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Good Riddance, DOMA: Medicare and Social Security Now Recognize Trans Spouses and Same-Sex Marriages

Two important changes came quietly to some of the country’s most widely used social services this week that will allow same-sex partners and married trans people to qualify for coverage along with their spouse. On Tuesday, the Social Security Administration announced it was updating its policies to allow transgender individuals to automatically collect social security benefits through their spouses. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services instituted a similar change Wednesday, when it announced that same-sex couples will now be recognized in any application for Medicare benefits regardless of where they live. Both are an extension of efforts to change federal policy following the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act last June.

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It’s Trans Day of Visibility! Here’s 15 Ways To Let Trans People Know You See Them and Care

International Trans Day of Visibility is here! This event, which happens each year on March 31st, was started by Rachel Crandall, the leader of Transgender Michigan. It exists so that we can focus on the trans people around us and the good that they do. She wanted a day that celebratedand recognized trans people who are still with us to go alongside Trans Day of Remembrance, which remembers those…

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Join Janet Mock, Me and Other Trans Women Writers in a Women’s History Month Google+ Hangout!

Janet Mock, trans activist and author of the New York Times bestselling book Redefining Realness has gathered up a great group of trans women writers to celebrate Women’s History Month, talk about our craft, and interact with all of you this Wednesday, March 26! In on this conversation will be Toni Newman, Ryka Aoki, Janet Mock and me! It’s such a great honor for me to be included along with…

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This Is Because I’m A Woman: How Sexual Harassment Invaded My Life (And Some Ways to Respond To It)

feature image via stopstreetharassment.org, poster made by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
There is no way to prepare a person for how much women get hit on. Cisgender men don’t typically experience aggressive flirtation, and cisgender women seem to experience it from birth. I once had a life where I could go blocks, miles, months without a stranger standing in my way, saying,”Hey girl, where you goin’ in…

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Also.Also.Also: Saudi Women Are Over Paula Deen, Perez Hilton, and the Patriarchy and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Hello, Internet! My really adorable girlfriend is in my kitchen cooking for me right now and I feel #blessed.
Perez Hilton F*cking Sucks
Perez Hilton is not your sassy black friend and he needs to shut the f*ck up. When he tweeted “Inside every gay man is a fierce black woman!” he wasn’t expecting to get shut down.
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And when he did, h…

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My Own Personal Top Five Trans Roots

I came out as trans much later in life than I wish I had, and finally getting here was a long and winding journey. I remember wanting to be a girl when I was just a little kid, not even in school yet, but that was before I really had any ideas about gender and what being a boy…

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Also.Also.Also: Angel Haze and the Girl Scouts Are Taking On Texas and Other Stories We Missed This Week

It’s Wednesday and there are several things we haven’t talked about yet this week! Let’s get it started.
How Americans Ruined Russia
Homophobia in Russia didn’t just come from anyone. It came from us. Or, at least, it came from the slimiest motherfuckers among us.
In November 2010, Russia’s Sanctity of Motherhood organization kicked off its first-ever national conference. The theme, according to…

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Chimamanda Adichie and Spencer Hastings Are Going to Hooters with Fortune Feimster this Sunday Funday

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Chimamanda Adichie is speaking up for Nigeria’s LGBT population.
The new law that criminalizes homosexuality is popular among Nigerians. But it shows a failure of our democracy, because the mark of a true democracy is not in the rule of…

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Portrait of a Community: Inside Barneys’ Groundbreaking Campaign Featuring 17 Trans* Models

It was the shoot heard ’round the world: 17 trans* models coming together for the Spring 2014 Barneys New York campaign called ”Brothers, Sisters, Sons, and Daughters.” And, for once, talking for themselves.
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The campaign, shot in New York by Bruce Weber, included models from not only various gender presentations and identities but also a diverse array of hometowns,…

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