Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins ha published a podcast where he has a friendly chat with the transphobic TERF Helen Joyce regarding the identities of transgender women. Dawkins find it “distinctly weird that people can simply declare that ‘I am a woman, though I have a penis’”. He sees this as…

Having discussed gender variance with TERFs and other transphobes for some time now, it strikes me that they have a very old-fashioned view about what the term “real” means. Take the idea that gender can be reduced to “biological sex”. Indeed, they say that gender is biological sex. …

Nakafeero Swabulah and her lesbian activists in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya teach us that pro-LGBTQA rights activists face similar challenges all over the world, as their opponents are using similar arguments and tactics. Transgender World has published an interview with Nakafeero called “A lesbian refugee from Uganda is…

Over at tiktok “Queen Awake” has been helping transphobes identify trans women and trans men among our celebrities. It all crashed with a sickening thud when she told us that Zendaya and Tom Holland, a cis celebrity couple, are both trans. She has now closed both her Instagram and her…

New regulations make it practically impossible for transgender people to get gender affirming medical support in Missouri. Republicans have for a long time covered their transphobia under concern for the kids. In accordance with this a lot of their anti-trans laws and regulations have been there to “protect the kids”. …

Given the current anti-trans hysteria found among TERFs and the far right, it is important to remember the history of the LGBTQ community. Berlin had once a thriving queer culture, with a research institute that studied and helped queer and transgender people. Michael Lombardi-Nash has taken the time to translate…

Nakafeero Swabulah is an activist leader advocating for support for vulnerable lesbians and children in Uganda and Kenya. Nakafeero is currently living in the Kenya Kakuma refugee camp. We present her story and some of the political and cultural context. The Kenya Kakuma refugee camp The camp, which is located in the north-west corner of…

The American anti-trans propaganda seems to be working, according to David Byler of the Washington Post. Here are some reflections on why it is working and what to do about it. The transphobic shift is significant among right wing American Christians. That is not surprising, given all the propaganda. Byler…

This photo is from a hidden place in the Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo, Norway. To me it is the perfect presentation of a transgender identity being repressed. But it also points to a way out of the imprisonment. The woman is the hidden reality of a closeted transgender or…