Gender Theory and the Life of a Trans Girl
I have been recently spending my Saturday evenings with an amazing group of Korean American women connecting on our lived experiences and cultures in a new organization called Korean Americans Living their Best Identity or KALBI for short. (Anyone else want to get Korean BBQ all of a sudden?) The amazing people behind KALBI is …
Today is the 5th anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting. 49 people were murdered. The most deaths of any mass shooting by 1 gunman ever in the US. (until surpassed by the Vegas shooting 1 year later). 5 years ago today waking up to the news. That morning my organization Gender Justice League was asked …
Recently there has been a lot of efforts from Republicans and conservative groups to ban transgender girls from sports. The Republicans and conservative groups have put out a lot of bad information that plays off of people’s fears and tried to make their arguments sound reasonable. So I have tried to refute them as well …
My name is Sophia Lee, and I am a Software Developer at Microsoft. I am the board chair of a non-profit organization Gender Justice League and I am a Commissioner with the Seattle Women’s Commission. But when I was younger, I lived with a secret. I wanted to be pretty. I wanted to dance. I …
The other day I was reading Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble and she mentioned how Google searches for “Black Girls” brought up racist and sexual content of black girls when she was writing this book. This has been since fixed up and now searches for “Black Girls” brings up positive confirming and empowering …
These days so much communication is done in short quick messages. With these concise forms of communication often times a lot of subtle meanings get lost. Emojis help fill in those gaps. Emojis may seem trite, like something only teenagers use when communicating with each other, but more and more businesses are incorporating them into …
I do have a lot of privilege. I was born with 2 parents. I am able bodied. I got to grow up (at least partially) in the US. My parents sacrificed a lot for me when I was younger. I do also have a lot of social economic privilege but that is a privilege that I …
Transgender women are women, Transgender men are men, Non binary people are valid. These are the things that the Women’s Liberation Front is arguing against. We don’t argue the humanity of black people, we don’t argue women’s right to vote, we don’t argue gay people’s right to marriage. So then why are we allowing this …
I would like to talk about the event on February the First where the Women’s Liberation Front is coming to argue against the rights of transgender people to live as their authentic selves. This event is extremely problematic as it takes transgender people, a protected class within Washington State Law and debates the humanity of …
I have written and spoke about this topic several times, and I will say it again. To say that you won’t date a transgender person, it is not a preference, it is transphobia. And no, this does not mean I am requiring you to be attracted to me. A preference is when you look at …