Anti-transgender propaganda largely rests on two main narratives. The first is that trans people constitute a potential threat, particularly to women and children, and especially in sex-segregated spaces — I debunk those claims in a separate essay entitled Transgender People, Bathrooms, and Sexual Predators: What the Data Say. The second…

This post was requested by one of my Patreon supporters. More information about how you can follow and support me there — including possibly suggesting an essay topic of your own — can be found via that link. Imagine the following scenario: You’re talking with a cisgender gay acquaintance, and…

Content warning for extreme transmisogyny, graphic language, sexual violence, and violence against marginalized groups. A few months ago, I penned Transgender People, Bathrooms, and Sexual Predators: What the Data Say. It was the culmination of months of research (partly for my forthcoming book) chronicling the long history of various minority…

The following is an excerpt from my award winning book, 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel — a silly, surreal, sex-positive tale about an absurdist short fiction writer who dates ninety-nine different people named Eric for literature’s sake. Given this premise, I realized early on in the writing process…

The Disney+ TV show “Loki” is about a magical god-like character (named Loki, of course) who, like the Norse god he is named after, can take any form he wishes. In the series, he meets an alternate-timeline version of himself named Sylvie, who is played by a female actor, and…

Content Warning: while I will not be describing any actual instances of sexual violence or child sexual abuse, these issues (and false accusations thereof) will be discussed throughout this piece. I have been involved in transgender communities since 1994. And those communities had already existed for decades before I appeared…

My 2007 book Whipping Girl is probably best known for two things: It popularized “cis” terminology (which I did not coin) and introduced the concept of “transmisogyny” (which I did coin, albeit with a hyphen: “trans-misogyny”). In the intervening years, many people have taken up this language, often using these…