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Transgenderism and Transsexualism

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Against Me!'s Tom Gabel Comes Out as Transgender; Internet Explodes with Support and Shock

    It should have been obvious to us all for years. In 2007's "The Ocean", Against Me! vocalist, Tom Gabel sang "If I could've chosen, I would've been born a woman..." Most listeners at that time took it as a statement of solidarity with women from a vocalist who made a career out of being vocally poli ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 28, 2012

    Real Women

    It should have been obvious to us all for years. In 2007's "The Ocean", Against Me! vocalist, Tom Gabel sang "If I could've chosen, I would've been born a woman..." Most listeners at that time took it as a statement of solidarity with women from a vocalist who made a career out of being vocally poli ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 2, 2011

    Trans National

    It should have been obvious to us all for years. In 2007's "The Ocean", Against Me! vocalist, Tom Gabel sang "If I could've chosen, I would've been born a woman..." Most listeners at that time took it as a statement of solidarity with women from a vocalist who made a career out of being vocally poli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Transgender Woman Attacked on Halloween

    coolers should only be used for parties​A 43-year-old transgender woman was attacked Halloween night as she walked though the Mission District, according to police.The woman was on the 500 block of Valencia Street when the suspect approached her and started yelling gay slurs at her and threatened ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Amber Yust, Transgender Woman, Wins Settlement Over Bible-Thumping Letter

    The DMV is hell​SF Weekly readers might recall that oh-so charming story of Amber Yust, the transgender woman who received an unwelcoming letter from a DMV employee who told her she was going straight to hell. Yust, who had gone into the DMV to change her sex on her driver's license, sued the DMV ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Tips from Kristina Wertz, S.F. Lawyer Who Fought Transgender Discrimination at the TSA

    Kristina Wertz​Thanks to Kristina Wertz, legal director of San Francisco's Transgender Law Center, Transportation Security Administration managers at Los Angeles International Airport will undergo mandatory sensitivity training as part of a legal settlement.Wertz' client, Ashley Yang, was fired l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    LGBT History Bill is Anti-Family, Says Group Seeking Referendum

    Stop SB48 wants Harvey Milk out of the classroom​The ink has barely dried on the FAIR Education Act and already antigay groups have begun to collect signatures for a ballot referendum to overturn the nation's first law requiring public schools to include LGBT history in the curriculum. Stop ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 22, 2011

    Reading S.F. the Riot Act

    Stop SB48 wants Harvey Milk out of the classroom​The ink has barely dried on the FAIR Education Act and already antigay groups have begun to collect signatures for a ballot referendum to overturn the nation's first law requiring public schools to include LGBT history in the curriculum. Stop ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 1, 2011

    Superstar Sightings

    Stop SB48 wants Harvey Milk out of the classroom​The ink has barely dried on the FAIR Education Act and already antigay groups have begun to collect signatures for a ballot referendum to overturn the nation's first law requiring public schools to include LGBT history in the curriculum. Stop ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 25, 2011

    Transgression Run Amok

    Stop SB48 wants Harvey Milk out of the classroom​The ink has barely dried on the FAIR Education Act and already antigay groups have begun to collect signatures for a ballot referendum to overturn the nation's first law requiring public schools to include LGBT history in the curriculum. Stop ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 27, 2011

    Love Underground

    Stop SB48 wants Harvey Milk out of the classroom​The ink has barely dried on the FAIR Education Act and already antigay groups have begun to collect signatures for a ballot referendum to overturn the nation's first law requiring public schools to include LGBT history in the curriculum. Stop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Chrissy Lee Polis, Transgender Woman Beaten, Speaks Out (Video)

    Chrissy Lee Polis speaks​Update: Police have charged Teonna Monae Brown, 18, with assault. A 14-year-old girl is also facing charges. Original story, 8:45 a.m.: By now, most people have heard about the truly jaw-dropping case of a transgender woman who was brutally beaten inside a McDonald's in Ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Sex Survey: 'What Is Your Sex?' No Simple Question For Kaiser

    We're thinking, we're thinking...​For years, the biggest development in querying people's sex was changing the forms to read "What is your sex?" instead of "sex" -- to keep respondents from filling out "Yes." It seems, however, there is once again latitude in this often straightforward question. A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Amber Yust, Transgender Woman Sues DMV Over Bible-Beating Letter

    The DMV gave her hell, she gave it right back ​Readers might recall the story of Amber Yust, the 23-year-old transgender woman who received a harassing letter from a DMV clerk after she got her drivers license with her female name on it.Well, now Yust has officially field a lawsuit against the DMV ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Free and Five Party, Writers With Drinks, Gestapo Khazi, The Babies, and No Pants BART Ride

    The Babies plays Hemlock Tavern this Saturday ​There is heavy metal and ethereal ambient noise, transsexual fashion shows and fancy vintage paper, Go-Gos and Babies. It's all here this weekend, in San Francisco, for less than the cost of taking a heterosexual date to Chick-fil-A. Here's our list o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 29, 2010

    The Self-Made Man

    The Babies plays Hemlock Tavern this Saturday ​There is heavy metal and ethereal ambient noise, transsexual fashion shows and fancy vintage paper, Go-Gos and Babies. It's all here this weekend, in San Francisco, for less than the cost of taking a heterosexual date to Chick-fil-A. Here's our list o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Transgender Woman Amber Yust Files Claim Agaisnt DMV Over Bible-Thumping Letter

    Amber Yust says she caught hell from the DMV...​SF Weekly readers may recall a charming story about a transgender woman getting a drivers license with her new female name at the San Francisco DMV -- and also getting a most unwelcome letter, purportedly from a DMV employee, telling her she was goin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Human Rights Campaign To Move Into Harvey Milk's Camera Store

    Harvey Milk has been enlisted by the HRC​In what some grassroots gay activists are calling an "insult," the Human Rights Campaign is about to move into the location of Harvey Milk's old camera store at 575 Castro Street. It will be the new San Francisco "action center" providing information on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    First Transgender Judge Victoria Kolakowski's Long Road

    Here comes the judge...​Winners of Alameda County Superior Court Judgeships usually don't get calls from national media. But Victoria Kolakowski -- "spelled just like it sounds" -- isn't just any judge. She's almost certainly the first transgender judge in American history, and even more almost ce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Transgender Judges More Common than You'd Think

    Well, we'll be damned...​Earlier today, we wrote about Oakland's Victoria Kolakowski, the nation's first elected transgender judge. You'd think the "elected" would be superfluous -- there aren't a plethora of transgender judges. Well, you'd be wrong. Today Houston Mayor Annise Parker appointed tra ... More >>

  • News

    November 3, 2010

    Wounded Pride

    Despite its reputation, gay-friendly San Francisco is still a tough place for teens to come out.

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    Lana Lawless, Transgender Woman Golfer, Sues LPGA

    www.longdrivers.comLana Lawless takes home the 2009 Long Drivers of America title​Transgender golfer Lana Lawless is suing two of the country's top golf associations to do away with their ban on trans-women athletes. The Ladies Professional Golf Association -- better known as the LPGA -- is only o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Go-Gos' Jane Wiedlin Pays Tribute to Big Gay Ice Cream!

    Jason O'Malley​We recently told you about a Tranny Smackdown sundae that will be created for one fleeting day when locals Humphry Slocombe will be visited by Doug Quint and Bryan Petroff of New York's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, and that former Go-Gos guitarist and Mission resident Jane Wiedlin w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    Details on S.F.'s Big Gay Ice Cream Jamboree: Brace for the Tranny Smackdown Sundae

    Carlos Avila Gonzalez /The ChronicleBeach Blanket Babylon's Glinda the Good Witch will hand out Tranny Smackdowns at Humphry Slocombe.​We've now got some additional details to add to yesterday's post about Humphry Slocombe's event with New York's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck on August 22. The two a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 7, 2010

    Headbangers' Ball

    Carlos Avila Gonzalez /The ChronicleBeach Blanket Babylon's Glinda the Good Witch will hand out Tranny Smackdowns at Humphry Slocombe.​We've now got some additional details to add to yesterday's post about Humphry Slocombe's event with New York's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck on August 22. The two a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 23, 2010

    The Man Show

    Carlos Avila Gonzalez /The ChronicleBeach Blanket Babylon's Glinda the Good Witch will hand out Tranny Smackdowns at Humphry Slocombe.​We've now got some additional details to add to yesterday's post about Humphry Slocombe's event with New York's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck on August 22. The two a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Gay-Centric Kiss-In Today, Rain or Shine

    Hey! Wait until 5:30, dammit! ​Today's organized gay kiss-in in the Castro is meant to shed light on how such an activity could get one beaten, arrested, or stoned to death in much of the world. This, as activists love to say, is "empowering." So it wouldn't do for folks to stay home because they' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Transgender Attack Cases Backlogged in Crime Lab Finally Getting Their Due

    Ruby Ordenana​Long before Deborah Madden got caught skimming coke from evidence containers, Donzell Francis, 41, was reaping the benefits of an overburdened crime lab. Although today he'll be charged with crimes stemming from attacks on two transgender prostitutes (including one murder count), Fra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    Are Gays Losing Patience With Obama? Don't Ask.

    Has Barack Obama enacted all the sweet talk he directed toward the gay community? Well...​Some people are so desperate for leadership that they will cling to anyone that gives them the time of day - even when they know the heart-shaped boxes they are given are always empty. If certain gay Demo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 27, 2010

    Lou Reads

    Has Barack Obama enacted all the sweet talk he directed toward the gay community? Well...​Some people are so desperate for leadership that they will cling to anyone that gives them the time of day - even when they know the heart-shaped boxes they are given are always empty. If certain gay Demo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Suspected Killer of Transgender Prostitute Given Hefty Sentence for Other Crimes

    Ruby Ordenana was raped and murdered in 2007. DNA evidence collected from her body matches suspect Donzell Francis.​Sitting in Department 10 on Monday afternoon, Donzell Francis, 41, didn't react as the judge sentenced him to the maximum sentence of 17 years and 8 months in state prison ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 9, 2009

    God, I Hope I Get It

    Ruby Ordenana was raped and murdered in 2007. DNA evidence collected from her body matches suspect Donzell Francis.​Sitting in Department 10 on Monday afternoon, Donzell Francis, 41, didn't react as the judge sentenced him to the maximum sentence of 17 years and 8 months in state prison ... More >>

  • News

    November 11, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    Ruby Ordenana was raped and murdered in 2007. DNA evidence collected from her body matches suspect Donzell Francis.​Sitting in Department 10 on Monday afternoon, Donzell Francis, 41, didn't react as the judge sentenced him to the maximum sentence of 17 years and 8 months in state prison ... More >>

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    October 28, 2009

    Trans-Mission

    Ruby Ordenana was raped and murdered in 2007. DNA evidence collected from her body matches suspect Donzell Francis.​Sitting in Department 10 on Monday afternoon, Donzell Francis, 41, didn't react as the judge sentenced him to the maximum sentence of 17 years and 8 months in state prison ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2009

    Transblazer

    She just became the city's first transgender department head, but Theresa Sparks is already setting her sights on becoming the city's first transgender supervisor.

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Transgender Activists Staying Home From Obama Protests, But Waiting for President to Back Up Trans-Friendly Words

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 15, 2009

    Cheap Queens Behaving Badly

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

  • News

    May 6, 2009

    Unemployed straight guys attend transgender job fair

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 15, 2009

    Putting the "Yay!" in Yay Area

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2008

    Bend Your Gender

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 11, 2008

    Juicy and Delicious

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2008

    Heather Has Lots of People Who Love Her

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 12, 2008

    Boy or Girl? Maybe Not.

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 20, 2008

    Music, Martinis, and Memories

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 19, 2007

    Thank You For Being a Freak

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 14, 2007

    Do the Manly Dance

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 7, 2007

    Get Out of the House Free Card

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

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    August 15, 2007

    What the Fix?

    Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

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