Peoples.  At the end of each module I include some “Discussion Points” to raise awareness and get people to exchange ideas. Part of that story pertains […]

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Shell Game With the Courts: The continuing saga of the trans military ban

It has some of the feel of a backwater carnival: hucksters hawking the next act that smells of canned ham left out of the fridge too long and drawing flies on a sweaty afternoon.  We might always expect one particularly loud con artist among the hucksters, adept at slight-of-hand trickery, soliciting bets on the location […]

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A Fountain of Our Forever: Links between the Pelasgians and the Subcontinent

It’s not just a history of transpeople.  It’s a history for the world, and people we might describe as “trans” have found themselves as catalysts for change then as now: appearing when needed, before disappearing again like a river that bubbles up in a fountain, refreshing before disappearing in an ocean of myth, yet continuing […]

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The Saga of Title VII Continues: A look at EEOC v. R.G. &. G.R. Harris Funeral Homes

It’s enough to send Dominionist attorneys scrambling.  Despite efforts in the Trump era to abridge the rights of transpeople to exist, higher courts continue to operate without a religious agenda.  The latest decision on March 7, 2018 favored a transwoman who filed suit against an employer who terminated her because of her decision to transition. […]

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