Transgender & Intersex

Ultrasound images of a male (left) and female (right) baby at 6-8 weeks
Posted on the May 03, 2012 by Caitlin Bovard
Penis… Penis…  PENIS!!! All you fellow fans of The Penis Game out there will pick up what I’m throwing down when I say that penises can be pretty funny. We draw them in foggy windows, find them...
Posted on the Jan 25, 2012 by Kasini
All this hype around the transgendered girl in the Girl Scout troop in Colorado, and the attempted cookie boycott because of it, and everyone vowing to buy EXTRA cookies in response, has me thinking...
Posted on the Jan 13, 2012 by Carlin Ross
One teen girl has called for the national boycott of girl scout cookies because they allow transgendered boys to participate in their programs.  You so know that her parents are behind this....
Posted on the Aug 12, 2011 by Emily and Ju
Hello again, Dodson and Ross readers! As previously mentioned, we are both interested in kink and pornography--and especially in the political implications that our sexual practices have. We'd...
Posted on the Jul 18, 2011 by Emily and Ju
We're Emily and Ju, two new bloggers for the site who will be bringing you posts about a number of things, including genderqueer and trans identities, kink, porn, and the intersections between these...
Posted on the Jun 09, 2011 by Marisa Black
In the US this June, PBS stations will begin airing Two Spirits. This film memorializes Fred Martinez, a 16-year-old killed in June 2001. It also goes behind Fred's personal story, exploring non-...
Posted on the Apr 28, 2011 by Carlin Ross
We live in the land of the free and the home of the brave.  We have the constitution...the Civil Rights Act...the ACLU.  Most Americans believe that we live in the most tolerant,...
Posted on the Apr 13, 2011 by Marisa Black
"Today I got confused looks in the doctor's office waiting room." "Those looks where they can't tell if you are male or female?" "Yeah. It's mostly old people or little kids. Today it was people from...
Posted on the Apr 06, 2011 by Betty Dodson
I'm a post-op transgender woman who has never had an orgasm. Well, with my new vagina, at least. I had the surgery nearly a year ago, and have yet to try intercourse with my new body. Like many, I...
Posted on the Feb 09, 2011 by Palesa
In this interview hijra and sex worker rights activist, Laxsmi Tripathi, talks about the difficulties of attaining legal rights for sex workers, especially in the transgender community. A note about...
Posted on the Dec 27, 2010 by Betty Dodson
Like most men, I resort to porn videos for entertainment. While watching an unusually attractive girl strip, I was shocked when it turned out her genitals were completely masculine. I mean, I only...
Posted on the Nov 28, 2010 by Betty Dodson
Hey Betty, I am a female to male transsexual. While boxing in 2009, I had a bone break in my spine and it was driven into my back. When they finally removed it after ten days of testing to find out...
Posted on the Nov 26, 2010 by Betty Dodson
Betty, I am transsexual and have been transitioning for over 15 years. I am a muscle bear type of guy, bisexual, in a long term open marriage to a bio woman, and I am extremely masculine and in...
Posted on the Nov 19, 2010 by Betty Dodson
Betty, I am transsexual and have been transitioning for over 15 years. I am a muscle bear type of guy, bisexual, in a long term open marriage to a bio woman, and I am extremely masculine and in...
Posted on the Jul 07, 2010 by Betty Dodson
The blogosphere is littered with posts about female genital mutilation happening today, right now at Cornell University with boingboing's Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell? It's Complicated...