transgender in bathrooms Archives

Labels and Language: The Webster dictionary adds cisgender and genderqueer

by jessekahn | Jan 27, 2017 | Uncategorized

Language and labels can be incredibly meaningful. In a lot of my work I find people often resisting labels, defending labels, finding connection in labels and finding meaning. While sometimes harmful and limiting, labels can also be connecting and liberating. They can...

Transgender Day of Remembrance

by jessekahn | Nov 21, 2016 | Uncategorized

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). TDOR is to remember the lives of trans people, majority transwomen and transwomen of color, who have lost their lives due to the violence that is transphobia. “Transgender people have survived throughout the...

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Announcing Complaint Against the State of North Carolina to Stop Discrimination Against Transgender Individuals and Obama Issues Guidance on Transgender Bathroom Use in Schools

by jessekahn | May 12, 2016 | Uncategorized

“Let me also speak directly to the transgender community itself. Some of you have lived freely for decades. Others of you are still wondering how you can possibly live the lives you were born to lead. But no matter how isolated or scared you may feel today,...