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transgender

Trans People Too Often Harm Their Own. So Can We Talk About How to Do Better?

September 23, 2017September 23, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch2 Comments

How many opportunities have we missed to make this community safer and more affirming because we were unwilling to make ourselves uncomfortable?

transgender

8 Things Transgender People Do Not Owe You

August 30, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch9 Comments

It gets tiresome to have to explain our lives and trauma repeatedly just so cisgender people can 'get an education.'

transgender/Writing

Cis Writers: Do Your F#cking Homework Before You Write About Trans People

October 25, 2016August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch7 Comments

If you're a writer, you don't need me to tell you how powerful words are.

LGBTQIA/non-binary/transgender

BREAKING: Local Resident Comes Out as Non-Binary, World Doesn’t End

August 20, 2016August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch9 Comments

“It’s almost like someone’s gender has no bearing on my life,” another cis resident complained.

Mental Health/transgender

When You’re Too Mentally Ill To Transition

June 20, 2016August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch25 Comments

I'm transgender and I'm trying to transition. But the door keeps getting slammed in my face again, and again, and again.

Body Positive/transgender

Why Aren’t More Trans People Denouncing Truscum?

December 12, 2015August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch44 Comments

"I hadn't known up until that point that there were actually trans people that thrived on being violent towards other trans people."

LGBTQ/LGBTQIA/transgender

Starbucks, Please Don’t ‘Out’ Your Transgender Patrons

August 15, 2015September 15, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch9 Comments

Respecting and affirming the identities of transgender people begins with calling us by our actual names.

transgender

I was ashamed of being transgender. This is my story.

June 11, 2015August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch13 Comments

What they don’t tell you about being transgender is that sometimes, the transphobe is you.

transgender

Why the Trans Community Needs to Ban the Word “Transtrender” for Good

March 28, 2015August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch30 Comments

The other day, I was called a “transtrender” by a trans woman who refused to acknowledge my gender identity because…

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non-binary

8 Things Non-Binary People Need to Know

March 15, 2015August 11, 2017 Sam Dylan Finch34 Comments

Coming out as genderqueer and non-binary was this big, beautiful, scary thing for me. I didn’t know what exactly I…

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