Last Friday, the mothers of three transgender teenagers in Ohio filed a federal lawsuit against a county judge who they charge has a “disturbing pattern and practice” of refusing to allow transgender minors to legally change their names.
This week, a federal judge in Oregon ruled that forcing trans students to use restrooms that don’t correspond with their gender identity violates their civil rights and contributes to their trauma.
Danielle Corcione—a freelance journalist who writes for Teen Vogue, ReWire, and other outlets—had their Twitter account permanently suspended on Thursday after the writer posted a tweet about TERFs. (Corcione uses they/them pronouns.) Emails, which Corcione provided to Jezebel, show that Twitter suspended Corcione for…
Cisgender journalists have not had (and still don’t really) the best track record when it comes to reporting on the lives of trans people. Frankly, far too many people fuck it up! Included in that history is Donna Minkowitz, The Village Voice reporter who broke the story of 21-year-old Brandon Teena’s brutal murder…
A transgender student’s senior photo has been cut out of the yearbook just two weeks before its release, due to a school dress code violation that doesn’t actually exist, ThinkProgress reports.
Another day, another bad story about Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, a man who just wants to have a nice table..... and deprive trans people of basic rights.
Portland’s Ariel Hawkins is just one of many women who alleges that the dating app Tinder deletes the profiles of trans women.
A public library in Iowa is reviewing policies on including LGBTQ literature after more than 340 residents petitioned to stop the acquisition of books that explore gender identity and sexual orientation.
The Department of Education confirmed with BuzzFeed on Monday that they will not look at complaints from transgender students who are barred from using the bathroom matching their gender identity, a position that conflicts with multiple federal court rulings. Just another day in God’s kingdom.
Topshop recently made it official that their changing rooms are gender neutral, but writer and performer Travis Alabanza has alleged on Twitter that they were turned away when trying to try on clothes at a Topshop location in Manchester.
The Trump administration has made clear its stance on transgender rights: in just nine months, the Justice Department has rolled back workplace protections for transgender individuals, dropped its case against North Carolina’s transphobic bathroom bill, the Education Department has withdrawn its finding that an Ohio…
On Tuesday, Defense Secretary James Mattis announced that transgender people will continue to be allowed to serve in the US military, while he waits upon the results of a study “by experts” to determine whether their service will negatively impact military readiness or costs, USA Today reports. Luckily, such a study…
According to a new report in the Wall Street Journal, the White House is expected to officially send guidance that gives the Department of Defense authority to remove transgender people from the military. The administration is also reportedly instructing the Pentagon to bar transgender individuals from serving, and to…
Illinois Rep. Jeanne Ives, who once described gay marriage as “a completely disordered relationship,” has shared an extremely transphobic and homophobic op-ed on her personal Facebook page that warns Illinois families that legislation protecting against gender identity-based discrimination will erode public schools.
In a week teeming with dialogue about the hostile, misgendering “jokes” comedian Lil Duvall told about trans women on the radio show The Breakfast Club, it seems kind of insane that another cis dude would decide to weigh in with his own observations about trans people. But here we are, and according to Jesse David Fox…
The head of the US Coast Guard has rejected Donald Trump’s ban against transgender people from the military.
In mid-July, Janet Mock appeared on The Breakfast Club, the Power 105 morning show hosted by Charlemagne da God, DJ Envy, and Angela Yee, the latter of whom had invited the author to discuss her latest book, Surpassing Certainty.
In May 2015, Joshua Vallum brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend, Mercedes Williamson, for fear of others learning that she was transgender. Two years later, 29-year-old Vallum has been sentenced to 49 years in prison for a federal hate crime targeting a transgender woman.
Pat McCrory, whose legacy as governor of North Carolina has been defined by his signing and subsequent defense of his state’s discriminatory, so-called “bathroom bill” HB2, is running for reelection. In a new campaign video (above), he references the backlash against HB2 with counterfeit incredulity, while painting…
