The long, hard path ahead.

""Life of a trans woman should be as valuable as the life of a cisgender woman," protesters carrying Kader's photographs chanted. Cisgender refers to a gender identity that matches a person's assigned sex."

The silence and the indifference with which violent acts against trans and persons of other genders is treated in India requires urgent action and intervention.
Rest in power, Hande Khader. You will rise and you will be in millions.

"It now seems abundantly clear that our bodies , contrary to received wisdom, are too complex to provide unequivocal answers to questions about sexual difference. “The more we look for a simple physical basis for ‘sex,’ the more it becomes clear that ‘sex’ is not a pure physical category,” says Fausto-Sterling. “What bodily signals and functions we define as male or female come already entangled in our ideas about gender.”"

A very important piece that informs us about the intricacies and complexities of sex, gender and the basis for sports that celebrate the body's excellence.
Your food for thought while watching the Olympics.

http://www.npr.org/…/the-irony-and-the-ecstasy-of-indias-fi…

Beating the odds.

An icon for women everywhere.

"The Olympics offer up women’s bodies for public scrutiny on a massive scale, but to surprisingly constructive effect, relatively speaking: It’s one of the only hit TV shows that celebrates female strength, skill and excellence without sexualising female existence. And it’s not that I think the authors of the aforementioned gaffes are vicious, deliberate misogynists. It’s more that they were raised in a culture – as we all were – that has almost no idea how to process competent women (see also: America’s current presidential election). You can feel a faint confusion pulsing behind every word. A girl … doing things!?"