trans women

[CN: pregnancy, miscarriage] Plenty of period-positive activists point out that the beauty of menstrual blood is that it’s the only blood that doesn’t arise out of trauma. What we discuss less often is the ability of menstrual blood to induce trauma.

If I have sex with a woman, it does not make me gay. As someone who identifies as female, it doesn’t even make me a lesbian.

When a young girl wanted to know if waitress Liv Hnilicka was a boy or a girl, her father didn’t want to answer. Who was he to say?

Trans women have to appear as sane and calm as possible, no matter the circumstances.

The deaths of trans women like Dalmar constitute an emergency; there's no other word for it.

I should not need to traverse a still-broken, still-treacherous medical system to get permission and access—I want a body I feel is mine to manage.

We must not ignore or downplay the dangers that Black women, including trans women, face at the hands of police officers.

We must not ignore or downplay the dangers that Black women, including trans women, face at the hands of police officers.