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The Hardest (Unexpected) Part About Being a Trans Man
In the state of Missouri where I began my transition to “Mitch,” you have to undergo gender therapy in order to receive a letter of authorization from a therapist stating that you are of sound mind and that you are, in fact, transgender and experiencing gender dysphoria – a disorder that calls for appropriate medical intervention – before you can start hormones. During my time in gender therapy, we discussed some of what to expect once I began transitioning. Most of this was centered around the physical changes — more body hair, a deepening of the voice, changes in fat…
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A Guide to Understanding the History of Police Violence in the U.S.
In order to understand police brutality, we have to increase our holistic awareness and understanding of the systems that allow policy brutality to exist in the first place. In other words, we cannot effectively understand modern-day police violence without understanding the deeply rooted racial history in our country. Like many institutionalized concepts, this is a tangled web that goes back to the arrival of the first African slaves in America in 1619 (and in all honesty, before that as well, but that is beyond the scope of this particular list of resources). So in order to understand “police brutality” as…
