From Psychology Today: Cutting off your vagina to spite your Face(book)
Cutting off your vagina to spite your Face(book)
Facebook battles the power of the frightening and dangerous vagina.
In the past week, Facebook deleted a number of pages from their website, ostensibly due to their concerns about the sexual nature of the material. Interestingly, the organization appears to have primarily targeted the pages of several women and female sexuality organizations with Facebook pages. It may be that there were male-run pages deleted that I haven’t heard about, but at this point, I’m only aware of sites that were focused on the lovely vagina, and that celebrated female sexual empowerment.
Check out the full article here:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201007/cutting-your-vagina-spite-your-facebook
From Philly Inquirer: Transgender rules on driver’s licenses changed
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is changing its policy on how transgender people identify themselves on driver’s licenses. The department and Equality Pennsylvania announced a settlement Wednesday that allows people to change the gender on their licenses if they are living full-time in their new gender and it can be verified by a licensed medical or psychological caregiver.
The previous policy only allowed changes in gender for drivers who could prove they had sexual reassignment surgery. PennDot said about half the states already have adopted a similar policy. The policy takes effect immediately. - AP
Shemanifesto: No Less Transgendered
Check out this link to an amazing piece written by Ivan E. Coyote, “To my butch brothers and sisters and genderqueer and FTM family: I will not draw a line in the sand between us. I refuse to let one little “s” divide us, ever. Not ever. My choices do not trump yours. I will celebrate your uncovering yourself and becoming who you need to be as I have always done.”
