Transgender, Dead, and Forgotten
Transgender Day of Remembrance is a time to commemorate past victims of violence — and rededicate ourselves to ending it.
Search Result(s) for: “transgender”
Why Bernie Sanders Is the Strongest Candidate for Transgender People
He has a long history of supporting trans rights, his platform addresses the specific problems trans people face, and he takes pains to include transgender people in the sweeping universal programs that are his hallmark. There's no question: on trans issues, Bernie Sanders is the best candidate in the presidential race.
An Unlikely Transgender Rights Vanguard
As necessary as queer legal protections are, we should be cautious of transgender equality by legislative interpretation.
I’m Gay and I Want Medicare for All
I support Medicare for All because it’s for everyone — but it’s especially important for gay and transgender people. It should be a central demand of the movement for our liberation.
CounterPunch and the War on Transgender People
Regarding anti-trans* rhetoric as legitimate erases the experiences of an entire class of people.
In Texas, Trans Kids Are Casualties of a Much Bigger War
In situations like the abhorrent Texas anti-trans crusade, liberals like to say that the cruelty is the point. But in reality, winning elections and protecting elite interests is the point — and transgender kids and their families are caught in the crosshairs.
Texas Republicans Trample Their Own Principles to Attack Trans Kids
By viciously attacking transgender kids and their families, Texas governor Greg Abbott and his conservative admirers have proven that they’re talking nonsense when they claim to care about shielding families from the overreach of government bureaucrats.
Transgender Politics Didn’t Have to End Up Here
Democratic Party leaders and their donors bear responsibility for the increasingly widespread view of trans rights as incompatible with a politics that benefits the many, not the few.
Transphobia Is the Latest Front in the Blairites’ War Against the Left
In recent years, a cavalcade of British liberals has taken to Twitter to denounce the supposed trans takeover. But as last week’s Labour Party conference showed, pushback against trans rights has also become a key weapon in the Blairite war against the Left.
How Transphobic Moral Panics Fuel Authoritarian Politics
Britain’s moral panic over the trans “threat” is often promoted by people who see themselves as liberals. But their transphobia echoes the same reactionary themes long used to demonize minorities.
Trump’s Lethal Threat
Donald Trump's administration has already proven deadly for trans youth. It's up to the Left to fight the new attacks.
Anti-Trans Bills Are Sweeping the US Despite, Not Because of, Public Opinion
The coordinated attack on trans rights in state legislatures across the US is built on a foundation of hateful paranoia and right-wing lies. But however unpopular anti-trans bills are, the human costs are real: thousands are migrating from anti-trans states.
Unions Can Protect Trans Rights
The Trump administration is pushing a vicious anti-trans agenda. Unions are one of the best tools we have to fight back.
Socialists Must Defend Trans Life
The Trump administration is attacking trans people's right to access society as a whole. In response, socialists must make trans emancipation a principle of our movement.
The Problem With Gun Control
Homophobic and racist violence won't be fixed by heavily armed police or discriminatory gun control.
Tearing Down the Walls
The story of the Stonewall Rebellion and the rise of the gay liberation movement.
Keep Your Guns and Batons Away From My Pride Parade
The queer left should loudly and proudly reject the participation of armed and uniformed cops marching at Pride. The world we envision won’t be achieved with more LGBTQ police officers.
The Pitfalls of Radical Feminism
Fighting capitalism remains the only path toward women’s full liberation.
There Is No Private Violence
US refugee policy holds that only victims of political violence, not "private" acts like domestic abuse or gang violence, deserve refugee status. But we can't talk about such violence in Central America without talking about mass incarceration and US policy in the region.