By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
**TRIGGER WARNING**: The following post is about physical and sexual abuse in detention, and focuses on a trans woman who has chosen to speak out about the abuse she endured. Her choice is incredibly brave and her story is deeply distressing.
Restore Fairness has a post about Esmeralda, a trans woman [...]

By Guest Contributor Mitsuru Mitsuru

So I heard a while ago that celeb transman Thomas Beatie is a mixie much like myself. He too has a white mama, an Asian daddy, and originally, an Asian surname. He too was born with all the plumbing to make and be pregnant with a baby. And like [...]

By Guest Contributor Monica, originally published at TransGriot
One of the cool benefits of the recent Johnson Publishing Company deal with Google that allows digitizing of the iconic African-American magazines JET and EBONY is that it not only provides a record of Black history as it happened, it also is a cultural time capsule as well.
One [...]

By Guest Contributor Monica, originally published at TransGriot
In 1906 Kelly Miller stated, “All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritual vision.”
Because the half century of transgender history so far has been predominately written by people who don’t share my ethnic heritage, it has only covered one facet [...]

By Guest Contributor Monica, originally published at TransGriot
The episode entitled ‘Just A Friend’ from the fourth season of ‘The Jeffersons’ was groundbreaking in many respects. It was the first time that an African descended transwoman character was shown on TV who didn’t fit the stereotypes we all know and loathe.
It was also broadcast in 1977.

While [...]