Freenode Socialism

Basics

101

• SRSDiscussion: Trans 101
• Tranarchism: Not your mom’s trans 101

Binaries

Gender Binary

• Genderqueer Identities: What is “Genderqueer”?

Sex Binary

• anti-imperialism.com: On the Social Construction of Sex
• Eater of Trees: Sex is Also a Social Construct
• Gender Bitch: Male/Female: Broken Language?
• Youtube: The Gender Binary & LGBTI People: Myth and Medical Malpractice
• The Intersex Roadshow: The Phalloclitoris: Anatomy and Ideology

Cissexism

Privilege

• Takesupspace: Cis Privilege Checklist

Language

• The Nuclear Unicorn: A Cliché Trapped in a Metaphor’s Body
• Tobi Hill-Meyer: Language, Reality and My Trans Girlhood
• Transactivisty: A Glossary of Sorts
• “Transman”, “Transwoman”:
  • SRSDiscussion: “Transwoman”
  • Takesupspace: Put the Goddamn Space in: “transwoman” “transfeminism” “transmasculine”
• “Trans*”:
  • b8l: The case against “trans*” & the politics of erasure
  • Sincerely, Natalie Reed: So Let’s Talk About The Fucking Asterisk

Trans Fundamentalism

• The Felt Fedora: No Wrong Way
• inchoaterica: that’s me in the corner, losing my religion: on transfundamentalism
• inchoaterica: the ‘trans community’, trans women of color, and the ‘you deserve it’ mentality

Bathrooms

• Tranifesto: Some Realities About Public Restrooms
• MediaMatters: 15 Experts Debunk Myths of Sexual Predators Exploiting Trans Bathroom Access Laws
• ThinkProgress: Transgender People Experience Discrimination Trying To Use Bathrooms

Surveys

• The Task Force: Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (PDF/Research)

Transmisogyny

101

• Sincerely, Natalie Reed: A Beginner’s Guide To Trans-Misogyny
• Julia Serano: Trans-misogyny Primer

102

• radtransfem: The Gender Ternary: Understanding Transmisogyny

Examples

• inchoaterica and leftytgirl: When Mansplaining Goes Too Far: Buck Angel on Trans Women
• leftytgirl: roseanne barr for trans-misogynist-in-chief
• Sincerely, Natalie Reed: Disgusting
• Jos Truitt: Enough with “I date women and trans men”
• Jack Radish: That’s What She Said
• Feministe: Study of trans people’s earnings confirms workplace discrimination against women

Feminism

Proletarian Feminism

• alyx.io: Trans People and the Dialectics of Sex and Gender: Against Radical and Liberal Feminism

Feminism

• Katherine Cross: Trans Rights Are Reproductive Rights

Cissexism Within Feminism

• Emily Manuel: This Is What Makes Us Girls
• Tobi Hill-Meyer: Does ignoring trans people make your point look bigger?

Health

Medicine

• inchoaterica: date of last menstrual period and if irregular
• Sincerely, Natalie Reed: The Null HypotheCis
• Drew Cordes: The Pathologization of Trans Identity

Gatekeeping

• Sincerely, Natalie Reed: Transkeptuality: Gatekeeping And The Value Of Critical Thought
• alyx.io: Trans Healthcare and my Experience at Nottingham Gender Clinic

HIV

• Feministing: Transgender women are 49 times more likely to be HIV positive

Dysphoria

• Shadow’s Crescent: Dysphoria, and an Attempt for More Inclusive Metaphors
• Amy Dentata: The Difference Between Dysphoria and Negative Body Image
• Alley Stoughton: Gender Dysphoria from a Non-binary Perspective: Understanding and Ameliorating the Transgender Blues in 21st Century America
• Sincerely, Natalie Reed: Different Dysphorias and Esoteric Embodiments

Detransition

• Sincerely, Natalie Reed: On Detransition

History

• Bilerico: Transgender History, Antiquity to Modernity
• culturallyboundgender: Toward an End to Appropriation of Indigenous “Two Spirit” People in Trans Politics: the Relationship Between Third Gender Roles and Patriarchy (Warning: unfortunately a TERF source, but makes some interesting points nonetheless)
• Onkwehón:we Rising: Two-Spirit People: Gender Variance & Resistance in Onkwehón:we Culture

Trans Community

Trans Day of Remembrance

• Alyssa Caparas: Why I Didn’t Attend TDoR 2011
• inchoaterica: nihil de nobis, sine nobis: trans women of color and Remembering Your Dead

“Die Cis Scum”

• SRSGSM: An explanation of why “die cis scum” is a good thing
• anonymous: racism & die cis scum

Sex(uality)/Dating

Disclosure

• Sincerely, Natalie Reed: The “Ethical Imperative” Of Disclosure, or: How To Believe Your Victim Owes You An Opportunity For Abuse
• leftytgirl: on the “disclosure myth” and the cissexist imagination

Dating

• gudbuytjane: Dating from the margins: Part 1, and Part 2
• leftytgirl: Getting With Girls Like Us: A Radical Guide to Dating Trans Women for Cis Women

Other

Media

• The Border House: TransMovement: Freedom and Constraint in Queer and Open World Games
• The Border House: Game of the Day: Dysphoria City by Spanglypants

Science

• marxism-third-worldism: Queering gender: studying gender identity in ‘normative’ individuals
• The Intersex Roadshow: How Common Is Intersex Status?