Trans Women Oppose Recent Attacks by Calpernia Addams and Andrea James

We, the undersigned trans women and trans-feminine individuals, are appalled at recent attacks on trans woman journalist Parker Marie Molloy published by Calpernia Addams and Andrea James on the Huffington Post and Boing Boing. Addams’ and James’ hit pieces exhibit a pervasive hostility to young, queer trans women, and indeed any trans woman who is uncomfortable with the use of transmisogynist slurs by cisgender drag queens like RuPaul. They display homophobia, transphobia, ignorance, dishonesty, and hatred throughout.

We believe that these pieces should not have been published, and that they are not representative of the views of trans women as a community. Calpernia Addams and Andrea James do not speak for us.

1. Absence of good-faith arguments

James variously describes trans women who take issue with RuPaul as “hecklers”, “shut-ins” who “spend their waking lives online”, “victim cultists”, “self-haters” engaging in “attention-seeking behavior”, “elitists”, “the language police”, “finger-wagging schoolmarms”, “fucking stay-at-home transactivists”, and “trans separatists” with “internalized transphobia” who “transition from male to female with the zeal of a religious convert.” Unlike James, we do not believe that objecting to transmisogynist slurs makes someone any of these things. We also find it doubtful that James genuinely seeks to “resolve this dispute like professional journalists”, as her column exhibits very little sense of professionalism at all. If, as James says, “experienced activists seek to build bridges and establish empathy”, we are skeptical of her experience.

2. Misleading personal attacks

Addams and James have chosen to focus on an individual trans woman and personally attack her at length. In doing so, they give the impression that opposing the use of transmisogynist slurs by cisgender drag performers is an isolated and marginal position held by, as Addams puts it, “nutty trans hacktivists”. In reality, the conduct of RuPaul and others has been widely criticized by vast swathes of trans women. This is not a new critique that has only arisen due to a lack of experience among young queer trans women. It is a long-standing and well-supported objection, one which has been articulated by trans women of all ages and sexualities. Addams and James ignore this in favor of needlessly inflammatory rhetoric, a regressive defense of gay and lesbian transphobia, and unmitigated contempt for the gender and sexuality of queer trans women. Their columns do not contribute to this discussion in any meaningful way.

3. Traditionalism and ageism

We reject Addams’ portrayal of young trans women like Molloy as “newcomer[s] to transition and lesbian/trans issues”, a description which suggests young trans women are less informed, less competent, and less qualified to argue their viewpoints on these topics. To the contrary, young trans women can offer a fresh and contemporary perspective to balance the traditional and stagnant views of those like Addams and James. Whatever decades of experience with trans issues that Addams and James have had, it has not served them well in these recent columns.

4. Misgendering and accusations of “privilege”

We find it completely unacceptable that Addams would accuse queer trans women of being “conditioned to bully and take by a lifetime of white, heterosexual, male privilege”, using “the gains and habits of this privilege”, and having “lingering ‘cis-het privilege.’” It is baffling and incomprehensible to imply that an out queer trans woman is somehow capable of wielding heterosexual, cisgender, male privilege to her advantage. This isn’t a new tactic – it is commonly used by transphobes to misgender trans women and dismiss anything we say as coming from a place of supposed “maleness”. Here, Addams has done exactly that. This is not a meaningful argument; it is only more of the same classic transmisogyny.

5. False hierarchies of trans women

We oppose Addams’ and James’ oversimplification of queer trans women’s sexualities, unique personal histories, intersectional experiences, and self-understandings. Addams describes her own “feminine and soft nature” and experiences of being “rejected from participating in heteronormative culture”, while claiming that queer trans women “presumably lived most of their lives with the tacit approval and support of a society that viewed them as heterosexual, white men”. Her presumption is unwarranted, as is James’ description of these women as “newly-minted queers”.

If a trans woman is attracted to women, this does not mean that she always lacked a “feminine and soft nature” (whatever Addams thinks this means), that her sexuality was never called into question by others, that she was not “a participant in LGBT culture”, or that she was never attracted to men. Many queer trans women who are attracted to women share these experiences – their queerness is not “newly-minted” by any stretch of the imagination. Addams’ and James’ false dichotomy uncomfortably echoes the long history of straight trans women being judged as more legitimate in their womanhood and more “feminine” than queer trans women. This constitutes the same kind of implicit misgendering as Addams’ claim that queer trans women possess “lingering” privilege, while Addams herself supposedly does not.

6. Hypocrisy and feigned offense

While any use of “drag queen” to deny or delegitimize a trans woman’s gender is obviously unacceptable, we decry James’ hypocrisy in taking offense to the accurate description of Addams’ history as a drag performer. James herself notes that trans women have a history of “working alongside drag performers”, and that there “was no separation of drag and trans” in “pre-Stonewall Manhattan LGBT social life”, but then claims that “drag queen” is a “transphobic slur” when referring to Addams’ involvement in drag performance. This is, at a minimum, inconsistent. It is absurd that James would denounce this accurate statement of fact as “transphobic”, while she and Addams promote false generalizations about queer trans women and implicitly misgender them with accusations of “male privilege”. We particularly note the hypocrisy of Addams’ call to defend “trans people who choose to… associate with gay and lesbian people”, given her own hostility toward queer trans women.

7. Siding with mainstream prejudice

Contrary to James, we do not accept that drag performance is itself a valid excuse for cisgender people to use transmisogynist slurs. James believes that “taboos around language” – language such as “shemale” – are “practically begging drag queens and kings to violate these taboos”, and that drag is an “art form with countercultural subversion at its heart”. Such a rationale is nonsensical. When a word becomes so closely associated with open hostility toward a marginalized group that it is widely considered a slur by the group it targets, this is not itself a justification to continue using this word. It is rather obviously a compelling reason not to use it.

Cis people using transmisogynist slurs are not violating a taboo when the use of such slurs is already broadly accepted among cis people. Most of society does not consider it taboo to refer to trans women in these terms – there is no taboo to break. Repeating a one-word distillation of a culture’s hostility to trans women is neither countercultural nor subversive. It is mainstream. In light of this, James’ commitment to “siding with offensive artists” is hardly a laudable choice.

8. Disingenuous conflation of “transgender” with drag

We reject James’ classification of RuPaul as transgender, as well as any implication that cisgender male drag queens are therefore entitled to use transmisogynist slurs. Cisgender male drag queens are assigned male at birth, and they neither consider themselves to be women nor live as women in their everyday lives. Unlike trans women, they are not the ones who regularly face the consequences of widespread transphobia and transmisogyny, and they are not confronted with the fallout of normalizing transmisogynist slurs. Likewise, Addams’ statement that she “hate[s] the term ‘cisgender’” shows a lack of understanding of the importance of this distinction.

9. Hiding behind “homophobia” to defend transphobia

We further reject Addams’ argument that trans women’s criticism of the use of transmisogynist slurs by cisgender drag performers is a form of “homophobia” or “hatred or derision for gay and lesbian culture”. Trans women’s objections to transphobia do not become any less legitimate when that transphobia comes from “gay and lesbian culture”. This transphobia is no more excusable – it is equally deserving of scrutiny. While Addams recognizes that “being trans is not a free pass to be transphobic or homophobic”, she appears to believe that being gay or lesbian is indeed a free pass to be transphobic. We do not share this belief.

10. Elitism and exclusion of queer trans women from queer culture

Addams attacks trans women who object to RuPaul’s slurs as “hate-filled, angry and inexperienced folks” who “hop the fence at this late stage and try to dictate our culture rather than learn and build and participate in it”. We believe that trans women have every reason to be angry at the mass media legitimization of transmisogynist slurs by cisgender men, and we question the value of learning from this culture or participating in it, let alone building upon it. It is no point of pride to tolerate a transphobic culture. Accusing young queer trans women of trying to “dictate our culture” implies that they have less of a claim to gay and lesbian culture than Addams, and lazily dismisses legitimate objections to the harms of this culture and the attitudes it has normalized.

Our aims

We ask that Calpernia Addams and Andrea James refrain from publishing further columns exhibiting this variety of homophobia, transphobia, transmisogyny, misgendering, ageism, and unwarranted hostility toward other trans women. We further ask that Huffington Post, Boing Boing, and other outlets refuse to give a platform to any columns endorsing such prejudice, whether by Addams and James or by others. As Addams notes, “you choose your community’s voices and heroes.” We reject Calpernia Addams and Andrea James as voices of our community.

SIGNATORIES

Lauren McNamara, defense witness, United States v. Manning

Amelia June Gapin, software engineer

Thorin Sorensen, activist and writer

Katherine Prevost, software developer, Carnegie Mellon University

Anne Cognito, activist and author

Kat Haché

Andrea Borquez Brito, law school graduate

Sarah Brown, politician and trans woman

Kristina Foster

Teri Dawn Wright, student, activist

Lauren Voswinkel, software developer

Bobbi Joseph, activist

Dr. Mirah Gary, physicist

Vivian Doug, public speaker and systems analyst

Breanna Clayton, web content strategist

Danielle White, SAS Platform Administrator

Rachel Ripstra, software engineer

Jessica Reardon Smith

Kimberly Horne, software developer

Josephine Doggett, artist

Dr. Aoife Emily Hart, lecturer

April Daniels, writer

Morgan Smith, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies student and activist

Sabine, activist

Chelsea Tera Boyhan, field support engineer

Fallon Fox, Mixed Martial Arts fighter

Sarah Foreman, activist and software developer

Josefina Vineyard, graphic designer

Rebecca Hargate, software developer, University student

Schell Carpenter, Vice President of Engineering

Kayley Whalen, trans activist

Carol Holly, Scientist and Global Business Development Manager

Erika Sorensen, software developer

Laurelai Bailey, journalist for TransAdvocate.com

Emily L Kwolek, activist

Adele Sheffield, social media manager, web editor

Winter Hardin, student

Skye Arixe

Melissa Savage, activist

Dana Lane Taylor, TransAdvocate.com, University of Pennsylvania

Rhianne Stevens, lecturer, activist and Transgender Support Group Officer

Willow Dobmeier

Katie Anderson, software engineer

Chelsea Richards, emergency medical responder

Emily Prince, Esq.

Morgan Rose, artist

Casey Coughlin, student

Zoe Gagnon, software engineer and activist

Kathryn Anna Fortunato, IT systems administrator and activist

Rebecca Putman

Ellie Green, artist

Coda Gardner

Jayska Teag

Eleven, filmmaker and writer

Alisha G, information technology

Greta Gustava Martela, software engineer and TGSF board member

Nina Chaubal, software engineer

Annetta Gaiman, trans feminist

Diane Tejera Monaco, scientist and educator

Alex Ray, web admin

Claire Siegely

Ally Clarke

Aria Smith

Devi Smith

Bethany Turner, market researcher and webcomic author/artist

Cristan Williams, Senior Editor for the TransAdvocate

Madison Turner, singer/songwriter

Rabbi Emily Aviva Kapor, author and activist

Amy A. Dobrowolsky, trans feminist geographer

Autumn Sandeen, Editor for The TransAdvocate

Christina Ann-Marie DiEdoardo, Esq., criminal defense attorney

Melissa Jensen, sex worker

Octavia Reising

Naomi Ceder, IT director, Pythonista, advocate

Kris Simon, disability, gender, and sexuality activist

K.L. Tremaine, author and publisher, Artemis Flight Books

Kelli Anne Busey, contributor TransAdvocate, blogger planetransgender, activist

Serana Storey

Kylie Brooks, gender, disability, race and sexuality activist

Amber Dawn Redman, International Media / Commercial Aviation / Communications / Equality Journalist

Reverend Erin Fish, Professional Twitterer

Sarah Noble, transgender and equality activist, university student

Paige Sullivan, software engineer, trans* activist, wife, and parent

Amélie Erin Koran, Executive Office of the President of the United States (Detailee) & President of U.S. Department of the Interior GLOBE

Morgan Mullaney, software engineer

Lisa Harney

Meryl Scarlett Fortney

Dani Pettas, videographer/advertising creative

Forth Sadler, queer transwoman

Ayasha Pope, writer and musician

Sara Ross, activist and game developer

Kylie Jack, ux designer, activist

Kathryn Long, technical artist and software engineer

Kaitlyn Richardson, system administrator

Hannah Cutler, archaeologist

Miranda Lukeman

Karin Engström

Harriet de Kok, student, aged care personal care worker

Freja Falson, student, writer, and trans feminist

Shadi Petosky, creative director

Jennifer Kitney, student chef

Megan Danielle Turcotte, software developer

Annie Mei Shen

Lauren Moffatt PhD, Professor of Physics

Rani Baker, destroyedforcomfort.com, noise musician/freelance artist

Amy Wilhelm, trans activist, network engineer

Amoreena Crees, interior design

Zoey Marie Bedenbaugh, student, writer

Dominica Deal

Eva Odland, IT worker/author

Mara Emily

Phoenix Lee

Katherine Cutting

Cassidy Drake

Drew Stroud, web and game developer

Amara Sugalski, geneticist

A.J. Hunter, activist and writer

Rhea Vichot, graduate student

Trinity Pixie, blogger

The Right Honourable Max, Lairde Harmony

Dr. Myriam J. Johnson, physicist

Charley Matz, trans lesbian artist

Jess Rowbottom, IT consultant

Zoė Alexandra Adams, physics student and trans woman

Frida Viñas, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya architecture student

Sabrina Kane, Elections Project Officer

Maria Ramnehill, transfeminist

Addie C.

Rebecca Turner, software engineer

Caelyn Sandel, indie games developer

Anathema Jane McKenna, journalist and poet

Stephanie Springflower, self-employed bookkeeper

Michelle Emily Cloud, student, poet & lyricist, musician

Julie Rei Goldstein, Actress / Voice Over Artist

Samantha Llywela Thornton, photo technician, student

Alice Wilde, drafter

Erin Susan Jennings, trans liberation activist

Jessica Ferguson, Sr. Information Security Manager

Alison Chan, advanced networks researcher, uni student, LGBT student leader

Jessica Fay Speed, artist/postwoman

Henry-Katherine H., student

D.J. Freedman, MSW, queer social worker

Michelle Spicer, BA, Writer/Activist

Jennifer Lavender Winn, seamstress

Alyssa C. Smith, student, activist

Alice T., comedian

Aurora Michelle Danes, activist and nursing student

Jenna Stewart, student

Sarah Spohn, system administrator

Jasmine Erricka Glenn

Alexie Scanlon, activist

Christina Kahrl, sportswriter and activist

Amy Rebecca Boyer, Software Architect

Dee Emm Elms

Androgyne Partridge, noise musician, graphic designer

Emily Joh Miller, student/writer/musician

Chloe Skedgell, web developer

Stephanie Wilson, retired, civil engineer, program manager

Natalie Roman, web developer, LGBT youth mentor

Rowan Davis, student

Chris Malarky, IT professional

Laine DeLaney, transwoman, author, columnist, activist, and community organizer

Maddy Love, podcaster and clinical laboratorian

Marja Erwin

Danni Shochet, Director of Information Systems, Vice Chair Raleigh Transgender Initiative

Clare Davis, bookkeeper

Jane Natoli, Financial Crimes Consultant

Amy Roberts, writer, game designer, software QA

Danielle Burgess, web developer

Sophie Taylor, aerospace engineer

S. Allen, charity worker

Elizabeth Rossiter, software engineer

Emilie Geary, trans advocate

Sarah Savage, activist and writer

Julie Harper Lynch, registered nurse

Roberta Joanna Manners, software engineer

Rachel S. Adelhyde, writer and activist

Cadence Valentine, board member of Transgender Leadership Council, co-chair and lead organizer of Transgender Leadership Summit, Program Coordinator for Transsafetycounts, secretary of Transgender Service Providers Network

Johanna Wolf, game developer

Alexandra Robin Clodge, software engineer/activist

Juli-Ann Richmond, Kind Hearted House Sitting, pet and plant services

Abby Malson, software developer, transgender woman

Allison Lara Keene, software developer

Janet Logan, software engineer and transgender woman

Katherine Norcross, molecular biologist and artist

Alison Edwards, writer and educator

Rachel Determann, musician, data journalist and engineer

Nicole “Nicky” Roberts, activist, 2013 JCF grantee

Jamie M. Kerrigan, Sales Associate

Kara Johnson, animal rights activist

Finch K., Research Analyst

Margaret Laughlan, Residential Social Worker

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Victoria Solís Quintillá, student, activist

Alexandra Pitchford, writer, game designer

Skyla Marchel, activist

Ashley Wells, library technician and artist

Zoey Bartlett, research chemist and legal activist

Gemma Seymour, Sorciére Itinérant, Writer, and Activist

Jennifer Mason

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Jessica Ottowell, software engineer, small business owner, PR officer for the British Liberal Democrat party

Rye Silverman, comedian and writer

Christina W., Software Engineer

A. Mani, Researcher (Math, Logic, Rough Sets), Trans Feminist

Sara Hughes, college student information systems analyst and project manager

Erica Jones, software developer

Michelle Jené Wedge, Writer / Activist

Danielle Newberry, author, culinary engineer

Nuala Shields, retired network engineer, trans activist, human being

Lily Connor, Pagan priestess and nursing student

Miranda Radik

Charlie Hale, student and author

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Gina Grahame, businesswoman

Laila Villanueva, United States Army Nurse – currently silently serving on Active Duty

Ryan Alana McLaughlin, artist, blacksmith, former Special Forces medical sergeant, activist, and feminist

Ellen Faye Harvey, Sales Specialist

Mica Hind, storyteller/historical interpreter

Claudia Jean Adams, Online Community Manager

Nancy Scott Burke Williams, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Kelsie Brynn Jones, ILGA Advocate

Lara Boons, Belgium, a little bit a solo activist on disability, hit by PTSD

Allison Andrews, software engineer

Aleshia Brevard

Anne Rowlands, librarian and pagan

Alena Bruening, model

Eli Erlick, student, activist, and director of Trans Student Equality Resources

Vera Vartanian, writer

Alex Sennello, student and cofounder of Trans Student Equality Resources

Tina Kent, truck driver

Dawn Alderman, systems engineer

Lynn Cyrin, student, activist

Nic Llewellyn, cleaner and musician

Aubrey Schaefer, writer

Bella Bellucci, writer, activist, entertainer

Lilith Barri Routh, network engineer

Lilith Annabelle Rios, Customer Service Representative and Trans Feminist/Activist

Laura Watson, Singer/Songwriter/Musician

Kathryn Isaacs, software developer

Jena Lewis, trans* diversity educator, community activist, feminist

Jade Juhl, trans advocate

Lily Wolf Solomon, owner of Greenpath Transcripts

Gwyneth Yeh, Artist at ArenaNet

Samantha Hypatia Thompson, librarian

Dr. Joelle Ruby Ryan, Women’s Studies Professor

Veronica Garrett, Nuclear Professional

Emma Bready Larson, student, library worker, and activist

Morgan Sea, Tranzister Radio

Sierra Kinney, owner of Lone Star Laser

Sena Riley, blogger/programmer

Caitlin Howarth, student

Christina Williams, IT manager and newbie trans advocate

Kendall Cunningham, pastry chef

Miranda Rae Lunabel, barista and musician

Alexandra Bard, medically retired Marine

Chelsea Allens, Artist/Student

Drew Deveaux, queer porn star, feminist, sex educator

Julie Danielle Barnett

Coraline Ada Ehmke, Software Engineer and Activist

Isabelle Jones, law student

Gwen Carlson, student and activist

Lisa Severn, IT Architect

Helen C. Walther, Chat Administrator, Susan’s Place Transgender Resources, Executive Director, Southern Tier Trans Network

Jody Toomey, sci-fi author and musician

Eleanor Amaranth Lockhart, university lecturer and researcher

Cristin Meravi, student

Alys Elbe, student

Erin Dean, queer trans* woman of color and radical intersectional activist, blogger at Glitter of Revolt

Ellie Morris

Crystal Frasier, author

MC Tanuki, musician

Eva Allan, Revolutionary socialist and Trade Union Activist

Elizabeth Izatt, software engineer

Bitmap Madelyn Prager

Veronikka Edmunds, Waste Management Consultant

JoVan Wilson, Healthcare Communicator

Natalie Russell, civil engineer

Ellie Howard

Eleanor Robyn Carson II, author, photographer, video game reviewer

Tylyn S. Anson, filmmaker and MFA student

Alex Richards Childs, student of Metallurgical Engineering

Bobbie Jo Conner, maintenance worker

Jessica K. Nichols-Vernon, writer

Rachel Evil McCall, writer

Sophia Gold, performance artist

Kathryn Cowie, writer and editor

Johanna Marseille, graphic designer

Kori Evans, student

Morgane Oger, small business owner

Amanda Melody Barna, student and pizza delivery driver

Rachel Collier

Michelle Jane Perez, writer

Lauren Gartrenlaub, Case Manager at a social service agency

Robyn A. Montgomery, student

Vikki Valimir

Alyson McManus, Staff Writer at Persephone Magazine

Ryder Goodwin

Ash Shields, artist, student

Stephanie Wallace, Wine Professional, Software Developer

Johnnie Ramona Peel, College Instructor and Blogger

Rebecca Dobie-Watt, Helpdesk Analyst

Sarah Robinson, IT Tech

Bridgett Josephine Waxman, student

Dana Ashleigh Goodyear, LPN

Tali Gaither, trans*femme Disability justice activist, feminist, queer writer

Trina Hanson, IT support/web developer

T. Walpole, trans officer, Goldsmiths LGBTQ

Maya Martinez, US Army Infantry

Christina Lynn Johnson, studying for a Paramedic certification

Jasmine Doherty, Air Traffic Controller

Cheryl Ann Davidson, advocate/hotel front desk clerk

Jacquelyn Kjar-Meyer, student

Corinne McCreery, Customer Service Representative

Tara Franks, student

Joli Shempert, university student

Antoinette Coles, Information Technical Professional

Julia Kreger, systems engineer, photographer, support group meeting facilitator, retired alternative lifestyle community leader

Mackenzie Jade Compton, artist

Vanessa Kindell, IT support

Tori Amanda Foote

Lily Lambda, leathergirl

Jayna L-Ponder, Podcaster, Educator

Alexandra Williams, Licensed Nurse’s Assistant

Emilia Lombardi, Professor, Public Health

Lexi Kamen Turner, musician/student

Petra Mullooly, student and freelance writer

Jale Queen, IT Practitioner and Produce Worker

Jacolleun “Chrissy” Madron, actor/director/producer

Catherine S Hopkins, Airline Captain

Alison Stevenson, student

Jamie Lynn Armitage

Shay Fabian

Alice Beaty, DJ, Mixed-media artist, Kaotee

Christianne Benedict, illustrator, writer, cartoonist

Kiera Beltman, student

Dr. Jadis A. Smith, Postdoctoral researcher

Allison Kelly

Rebecca Adomaitis, accountant

Kerri Green, senior staff nurse

Willa Riggins, Information Security Professional

Stephanie Lawless, retail accounts management, feminist, trans* support facilitator

Shelby Green, student, trans activist / educator

Jemma Nelson, Bioinformatician

Wren Tobi Stein, college student, cashier, real estate owner

Marissa du Bois, Programmer Analyst

Joanna Blackhart, Musician, Activist, Educator

Anna, Former Huge Calpernia Fan, Former Recommender of Finding your Female Voice

Wenda Rhiannon Rose, writer, producer, artist, and proud trans lesbian

Alicia Artemissian, programmer, writer, caregiver

Morgan Thorp, student, occasional Youtuber and Twitch streamer, and further proof that trans lesbians exist

Kristen Haven, student, web developer, volunteer

Susan Lewis, Social Care

Roberta Proença de Gouvêa, Flight and Aeronautical Engineering Student

Ashley Davis, software development

Willow Gallagher; transfeminist, community leader, trans activist

Auriana Danielle Fabricatore, student and pornographic actress

Alice Summer

Nata Murray, MilTrans advocate who transitioned a decade ago, still in uniform after over 27 years service

Evie Ovalle, Healthcare Worker

Amber Planting, Air Force Veteran

Jenifer Divine, musician, writer – Koh Lanta, Krabi, Thailand

Bethany Hill, trans activist and graduate student

Danielle Church, software architect

Chelsie Scott, writer

Sylia Gray

Elen Parker, student, queer historian, and trans dyke

Hayley Anthony, marketing planner

Ada Nicole, mathematician/teacher

Robynn Penelope Mussell, transwoman and owner of Robynn Penelope Game Design Studio and co-founder of Know Where To Go QCA

Nicola Romanski, draftsman – electrical engineer

Nicola Clubb, freelance 3D designer

G. Searer, engineer

Victoria Kaye, Mechanical Design Engineer

Adina Lynn Levy, Software Development Supervisor

“Storky” Duncan, professional poker player

Zoe Steinfield, Program Media Assistant at the MSU LBGT Resource Center

Danielle Krassner, Systems/Network Admin

Alyssa Herzog, trans*woman and DevOps

Wren Gayle Romano, doctoral candidate and activist

Tetyana Swan, Co-Founder, Co-Owner, San Francisco Sleep Diagnostics

Megan Faulkner

Eloise, scientist

Rava Soler, trance music producer, trans feminist blogger Akntiendz Chik (in Spanish)

Jeannie Lynn Robert, IT professional

Corinne Green

Cynthia Pauline Jones, Trans woman and Poet

Renata Luisa Sdao, Photographer/Artist

Dawn Stacey Ennis

Barbara Campbell, MSgt, USAF (Ret)

Rebecca Miriam

If you are a trans woman or otherwise trans-feminine and would like to sign this letter, please email Zinnia Jones at [email protected] with your full name and occupation. This letter will be updated regularly.