Team TransLash is seeking submissions for TransLash Zine Vol. 7: Black Trans Artistic Legacies. Deadline to submit: September 30, 2023.
“Any attempt to transgress the gender-based rule system in order to manage my worsening gender dysphoria earned me the label of ‘troublemaker’ and I was made to feel guilty for it.”
“My old group claimed to have solutions ready to deal with my problems but instead their ideas and methods ended up creating more suffering in the short and long run.”
19-year-old Anonymous unravels his experience of coming out as a trans boy, only to be “recloseted” by his parents.
A 20-year-old anonymous trans woman recounts surviving transphobic institutionalization, detransitioning, and living out of spite.
My parents turned my children into incentives for me to detransition as I lost in-person access to them.
Explore this chapter by Kalil Cohen from TransLash Zine Vol. 6: Anti-Trans Hate Machine (April 2023). Read for free & purchase in print.
This is a chapter from TransLash Zine Vol. 6: Anti-Trans Hate Machine (April 2023).
This special edition is a companion reader for our podcast series, The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality. Season 2 is available now; find us wherever you listen to podcasts.
Team TransLash is seeking submissions from our TGNC community for TransLash Zine Vol. 6: Anti-Trans Hate Machine!
TransLash tells trans stories to save trans lives. As a trusted source for journalists, thought-leaders, movement activists, researchers, and those wanting to know about trans people, we produce narratives about and for the trans community—accurately and reliably. At a time when disinformation about trans people is being used to undermine democracy and human rights, TransLash Media serves as a beacon of hope through the voices that we share with the world.
TransLash tells trans stories to save trans lives. As a trusted source for journalists, thought-leaders, movement activists, researchers, and those wanting to know about trans people, we produce narratives about and for the trans community—accurately and reliably. At a time when disinformation about trans people is being used to undermine democracy and human rights, TransLash Media serves as a beacon of hope through the voices that we share with the world.
