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><channel><title>QNotes &#187; T-Notes</title> <atom:link href="http://goqnotes.com/to/opinion/t-notes/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://goqnotes.com</link> <description>Carolina LGBT arts, entertainment, news, views</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 21:28:31 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1</generator> <item><title>Trans Day of Remembrance</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/13293/trans-day-of-remembrance/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/13293/trans-day-of-remembrance/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:12:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=13293</guid> <description><![CDATA[Damn. I hate writing this particular column. Each year I hope this will be the year I can write that trans homicides have subsided, that trans violence has taken a downturn and that we no longer need to gauge progress through the measurement of death and beatings. Sadly, that is again not the case in 2011.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/13293/trans-day-of-remembrance/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The co-opting of diagnosis</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/12805/the-co-opting-of-diagnosis/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/12805/the-co-opting-of-diagnosis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:41:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=12805</guid> <description><![CDATA[Much has been written about the upcoming revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the volume often called the "psychiatrist’s bible." This is the main tool wielded by alleged gatekeepers who so often smugly deign to diagnose those of us who have self-defined gender and/or sexuality. Not all clinicians fit into this categorization, but enough do that the situation remains problematic.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/12805/the-co-opting-of-diagnosis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>We miss you, Pamela</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/12121/we-miss-you-pamela/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/12121/we-miss-you-pamela/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:07:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=12121</guid> <description><![CDATA[Upon my return from traveling on Tuesday, July 19, I found my inbox flooded with news that a dear friend had passed on. I can’t say that I knew Pamela Jones nearly as well as I would have liked, yet she and I shared many far-ranging conversations and I always felt her to be a kindred spirit.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/12121/we-miss-you-pamela/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Reclaiming the past&#8230;and making the future</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/11801/reclaiming-the-past-and-making-the-future/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/11801/reclaiming-the-past-and-making-the-future/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 04:06:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=11801</guid> <description><![CDATA[My dear friend Robyn is forever reminding me that it’s a trap to focus solely on trans related stories which only serve to accentuate the trans-person-as-victim narrative. I hope this will redeem me; this is my personal success story!]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/11801/reclaiming-the-past-and-making-the-future/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>De-evolution</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/11465/de-evolution/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/11465/de-evolution/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:08:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=11465</guid> <description><![CDATA[Over the past two years, many state and local jurisdictions have enacted laws making discrimination against trans individuals illegal. That’s the good news. The bad news is that those who would prefer to keep discrimination alive and kicking (not hard to figure out who these people are) have a new tactic; well, not really new, but one they’ve taken to exploiting as fully as possible. It’s the kind of effort one might describe as extreme, yet as many on the religious right have become desperate as they continue to lose the battle over hearts and minds. And we all know desperation foreshadows crazy tactics.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/11465/de-evolution/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A perfect storm</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/11212/a-perfect-storm/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/11212/a-perfect-storm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 04:07:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=11212</guid> <description><![CDATA[One Maryland trans activist called it a “perfect storm.” Barely a week after the state’s proposed Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Act died in committee, a brutal and unconscionable attack on a Baltimore-area trans woman occurred at a local McDonalds restaurant. This event captured the nation after the video of this unprovoked beating went viral. Sadly, this was not a one-in-a-million occurrence or even one in a thousand. This kind of brutality has become virtually commonplace. You can bet that everyday, somewhere, a trans person is in the midst of a verbal and/or physically violent attack.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/11212/a-perfect-storm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Public accommodations = civil rights</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/10861/public-accommodations-civil-rights/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/10861/public-accommodations-civil-rights/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:05:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=10861</guid> <description><![CDATA[In many states, if a bill has not been passed through committee by a certain juncture, it’s considered dead. Such was the fate of Maryland House Bill 235, the Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Act. This highly contentious bill garnered some support, but was also deemed by many to have been constructed with inappropriate language. Championed by Equality Maryland, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), as well as by the National Gay &#038; Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), it mandated protections for trans individuals with respect to employment, housing and credit. Conspicuously missing, however, was one critical component of anti-discrimination legislation: public accommodations.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/10861/public-accommodations-civil-rights/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marriage equality or bust?</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/10617/marriage-equality-or-bust/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/10617/marriage-equality-or-bust/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:07:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=10617</guid> <description><![CDATA[I don’t expect this to be the most popular column I’ve ever written. In fact, this will probably be deemed contentious and recalcitrant. I know how important the issue of marriage equality is to many within the gay and lesbian communities. You may have wondered why some of your trans friends are turning their collective backs regarding this issue. It’s not that we don’t support the general agenda of equal rights. We do. And, it isn’t that spousal equality doesn’t affect trans individuals. It does.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/10617/marriage-equality-or-bust/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Injustice at every turn</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/10290/injustice-at-every-turn/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/10290/injustice-at-every-turn/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:07:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=10290</guid> <description><![CDATA[The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s (NGLTF) and National Center for Transgender Equality’s (NCTE) survey has been percolating for the last 12 months. Finally, groups have released findings from the most comprehensive survey ever directed toward the trans community. The results are seriously disturbing. Suffice it to say, preliminarily, that standards of living and working for trans identified individuals are well below national averages. And, suicide rates are soaring.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/10290/injustice-at-every-turn/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Words</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/9950/words/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/9950/words/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:04:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=9950</guid> <description><![CDATA[Words have consequences. That’s what Gabby Giffords said before the tragic events in Tucson had transpired. Words have consequences. That’s what many of us in the LGBT community think, as well. Spend just one November evening remembering our dead on the Transgender Day of Remembrance and it’s crystal clear that language all too often leads to violence.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/9950/words/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>What’s going on, North Carolina?</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/9647/what%e2%80%99s-going-on-north-carolina/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/9647/what%e2%80%99s-going-on-north-carolina/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:03:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Raleigh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Triad]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=9647</guid> <description><![CDATA[I hate that it’s so easy to get source material exposing the bigotry still alive and well in this state. Within a span of 12 days, three stories made news, right here in North Carolina. Another appeared on their heels. They’re indicative of how much animus, intolerance and downright hate still exists in this state vis-à-vis trans and LGB issues. I sometimes have to wonder if we’ve made much headway in the court of public opinion. Given that real change is usually a grassroots kind of thing, watching how social mores evolve gives us insights into how tolerance and diversity evolve. Judging by these letters and articles, it would seem that we’re still living in the dark ages.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/9647/what%e2%80%99s-going-on-north-carolina/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>52</slash:comments> <enclosure
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isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=9436</guid> <description><![CDATA[With all the topics you’d think would be open for discussion in the trans community, it seems we always get stuck on a certain few: bathrooms, nomenclature, ENDA and trans etiologies. I presume the reason is that we’ve made the least progress in these specific areas. This time I’m recycling the “passing” issue.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/9436/ready-to-pass-out/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Reaching out</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/9168/reaching-out/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/9168/reaching-out/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:04:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=9168</guid> <description><![CDATA[It’s been about a year since we lost Christine Daniels, the Los Angeles Times sportswriter who transitioned and later killed herself (read my post column on the topic at goqnotes.com/4549). After reading the LA Weekly article, I was devastated — perhaps one of hundreds who innocently subjected her to pressure for advocacy. I suspect she would not have wanted us to feel remorse, yet her death, along with the latest bullying-provoked suicides, has once again called me to re-examine the taking of one’s own life. But, there’s another reason, too.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/9168/reaching-out/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Day of Remembrance: Violence vis a vis murder</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/8881/day-of-remembrance-violence-vis-a-vis-murder/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/8881/day-of-remembrance-violence-vis-a-vis-murder/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:10:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=8881</guid> <description><![CDATA[By a very rough estimate, since January I’ve counted 19 instances of hate crimes perpetrated against trans individuals resulting in death, worldwide. These are the lives we recall and commemorate each year on Nov. 20, the annual Trans Day of Remembrance. These are the lives that have been tragically snuffed out prematurely because of hate and fear and ignorance.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/8881/day-of-remembrance-violence-vis-a-vis-murder/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Surgery?</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/8331/surgery/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/8331/surgery/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:52:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=8331</guid> <description><![CDATA[Columnist Robbi Cohn discusses what it means to be transgender, and considering gender reassignment surgeries.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/8331/surgery/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Don’t know much biology</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/8002/don%e2%80%99t-know-much-biology/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/8002/don%e2%80%99t-know-much-biology/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:04:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=8002</guid> <description><![CDATA[I always liked Sam Cooke’s “Wonderful World.” The lyrics, “don’t know much about history, don’t know much biology,” really get to me. When I went to college, I was headed for a pre-med curriculum. That didn’t last as I found myself, ultimately, studying philosophy and history of religions. My scientific [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/8002/don%e2%80%99t-know-much-biology/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>20 years from now: wishful thinking?</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/7697/20-years-from-now-wishful-thinking/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/7697/20-years-from-now-wishful-thinking/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:04:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=7697</guid> <description><![CDATA[I was reminded this morning: the wheel turns slowly for trans individuals. My legal name has been changed for over five years; yet, for three years I have been wrangling with the Social Security Administration and the IRS to get my name legally changed on tax records. I decided to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/7697/20-years-from-now-wishful-thinking/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>No ENDA in sight</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/7314/no-enda-in-sight/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/7314/no-enda-in-sight/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:05:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=7314</guid> <description><![CDATA[What’s happened to ENDA? Many had surmised that a Democratic president, Senate and House would mean much of the legislation, so long unaccomplished, would finally be a no brainer. We do have hate crimes legislation (rather toothless), but a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) repeal appears to be succumbing to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/7314/no-enda-in-sight/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The politics of fear and the ‘ick factor’</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/6992/the-politics-of-fear-and-the-ick-factor/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/6992/the-politics-of-fear-and-the-ick-factor/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 04:10:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=6992</guid> <description><![CDATA[What drives people to inhuman behavior? Hate and violence are usually a product of fear and ignorance, which often manifest in an inability to comprehend and a failure to communicate. Fear arises when people are confronted with anything outside their “normal” and anticipated field of vision and many persons’ actions [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/6992/the-politics-of-fear-and-the-ick-factor/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Point: Counterpoint</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/6503/point-counterpoint/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/6503/point-counterpoint/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 21:06:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=6503</guid> <description><![CDATA[Last month’s column addressed suicide and the sense of victimization that is often associated with it. This is not the only face of being trans. There are many instances of success and many trans persons who have escaped the despair which often accompanies minimal survival. In most cases, the taking [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/6503/point-counterpoint/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tough love or tough luck</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/6184/tough-love-or-tough-luck/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/6184/tough-love-or-tough-luck/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:08:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=6184</guid> <description><![CDATA[It seems that people who post trans blogs and commentaries — me included — are always writing about discrimination, hate crimes, health care and bathrooms. Granted, each is critically important and potentially life altering. Only after the tragedy of someone taking their own life, however, do we usually write about [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/6184/tough-love-or-tough-luck/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Why ENDA matters…revisited…again</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/5799/why-enda-matters-revisited-again/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/5799/why-enda-matters-revisited-again/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:09:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=5799</guid> <description><![CDATA[My experiences have not been unusual. Sadly, they are more common, by far, than those whose personal experiences have not been subject to workplace discrimination. Whether it’s loss of work, the inability to get hired or intolerable workplace conditions, trans individuals have consistently been on the losing end of the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/5799/why-enda-matters-revisited-again/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>What being transsexual means to me</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/5437/what-being-transsexual-means-to-me/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/5437/what-being-transsexual-means-to-me/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:11:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=5437</guid> <description><![CDATA[I think one thing many will agree upon is the critical need for change — personally, publicly, politically and socially. If these times seem to portend great decisions, a fork in the road perhaps, I think many of us have felt it coming. I don’t mean this in any kind [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/5437/what-being-transsexual-means-to-me/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Transgender, Transsexual and Intersex</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/4830/transgender-transsexual-and-intersex/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/4830/transgender-transsexual-and-intersex/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:10:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://goqnotes.com/?p=4830</guid> <description><![CDATA[Regarding the issue of nomenclature and labels, there are many opinions on this particular subject. Invariably, few agree. I suggest a compromise, based on the acceptance that we have differences, as well as similarities and shared experiences. Confusion abounds in many minds regarding the words transgender, transsexual and intersex. All [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/4830/transgender-transsexual-and-intersex/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>I hardly knew her</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/4549/i-hardly-knew-her/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/4549/i-hardly-knew-her/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:03:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=4549</guid> <description><![CDATA[As I write this, it’s Saturday of Thanksgiving Day weekend — the so-called beginning of the holiday season. People are out and about, spending money— online too, not really giving thanks, but more or less perpetuating the myth or reality of the unholy dollar. For some, however, this time of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/4549/i-hardly-knew-her/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Locked in a prison of our own devise</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/4287/locked-in-a-prison-of-our-own-devise/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/4287/locked-in-a-prison-of-our-own-devise/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:05:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=4287</guid> <description><![CDATA[There are several fundamental themes that always seem to repeat themselves in trans matters: if the bathroom issue is most insidious, then the battle over language and nomenclature is surely close behind. In his latest book, Dan Brown has drawn attention to the latter. Although I am neither a freemason [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/4287/locked-in-a-prison-of-our-own-devise/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A tale of two stories</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/3987/a-tale-of-two-stories/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/3987/a-tale-of-two-stories/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:03:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=3987</guid> <description><![CDATA[Given increased press coverage trans issues have garnered over the past five years, I remain skeptical regarding the media’s ability and/or desire to report fairly and objectively. Any fiction that much of the collective press desires objective reporting or that it isn’t exhibitionistic is destroyed in the wake of the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/3987/a-tale-of-two-stories/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>8</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>ObamaCare Scare</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/3637/obamacare-scare/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/3637/obamacare-scare/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:02:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=3637</guid> <description><![CDATA[Healthcare debate in this country hasn’t gone from the ridiculous to the sublime; rather, it’s become progressively and inexorably more insane: death panels, euthanasia and eugenics. Of course, trans people have not escaped the foray unscathed. In the course of dealing with Neo-Christian fundamentalist zealots, we encounter many vitriolic and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/3637/obamacare-scare/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Crime and punishment?</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/3372/crime-and-punishment/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/3372/crime-and-punishment/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:04:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=3372</guid> <description><![CDATA[Forty one years after the first hate crime legislation was passed, and 11 years after Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder, the U.S. Congress is poised to pass hate crime legislation. It’s the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act (generally referred to as the Matthew Shepard Act) and the Senate version [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/3372/crime-and-punishment/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The good, the bad and the ugly</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/3159/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/3159/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:02:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=3159</guid> <description><![CDATA[The bad In May, Sacramento’s KRXQ radio station was caught in a maelstrom of its own making. Two of the three morning “shock jocks” spewed a tirade of transphobic vitriol, not only hateful, but also tantamount to incitement toward violence and directed at children who express gender diversity. Rob Williams [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/3159/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <enclosure
url="http://www.glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/052809_TransgenderChildrenInAmerica.mp3" length="8686344" type="audio/mpeg" /> </item> <item><title>Déjà vu all over again</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/2899/deja-vu-all-over-again/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/2899/deja-vu-all-over-again/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:02:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=2899</guid> <description><![CDATA[The “hairpin drop heard round the world” — that is how New York’s Mattachine Society, and others, 40 years ago described the June 28, 1969, events at Stonewall, a gay and queen bar in the heart of Greenwich Village. The name “Stonewall” has come to symbolize the beginning of gay [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/2899/deja-vu-all-over-again/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gender discrimination in sports</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/2411/gender-discrimination-in-sports/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/2411/gender-discrimination-in-sports/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 17:08:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=2411</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sarah Gronert’s desire to play tennis isn’t complicated. Unfortunately, for her, everything else about the game is. You may have heard her story. A number of LGBT and/or alternative papers have covered her travails — even the New York Daily News ran an item about her. Briefly, Gronert had been [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/2411/gender-discrimination-in-sports/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A tidal wave?</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/2083/a-tidal-wave/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/2083/a-tidal-wave/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:02:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=2083</guid> <description><![CDATA[Almost two years ago, I started assembling a database of items culled off the net. Seventy-five percent of this material is attributable to the painstaking work of archivists over at Transgender News; the other 25 percent comes from a variety of sources: referrals, articles uncovered during research and newsgroups. I’ve [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/2083/a-tidal-wave/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Yin and Yang</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/1833/yin-and-yang/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/1833/yin-and-yang/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:04:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=1833</guid> <description><![CDATA[I am a subscriber to Parabola Magazine. I recently read an article by Patrick Laude published in summer 2008. Laude offered an interesting perspective on the question of how we, as trans individuals, define ourselves and how we are defined by the rest of the world. Is there really a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/1833/yin-and-yang/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The bathroom issue…again?</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/1627/the-bathroom-issue-again/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/1627/the-bathroom-issue-again/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:05:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=1627</guid> <description><![CDATA[Well, here we are again — back to the nitty gritty, the foundation and rock of transphobia, that issue which continually insists upon rearing its ugly head, or more accurately, having its ugly head reared, by the ever vitriolic religious right. We are, of course, talking about the bathroom issue. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/1627/the-bathroom-issue-again/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The best of times, the worst of times</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/1510/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/1510/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:07:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=1510</guid> <description><![CDATA[I wasn’t really sure what to address in this first column of 2009. I’ll be honest — I’ve had easier years than the last, emotionally. I’d be willing to bet that most, if not all, of us have faced depression at one time or another. Being trans tends toward isolation [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/1510/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gatekeepers and the proverbial slippery slope</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/1251/gatekeepers-and-the-proverbial-slippery-slope/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/1251/gatekeepers-and-the-proverbial-slippery-slope/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:07:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=1251</guid> <description><![CDATA[This concludes a four-part series on the DSM, gatekeeper mentality, reparative therapy and other fallacious theories, such as autogynephilia. Conformity to a rigid and myopic world structure, viewed through the lens of patriarchy, found its zenith in the male dominated professional clinics that first set out to define and understand [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/1251/gatekeepers-and-the-proverbial-slippery-slope/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>We remember…</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/1070/we-remember%e2%80%a6/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/1070/we-remember%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:06:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=1070</guid> <description><![CDATA[It’s 3 a.m. in the morning — Wednesday, Nov. 5 — and I am still in a daze from last night’s election results. History was made and Nov. 4, 2008 will forever be recorded in history as the beginning of a new era. An overwhelming majority of both electors and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/1070/we-remember%e2%80%a6/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Two steps forward, two steps?</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/907/two-steps-forward-two-steps/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/907/two-steps-forward-two-steps/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:09:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=907</guid> <description><![CDATA[Within the past four weeks, two events point toward significant progress in the fight for trans equality. The first comes as a result of the District of Columbia District Court’s finding in the case of Schroer v. Billington. We spoke of Ms. Schroer previously this summer in the context of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/907/two-steps-forward-two-steps/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Why are we Trans?</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/768/why-are-we-trans/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/768/why-are-we-trans/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:01:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=768</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ed. Note — In deference and with all due respect to Gwen Smith, who has, for years, been writing under the name of Transmissions, this column will hereafter be called T-Notes. Why are we trans? We really don’t know. There have been many theories for the etiology of being trans, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/768/why-are-we-trans/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Reparative Therapy</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/632/reparative-therapy/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/632/reparative-therapy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:01:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=632</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ed. Note — This is part two in a series on trans issues and the DSM V, continued from the July 26 issue of Q-Notes. The Chair and many members on the APA (American Psychiatric Association) sexual and gender identity disorders workgroup for the DSM V, scheduled for release in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/632/reparative-therapy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Historic hearing addresses trans issues</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/520/historic-hearing-addresses-trans-issues/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/520/historic-hearing-addresses-trans-issues/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:03:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=520</guid> <description><![CDATA[Note: This month’s intended column, “Alternative Realities, Part 2: Reparative Therapy” will appear next month to allow coverage of this groundbreaking event. Never has it been easier to be proud of both the Trans community and our elected leaders. On Thursday, June 26, history was made. The Congressional Subcommittee on [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/520/historic-hearing-addresses-trans-issues/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alternative realities: Part one</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/403/alternative-realities-part-one/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/403/alternative-realities-part-one/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:02:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=403</guid> <description><![CDATA[As if the trans community has not suffered enough from the exclusion and disenfranchisement resulting from the ENDA fiasco, the latest news is another blow in the struggle for trans rights and trans autonomy. In May, the American Psychiatric Association, publisher of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders” [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/403/alternative-realities-part-one/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The bathroom issue, part two</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/261/the-bathroom-issue-part-two/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/261/the-bathroom-issue-part-two/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 04:01:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=261</guid> <description><![CDATA[In last month’s column, we examined the mechanism of the bathroom issue. How does this manifest in real life situations? I cite examples, which have occurred, or are occurring, within the previous six months. These incidents are drawn from four different states: Maryland, Massachusetts, Iowa and Maine. The last involves [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/261/the-bathroom-issue-part-two/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The bathroom issue</title><link>http://goqnotes.com/154/the-bathroom-issue/</link> <comments>http://goqnotes.com/154/the-bathroom-issue/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 23:21:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robbi Cohn</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T-Notes]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.q-notes.com/?p=154</guid> <description><![CDATA[Remember those old and worn out saws we&#8217;ve heard for years? Gay men present a problem to society because they are more likely to be sexual predators. Or, how about this nugget: Gay Straight Alliances (GSA&#8217;s) will result in higher HIV rates among students and the only object of these [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://goqnotes.com/154/the-bathroom-issue/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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