Historic transgender journalism

Transgender journalism was not always easy to find and monitor online. This page is a repository of historic trans news archival resources and blogs available online since the mid-1990s. Many are no longer online and are linked below to Internet Archive where available.

Hard copy publications

Transgender Tapestry

• An important early print publication. See Transgender Tapestry
• Archive

Transsexual News Telegraph

• Published 1991–2002

TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism

• Published from 1993-1995 by American writer Davina Anne Gabriel (July 12, 1953–February 28, 2016)
• Archive

Chrysalis Quarterly

• by Dallas Denny

Interactive and user-submitted

These resources allow reader submissions and commenting. See also the transgender forum list for more interactive options.

Yahoo Groups (groups.yahoo.com/neo)

• Transgendernews
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transgendernews/ [original URL]
• https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/transgendernews/info
• This user-submitted list dating to 2002 allows user submissions and comments.

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Editor-selected

Hand-selected news items presented by a primary editor.

Press For Change (pfc.org.uk)

• In The News [archive] http://www.pfc.org.uk/node/655
• PFC’s In The News archive began prior to 1996, with a United Kingdom emphasis.
  • pre-1996 [archive]
  • 1996 [archive]
  • 1997 [archive]
  • 1998 [archive]
  • 1999 [archive]
  • 2000 [archive]
  • 2001 [archive]

• Mailing List Archive [archive] http://www.pfc.org.uk/pfclists/news-arc/index.htm
• PFC’s Mailing List Archive is organized by quarter from mid 1997 through most of 2008, with a United Kingdom emphasis.

GenderLife (genderlife.com)

• Trans News Exchange [archive]
  http://www.genderlife.com/news/
• Open-source content management system allowed user submissions and comments, an extension of GenderLife Forum [archive] dating to 2002.

Trans Road Map (tsroadmap.com)

• Trans Road Map Notes [archive]
• http://www.tsroadmap.com/notes/index.php
• 2007 to 2014

Lynn Conway (lynnconway.com)

• Trans News Updates
  http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/News/News.html
• Lynn Conway’s archive dates from 2005 to 2015.

Donna Rose (donnarose.com)

• Transgender News Watch [archive]
• http://www.donnarose.com/T_News_Watch.htm
• Dates from 2005 to 2007.

Laura’s Playground (now transgenderpulse.com)

• Transgender News [archive] http://www.lauras-playground.com/trans_news.htm
• Archives from 2005 to 2016.

Gendercrash

• http://p076.ezboard.com/Transgender-News/fbutchdykeboy5326frm7
• GunnerButchDBoy’s archive from 2004 to 2007 is excluded from archives.

GenderTalk GenderNews [archive]

• Selected stories from 1995-1997.

Women Born Transsexual (womenborntranssexual.com)

• Personal blog by Suzan Cooke halted in 2022.

Gender Advocacy Internet News [archive] http://www.gender.org/gain/index.php

• Edited by Penni Ashe Matz, then Kim Carver and Gwyneth Rhian Morgan after Penni’s 2001 death.
• 1998 [archive]
• 1999 [archive]
• 2000 [archive]
• 2001 (no service)
• 2002 [archive]

National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (ntac.org) [archive]

• NTAC News [archive] from 2000-2001.

Jenelle Rose (jenellerose.com)

• Transcend subscription-only newsletter from 2002-2006 [archive].

TransGenderCare

• Headlines [archive] from 2004 to 2014.

Transgriot (transgriot.blogspot.com)

• Terrific blog from 2004-2020 by Monica Roberts, with a special focus on trans people of color.

TG Guide (tgguide.com)

• News [archive] from 2002 to 2012.

TransgenderZone (transgenderzone.com)

• World News Stories [archive]
• Blog (blog.transgenderzone.com)

PlanetOut (planetout.com/news)

• Advocate News & Politics, searchable and dating to 1996. [archive]
• Included a nice week in review from 2003 to 2008.

Transray (transray.com)

• Database [archive] of articles on gender variance, with an academic focus, from 2003 to 2007.

GenderTalk (gendertalk.com)

• A weekly radio show featuring in-depth gender-related interviews that ran from 1997-2006.

Transgender forum list via this site.