American Atrocities Past and Present: What Can 20th Century Bigotry Tell Us About 21st Century Transgender Rights

American Atrocities Past and Present: What Can 20th Century Bigotry Tell Us About 21st Century Transgender Rights

Throughout humanity’s time on our planet it has often been advantageous for those in power to stigmatize either a separate population or a portion of it’s own population. Hidden in the preceding sentence, so dry and academic, is a well of human suffering deeper than any ocean. In this essay we will examine the causal…

What Can History Tell Us About Being Transgender under a Hostile Regime?

What Can History Tell Us About Being Transgender under a Hostile Regime?

Are We Going to Be Ok? I’ve heard this question on repeat from various sources virtually every day regarding the transgender community since we realized that the United States of America was in for another four years of Trump. The question is meant in different ways from different people. Some people mean the transgender demographic,…