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U.S. Continues to Discriminate Against Sex Workers, Deny HIV Prevention Funding

by Cara July 27, 2010

Last Friday, Titania Kumeh wrote an excellent blog post at Mother Jones about the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, and the over 100 sex workers and advocates who protested outside. The protest was about how U.S. funding to fight HIV transmission explicitly and deliberately excludes sex workers, even though they are one of the groups [...]

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Dead Firefighter’s Family Sues His Widow Because She is Trans

by Cara July 23, 2010

Warning: quoted text and linked articles contain transphobic language. This story is enraging and heartbreaking all at once. A woman named Nikki Araguz recently lost her husband Thomas, when he died while working as a firefighter on July 3. Instead of being allowed to mourn this horrific and sudden loss of her life partner, Nikki [...]

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LGBT Youth Face High Rates of Homelessness and Incarceration

by Cara June 22, 2010

Trigger Warning for discussions/descriptions of homophobic and transphobic violence, including but not limited to sexual violence. Yesterday, two really important stories were released about LGBT youth in the U.S. — one in the Nation about incarceration, one from the Center for American Progress about homelessness. The fact that LGBT youth face much higher risks of [...]

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U.S. State Department Relaxes Passport Rules for Transgender People

by Cara June 10, 2010

Some good news has just come out for many U.S. trans* folks: the U.S. State Department has decided that surgery is no longer a requirement for trans* individuals to change their gender markers on their passports. “Sexual reassignment surgery is no longer a prerequisite for passport issuance,” it said in a statement. From June 10, [...]

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Rape Victims Tell of Mistreatment by the NYPD

by Cara June 4, 2010

Trigger Warning for post and linked articles due to descriptions of sexual assault and rape apologism. The New York Times recently ran a story of four different women who reported rape to the NYPD and were horrifically mistreated by police officers, their cases dismissed, minimized, and even laughed at. Each of their stories is too [...]

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Man Reported Police Sexual Assault Against His Girlfriend, Now Faces Deportation

by Cara May 27, 2010

The man pictured above did a very, very scary thing. This man pictured above did the right thing. And for calling 911 while a police officer sexually assaulted his girlfriend during a traffic stop, Abel Moreno was arrested. His girlfriend was arrested, too. Then, things got even worse. Several things then happened. Five other women [...]

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Blogging Against Disablism Day: Ableism and Abuse

by Cara May 1, 2010

Trigger Warning for graphic descriptions of neglect and abuse against people with disabilities. Today is Blogging Against Disablism Day, which takes place on May 1st of every year. At this blog, I tend to write an awful lot about different forms of violence and abuse against women. I’ve talked in the past about various ways [...]

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Court Gives Women the Right to Sue Wal-Mart for Gender Discrimination

by Cara April 27, 2010

Yesterday, a federal appeals court ruled that a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart, for alleged discrimination against female employees, can go forward. For almost ten years, the company has attempted to block the lawsuit, and is still unprepared to give up: A federal appeals court ruled Monday that thousands of female Wal-Mart employees can sue [...]

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Demand for Open Investigation Into Death of Aboriginal Trans Woman in Custody

by Cara April 12, 2010

One year ago, Veronica Baxter, an Australian woman who was both Aboriginal and trans, was arrested on drug charges. Less than one week after her arrest, she died in custody. On March 10, 2009, three days after Mardi Gras, 34-year-old Veronica Baxter was arrested by Redfern police. She was charged with six counts of supplying [...]

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Federal Court Rules That Transgender Inmates Have the Right to Medical Care

by Cara April 2, 2010

Via Questioning Transphobia and Transgriot, some great news out of Wisconsin. A federal court has struck down a state law that denied hormone treatment to trans* people, despite its role as necessary care. The case was brought by the ACLU, Lamda Legal, and a group of incarcerated trans women who had been denied treatment. The [...]

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