One day, I took my 10-year-old brother shopping.

We were looking at some T-shirts and we came across one that had the transgender symbol printed on the front with the fist of power in the middle. There was also a sentence on it. It said: “Fuck the system player.”
When he saw the word “fuck”, my brother [...]

الأرجنتين وأستراليا والبرتغال تزوج المثليين!
منح أحد القضاة في العاصمة الارجنتينية بيونس ايريس حق الزواج لاثنين من مثليي الجنس، ما يجعل من الارجنتين أول دولة كاثوليكية في أميركا اللاتينية تقوم بهذا الانجاز.
وكانت الأرجنتين كذلك أول دولة منحت المثليين حق الارتباط المدني عام 2002.
وفي أستراليا، قررت الحكومة الاسترالية تشريع زواج مثليي الجنس ابتداء من العام [...]

Hello! You’ve probably noticed that I’ve changed my sex on Facebook. Were you surprised? Annoyed? Intrigued? Disgusted? Outraged? Did you think it was a joke? Did you perhaps think it was a mistake?

Actually, I’m glad you asked. I’ve changed my sex on Facebook as part of the Operation: Sex Change campaign to raise awareness around challenges facing transgender people everywhere in the world. My message is simple. I want you to know what “transgender” means. It is a term used to identify the many people [read more...]

“Look! Sex and gender are separate!” I whispered to Judith Butler, shimmying shyly on my right. “Look! Women are learning femininity from a man!” I whispered to Judith Jack Halberstam, strutting hir stuff on my left. Both of them were struggling with the arm and wrist movements accompanying the belly dance. To tell the truth, in this class full of women, all of us moved like rusty robots compared to our lithe teacher, Alex. Still he was miraculously unwearied by us, taking struggling students under his wing like a mother hen. Eventually I lost patience with my untamable [...]