
Faika El-Nagashi: It was Never About Butch Lesbians
by Faika El-Nagashi When I thought the trans debate couldn’t get any more absurd, the arguments thrown around by trans rights activists after the UK
by Faika El-Nagashi When I thought the trans debate couldn’t get any more absurd, the arguments thrown around by trans rights activists after the UK
“Those chickens out in our pastures are ours to love, honor, protect, and respect.”
“I have flown the Gilbert Baker Rainbow Flag during Pride for more than 25 years, but this year I stopped.”
by Julia D. Robertson, journalist and award-winning author, and William J. Malone, M.D., endocrinologist and NYU alumnus *This article has been updated to include December 1
“I was hurt knowing I couldn’t marry a woman at that time, hurt that I couldn’t have a family that looked like the only families I had seen… The idea I could ‘identify’ out of oppression, and be a straight man instead, felt liberating.” —Charlie Evans
“That confusion impacts children…who are statistically more likely to grow up to be [LGB] adults….telling a child that he or she was born in the wrong body pathologizes ‘gender non-conforming’ behavior…”
“I’ve struggled for weeks about whether to write this, because Madagascar is my home. I’d love to just talk about the sweet breeze, the little islands, the dugout-boats, the lemurs and the giant turtles— But creating change has to start here.”
“The view from my window is of the house next door, and a little winding road that leads to a local co-op… I wish my life, like this view, could’ve been so simple.”
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