Trans Stuff, Laws, and Politics
I am part of the team behind LegiAlerts which maintains the LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracker for 2025 (our team is listed on the credits page of that Google Sheet)
One of the pages on that sheet "Passed Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws Cumulative" includes a listing of all the anti-LGBTQ+ laws enacted that I've tracked down from 2010 to now, with a small number of earlier ones.
We also have maintained other trackers including:
We have additional archival Trackers that I maintain, for individual years from 2009-2022, along with less complete work for earlier bills and legislation including older anti-crossdressing laws in our Trans Legislative Tracking Archive.
For looking at longer term trends, I have assembled
A Big Compilation Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Sheet looking at all the bad bills and laws from 2009-2025 and
A Big Compilation Pro-LGBTQ Legislation Sheet looking at all the positive bills and laws from 2009-2025, along with
I keep a detailed timeline with linked sources for the history of laws and policies relating to trans people in the United States, with a focus on the last century.
I've written an essay/resource on the "Women's Bill of Rights" as a Vector for Anti-Trans Hate
Trans History
I'm compiling an extensive Trans History Timeline currently from c. 2500 BCE to the present with citations largely via external links. If put into Google Doc format it would be about fifty pages long.
How do we talk about gender? About transness? How have we talked about it in the past? Words are powerful. They both carry and shape ideas. These are some ways in which our words relate to gender things.
This essay on Trans-Cistory talks about the evolution of the language we have used to describe transgender and cisgender people and related categories over the past few centuries.
This essay is on the problems with the phrase "biological sex" and its history.