Transmissions: An alchemist's passing

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.

Transmissions: Six days in February

On the afternoon of February 11, a girl by the name of Brianna Ghey was found on a path in Culcheth Linear Park in Warrington, Cheshire, England. Pronounced dead at the scene, she was the victim of multiple stab wounds.

Transmissions: Our history, and what it tells us

Legislative sessions have started in statehouses across the country, and with them, scores of new anti-LGBTQ and anti-trans bills.

Transmissions: Transition is not a destination, it's a passage

Recently, while in the throes of nostalgia, I went through a pair of filing boxes I have containing decades of old snapshots.

Transmissions: The New Year

It was eight and a half years ago - in spring of 2014 - that Time magazine declared the "transgender tipping point" on its front cover.

Transmissions: We are transgender

Non-transgender people – whether through malicious, willful ignorance or an innocent lack of understanding – fail to grasp what I consider the most essential fact of trans lives: we do not become transgender, we are transgender.

Transmissions: No more

It was late in the evening of November 19 at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Transmissions: After the election, a glimmer of hope

It wasn't intentional for the Transgender Day of Remembrance to fall so close to Election Day and its aftermath, but they have certainly grown in importance to each other over the years.

Transmissions: Sounding the alarm

I often feel that I am too alarmist. I have spent decades now, deep in the issue of anti-transgender violence and murder, and I know that colors my views.

Transmissions: The litter box legend

October is no stranger to urban legends, dating back at least to Washington Irving's 1819 Halloween favorite, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Transmissions: Gwen Araujo and the steady trickle of anti-trans violence

Around 20 years ago, somewhere in the middle of October 2002, I was talking with another trans activist friend of mine.

Transmissions: Transit tales – and transgender typecasting

Your average, modern city is a labyrinth of streets linking home, work, and entertainment in a maze of asphaltic concrete as far as the eye can see.

Transmissions: Living

Living is a funny thing. It is something we tend to take for granted. Our lungs autonomously breathe in a steady stream of oxygen, enriching our blood.

Transmissions: It's not all about pronouns

I've long had a complicated relationship with pronouns.

Transmissions: How do you tell you are transgender?

If one goes looking, they can find plenty of online quizzes and tests that will supposedly tell them just how transgender they are.

Transmissions: Double nickel

I recently had a momentous birthday, reaching 20 years past the age I expected myself to be dead.

Transmissions: What is a woman?

Conservative commentator and provocateur Matt Walsh recently released a movie titled, "What Is A Woman?"

Transmissions: Standing up in a post-Roe world

I am sure you don't need me to tell you this: in a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which established constitutional protections for abortion, as part of a 6-3 decision to uphold an abortion ban in Mississippi.

Transmissions: Predators, prey, and Pride

Spurred on by a Twitter account known for its provocative nature, @libsoftiktok, a cadre of alleged Proud Boys members stormed into the San Lorenzo library in the East Bay June 11.

Transmissions: Living hell

You would think that discussing a group of people who have literally hacked the code of their own bodies to present in their correct gender would be pretty fantastic, but transgender people are remarkably mundane.

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