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  • An Open Letter to The Onion

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    You owe people an apology. Earlier this week you published a satirical story about Mark Wahlberg being a trans woman. The joke, as it were, is that trans people are trans. Yaaaaaaaawn. I’m a huge fucking smartass, and a longtime Onion reader. I totally get that satire involves risks. I also get that satirists miss…

  • Tit Watch

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    The best part of having breasts is being able to store stuff in one’s bra. It’s like a superpower. Discuss.

  • Healthcare News

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    Star-Tribune, Minneapolis “UnitedHealth to Buy Brazil’s Amil for $4.9 billion” “Brazil has emerged as a consistently growing and evolving market for private sector health benefits and services. Its growing economy, emerging middle class and progressive policies toward managed care make it a high potential growth market,” said Stephen Hemsley, UnitedHealth Group’s president and CEO. “Combining…

  • Healthcare News

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    Dow Jones has just added UnitedHealth to the Dow Jones 500. In the 2010 fiscal year, the insurer had profits of $4.63 billion.

  • D.C. Office of Human Rights Unveils Trans Respect Campaign

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    Last Thursday, Washington D.C. unveiled a new campaign in support of trans* people. Trans* people in D.C. frequently (even by US standards) suffer violence, often at the hands of local authorities. I think the campaign walks something of a fine line– it attempts to show trans* people as “normal” residents of D.C. with typical interests,…

  • Signal Boost: We Happy Trans

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    For lack of anything better to do, here’s an overview of a new blog/project: We Happy Trans In the words of Jen (its founding editor): We Happy Trans was created so that trans people could share stories of positive experiences, so the wider world could see that, like any other community, we too thrive, struggle,…

  • Once More With Feeling

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    Hey! Look for more (where more equals some) posts in the coming weeks. Physically and mentally, I’ve had a rough summer, but I’m finally getting the hang of things. I’m continuing to write on-and-off at Shakesville. Additionally, I’m working on getting my two personal blogs back together. When I have the energy to write about…

  • Meet the Clit: Shitty Ass News Department

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    Every now and then, I get all optimistic about the state of trans people in society. Usually, it’s because I’m not paying attention and/or focusing on a tiny subset of us. To wit: Back in April, a man shot and killed Brandy Martell (a trans woman of color). I’m not sure how I missed the…

  • Thanks for Nothing!

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    I’m in the process of flushing some really expensive sperm down the drain. In the process, I learned that the folks who collected it refused to label it with my legal name, on account of how girls don’t make sperm n’ such. Whoops!

  • An Observation

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    I’ve recently been having all sorts of fun things going on with my body. It turns out it might (in part) be a thyroid thing. Some it might involve my hormones, too. Because very few doctors know much about super queer ladyhormones, I felt the need to research the subject myself (for, what, like the…