Sad Brown Girl

April 2024

The Logic of Protection

The fantasy that love is enough shrinks pro-trans politics down to nothing.

Apr 17, 2024 • 

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March 2024

The Un-importance of Wearing Clothes

...and the problem of "social transition" as a private right.

Mar 6, 2024 • 

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February 2024

Detransition is a Mythology

(for Readers of the New York Times)

Feb 6, 2024 • 

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May 2023

Transgender Compromise

The Right and the Architects of Trans Inclusion Agree that Trans Girls Can't Play

May 3, 2023 • 

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February 2023

The Left Hand of the Law

Anti-Drag Law, the Police, and Trans Political Imagination

Feb 27, 2023 • 

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December 2022

Toward a Trans History of Abortion

Letting go of the analogy between transition and abortion also tells a better story of trans men and women's shared struggles--and differences.

Dec 21, 2022 • 

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July 2022

Camp and the Millionth Age of Gay Panic

Homer Simpson Will Always Be My Susan Sontag.

Jul 9, 2022 • 

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June 2022

Three Questions for Every Paper of Record That Publishes a Story on Trans Healthcare

The defining feature of modern transgender medicine is transphobia.

Jun 15, 2022 • 

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The Cis State II

No Promo...Género? Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My State-Assigned Gender

Jun 3, 2022 • 

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January 2022

The Way We Weren’t

What's the history of passing?

Jan 29, 2022 • 

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July 2021

Daniel Lavery reunites with Jules Gill-Peterson in: The Case of the Barely-There HRT

Now with a Post-Scarcity Transition Manifesto!

Jul 8, 2021 • 

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