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It’s Like North Carolina’s HB2 all Over Again

TMPlanet Today, April 3rd, voters in Anchorage, Alaska will weigh in on Proposition 1, a ballot initiative to ban transgender people from using bathrooms and other facilities. 40 percent of the state’s population lives in the metro area of Anchorage so the stakes are high for Alaska’s queer community. Proposition 1 would write into law […]

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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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Israeli Transgender Soccer Player Speaks Out About Transphobia

The story of Roy Ohana has recently caught the media’s attention in Israel. Being dubbed as the first transgender Israeli soccer player, Roy was interviewed over the weekend by Israel’s Channel 10 News. In the interview, he spoke about transphobia in the Israeli society in general and in sports in particular. Roy Ohana told Israel […]

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