t-r-a-n-s:

Hi! I noticed that one of your followers asked about gender-neutral signs, and as an ASL user working on getting my interpreting license, I though I could help out.

There are not many purely neutral signs only because on the way ASL is set up: male nouns (father, boy, male cousin, uncle) happen…

radicalsocialworker:

” In a Bind is a brand new binder exchange program run by TransActive Education & Advocacy. ‪We collect donations of used chest binders from trans guys who no longer need them either because they had top surgery or changed size. Then we send them out to young trans guys or genderqueers who are unable to get new ones on their own.”

Last month, IN THE LIFE generated unprecedented buzz with the release of Becoming Me, a look at the real-life experiences of eight families with transgender and gender nonconforming children. While mainstream media coverage portrays transgender children as a spectacle, IN THE LIFE elevates the discussion beyond transphobic sensationalism. Becoming Me is being used as a resource for parents and an educational tool for social service providers.

(Source: neutrois, via projectqueer)

projectqueer:

BY Diane Anderson-Minshall

Now that California’s Senate bill 1172 has passed the judiciary committee, it now goes to vote in front of the full Senate. The bill, introduced by Sen. Ted W. Lieu, would be first in nation to regulate so-called conversion therapy. Lieu called the bill a “patient-protection plan,” wrote on his own website, that the bill will “help raise public awareness of bogus and unethical therapies by mental-health providers who promise to help change a person’s sexual orientation.”

The bill will ban children under 18 from being subjected to ex-gay, conversion, or reparitive therapy treatments and would require adults who seek those treatments to sign a consent form indicating that they understand that the therapy has no proven medical basis and that there are potential dangers of reparitive therapy (including raised risk of suicide and depression).

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gaywrites:

Washington, D.C. will soon have a new LGBT community services center catering particularly to the Latino/a community, according to the center’s new director. 

Trans activist Ruby Corado, the founder and director of the LGBT center, says Casa Ruby will be open to everyone, but will focus primarily on Latinos/as. Every person on the all-volunteer staff will speak both English and Spanish. More details from the Washington Blade:

Among other things, Corado said she envisions Casa Ruby as a one-stop community service center for Latino LGBT people that will provide support and referrals to other service providers on such matters as immigration issues, substance abuse, domestic violence, counseling, employment services and HIV/AIDS education and prevention. …

“I want this to this to sort of be a home,” she said. “I want them to feel this is their place. If they don’t have anything out there for their needs like a place to stay I want them to come and I will help them find that.”

More and more LGBT groups are acknowledging the need for outreach to communities of color, such as the Latino/a community, which is fabulous. This is a really great, much-needed thing and I wish them the best. 

(via projectqueer)

harmreduction:

The Trans Women’s Anti-Violence Project is a trans feminist project addressing issues of systematic, institutional and interpersonal violence and oppression experienced by trans women (those who were coercively assigned male at birth and identify or are identified as women/female) across multiple identities (e.g., race, class, dis/ability, citizen-status, nationality, sexuality, age, HIV status, and form, status, or age of transition, etc.)

(via projectqueer)