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Transgenderism and Transsexualism

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Ian Astbury Talks The Cult's Upcoming Tour With Against Me! & Laura Jane Grace

    This afternoon, Rocks Off talked to The Cult's Ian Astbury as his band readies to go on tour with Against Me! and the Icarus Line at the end of the month. The month-long summer jaunt that stops at House of Blues June 19 was seen as a masterful juxtaposition of disparate sounding groups. Rocks Off th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Pop Rocks: Chaz Bono Is Far from the Worst DWTS Contestant

    Worse than her? Really?​As someone who doesn't watch Dancing with the Stars (note to self: watch DWTS for upcoming "Sight Unseen" blog), I'm not sure if I'm supposed to care about the announcement that Chaz Bono was added to the cast: Transgender activist Chaz Bono is speaking out for the fir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Men, Nail Polish and Gender Identity: Did You Know This Was a Thing?

    fashionbombdaily.comDave Navarro: Indoctrinating young boys into a cult of nail polish?​Just as I was wrapping up researching and writing a lighthearted piece about what a man's nail polish color says about him, I happened to tune in to an episode of ABC's Primetime Nightline entitled "My (Ext ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    HISD Adds Transgender Category To Its Anti-Discrimination Policy

    HISD specifies transgenders as protected​The Houston school district has added categories for transgendered individuals to its policy against discrimination. In addition to the already existing "sexual orientation," HISD has added "gender identity, and/or gender expression" to its list of cat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Aggies Not Hospitable to Transgender Conference, So It's Coming to UH

    UH seems more welcoming, group says.​The third annual Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit had been scheduled to take place at Texas A&M this summer, but organizers now say, "In the interest of safety for the participants" it will be moved to the University of Houston. A conservative gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Annise Parker: Lamest "Gay Agenda" Ever

    Shockingly, Dave Wilson is outraged.​Dave Wilson, the homophobe who did everything he could to derail Annise Parker's mayoral race, is at it again, mass-mailing people to try to drum up a candidate to oppose her re-election, the Houston Chronicle reports. Wilson says Parker has promoted a "g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Wanna Date Nikki Araguz? AND Be on a Reality Show?

    Nikki Araguz: Reality star​If you've been dying for the chance to date Nikki Araguz, transgender widow of a fallen Wharton firefighter, wait no longer: Local filmmaker Cressandra Thibodeaux is working on a reality series called Being Nikki that will include Araguz's quest for a new man. "We a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Texas Repubs Say Allowing Transgender Marriages Was a Terrible Oversight And They Promise Never To Do It Again

    Lois Kolkhorst wants to take it all back​Republican state legislators are seeking to correct a historic mistake they say should never, ever have happened: Allowing Texans who are transgendered to marry, like they can in almost every other state in the union. How this diabolical heresy first g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Lucky Ward: HPD Says He Was a Serial Killer

    HPDLucky Ward: HPD says he's strangled five victims​Houston police are saying a man they have charged with one murder is linked to four others, all strangulations. Lucky Ward, 46, had been charged with murdering a homeless woman near the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in September; today he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Transgendered Woman Jenifer Rene Pool Announces Her City Council Candidacy

    Mandy OaklanderJenifer Rene Pool announced her city council candidacy.​City council hopeful Jenifer Rene Pool, clad in a black blazer with a hint of a hot pink blouse peeking out from under it, conversed with a supporter upstairs at One's A Meal in Montrose yesterday afternoon. The subject: how mu ... More >>

  • Music

    February 10, 2011

    Big Freedia

    Mandy OaklanderJenifer Rene Pool announced her city council candidacy.​City council hopeful Jenifer Rene Pool, clad in a black blazer with a hint of a hot pink blouse peeking out from under it, conversed with a supporter upstairs at One's A Meal in Montrose yesterday afternoon. The subject: how mu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Tyjanae Moore: Mayor's Office Makes Clear Transgendered Woman Should Not Have Been Arrested For Using Women's Bathroom

    Annise Parker clarifies things for HPD​Concerning Tyjanae Morre, the transgendered woman whose attempt to use a women's restroom in the downtown library got her tossed into the men's jail, and briefly threw city government into confusion, Mayor Annise Parker's office says the "misunderstanding ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Tyjanae Moore: Houston Still Struggling With Transgender/Bathroom Issues

    We thought this had been ironed out​Two weeks after a transgendered woman tried to use the restroom in a city building, she and the city seem still to be recovering. A security guard at the downtown municipal library told police it was a man dressed in women's clothes that he saw entering the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Phyllis Frye: Annise Parker Appoints Houston's First Transgender Judge (That We Know Of)

    Lawyer Phyllis Frye, the transgender champion of Houston, has been appointed by Mayor Annise Parker to be a municipal judge. She would be the first transgendered judge in Houston, or Harris County, or maybe Texas, unless someone's been hiding secrets underneath their judicial robes. The announcemen ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2010

    Ang Lee Film Series

    University of Houston-Downtown features early work by the director of Brokeback Mountain

  • News

    August 12, 2010

    The Fireman's Wife

    Nikki Araguz, formerly Justin Purdue, clashes with family over her late husband's legacy.

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Nikki Araguz: She Says E-Mails Prove Husband Knew She Was Born A Man

    Nikki Araguz: Now with e-mail proof, she says​The fallen Wharton firefighter whose transgender widow is at the center of a nasty probate lawsuit knew about his wife's sexual reassignment surgery as early as October 2008, two months after their wedding, according to an e-mail exchange released toda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Nikki Araguz: Lawyer Representing Her Husband's Ex-Wife Faces State Bar Investigation

    Nikki Araguz's former lawyer publicized her history​The case of whether a fallen Wharton firefighter's benefits should go to his transgender widow< just gets exponentially weirder: Frank Mann, the lawyer representing Thomas Araguz's ex-wife, is facing investigation by the State Bar of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Nikki Araguz Gives Statement, Doesn't Answer Questions

    Photo via FacebookNikki and Thomas Araguz​Nikki Araguz, the widow of the Wharton firefighter who is being sued by his ex-wife and mother over allegations the marriage was invalid because she was born a man, had an unenlightening press conference yesterday.We didn't get the invite, but video shows ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Cross-Dressing In The Women's Room? You'll Need These Songs

    ​ God-fearing men of Houston: Mayor Annise Parker wants to banish your micturitions back to the Stone Age: "Houston's first openly gay mayor is now being accused of opening up the women's restroom to cross-dressing men. On Tuesday morning, the Houston Area Pastors Council issued a blistering ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Pastors Warn Houstonians: Ladies, Get Ready For All Those Men In Your Restrooms

    Photo by mrkathika​An "inter-racial, inter-denominational" coalition of Houston-area pastors is sounding the alarm that Houston women will soon be facing a barrage of penises in their public restrooms.The culprit, of course, is Mayor Annise Parker, who they say they just knew would do this kind of ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 11, 2010

    SPECIAL SEXY EDITION

    Photo by mrkathika​An "inter-racial, inter-denominational" coalition of Houston-area pastors is sounding the alarm that Houston women will soon be facing a barrage of penises in their public restrooms.The culprit, of course, is Mayor Annise Parker, who they say they just knew would do this kind of ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2010

    Soldier's Girl

    Don't ask, don't tell, don't kill

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2009

    Houston Fringe Festival

    Check out the latest from local underground playwrights, filmmakers, improv and theater troupes

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps

    Gender blender Scott Turner Schofield is “a man who was a woman, a lesbian turned straight guy, who is often called a fag.”

  • Calendar

    November 20, 2008

    Transgender Day of Remembrance

    Today’s event gives supporters an opportunity to mourn lost friends

  • Calendar

    May 22, 2008

    The Vagina Monologues

    Take a new look at what’s going on down there

  • Calendar

    May 15, 2008

    Best of Dallas Video Festival

    The coolest thing about our northern neighbors may be on video

  • News

    September 14, 2000

    XX Marks the Spot

    Christie Lee Littleton's chromosomes nullified her marriage, but paved the way for a groundbreaking one

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Absent a Mother

    A judge says Karen Shrader can't see or talk to her children because she's a bad influence. Shrader says any “bad influence” comes from the application of her ex-husband's deep pockets to the East Texas legal system.

  • News

    June 17, 1999

    What's in a Name (and Sex) Change?

    A preacher accuses the judiciary of allowing same-sex marriage fraud

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