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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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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 February Roller Coaster: what the month might have tried to teach us

By Lynnea Urania Stuart   News in the trans community is typically a roller coaster.  February was no exception.  This year with international tensions relieved, at least temporarily, with the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeong Chang, hope seemed to spill over in a world desperate for hope as if it was a nearly extinct mastodon […]

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Religion Out of Balance: Aceh’s Latest Pogrom

By Lynnea Urania Stuart   Their eyes told a completely different story from what the sullen police chief demanded.  He attempted to present to the world the amazing “success” of his “re-education” of Acehnese Waria (transwomen,)1 to set an example of the imagined superiority of machismo in yet another abuse of religion and human rights.  […]

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