Kate Bornstein: Thoughts About Hate Crime Legislation

This is a guest post by Kate Bornstein. Kate is an author, playwright and performance artist whose work to date has been in service to sex positivity, gender anarchy, and the building a coalition of those who live on cultural margins.
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Marisa Richmond: Thoughts On Hate Crimes

This is a guest post by Marisa Richmond, Ph.D. She is the president of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition (TTPC).
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Vanessa Edwards Foster: Hate Crimes- A Long Time Coming And A Long Struggle Ahead

This is a guest post by Vanessa Edwards Foster. Vanessa Edwards Foster, a longtime activist, is co-founder and current President of the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC), a grassroots coalition of transgender Americans who are politically active and lobby locally, statewide and at the national level.
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Nancy Nangeroni: In the Wake of Hate Crime

This is a guest post by Nancy Nangeroni. Nancy is a transgender community activist, writer, and musician.
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith: We Exist.

This is a guest post by Gwendolyn Ann Smith. Gwen is the author of the Transmissions column that's been syndicated across the United States, and is the founder of the Transgender Day Of Remembrance.
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Helen Boyd: Law And The Objects Of Hate

This is a guest post by Helen Boyd. Helen Boyd is the author of  My Husband Betty and  She's Not the Man I Married.
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Allyson Robinson: Holding My Hand And Watching My Back

This is a guest post by Allyson Robinson. She is the sometime writer of the blog Crossing The T, and the Associate Director of Diversity at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
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Jayna and Mila L-Pavlin: Thoughts on Federal Hate Crimes Legislation Signed By President Obama

Below is a guest post by Jayna and Mila L-Pavlin. They are podcasters for Trans-Ponder, as well as creators of the Full Draw Studios' comic O-city.
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Vicki Estrada: Thoughts On The Hate Crimes Bill Signature By The President

Below is a guest post by my best friend Vicki Estrada. She's in one of the roughly 18,000 legal same sex marriages here in California, and has been a local activist on trans issues in my hometown of in San Diego.
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What Does The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act Do?

The U.S. Senate passed hate crimes legislation Thursday that expands the federal definition of bias-based crimes to include gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability.
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Waking Up Too God Awful Early To Subcommunity Erasure - Part 1

Today I woke up phenomenally early. For some reason my irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) was in play while I slept -- which is all I'll say about that.
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House Expands Hate Crime Legislation

The House voted Thursday 281 to 146 to expand federal hate crime legislation to include gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability.
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James L. Evans: "Americans' freedom to speak is not in jeopardy"

James L. Evens wrote a recent piece, entitled Americans' freedom to speak is not in jeopardy

Several Christian conservative leaders are doing some serious fretting about a pending hate crimes bill.
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What, In The Grand Scheme Of Things, Is Important?

There is a new meme of commentary out there now that I wrongly misstated the timeline of who threw the first snowball(s) in the current cisgender and cissexual discussion.
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Eric Holder's Statement At The Senate Matthew Shepard Act Hearing Today

Related diary: Breaking: Fed Hate Crimes bill in jeopardy; contact your Senator now For those not aware, there was a Senate hearing on The Matthew Shapard Act -- proposed federal hate crime legislation that includes sexual orientation and gender identity.
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GOP: Concealed Guns Stop Hate Crimes

GOProud is asking the U.S. Senate to attach a gun rights provision to a bill that would enhance federal hate crime legislation.
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