First off:
Bodies Like Ours -- An information-and-support site for intersexed people.


Shakesville links to the following Awful CNN Article titled "Why I Didn't Want a Girl", commenting: "This is how misogynist men are made".
Internalized Misogyny, anyone? :-/
P.S.: Read the comments at Shakesville, there are some good points made there.


From Gender Goggles: Prospective Provincial MLA Being Taken to Task for Bigotry -- a little Canadian perspective for you, and a reminder that - in addition to calling out the bad stuff - it's good to recognize progress (even baby-step progress) when it happens.


From Objectify This:
The Economics of Gender Inequality as Viewed Through a Trans Lens.


From BLaKtivist:
The Little Transmasculine Identity that Could - about female masculinity, butchness, and trasgressive identities.


From The Feminist Agenda:
Passing (Again).
Quotation:
I'm still thinking about passing, and it seems to me like we're taught to pass in many, many ways. Many of these have to do with performing gender (whether we're cis, trans, or genderqueer) and some don't.


From TransGriot:
SRS Is Not A Requirement To Be A 'Successful' Transsexual -- About wealth and role models and the fact that "[... Gender] is not whether you have a penis or vagina between your legs, it's between your ears[...]".
AND
Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill Passes. YAY!

Related Link, from Feministing:
Virginia Foxx -- Good grief, what a hateful excuse for a human being. WTF. >:-(


Also from Feministing:
Including Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Federal Health Data.
AND
Why do Rape Kits Sit Around Untested? -- Misogyny: The Creeptacular Edition!
AND
You Are Not Your Breasts -- A discussion of how female-specific cancer is viewed as opposed to how male-specific cancer is viewed. Eeeeeeeeeeenteresting.

From Questioning Transphobia:
'Cis' is Not an Accademic Term.
AND
Cis 2 -- A Follow-up to the above.
AND
New Hampshire -- About cis privilege and finding a fucking bathroom.
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