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Transmissions: Trans for the holidays

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Nov 29, 2023

We're in that time of year, post-Thanksgiving but not yet Yule, when you cannot breathe without being bombarded by messages of family get-togethers for the holidays.

Transmissions: In difficult times

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Nov 15, 2023

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

Transmissions: Forgotten histories

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Nov 1, 2023

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.

Transmissions: In God's image

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Oct 18, 2023

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.

Transmissions: Ghosts, specters, and very old bones

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Oct 4, 2023

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.

Transmissions: Very personal questions

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Sep 20, 2023

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

Transmissions: The world has changed

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Sep 6, 2023

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.

Transmissions: Checkmate

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Aug 23, 2023

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

Transmissions: Barbie, through a trans eye

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Aug 9, 2023

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

Transmissions: Take a mile

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Jul 26, 2023

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

Transmissions: Casa Susanna and the mists of time

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Jul 12, 2023

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.

Transmissions: Shooting off one's mouth

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Jun 28, 2023

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

Transmissions: Stand in joy and Pride

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Jun 14, 2023

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.

Transmissions: In the company of Pride

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • May 31, 2023

June is upon us, and with that Pride season.

Transmissions: The trans body

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • May 17, 2023

As overplayed a term as it is, we are living in what amounts to a modern day witch-hunt, with transgender people replacing women in pointy hats.

Transmissions: Silenced

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • May 3, 2023

At the Montana Statehouse in Helena, history is being made.

Transmissions: Under the influence

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Apr 19, 2023

It sounds positively cynical to say this, but we live in an era of spectacle and circus, provided to us hour by hour via social media.

Transmissions: Weapons

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Apr 5, 2023

On March 27, a gunman used an AR-15 military-style weapon to shoot open a lock to a door at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

Transmissions: Lies and deceptions

There are many who want to claim that transgender lives are built on falsehoods, that everything about us is a lie.

Transmissions: An alchemist's passing

  • NEWS
  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Mar 8, 2023

In 1994, when dinosaurs still roamed the Cretaceous Earth, I was but a budding trans woman. I was still largely trying to find where I fit in this thing called "transgender," and fighting through a mountain full of shame and guilt over who I was.