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There are plenty of schools that have banned kids from wearing certain kinds of clothing—everything from short skirts to baseball hats and even pajama pants—but one Virginia school district is considering taking things to the next level. The Suffolk school board has proposed banning children from "cross-gender dressing," and, as with many misguided efforts, they're saying it's meant to protect the affected children, not punish them. More »
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A trans woman says that when she was arrested for a minor subway violation, NYPD officers belittled her, called her names, asked about her genitals — and kept her chained to a fence for 28 hours. Now she's suing. And it turns out she's far from alone. More »
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A German dad sounds like he needs a lesson from the princess boy's family — he's apparently threatening to put his 11-year-old daughter in a mental institution because she's transgender. More »
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Well, so much for our neighbors to the north being a paragon of politeness and acceptance. There's been a disturbing change made to Canadian airport security screening rules which means that now transgender people are not allowed to board airplanes in the country. That is obviously hugely problematic and insane for any number of reasons. Let's look at how things ended up in this sorry state. More »
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Romance novels aren't typically bastions of gender diversity, but the new title Two Spirit Ranch does have an interesting premise: More »
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In what could go down as the next great instance of parental immaturity since calls for a cookie embargo, mothers in Covington, Louisiana have dismantled their daughters' Girl Scout troop to protest a Colorado troop's decision to accept a 7-year-old transgender girl named Taylor into their ranks. Actually, the Girl Scouts East Louisiana officially (because they posted on their website) repudiated the Colorado Girl Scouts by barring transgender children from joining their mafia of door-to-door cookie peddlers, but troop leader Susan Cramond was so unnerved at the Louisiana chapter's delayed response that she pushed to disband her troop. More »
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This letter is a response to Taylor, the 14-year-old girl who called for a boycott of Girl Scout cookies because the Scouts allow transgender members. You can watch her video here. More »
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A New Zealand ad for Libra tampons, which shows two people in a bathroom competing to see who's the better woman, is drawing protests because it discriminates against transgender people. "It's extremely offensive because it's pretty much saying the only way you can be a woman is to get your period," says Agender NZ president Cherise Witehira. "That's where a lot of the anger in the community is coming from — it's saying you are not a woman unless you can get your period. Obviously we can't menstruate. However, we identify as female." Some claim the ad isn't offensive because it doesn't show a transgender woman, but a drag queen (according to this theory, gender identity can be determined by the amount of eyeshadow one applies). Either way, the spot has pulled off the impossible: We're now longing to see women riding their bikes in white shorts and frolicking in a meadow. More »
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Plenty of comedies are based on the idea that there's inherent humor in men dressing up as women, from Some Like It Hot to Bosom Buddies. If you need proof that the entire concept is dated, look no further than the trailer for Work It, a new sitcom premiering on ABC in January. The 90-second clip is so unbearably unfunny that it almost seems like a parody of how idiotic sitcoms have become, and now several groups are slamming the series for being insensitive to the transgender community. More »
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A week ago, a Macy's employee spotted a transgender woman going into the women's dressing room, and decided to stop her and inform her that she wasn't really a woman. The company promptly fired her, but now the employee has enlisted the help of a hatemongering conservative organization and is claiming that Macy's discriminated against her religious beliefs by denying her the right to harass whichever customer she chooses. More »
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A Georgia trans woman was fired from her job as a legislative aide after she went public about her gender transition. Now, a court has ruled she should get her job back. More »
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Kelly Osbourne, who was recently slammed for comments she made to Glamour UK about her discovery that former fiance Luke Worrall had an affair with a transgender person, now says she will never use the word 'tranny' again. More »
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The transgender man who became famous after posing for photographs while pregnant recently gave birth to his third child and has decided that he's about had his fill of having a uterus. More »
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The New York City Fire Department finally has it's first openly trangendered firefighter. The woman in question, who now goes by the name Brooke, has for the most part found acceptance from her coworkers. The department is not known for its diversity, but it probably helps that Brooke has deep roots with the FDNY: More »
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Yesterday, Lyralisa Stevens, a transgender prisoner in California, lost her bid to compel the state to pay for her to have sex-change operation. Stevens, a 42-year-old who was born a male but identifies as female, is currently serving a sentence of 50 years to life for killing a woman with a shotgun. More »
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In a landmark decision, the Australian government has agreed to let people with intersex conditions list their gender as ‘X' on passports. Transgender people will also be able to list the gender with which they identify. More »
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Teonna Brown pleaded guilty last month to assault and hate crime charges for beating Chrissy Polis, a transgender woman, in a Maryland McDonald's. In court today, she asked for a second chance, which is absolutely appalling if you've seen the viral video of Brown and a 14-year-old girl beating Polis into a seizure. (Particularly since this was Brown's second chance; She was arrested on assault charges at the same McDonald's a year earlier.) Thankfully, the judge refused to simply give Brown a pass and sentenced her to 10 years in prison, with five years suspended, along with three years of probation. More »
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Cher is fucking pissed about people attacking her son Chaz Bono for being a contestant on Dancing With The Stars. She wrote on Twitter: "Chaz is Being Viciously Attacked on Blogs & Message boards about being on DWTS! This is Still America right? It took guts 2 do it." And: "Mothers don't stop Getting angry with stupid bigots who fk with their children!" Chaz was slightly more level-headed when he responded: "Thanks for all your support mom. The haters are just motivating me to work harder and stay on DWTS as long as I possibly can." [Radar, Us, Earlier] More »
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After it was announced that Chaz Bono—the son of Cher and Sonny Bono who legally changed his name and sex last year—has joined the season 13 cast of Dancing with the Stars, fans of the show took to ABC.com's message boards to express their disapproval and "disgust" at this "perversion" and ABC's participation in this "homosexual lust fest" that's being "flaunted in our faces." And won't someone think of the children!? A lot of bible verses were also dropped, you know, because Jesus died on the cross so that we could watch B-list celebrities attempt the paso doble. More »
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Here's an uplifting story of a kid named Jack, who as a young child flat-out said he wanted to be a girl, and whose parents listened and completely supported his transition into young womanhood. Jack is now Jackie, and her mom says, "I don't feel like we ever truly had a son, we had a daughter that was unfortunately born in the wrong body." More »
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Yesterday we expressed some concerns about radio station breast implant contests. However, one appears to have had a happy ending: new breasts to help a trans woman in her transition. More »
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A friend sent me the trailer for Tales Of The Waria, a film exploring the lives of Indonesia's transgender community. The beauty and honesty is heartbreaking; one subject in this short clip says of her relationship with a guy: "I was just a place to stop until he found a woman." More here. More »
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A trans woman is charged with fatally stabbing a man outside a Minneapolis bar early this month. But she says she and her friends were acting in self-defense after the man rushed them and called them derogatory names. More »
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My friend Juno and I both need to pee. Bad. As the movie credits roll, we shuffle out of the darkened theatre and book it to the restrooms. The men's entrance is on the left, women's on the right. This is the moment when we split and pivot towards our respective labels, like we've done at the countless bars and pit-stops that have peppered our eight-year friendship. But not tonight. For the first time, we go through the same door together. More »
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Ophelia De'lonta needs gender reassignment surgery. But the Virginia prison where she's an inmate won't pay for it. So she's been trying to do it herself. More »
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Today, Chaz Bono was on Oprah to discuss his transition from female to male. More »
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A transgender woman was banned for life from The Cosmopolitan casino in Las Vegas earlier this month. Her crime: using a women's bathroom. More »
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Texas lawmakers are trying to repeal a state law that allows transgender people to legally marry spouses of the opposite sex. Not only would this prevent trans people from marrying their partners — some worry it might invalidate existing marriages. More »
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In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, 50 Cent doesn't know what a grapefruit is, La Toya Jackson unwittingly reveals behind-the-scenes Celebrity Apprentice conspiracy, and Toni Braxton's family hits reality TV. More »
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A church in Douglas County, Colorado has chosen Rev. Malcolm Himschoot, who is transgender, as its first full-time pastor. More »
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Those prisons who fail to abide by the edict could face jail time. More »
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Northwestern prof J. Michael Bailey drew fire this week for treating students to a live demonstration of a "fucksaw." But that little how-to wasn't Bailey's first brush with infamy. More »
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Coca-Cola would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. It's just one of the megacompanies that's expanded its insurance policies to cover the sex-change operations of employees. And it's a growing trend. More »
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If you'd like to get your hackles raised on this lovely Super Bowl Sunday, check out the appalling lack of sensitivity displayed in this story about transgender women who were arrested outside of Pittsburgh. Nontraditional gender identity: hilarious! More »
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A disturbing new report says 41% of trans people in the US have attempted suicide. One possible contributing factor: the incredible discrimination they face at work, at school, and even in the hospital. More »
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The abysmally unfunny Estro-Maxx commercial that aired Saturday night totally pissed off the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and the organization has demanded an apology and started an online petition. Read the statement from GLAAD after the jump. More »
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This year's census in Nepal includes a new category for transgender people, thanks to a recently-passed anti-discrimination law. Parliamentarian Sunil Babu Pant says the transgender community is happy because, "This shows that the government has started to recognise them." More »
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