Dispelling Myths, Misconceptions and Lies About Gender-Nonconforming Children
Recently, a video about a transgender child in California named Ryland Whittington went viral. It is beautiful and moving and shows the power of unconditional parental love: Sadly, like every other...
View Article8 Things Parents of Trans Kids Want You to Know
After writing a blog for the Huffington Post debunking myths and misperceptionsabout transgender children, I was inundated with messages from parents of transgender children thanking me for it. In the...
View ArticleSBC to Parents: Kids Better off Dead than Trans
This past week the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) convened the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission Leadership Summit in Nashville, Tennessee. Its stated purpose was to “address the gospel and...
View ArticleA Come to Jesus Talk on Transgender Youth
Tetra Images via Getty Images This past week, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) held a National Conference on “The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage.” The Conference made headlines...
View ArticleA Come-to-Jesus Talk on Transgender Youth
This past week, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) held a National Conference on “The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage.” The Conference made headlines when the President of the SBC,...
View ArticleNot One More
When Leelah Alcorn died between Dayton and Cincinnati, she left behind a note on Tumblr that was a wake-up call to the world regarding what it means to be a transgender youth in a conservative...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Ban ‘Reparative Therapy’
In the wake of Leelah Alcorn’s death, there have been renewed calls to legally end the practice of using so-called “reparative therapy” to change children’s sexual orientation or gender identity or...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Ban ‘Reparative Therapy’
In the wake of Leelah Alcorn’s death, there have been renewed calls to legally end the practice of using so-called “reparative therapy” to change children’s sexual orientation or gender identity or...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know about Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills
Bills have been filed in three states to prevent transgender people from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. The one in Kentucky targets transgender students. The bills in Texas and...
View Article6 Ways to Not Be a Terrible Trans Ally
When our oldest daughter was 2 years old and in day care, she had a habit of taste-testing everything. Thankfully, nothing in the day care room was toxic, but we found ourselves dispensing oddly...
View ArticleMeet the Last ‘Respectable’ Reparative Therapist
At this stage in the debate, you would think that reparative therapy would be dead as a kipper on a cracker. It has been denounced by all the major psychological, psychiatric, and medical organizations...
View ArticleIt’s Not Over
When the Obergfell decision was announced, I spoke with a conservative relative on the phone about something unrelated to marriage. “You must be very happy,” he said glumly, “you guys got everything...
View ArticleThe Classmates of Trans Teen Lila Perry Should Be Ashamed
In October of 1945, 80 percent of white students at Froebel High School in Gary, Ind., walked out of classes to protest the racial integration of their school. School officials threatened to punish...
View ArticleThe Truth About Transgender Suicide
For this year’s transgender awareness week I wanted to write about something that the transgender community and its allies are often afraid to discuss. Those who want to drive transgender people into...
View ArticleThe End of the Desistance Myth
Over the past few years, an endless parade of “concerned” people (trolls) have trotted out the same statistic over and over again: 84 percent of transgender kids stop being transgender on their own....
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Professor Endangers the Lives of Transgender Youth
Once again, Paul McHugh has used the ever more tarnished name of Johns Hopkins to distort science and spread transphobic misinformation. This time, it comes via a position statement from the American...
View ArticleHow Research is (Mis)used to Harm: WPATH Presentation
How Research is Being (Mis)Used to Support
View ArticleJK Rowling is an Unwitting Tool of the Religious Right
When JK Rowling tweeted that transition-related care for transgender teens is a form of gay conversion therapy, most LGB people who don’t follow the fights inspired by Trans Exclusionary Radical...
View ArticleUnited Kingdom’s Court of Appeal obliterates Keira Bell
The Appeals Court invoked the mercy rule usually reserved for lopsided T-ball games where one side is being so badly beaten the referees stop it to prevent one side from being further humiliated.
View ArticleReligion Is Never An Acceptable Excuse For Verbally Abusing Children
When a child is transgender, people seem to lose any sort of rational perspective.
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