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Sylvia Rivera: Freedom Means Leaving No One Behind
Sylvia Rivera fought for trans people, including against her own movement. On STAR House, the 1973 speech and seventeen years of waiting for legal equality.

Lizbeth
Sep 3011 min read


Trans Women in Sports: The Truck With the Compact-Car Engine
Trans women in sport: what studies on hormone therapy, testosterone and athletic performance actually show, beyond body-type assumptions.

Lizbeth
Sep 1610 min read


When Suddenly Everything Is About the Transition
Why trans patients see symptoms misattributed to their transition, what GRMMIQ research actually shows, and how sound diagnosis prevents it.

Lizbeth
Sep 28 min read


Lou Sullivan: A Life That Was Never Planned
Lou Sullivan, a gay trans man, fought medical gatekeeping and helped build the first FTM community in San Francisco.

Lizbeth
Aug 2611 min read


"That's Not What I Meant": Microaggressions in Trans Daily Life
Misgendern, aufdringliche Fragen, falsche Komplimente: eine faktenbasierte Analyse alltäglicher Mikroaggressionen gegen trans Personen.

Lizbeth
Aug 1213 min read


The I Is Not an Afterthought: Why Queer Solidarity Must Include Intersex People
The history of the intersex movement shows what queer solidarity really means, and where it still falls short.

Lizbeth
Aug 59 min read


We’wha: A Life Beyond Colonial Gender Boundaries
We’wha, a Zuni lhamana, met President Cleveland at the White House in 1886. A critical look at colonial framing versus Indigenous self-determination.

Lizbeth
Jul 2910 min read


ChatGPT, your personal Beauty-Coach?
Can ChatGPT help you learn makeup? Here's how AI-driven feedback, photo comparisons, and small iterative changes can support trans women in developing more feminine makeup skills.

Lizbeth
Jun 109 min read


Queer Representation and Social Participation
Queer visibility isn't symbolism. It's about safety, dignity, and belonging. Why representation changes lives and why blogs like this one have a role to play.

Lizbeth
Jun 310 min read


Before They Burned the Knowledge: Magnus Hirschfeld, Trans History, and Berlin’s Lost Legacy
In 1919, Magnus Hirschfeld opened the world's first Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin. Its destruction in 1933, its trans patients, and what remains.

Lizbeth
May 2715 min read
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