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Should Jared Leto's Dallas Buyer's Club Performance Be Lauded or Loathed?
Jared Leto's performance in Dallas Buyers Club annoyed me from the first moment his character, Rayon, a transgender woman, appeared on screen. She peeked around a curtain in the hospital like a stalking cat, looking to snatch a glimpse of the half-naked man in the bed next to her. Her action sent a message that carried …
Christ, Piers Morgan: Janet Mock Was Never a Boy (And Neither Was I)
Piers Morgan asked Janet Mock back onto his show to explain why she and the transgender community have been so incensed by the packaging of his interview with the trans activist and author. Unfortunately, rather than listen to Mock, Morgan continued to assert that he should be free from criticism because he has "always…
Why This Transgender Teen's Big Legal Victory Matters
Wayne Maines was in a meeting when he got the call. His daughter, a transgender teenager who had been fighting the state of Maine for years over her right to use the girls' bathroom at school, had finally won.
Barneys' Spring Campaign Features 17 Transgender Models
Today, Barneys introduced its spring 2014 campaign. It's titled "Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters," and it stars seventeen transgender models photographed in black and white by Bruce Weber.
Transgender Woman Invites Councilman to Stone Her, Even Brings Stone
In December, the city council of Shreveport, Louisiana passed an ordinance banning housing and employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. What great news! Everyone in Shreveport must be throwing dance parties in the name of progress and RuPaul's Supermodel (You Better Work) — …
What's It Like as the First Transgender MMA Fighter? Meet Fallon Fox.
For Fallon Fox, the following comments are par for the course as she enters one of her MMA fights:
Could Carmen Carrera Be Victoria's Secret's First Trans Angel?
Last week a petition was posted on Change.org, urging Victoria's Secret to hire Carmen Carrera as a model. Carmen Carrera is a transgender burlesque performer extraordinaire, well known for her pre-transition stint on RuPaul's Drag Race where she set the gold standard for the art of the "tuck and fold." Just this past…
Piece of Shit Prop 8 Ringleader Now Going After Transgender Kids
Some people are just rotten to the core, and it appears that Frank Schubert is the goblin king of those subhumans. Schubert, a National Organization for Marriage and My Vomit strategist and a key figure in California's 2008 anti-same-sex-marriage initiative Prop 8, has set his sites on a new target: transgender…
How I've Turned My Struggle As the NCAA's First Transgender Athlete Into …
I never intended to be an advocate. I never intended to be the person kids would come to when they felt suicidal. But somehow, somewhere along the line, that’s exactly what happened.
Bigot Jerks Are Being Bigot Jerks to Trans Girl Homecoming Queen
Everything seemed a little better and brighter in the world when a California high school crowned 16-year-old trans girl Cassidy Lynn Campbell homecoming queen — but it turns out the waste of humanity came to crap on her parade.
Bigot Jerks Are Being Bigot Jerks to Trans Girl Homecoming Queen
Everything seemed a little better and brighter in the world when a California high school crowned 16-year-old trans girl Cassidy Lynn Campbell homecoming queen — but it turns out the waste of humanity came to crap on her parade.
California High School Awesomely Crowns Trans Girl Homecoming Queen
Homecoming events aren’t just opportunities for creepy alums to revisit their old schools and watch high school kids play football. Sometimes, homecoming can be an opportunity to demonstrate a level of inclusion and tolerance high school (in general) isn’t exactly known for. That’s what happened at Marina High School…
CW Developing Show About Transgender Teen
The CW is developing a one-hour drama, ZE, about a transgender teen. The show, from the producer of the Academy Award-winning film Milk, will focus on a Texas teenager who begins transitioning into living as a boy.
OITNB Star Laverne Cox Used to Equate Being Trans with Failing
Since appearing on Orange Is the New Black as Sophia Burset (Litchfield Prison's premiere fire fighter-turned-hairstylist), actress and activist Laverne Cox has become a household name as both a fan favorite and as the actress — and trans woman — currently being credited with shining a light on the trans community and …
This Family Is the Face of Awesome Parenting
Lori Duron is the author of Raising My Rainbow, a popular parenting blog (now a memoir) where she documents what it's like raising C.J., her non-gender conforming son who prefers dresses, dolls and makeup to toys that are typically seen as boyish. Thanks to her popular website, Duron has become the face of non-gender…
The Tough Road Ahead for Chelsea Manning
This morning, Army private Bradley Manning formally announced that she would be living the rest of her life as a woman named Chelsea, and would like to be referred to using female pronouns. This is an incredibly brave first step for anyone, but particularly for Manning, who is about to be sent to prison for the next 35 …
How Not to React to the News That Bradley Manning Is Transgender
This morning's big news story/pounding headache is courtesy of convicted spy Bradley Manning's announcement that she wishes to live the rest of her life as a woman/the internet's predictably shitty response to that announcement, respectively.
Yes: California Gets Landmark Transgender Student Rights Law
A most excellent bill was signed into law by California's governor Jerry Brown today — one that requires California public schools to respect students’ gender identity and makes sure they can fully participate in all school activities, sports teams, programs, and facilities that match their gender identity.
Edgy Miley Cyrus Wanted to Find a ‘Weird’ ‘Tranny Bar’ in Germany
NEWSFLASH: Miley Cyrus is weird now. She likes weird things like asymmetrical haircuts, grillz, twerking, and "jweats," and she is an inspiration for young people everywhere to get weird. And by "get weird," I mean throw together some hackneyed references to subcultures and groups that have struggled to exist in a society…