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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.

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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.

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Aug 2611 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


Being Transgender Is Not a Choice: What Biology Shows
Is gender identity biologically rooted? A fact-checked overview of twin studies, genetics, and neuroscience research on transgender people.

Lizbeth
Jul 1515 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


The Myth of “Desistance”: Why the 80 Percent Claim Does Not Hold Up
A systematic literature review shows: the 80 percent desistance claim for trans youth is based on methodologically weak, historically biased studies. Here is what the research actually shows.

Lizbeth
May 207 min read


Alexander Korte and the Debate Over Trans Youth: When Skepticism Becomes a Political Program
A critical article on Alexander Korte, his statements on trans youth, his role at LMU Munich, and the wider impact of these narratives in Germany.

Lizbeth
May 137 min read


Gender bias in everyday life
Gender bias shapes language, upbringing, work, and medicine. Often so familiar we barely notice it. What it means, how it operates, and why it is a question of democracy.

Lizbeth
Apr 2210 min read
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