This is one of several posts that I found really helpful in understanding Trans* issues at It’s Pronounced Metrosexual – a one man show Sam the blogger describes as kickstarting LGB equality. It’s well worth exploring. What does the asterisk…
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Gender, Sex and Intersex: A Primer
In part two of his series on natural law yesterday (Sex and Catholics 2: Gender perspectives and Evolution) , Chris deliberately did not go too deeply into trans or intersex issues, because as he says, he does not know too…
Nepal gay lawmaker asks Facebook for third gender
KATMANDU, Nepal — A prominent lawmaker and gay rights activist in Nepal said he has asked Facebook to include a third option for people who do not identify themselves as male or female. Sunilbabu Pant said he has written to…
Now you have your say on plans for Gay Civil Marriage Equality
The Government’s plans for civil marriage equality for lesbian and gay couples have now been published. You have 12 weeks until 14 June 2012 to send in your views. The plan is to change the law in England and Wales…
A Victorian Celebration of a Genderqueer Marriage: The Owl & the Pussycat
The modern arguments against “redefining” marriage are obsessed with the entirely unwarranted assumption that the popular modern form of marriage is somehow “traditional”, fixed always and everywhere in the same format. Of course, this is not so. Marriage has been…
Beyond Male and Female: Gender Trouble, Biology Trouble.
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. – Galatians 3:28 In the context of religion, we are familiar with the quotation from Galatians, even if in the Catholic Church we are unwilling to take the words…
How a Woman Became a Dominican Priest, and Teacher of Moral Theology.
So: just how does a woman become a Catholic priest in a major religious order? Sally Gross did just that: her story, with the explanation of just how it was possible, reveals some gaping holes in Catholic theology on women’s…
“Gay” Caveman Found? Or Trans?
News reported at the Daily Telegraph (and more breathlessly at the Daily Mail) is that archeologists have found the skeleton of a possibly homosexual caveman. The evidence for the conclusion comes from the manner of burial. Whereas men in this…
Remember Our Trans Martyrs
Today, November 20th, is the 10th annual day of Remembrance, a day set aside in memory of trans people who have been murdered for their honest expression of their gender identity. (Thanks, here, to Kittredge Cheery, who alerted me to…
