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
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…
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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…
This morning, Army private Bradley Manning formally announced
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.
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.
NEWSFLASH: Miley Cyrus is weird now. She likes weird things like asymmetrical haircuts, grillz, twerking, and "jweats
Katie used to be Luke and Arin used to be Emerald and recently the two found each other and are living happily ever after. While it's not the traditional story of teen love found in the Young Adult section of Barnes and Noble, it's the story of two teens from Oklahoma who met at a support group for transgender…
Kristin Beck was a part of the elite Navy SEAL Team 6, the fabled unit that was ultimately responsible for Osama bin Laden's death. She served for 20 years and underwent 13 deployments. She was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for her decades of service. But during this time, Kristin wasn't known as Kristin —…
The prison system hasn't exactly been the most supportive federal organization for transexual and transgender people, to say the least. With a history of denying trans individuals treatment and subjecting them to solitary confinement as a means to sidestep the strict male/female prison system, the Bureau of Prisons…
Colorado first grader Coy Mathis can't use the girl's restroom at her elementary school because she has a penis.
Sadie is an 11-year-old kid who loves reading, swimming, texting her friends, and Justin Bieber. Oh, and she's also transgender — she socially transitioned from male to female in Kindergarden — and already more comfortable with herself than most adults we know. (Her mother told HuffPo that she introduces herself to…
Very cool! The AP is reporting that the government of Nepal will soon begin issuing third gender IDs for Nepali citizens who do not identify as male or female. Nepal Home Ministry official Bhola Siwakot says that the order to issue third gender citizen certificates has been sent to all district administration offices…
As recently as last year, the Miss Universe Organization disqualified a contestant—Miss Canada, Jenna Talakova—after they discovered she was transgender. When they finally changed their rules regarding the exclusion of LGBT contestants in April, Kylan Arianna Wentzel of Century City, California, was a shift manager at…
"Heels are great for performing because they immediately correct your posture for singing, so you have your power stance down," says Laura Jane Grace, the lead singer of punk band Against Me. Grace talks extensively about fashion, performance, and gender with model Joan Smalls in the new episode of MTV's House of…
Growing up, I remember making a pact with myself. As an adopted child I promised to find my family in Korea, but how exactly that would occur remained a mystery to me. I luckily had the unconditional support of my American family, even if they were stumped by my vague plan.
It looks like San Francisco will be the first U.S. city to cover sex reassignment surgeries, thus saving uninsured transgender residents from going into debt due to super costly gender transition operations. Related: San Francisco is the best.
Hey, in case you've forgotten in the midst of the unification of Sandy relief that there are some arguments you really can't take a side on, here's the latest in Catch 22s!
Presidential candidate Roseanne Barr (Jesus, typing that) has come under fire from the trans community after one of her Twitter followers referenced Jill Stein's support for trans rights—"[Stein] is also in favour of letting men into spaces where little girls get changed"—Barr tweeted back: "If she has a penis, she is not …
This past Saturday, Lana Wachowski, one half of the directorial team behind the Matrix and Cloud Atlas, was honored by the Human Rights Campaign with their annual Visibility Award. During the HRC gala, Wachowski gave a moving 30-minute speech discussing the pain and confusion of growing up trangender. The entire speech …
Here's some shitty news. Four days after unanimously approving policy allowing a few very basic rights to transgender students, the East Aurora School District 131 in Illinois has revoked it, claiming that they didn't allow time for input from state officials. We all know this is a bunch of bullshit because the…
Marco and Sadie met and started dating two and half years ago. However, at the time, Marco was Erica, a woman. I know, I just blew your mind. Luckily, reporter Lilly O'Donnell at VICE talked to the couple about what it's like to welcome a new person into their relationship, and to say goodbye to another.
A massive poll released by Gallup today reveals some truths about the American LGBT community that might shock and upset people who like to imagine that television is real life: contrary to prime time network tropes, people who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transsexual are more likely to be…
The University of Minnesota-Duluth is attracting an undue amount of finger-wagging for hosting and providing a $4,000 honorarium to California-based photographer Loren Cameron so that he can present "Transgender Images," which (graphically) chronicles his physical transformation from a woman to a man.
