Trans Express on Crossdreaming and Transgender Issues

Trans Express  (previously known as XD Express) is my tumblr blog for quick and targeted posts about crossdreaming, gender variance and transgender issues.

Here are some post that might have some broader interest.


MOST POPULAR POSTS EVER

• Amazing TED talk on the way the strict gender binary harms us, by XY intersex woman Emily Quinn (March 2019)
• ‘Finally feeling happy in my skin’: American Boys captures the trans experience (March 2019)
• Ellen Page speaks out against ‘dehumanising’ of transgender people (February 2019)
• Biological sex is a spectrum, by the ScienceVet (August 2018)
• Close-knit -- beautiful Japanese movie about  the life of a transgender woman (2018)
• Please sign this petition to stop a supporter of a transphobic theory from getting a leading role in the international transgender health organization! (August 2018)
• National Geographic Magazine Puts Young Transgender Girl On Cover (December 2016)
• China's most popular TV hostess just happens to be trans (October 2016)
• Less than half of America’s youth are straight, new survey finds (March 2016)
• Trans man, being forced to use women's bath rooms prints cards to give to women he meets there (April 2016)
• Variations in gender dysphoria (based on Cassandra's infographic) (January 2015)
• Netflix seeking Asian FTM 14-15 year old transgender actor for TV series (August 2015)
• Laverne Cox on her third grade teacher (October 2015)
• The New 'Batgirl' Features Mainstream Comics' First Transgender Wedding (October 2015)
• Human brains display gender diversity, not gender stereotypes (December 2015)
• Hijras, Bangladesh’s ‘Third Gender’, Celebrate First Ever Pride Parade (November 2014)
• "I just want to be the real me" (Sally's post on Leah Walton, 19, a transgender teenager from Mississippi) (November 2014)
•  #NoGenderDecember, an Australian campaign against gendered marketing of toys
• On chromosomes, genitalia, sex and gender identity (November 2014)
• Sally's post on Brooke Guinan, trans woman and firefighter (November 2014)
• Biological sex is a spectrum (August 2018)
• The #TransgenderPrivilege hashtag reveals the suffering of trans people (August 2018)

THE TRANSGENDER DEBATE

• Mississippi lawmakers propose ‘license to harass’ for transphobic teachers (February 2019)
• Why do some men kill transgender women? (January 2019)
• Violence against the transgender community in 2018 (Desember 2018)
• Zoe Whitehall points out how the same tactics that are now used to invalidate bisexual youth, are now used to marginalize the transgender teens. (August 2018)
• On straight vs. lesbian trans women (August 2016)
• Must read article that debunks the myth that 84 percent of trans-kids turn out to be non-transgender. (January 2016)
• No, the Swedish study does not say that transitioning makes trans women suicidal (December 2015)
• Trans Woman Asks: 'You Really Want Me In The Same Bathroom As Your Husband?' (November 2015)
• It is time to put an end to transphobic science (October 2015)
• US Report Calls for a Ban on Conversion “Therapies” for Gay, Lesbian and Transgender. (October 2015)
• What transgender really means (November 2014)
• The Perversions of Modern Psychology and Psychiatry (October 2014)
• Why put cross dressing and transgender issues on the same level? (Question December 2014)
• On how the fetish concept is used to invalidate women, people of color, gay and lesbians, transsexuals, girlfags and crossdreamers (August 2014)
• Janet Mock on transgender unity (June 2014)
• Laverne Cox on the transgender umbrella (June 2014)
• On sex identity and dysphoria (May 2014)
• On suicide among crossdressers, crossdreamers and other transgender people (May 2014)
• Lou Sullivan, cofounder of the FTM movement, from crossdresser to trans man (May 2014)
• Why we need a broad interpretation of the word transgender (April  2014) See also part 2. 
• Is Gender Really Nothing More Than a Performance? (Feb 2014)
• Yes, there may be such a thing as an inborn sex identity! (Feb 2014)
  A follow up can be found here.

THE GIRLFAG AND CROSSDREAMER DEBATE

• Crossdressing is an act, not a condition (May 2018)
• Girlfags and Crossdreamers...huh? (FAQ)
• The Wonderful and Confusing World of Girlfags and Guydykes (May 2015)
• The “Sissy Boy” Experiment (November 2014)
• A defense of the girlfag term (August 2014)
• On girlfags, gay men and fetishes (June 2014)
• Girlfag on what it means to be genderqueer (June 2014)
• Janet Hardy's reflections on girlfags (June 2014)
• The problem with autogynephilia (June 2014)
• Crossdressers  as transgender (June 2014)
• The girlfag debate continues (June 2014)
• Why the words girlfag and guydykes are not slurs (May 2014)
• The Girlfag and Gudyke Pledge (May 2014)
• My definitions of girlfag and truscum (May 2014)
• The invalidation of trans people continues parts 2 and 3
• Crossdreaming: Its Transphobic Roots, and Current Transphobic, Cissexist Content (Feb  2014)
• Do you know what a girlfag is? Really? (Feb 2014)
• On the girlfag and guydyke issue (Dec 2013)
• Girfags, crossdreamers and trans men (Dec 2013)
• On the invalidation of trans people (including girlfags and guydykes) (Dec 2013)
• Stop the Harassment of Girlfags! (Nov 2013) (continues here!)
• Lou Sullivan, Pioneer FTM Trans-activist and Girlfag (Nov 2013)

THE TRUSCUM SEPARATIST DEBATE

• You do not need dysphoria to be trans (January 2019)
• A response to some truscum memes (2018)
• Yes, You're "Trans Enough" to be Transgender (February 2016)
• No, you do not need dysphoria to be trans (December 2015)
• You do not own the term transgender, truscum (June 2014)
• My problem with truscum (May 2014)
• Questions for the anti-truscum answered (May 2014)
• Dear truscum: Defining who is gender dysphoric and who is not, is not an easy matter (May 2014)
• Do you need gender dysphoria to be trans? (March 2014)
• How to Effectively Invalidate Marginalized People! (March 2014)
• On the concept of "cissie" (March 2014)
• Dear Truscum: This is What the Word Transgender Actually Means. (March 2014)
• Must read on the history of trans terminology: transgender vs. transsexual (Dec 2013)
• Truscum and the Transgender War of Words (Dec  2013)

TRANS-EXCLUSIONARY RADICAL FEMINISTS (TERFS)

• Female Editors Reject AfterEllen, Other Sites' Anti-Trans Agenda (January 2019)
• WPATH shoots down “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria! (September 2018)
• It was never about the bathrooms (August 2018)
• Everything You Need to Know About Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (September 2018)
• No, Jesse Singal, the fact that life is complex does not mean that you cannot trust the identity of transgender people (July 2018)
• If gay people can safely be teachers, then trans people can safely use bathrooms (2017)
• Why do TERFs feel this need to tell trans people what it means to be trans? (June 2017)
• Transgender bathroom segregation? We have been there before. (May 2017)
• There’s nothing feminist about being a bigot (February 2016)
• Dear trans women who want to fuck lesbians (July 2015)
• What are TERFs? (January 2015)

GENDER DYSPHORIA, TRANSGENDER AND TRANSSEXUALISM

• The WHO ICD-11 health manual removes transvestic fetishism. Being trans is no longer a mental illness. (July 2018)
• Dutch Study: Only 0.6% of trans women and 0.3% of trans men experience regret (July 2018)
• Health and health determinants among transgender persons - a report on the health status of transgender persons in Sweden (December 2015)
• Care of Transgender/Gender Nonconforming Youth (November 2014)
• Love Junkies’ Lewis Walsh: I Don’t Know If I’m A Boy Or Girl, But That’s Ok, Right? (November 2014)
• Do I or do I not have gender dysphoria? (December 2014)
• Nearly half of young transgender people have attempted suicide – UK survey (November 2014)
• Parents place “retraction” to birth announcement to show support for trans son (December 2014)

OTHER

• 7 Trans Women Who Are Redefining the Future of Pop Music (January 2019)
• This Hashtag Points Out A Devastating Statistic About Trans Women Of Color & Life Expectancy (July 2018)
• Masculinity and Feminity (January 2016)
• What Drives Transphobia? (January 2016)
• Father of transphobic autogynephilia theory becomes TV villain (April 2016)
• The Mirror Barely Cracks (poem December 2015)
• Young trans activist on coming out of the closet (on Christine Marie Jentoft, October 2015)
• 19th Century American Transgender Crossdressers and Impersonators (May 2015)
• Answering question about TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists (December 2014)
• The #autogynesmile Twitter Meme Against Transphobia (December 2014)
• The European Intersex Meeting challenges the definitions of sex and gender as only male or female (October 2014)
• On why male bisexuality seems to be disappearing (April 20014)
• Transgender animals (March 2014)
• The Myth about Testosterone and Gender (Dec 2013)

Tumblr is a very different platform and community from Blogger. The most efficient way of communicating is by pictures and short "memes". I have published a few of my own over there. Feel free to republish them as long as you give the source (crossdreamers.tumblr.com). (Click on the images for a larger version).

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