Trans Woman Caitlyn Jenner’s Passport, Fox News’s ‘Fearless’ Tomi Lahren What I think the headlines missed and why it matters

Rarely these days is there any transgender news that doesn’t fit squarely into the category of infuriating, discouraging or heartbreaking. But I was both intrigued and even amused by the Tomi Lahren podcast interview with #transgender woman Caitlyn Jenner.
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#LGBTQ ##USPolitics

Caitlyn Jenner Asked Trump to Fix Her Passport. He’s Not Going To. A vocal Trump supporter is now living inside the policy she helped get elected. The rest of us were already living inside it.

Caitlyn Jenner is across from Tomi Lahren on a Fox Nation podcast. At some point, Lahren asks how the Trump administration’s passport policy is hitting her. Jenner answers, plainly, that she cannot use her passport.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #USPolitics

I Find My Feet Part Two: I’m Feeling Queer in Bed. A Love Story.

I wandered down a road, past stores decorated with traditional Chinese lettering — ducks, herbs and groceries in the windows, then turned left into a lane I’d never noticed before.

So odd, how could I have missed this place?
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#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction

I’m Trans and I Bumped Into Myself at the Park Today Is this a time-warped mirror? She looked as I might have at 16, with long hair and a skirt

I turn away from the ice-cream van…
…to face myself as a teenager.
It’s not me, of course; it’s a teenage girl. She looks like how I myself might have looked at 16, had I grew my hair out & dressed how I wanted.
I am looking in a time-warped mirror.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #Identity

Dear PureGym, With Regards to Your ‘Biological Sex’ Policy… An open letter — did JK Rowling tell you to do it?

PureGym have now adopted a policy that members are required to use locker rooms according to their “biological sex”, or the single gender neutral locker room if this would make them uncomfortable or unsafe.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #PureGym #LockerRooms

Shocked To Discover I’m Transgender, I Learned I’m a Lesbian Too For decades, I tried to live up to everyone’s expectations of what a guy was.

I did “guy” really well in public, but I didn’t feel “guy” when I was alone, in my soul.
It never felt right.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #Self #Identity

Experiencing a 10-Day Silent Meditation Course as a Cis Gay I kept my ID and a credit card in case I needed to escape through the wooded farmland. Why didn’t I keep $20 bucks as well? How I survived…

Six years ago the COVID pandemic closed the door to my silent meditation retreat as the world slowed, collectively holding its breath, hoping a crown-shaped virus wouldn’t kill us all.
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#LGBTQ #Gay #USPolitics #Meditation

Can a Trans Woman’s Desire for Privacy Become Self-Erasure? Ghosts upon ghosts, vanishing again and again

Then I engaged in a different kind of erasure. The erasure of my past self: I changed my legal name wherever I could. I applied for new identity documents. Threw out old photos of myself that I could no longer bear to see.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #Identity #Self

My Transgender Fiancée Fae Is Getting Better But, man, does she ever look beat

Maybe you know this, or maybe you’re about to learn something — being on a ventilator, a machine that does some or all of your breathing for you when you’re critically ill, is BAD for you.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #PersonalStory #Illness

Trans People Shouldn’t Have to “Pass” I’m Not Trans: It’s Still Not Up To Me

If I hear one more person say, “Well, as long as they’re passing, I don’t really care.” Really? YOU??? You’re the grand arbiter of all things someone else needs to do to their body in order to use a PUBLICLY PAID FOR throne room? REALLY???
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #Passing #Rant

I’m Feeling Queer in Bed. A Love Story. Part One: Have Megan and Jessica Lost their Way?

I slid to my side of the bed and spread my legs, enjoying the slight coolness at the edge of the sheets.
‘Why do we have to take turns?’
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#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #WLWFiction

I Still Have To Be a Part-Time Woman, and I Hate It I want to reject gender in every aspect of my life, but I can’t yet.

In Thai, the equivalent to calling someone “sir” or “madam” is “khun” which is gender-neutral. Since I reject the notion of gender and go by they/them pronouns, I’d much rather be called “khun”, but get madamed here every time.
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#LGBTQ #GenderStuff #Nonbinary #Identity

Six Years into My Queer Relationship, and I JUST Met My Mother-In-Law Some relationships are built one small act of courage at a time

My partner and I met on Tinder, at a time when it wasn't as scary as it is today. It was the middle of the pandemic, and I had just broken up with my girlfriend of 4 years.
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#LGBTQ #Queer #Family #Relationships

Stop Equating Islam With Hatred of Queer People Oppressions and their intersections

You do not have to look far to see that #Islamophobia is fairly pervasive across the West, and in particular, in the US and Britain. Likewise, you do not have to look far to see #homophobia and #transphobia in these countries. Perhaps these are connected.
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#LGBTQ #Islam #Politics

The Queer Art of Loving Someone Who Cannot Love You Back ‘Permanent Residence’ and what it costs to love a straight man

Turning a straight man gay: it’s a fantasy many #gay men have had.
I’m embarrassed to admit I was no exception.
I eventually moved on from that fantasy, but the pain of having my feelings worn down and used up still comes back sometimes.
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#LGBTQ #QueerFilm #PermanentResidence

From Tomboy to Trans Man My gender identity journey. No regrets.

Transitioning was not a widely known option when I was younger, especially for #transgender men. So, I embraced being a #tomboy. I don’t recall how old I was when I first heard the term, but from my perspective it fit well enough.
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#LGBTQ #Memoir #GenderIdentity

The New Tabloids: YouTube Videos “Outing” Hollywood Stars From a Bygone Era What’s this reawakened fascination with whether stars from the past were queer?

Today, a gay or bisexual actor no longer has to fret so much about keeping their true sexual orientation secret. Why then does there seem to be so much curiosity about the secret sexual proclivities of stars from the golden age of Hollywood?
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#LGBTQ #Hollywood #Celebrities

Trans Woman Passes 18 months on HRT, with Almost Nothing Happening Matters small and substantial after a year and a half on HRT

f we looked at time-lapse photography (fear not, there isn’t any) of the past six months, there are surprisingly few outward signs of change. Maybe a few more clothes, some new shoes, certainly more items in the makeup kit.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #HRT #Changes

What the Gay Boy Kept from Non-Accepting Parents Stories I had to unlearn, and one truth I’ve carried my whole life

My parents taught me one thing I’ve never let go of.
“It’s important that everyone be treated the same, no matter what language they speak, whether they’re a man or a woman, or the color of their skin.”
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#LGBTQ #Queer #Gay #Family #ChildhoodMemories

How Russian Gay Icon Olga Buzova Stepped Back into the Closet It’s hard to maintain your gay-pop-icon status and act as a Kremlin mouthpiece

The different uses of exaggerated imagery in our two versions of ‘Made in Russia’ provide quite an interesting view into the political undertones of the pieces.
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#LGBTQ #Politics #Russia #OlgaBuzova

A Transgender Woman on the Beach Promenade She was beautiful. I didn’t talk to her.

I saw a trans woman on the beach promenade.
Our eyes met, we looked away, then we looked at each other again, then we went our separate ways. Me, with a beard, dressed as a man, out with my family. She was beautiful.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #Recognition

Deconstructing a Guy A transgender woman challenges decades of male socialization

For the last eight years, I have been deconstructing the guy that took me 60 years to build.
I had a lot of help building him along the way.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #GenderStuff #Identity #Deconstruction

Profile in Courage — Raquel Willis (Poetry) A poem about Queer resistance, trans dignity, and the courage to stand firm

When the cameras turned away, she stayed
With fire in her chest, unafraid
When the doors were closed by fear and power
She became a voice in the darkest hour...
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#LGBTQ #RaquelWillis #Poetry #QueerPoetry

Unpacking the Manosphere’s Secret Obsession with Trans Women Why are pre-op trans women the gold standard for ‘red pill’ chasers?

Being fed both sides of the story gives me a unique vantage point. I get to see the #manosphere up close and unfiltered, I’m able to view these guys & listen to them bang on about “traditional values” while I’m figuring out which blush to use.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #Chasers

Imagine You Were Born on a Planet Where Everyone Was Gay Except You Change your experience, change your life

Imagine you are born on a planet where everyone is #gay. However, you discover as a child that you are attracted to girls, not boys. Society ridicules and spurns you. Friends turn their backs on you. Family disowns you.
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#LGBTQ #ThoughtExperiment

I’m a Trans Woman Who Debated Christian Author Michael Brown Fundamentally Flawed: My conversation with one of the most influential anti-trans Christian leaders in the U.S.

Reading those reports pulled me back fifteen years, to the summer of 2011, when Brown and I found ourselves engaged in a lengthy and increasingly visible debate on Facebook.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #MichaelBrown #Debate

I Didn’t Retire Expecting to Build Queer Community in Rural Ohio The skills I thought I’d left behind found new meaning in this chapter of my gay life

Nine years ago, I moved from suburbia to rural #Ohio, back to the family farm. It sounds like a slower, more peaceful chapter. What I discovered was how different those two places are for me as a #gay man.
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#LGBTQ #QueerCommunity #CommunityBuilding #RuralLife

Update: My Trans Partner Fae Improves… Then Declines Once More I have no idea how much more either of us can take

Those who know me, or have read my recent story, will be aware that Fae, my fiancée of 5 years, is gravely ill once more. I say ‘once more’, because Fae had been this ill only six months prior.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #PersonalStory #Love #Relationships

The Doctor Ignored My Wife and Spoke to Me… at Her Appointment! As a trans man, I’ve seen the world from both sides

I’ve lived on both sides of the line and been seen in one way, and now I’m seen in another. I’m the same person with the same thoughts and the same sense of humour. But the way people respond to me has completely changed.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #GenderStuff #Sexism

LGBTQ & Finding Community—“Long Story Short” Moved Me To Tears How an animated Black, Jewish Lesbian connected with me by her humanity transcending the medium

I am not sure if show creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg is #LGBTQ, but he is Jewish. In Long Story Short, he jokes about doctors and lawyers being unavailable on Rosh Hashanah.

#LongStoryShort #Lesbian