CNN in their articles Report on Federal Air Marshal Service paints an unflattering picture and E-mail: Air marshals perceive discrimination, study will show; ABC in their article Air Marshals Gone Wild! Tales Of Sexism, Suicide and Bigotry, CBS Evening News in their article Report cites air marshals for sexism, harassment, the Washington Post (via the [...]

We, as human beings, tend to think in boxes. I remember going through Total Quality Management training in the Navy (which the Navy renamed Total Quality Leadership training), and remember hearing that phrase “paradigm shift.” You know, the Broedling embraced concept of: Fundamental change in an individual’s or a society’s view of how things work [...]

Speaking Friday at Creating Change, an annual national conference for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, NAACP President Ben Jealous announced that the Maryland gender identity anti-discrimination bill has his organization’s backing. The bill (SB 212) was introduced late last week and awaits action in the Senate Judicial Proceedings committee. It is comprehensive in coverage, [...]

How does one police men’s and women’s public bathroom use to the sex and gender binary — whatever the standard one uses to define the sex and gender binary? That isn’t a rhetorical question. Recently, Tennessee State Representative Richard Floyd proposed a law to prohibit trans people from using use public bathrooms and dressing rooms [...]

Civil rights movements — ones formed to address the oppression of minority populations — have often had significant pushback by societal oppressors that have included bathroom and/or significant shower components. Jim Crow states passed statutes severely regulating social interactions between the races. Jim Crow signs were placed above water fountains, door entrances and exits, and [...]

Being trans, and being of Swedish ancestry — as well as having a sibling who actually lives in Sweden — the trans civil rights issue that Love Georg Elfvelin has highlighted in his video is of much interest to me. “Hi, my name is Love, I’m from Sweden and I’m trans. That means I’m born [...]

As Pam mentioned in her post SOPA, PIPA, Righthaven, NewsRight – and going dark, today many websites are going dark “to protest legislation that could profoundly affect bloggers, social media mavens and those entities that believe in the free speech on the Web.” So, it’s a bit of unfortunate timing that the Gay, Lesbian & [...]

[I]f you’re offended by someone calling you a “tranny,” it was only because you believe you are a “tranny!” So then, the solution is: Change your mind about yourself being a “tranny.” ~RuPaul The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. ~Cesar Chavez I’m not happy at all with RuPaul [...]

The stoopid…it burns. Over yonder in Tennessee, State Rep. Richard Floyd is defending his bill to harass transgender people using public bathrooms. His measure would prohibit trans people from using use public bathrooms and dressing rooms that don’t match the gender listed on their birth certificates. Quoting Rep. Floyd from the Chattanooga Times Free Press [...]

With the start of a new legislative session in Maryland right around the corner, this report from Sharon Brackett, Board Chair for Gender Rights Maryland, is welcome news indeed: Last evening I had a brief moment to chat with Governor O’Malley just after he had finished a rare and wonderful performance with his band O’Malley’s [...]