A Year Later, Still No Justice for Islan Nettles
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Almost exactly a year ago, Islan Nettles, a trans woman of color, was murdered in Harlem. She was attacked by a group of men who found out that she and her friends were transgender, and four days later she died in the hospital.
via NY Daily Post
The investigation into her brutal murder has been egregiously mishandled, a sadly predictable script when it comes to…
Drawn to Comics: Meet the “Trans Girl Next Door!”
by rory midhani
Have you been searching all over the whole internet looking for a simple comic about a young trans woman going about her daily life? Well, have I got some good news for you! The comic Trans Girl Next Door shows and tells the story of a trans woman early on in her transition, through the journal comics of Kylie. Not only are these comics cute little stories, but at a trans woman…
Legendary Boxing Manager and Promoter Kellie Maloney Comes Out as a Trans Woman
Boxing is considered by many to be a great bastion of maleness and masculinity, but that wasn’t enough to stop Kellie Maloney from living the life she knew that she had to. In an exclusive interview with The Mirror, the legendary boxing manager and promoter came out and revealed that she has been undergoing hormone therapy and taking other steps in her transition for the past two years. At the…
Trans Teen Stabbed on D.C. Metro, Follows String of Violence Against Trans Women
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Following a recent string of violence against trans women of color in the D.C. area, a 15 year-old trans girl was stabbed in the back this Wednesday while she was riding a Metro train with some of her teenage friends.
One of her friends related the story that the man came up to her on the train and began making fun of her appearance and asking questions like, “Are…
Trans Teen Stabbed on D.C. Metro, Follows String of Violence Against Trans Women
Feature image via Shutterstock
Following a recent string of violence against trans women of color in the D.C. area, a 15 year-old trans girl was stabbed in the back this Wednesday while she was riding a Metro train with some of her teenage friends.
One of her friends related the story that the man came up to her on the train and began making fun of her appearance and asking questions like, “Are…
The New Yorker’s Skewed History of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism Ignores Actual Trans Women
Media coverage of transgender issues has increased rapidly in the last few years as trans people have made larger and louder pushes for relatively basic rights and recognition. Unfortunately, as ground is gained in the fight for trans acceptance, the opposition to that progress only grows more louder and more aggressive. This is visible in Michelle Goldberg’s latest piece for the New Yorker,…
Andreja Pejic, Supermodel, Comes Out as a Trans Woman!
Model Andreja Pejic has been in the public spotlight for a few years, making big waves for her androgynous look and ability to model both menswear and womenswear flawlessly. She’s now in the news again after coming out publicly as a trans woman and announcing that she will start to exclusively model women’s fashion from now on. She says that she is supported by friends and her family in Australia.
“Science” Magazine Runs Transmisogynistic Cover, Editor Tweets ‘Deception’ Tropes When Challenged
One of the best known and most respected publications in science and technology chose to run a sexualized, transmisogynistic photo for its cover this week, and when the editor was challenged on twitter for pandering to the male gaze, he responded that he thought it would be interesting what would happen when those males “find out.”
While the focus of Sciencemagazine’s July 11 issue on combating…
Science Will Not Save Us: Medicine, Research Ethics, and My Transgender Body
Earlier this year, Dr. Keith Ablow — a member of Fox News’ “Medical A-Team,” whatever that is — argued that, in his estimation, there is no scientific evidence supporting the existence of gender dysphoria. “I don’t believe,” he wrote, “we have definitive data… that any male or female soul has ever in the history of the world been born into the wrong anatomic gender.” Days later, writer and…
Fool’s Journey: Moving Beyond a Difficult Coming Out Experience
This month, a reader asks the tarot how to move forwards from a devastating coming out experience.
The dilemma:It’s about my family. It’s not about ‘when will they, won’t they?’ It’s about when will I. I came out as trans quite a while ago, and it blew up in my face, so that I went back in the closet for awhile until I just couldn’t anymore. I came back out, and lurked around with that giant ‘T’…
Seriously Though Laverne Cox is Having the Best Week of All Time
When you’ve starred in an amazing Netflix series, you win an award from GLAAD, you just made the cover of Time, you’re producing and hosting a TV show coming to MTV soon, you’ve been on talk shows ranging from Melissa Harris Perry to Katie, President Obama mentions you by name during his Pride Month speech and you’re one of the faces of the modern trans movement in America, it’s really quite…
One of the most annoying hassles while transitioning is getting your name and gender changed on legal documents like birth certificates, passports and IDs. This should be simple, quick and cheap, but in most places it’s quite the opposite. This can lead to all sorts of trouble, from trouble getting into bars, to trouble making large purchases, to trouble getting past airport security. However,…
The Language of Comedy: On Defensiveness and Being Wrong
I know people say that words don’t mean anything and that we ‘empower’ them by being hurt by them. Especially comedians. I hear all the time the phrase, “no topic is off limits.” Everything/everyone is game. And while I believe that is true for many performers and obviously a part of what stand-up has been and still is for some, I don’t agree with this philosophy. Words can be powerful,…
Obama Closes Out Pride Month By Extending Workplace Protections to Transgender Federal Employees
As a part of the White House’s Pride Month Celebration on Monday, President Barack Obama announced that he would be signing an executive order that would grant workplace protections to federal employees based on their gender identity. This comes a few weeks after he announced another executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity.…
New York State Sued Because Trans-Exclusionary Medicaid Regulation Has Got To Go
Last week, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Legal Aid Society and the law firm of Willkie, Farr and Gallagherfiled a class action lawsuit against the state of New York, which has discriminated against transgender people seeking healthcare since 1998 with a regulation that categorically denies Medicaid coverage for gender affirming healthcare. SRLP has been working to reverse this regulation since…
