Trans People Shouldn’t Have to be Perfect to be Visible
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Recently, New York Mayor Mamdani reference The Cercle Hermaphroditos in a speech in support of Pride, and New York’s contributions to LGBTQ history. So, here is a little on this relatively obscure group, for those who haven’t heard of them:
The Cercle Hermaphroditos, founded in 1895 in New York City, was the first known transgender advocacy group in the U.S. This was at a time when In a time when cross dressing was a punishable crime. Their home at Paresis Hall provided a safe place for androgynes, queens, fairies, Uranians, and hermaphrodites (the terms transfeminine people used for themselves in those days) to gather and socialize. Most of what is known today about the secret organization comes from the memoirs of Jennie June, a female impersonator and regular at Paresis Hall, a gay bar and brothel near Washington Square Park, where the Cercle met. According to June, members were Ultra-Androgyne, & would always clothe themselves as female in their daily lives if the law permitted it. She also described the Cercle Hermaphroditos as a mutual aid society, where people assigned male at birth who lived as women could come together for safety and support.
In her book “The Female-Impersonators,” June chronicled her time as a sex worker in 1890s Manhattan. She described how transfeminine people were subjected to blackmail, violence, police harassment, theft, murder, and suicide. Paresis Hall club maintained a room to store women’s clothes for members, so they could avoid police harassment and street violence on their way to meetings. Discussions at the hall included topics like how to show solidarity with transmasculine people, and the latest science on gender and transfemininity.
In 2019, Shualee Cook wrote a play called “Circle Hermaphroditos” about a transmasculine person who goes to Paresis Hall to find a lady he can legally marry, then play the roles expected of them in public while pursuing the life they want in private. But finding the proper match is more difficult than he expected, especially after the club is raided by police.
References:
https://glreview.org/cercle-hermaphroditos/
https://getplume.co/blog/trans-history-spotlight-the-cercle-hermaphroditos/
https://parityproductions.org/cercle-hermaphroditos
#lgbtq #pride #pridemonth #trans #transgender #transrightsarehumanrights #cerclehermaphroditos #drag #crossdress
PinkNews is refusing to cover trans issues because it thinks trans people aren't advertiser friendly!
If you run an ad blocker, add the site to your filters and block it
#Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT
https://lucyfromnaarm.com/p/breaking-pinknews-refuses-to-cover
" #Kansas revoked 1,700 #transgender drivers’ licenses. Some are leaving the state."
Always #vote folks. You won't get everything you want. But better over worse matters.
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The part we far too often don't talk about when we finally get the gender-affirming surgeries that we need is how hard recovery is--and I don't mean the physical stuff. Today, on Stained Glass Woman, we're looking at The Other Recovery.
Zack Polanski got under Piers Morgan’s skin by reframing the UK’s gender critics as petty politics and standing firm that trans women are women.
https://rejserin.medium.com/piers-morgans-anti-trans-brigading-908befc625db
S.F. nonprofit just began offering legal aid to trans immigrants. Requests are pouring in.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-trans-immigrants-asylum-parivar/
A Japanese high court ruled on Wednesday that a transgender woman should be able to change the sex assigned to them at birth in their family registry without having to undergo surgery, as is currently required by law.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/07/10/japan/crime-legal/gender-change-ruling/
I’m rebuilding my account. Point me to other Trans people worth following?
DO NOT suggest Charlotte Clymer 🙏 #transgender #transjoy #t4t
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A Kansas City-area Democrat who backed transgender sports ban loses reelection
Erica Deuso elected as Pa.’s first openly transgender mayor
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
House Democrats: Funding cuts to LGBTQ suicide hotline will have ‘lethal consequences’
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5298112-house-democrats-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-funding-cuts/
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I'm sorry I have to do this again. I am still struggling for funds, food, and surviving. My health is suffering under it to be honest, I've not really been able to eat all that well and my mental health has been down the gutter. Any help, boosts, anything appreciated, thank you.
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #Transgender #TransCrowdFund #CrowdFund #DisabilityMutualAid #TransMutualAid
#PeteButtigieg, #OprahWinfrey & #TimWalz destroy #DonaldTrump & #ShadyVance (#JDVance) during #DNC’s third night.
#LGBTQ+ #speakers graced the stage, with one of them telling the #SupremeCourt, "You can pry this #weddingband from my #cold, #dead, #gay hand!"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews #Megathread
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Trump Is About to Drop a “Nuclear Weapon” on Trans Youth Health Care
https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/tennessee-nuclear-family-month?1
The Department of State’s Website Is Now Threatening To Revoke Trans People's Passports
https://transitics.substack.com/p/the-department-of-states-website
PSA for any trans+ person looking to start, or currently doing, any kind of voice training
Seattle Voice Lab has broken their silence over a former employee of theirs (Jimmy Chen), who set up his own voice coaching service called Trans Voice Lab.
We need to address Trans Voice Lab.
We highly recommend watching / listening to the whole video, but here are some key points within their video:
- Jimmy's employment was terminated for "manipulative teaching practices and dishonesty towards" their students.
- He downloaded their bespoke training materials (SVL's intellectual property) and client lists (!!!), then used these to set up his own voice coaching service and write a book.
- SVL didn't want to have to make the video, but has felt obliged to do so.
- SVL is pursuing "legal counsel" over Jimmy's actions.
tl;dr
- Avoid any videos or guides from Jimmy Chen.
- Avoid using Trans Voice Lab at all costs.
Boosts and crossposts very welcome, as we need to make more folks aware of this 
#trans #transgender #enby #NonBinary #voice #VoiceTraining #VoiceTherapy #VoiceCoaching #VoiceFeminization #VoiceFeminisation #VoiceMasculinization #VoiceMasculinisation #SeattleVoiceLab #TransVoiceLab #JimmyChen #PSA #queer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #BoostsWelcome
Will Ferrell goes on a road trip with long-time friend Harper Steele, former SNL head writer and newly out trans woman.
As a kid, I could never have imagined trans people just being out in movies and TV. What I would give to see all these trans people when I was 10.
I'm not crying, you're crying 😭
In honor of Transgender Awareness Week, Nov 13 to Nov 19, here are a selection of the knitting patterns, projects, and yarns in the colors of the trans pride flag from my transgender ally page
https://intheloopknitting.com/trans-ally-knitting-patterns.php
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“Trans visibility is important, but also trans people deserve to have fun.”
For @TexasObserver magazine, I teamed up with photojournalist Harmon Li to document a "Trans Takeover" on the free side of #Austin's Barton Springs swimming hole. It was a moment of queer and #trans joy that came weeks after a violent attack. https://www.texasobserver.org/protect-trans-joy-barton-springs/
#LGBTQIA #queer #culture #photography #Texas #CentralTexas #transgender #water
The Right Is Now Transvestigating Charlie Kirk and His Wife, Erika
https://www.them.us/story/charlie-erika-kirk-transvestigator-trans-transvestigation
60,000 cisgender women write powerful open letter in support of trans community: ‘We have had enough’
Tomorrow is the #Transgender Day of Remembrance (don't forget #TDOR! 🏳️⚧️) and your girl here will be taking that day off from boosting. In fact, I might be taking a few days off. Depends on my recovery.
But hopefully I've already introduced you to enough fabulous people to follow that your timelines are already full of content.
While I'm away here, I may be posting updates on my non-boosting account, @lisa. You can check on how I'm doing there.
Love you all and hope to be back soon! 🤗🥰💖