UPDATE: Andrea was interviewed on the Michelangelo Signorile Show, Nov 17th, on Sirius OutQ 108. You can listen to a recording here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwIfckTlMcY It really caused me great consternation when I heard the story of Andrea Jones on WATE channel 6 last night. Jones had visited her local Tennessee driver’s license office to attempt to have the gender marker on her driver’s license changed from “M” to “F”. Of course, she was refused. From the WATE report: The rules regarding change of gender marker are dictated by the Tennessee Department of Safety. They will change the sex on a (more…)
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15
Nov
2011
Topless Transsexual Served 21 Days in Jail
20
Oct
2011
Transgender Punchline? General Mills Rocks!
I am really blown away by what happened in the last 24 hours. I was reading an article on some website and in the bottom of the page was a small javascript ad, “Who’s the next Totino’s Pizza Stuffers Mom? Watch the auditions.”. What caught my eye was the image of the “mom” – an obviously cross-dressed man. I clicked on the link which took me to the Tontino’s web page and advertising campaign for the “Totino’s Mom”. I watched the video, “Group B”. The first two moms were quite funny, but then they had to ruin it with a (more…)
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06
Oct
2011
Think Different
Sreve Jobs passed away today This is the first thing that ran through my head. To me, this iconic commercial has always embodied the spirit of innovation and genius of the human spirit. It always reminded me that there are others that have been on this planet that we can aspire to be like. This commercial should probably be updated to include Steve Jobs. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the (more…)
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23
Sep
2011
Regulations: Killing Jobs or Saving lives?
Much of the GOP rhetoric of late includes threats to remove regulations on business under the guise that regulations are job killers. In fact, some Democrats don’t necessarily disagree with that position. Further, it is a clever misdirection of the true cause of our country’s economic decline, to blame industry regulation while conveniently neglecting to remember greedy banks and hedge fund managers. In August, former Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln, proposed that regulations can be harmful to businesses. The EPA recently announced a new ground level ozone standard which Lincoln claims, “…will yield a relatively small benefit when compared to the (more…)
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Yet Another Post on Health Insurance
After reading this article on Bilerico, sent to me by my friend Ed White. I felt compelled to respond with my own experience. The author makes one glaring mistake that the majority of people in our country make: she has conflated the terms “health care” and “health insurance”. Most health care in our country is par excellance. The problem is access to this care is restricted by ability to pay. Ability to pay means access to affordable health insurance. It has only been in the last few years that I have been able to secure health insurance. Every application was (more…)
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