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The proposed anti-trans legislation introduced this session may have failed, but the topic isn’t dead. For a bizarre, brief moment Rep. Sandy Salmon seized a moment to attack trans students. During the debate on HF 847, a bill about education programs in Iowa, Salmon introduced amendment H-1270, which would include a section barring trans girls […]
Whether you’re going home for the holidays or reading this knowing you may not ever - we are all valid, and worthy of love and affection.
When I wrote about the transphobic publication by the neo-nazi organization found by DHS on the south side of Des Moines, I had spoken to the fact that extremism was finding its roots closer and closer to my home.
This war on who is tolerated to be in our midst is not something new. Our society simply finds a new target for those who are well off to justify their hatred and bigotry.
Every year on November 20, transgender communities gather to remember those who have been assaulted, hurt or killed for simply being what they are - transgender.
I am Ysandril Minerva Morrigan. I am a mother. I am a healer. I am a fighter. If you found out after a lifetime of sorrow that you had finally found your answer, would you not fiercely defend and protect it?
We are valid and worthy of existence - and worthy of flourishing and creating a beautiful world for all persons of color, orientation and identity.