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TDoR and tobacco: lies and statistics about trans women
My relationship with Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20) changed after I realized I was a trans woman. So much of it is an occasion for cis and non-Black trans allies to gain performativity points by lamenting the living conditions of trans women of color only after they have been murdered. Cis people in particular…
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Against asking sex assigned at birth
Summary: use of “sex assigned at birth” in data collection ignores the impact of how references to that assignment are used as rhetorical devices to enable violence against trans people, especially trans women. We should interrogate the efficacy of the question and consider the construction of both sex and transness more broadly. [In this essay,…
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