Recently in Phoenix, Arizona, a woman was arrested for walking down the street, engaging other pedestrians in conversation. This was a blatant case of profiling, because police accused the woman, a transgender woman of color, of soliciting sex work. For those who don't know, transgender means a person's experienced gender identity ...Read More
the trans* series Archive
On Community Spaces and Being a Trans Muslim
LGBT
Jul 21, 2014
On Friday afternoons, we do our best to meet up somewhere in the city. Sometimes it’s my apartment, sometimes his; maybe the park if it’s nice out and we can find a space with some privacy. Privacy is important. We lay out a patchwork of blankets and sit in silence for ...Read More
The Fanciest Genderqueer You’ll Ever Meet
LGBT
Jun 05, 2014
The Toast's previous coverage of trans* issues can be found here.
I'd never thought about being genderqueer until I had to: instead, I tried to think about my gender (a confusing, uncomfortable thing) as little as possible, like a student loan I couldn’t pay yet, or a dentist appointment I’d yet to
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I Am the Best Feminist, For I Am Dating a Trans Woman
LGBT
May 21, 2014
Being a feminist is a struggle. It is a Sisyphean push to gain new, cutting-edge knowledge about oppressed groups that is never completed, all toward the noble goal of shoving your liberal cred in the face of other feminists to assert your superior un-oppressiveness. But have no fear, my fellow feminists, for
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Notes On Surgery
LGBT
May 12, 2014
The Toast's previous coverage of trans* issues can be found here.
Author's note: My husband has read, corrected, commented on, and supported this piece. I can't write his story, only my experiences.
My husband and I didn't have a honeymoon. The closest we got was a trip to the southwest, ten months after our
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Dating While Trans: The Doldrums
LGBT
May 09, 2014
The Toast's previous coverage of trans* issues can be found here.
Let me start this off by saying that I am a woman and that is how I identify 95% of the time. Female is how I present myself to the world and it is usually nobody's business what kind of business
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Using the Bathroom While Trans: VICTORY
Cartoons
Apr 30, 2014
Trans People and Bathrooms: It’s Already Happening
LGBT
Apr 24, 2014
The first time I ever used the ladies’ room was absolutely nervewracking. I had just started presenting myself in public as a woman, and I was slowly becoming more confident in where I would go. Starting transition in the American south does not leave a trans girl with a lot of confidence
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