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Transgender activist shames bigot in public by TransAdvocate

The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance passed on May 28, 2014. The ordinance protects a number of classes, including LGBT people. Those opposed to equality have take up the false narrative that equality = men hanging out in the women's restroom, the same argument used against the Equal Rights Act from the 1970s. To overturn an ordinance, activists must follow Texas law: http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/laws/petitions.shtml "Qualified Voter" [Sec. 277.0021] Reference to "qualified voter" outside the Election Code means "registered voter" as to the eligibility to sign a petition. "Registered voter" is defined as a person registered to vote in Texas whose registration is effective. A registration is effective 30 days after it has been submitted to the county voter registrar. [Secs. 1.005(16) and 13.143] The signature gatherer is attempting to circumvent this law and is using county property to facilitate this fraud. ~5:48: voter fraud is caught on tape ~7:36: bigot gives his name: Victor Lawrence ~9:37: Houston Area Pastor's Council (HAPC) is implicated ~10:00 I out myself to Lawrence ~10:40 Lawrence begins to justify his actions ~12:30 Lawrence describes what "equality" should look like for trans people ~16:49 Lawrence admits that his argument are BS ~26:00 I rip into him ~30:00 Lawrence hides the name of the county employee who allowed the fraud to be carried out within the county building. ~37:15 Lawrence, speaking with an anti-gay bigot tries to get the bigot to not admit that he's signing his name multiple times

This TA Podcast examines the way bigotry wrapped in religion creates oppression that intersects trans, racial and feminist issues. Covered is Arizona's religious 'right to discriminate' bill, the religious right's attempt to have gender defined via biblical means in Texas and the way these same bigots attack body autonomy.

AZ Sen Yarbrough's office admitting bill will support the Klan & racial segrigation by TransAdvocate

Texas Sheriff Adrian Garcia Speaking at 2008 Trans DOR by TransAdvocate

On December 4, 2013 Jennifer Lopez, an investigative reporter interviewed a "detective" who about the case against a Hercules High School student who had fought back against her school tormentor

According to the anonymous internet persona, the YMCA has no secure changing rooms. Moreover, the anonymous email claimed that people who've not begun transition can hang out in the women's changing area by merely claiming to be trans. Both of those claims are false.

On Saturday, the Toronto Star’s “ethics” journalist, Ken Gallinger, unquestioningly published the incredible claim that an elderly Toronto women was hit on in the YMCA women’s locker room by a male-bodied individual who was walking around the women’s locker room fully nude, replete with erection. - See more at: http://www.transadvocate.com/toronto-newspaper-pushes-trans-hoax-claims-no-duty.htm#sthash.2fuuqWPX.dpuf

I was volunteering doing abortion clinic defense. An anti-abortion protester walked up to me and we began talking. Everything was going okay when all of a sudden... he's rhetoric became terroristic. I tried to deescalate his increasingly violent threatening rhetoric. Yes, his threats were reported and no, he faced no consequences.

I was volunteering as an abortion clinic women's escort. An anti-abortion protester walked up to me and we began talking. Everything was going okay and then...

Or not. This podcast reviews the way dirty reporting made it seem as if local parents were against trans equality.

The trans = rape meme is, in fact, part of a curriculum currently being taught to anti-LGBT activists. The TransAdvocate obtained audio from one of the training sessions given by the Christian Family Association (CFC) on October 5th, shortly after their successful defeat of a Florida equality measure that included trans people.

Colorado school board member linked to anti-gay group by TransAdvocate

TDOR, A Community of the Heart: Intersectional Social Justice by TransAdvocate

The trans community took the fight to the doorstep of the Pacific Justice Institute on November 11, 2013