It was 1998 when Rita Hester, a young Black trans woman, was found dead in Alston, Massachusetts.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that I feel that the trans community often fails to grasp its own history. That focus is, after all, part of my own history.

That gay person at the Pride parade is the result of an unusual social experiment that started in 1970 in San Francisco.

Longtime readers will note that I don't often discuss matters of religion. It's not a topic I am comfortable with. I am predominantly agnostic, with a very strong pagan bent to my spirituality.

It's frightfully common for anti-transgender activists to rely on old tropes in place of actual arguments, and one of the favorites in their arsenal nowadays seems simple on the surface, but gets crueler the deeper you dig.

My partner was usually by my side when I was in the long process of coming out to our friends and family.

I had the best of intentions. I had planned to focus purely on a quartet of aging rock stars, and their anti-trans statements, made all the odder by the gender-transgressive history of many of them.

As we've all seen, the last few years have been chock full of attacks on transgender rights.

In the early 1970s, Mattel partnered with United Airlines to enter Barbie into one of her many careers.

You really don't need me to tell you that 2023 has been a challenging one for those of us who are transgender.

The trans community has a long history, but all too often, the archives are buried, hidden behind the firmest of closet doors, and under threat of being forever lost.

In British Columbia recently, an elementary school track meet became something very different.

Pride, in 2023, feels a bit surreal. For months, we have heard the worst people on the right relentlessly labeling LGBTQ people — and in particular transgender people — as groomers, preying on the nation's children.

June is upon us, and with that Pride season.