Viewpoint: Protect Trans Kids in Sports
They are at it again. After years of focusing on restrooms and locker rooms as an entry point for excluding trans people from public life, opponents of LGBTQ+ [...]
You Can Still Color with Broken Crayons: Repurposing Life's Challenges
When we were children, we learned all kinds of things. We learned things as vastly different as our languages and cultures, but one thing that was pretty much [...]
Yes, It Is Transphobic to Declare Yourself Super Straight
So apparently a child with a mustache posted a video on TikTok declaring that he's "made a new sexuality" called super straight? That, according to him, means [...]
No, Mr. Potato Head Isn't Transgender. Yes, Conservatives Are Very Fragile People.
When Mr. Potato Head first appeared on the market in 1952, the toy was very different from the smiling plastic orb we see in the "Toy Story" movie. The [...]
Lack of Education About the Trans Experience Causes Discrimination
With the recent uprising of discrimination from some members of the gay community involving the ban on transgender men at a Michigan, all-male campground, I've [...]
Passing the Equality Act Will Honor Aimee Stephens' Legacy
Aimee Stephens has been on my mind a lot recently. I thought about her when President Joe Biden, on his first day in office, issued a sweeping executive order [...]
Reclamation of Self: Navigating Shame and Healing
I am because we are. I come from a lineage of mothers – Black mothers, strong mothers. Mothers that have made a proverbial way out of no way. Mothers that have [...]
Mombian: An Open Letter to Joe Biden from a Lesbian Mom
Dear President-elect Biden: I'm writing you this open letter as you prepare to take office as president. My son was just a few months too young to vote in the [...]
Building Back, and Forward, Better Together
2020 was supposed to be the year we woke up from the horrible nightmare that began with the 2016 presidential election. It was supposed to be the year that our [...]
Mombian: 2020 LGBTQ Parenting Year in Review
In a year like no other, LGBTQ families, like all others, struggled with the physical, mental and economic challenges of the pandemic. And with children of [...]
Todd A. Heywood: Down the Right-Wing Rabbit Hole: How did the Video of Rep. Cynthia A. Johnson go Viral?
Updated, 3:12 p.m., 12/10/20 It started with a Facebook Live Video that was sucked into the underbelly of the internet. There it churned and clipped and passed [...]
