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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is getting involved in a federal civil rights lawsuit that seeks to block transgender athletes in Connecticut from competing as girls in interscholastic sports. Attorney General William Barr signed what is known as a statement of interest Tuesday, arguing against the policy of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic […]
The news of Dwyane Wade embracing and loving his daughter Zaya has been a huge story. One because it’s a narrative we’re not used to seeing in the public eye. Zaya, who was assigned male at birth and named Zion, has chosen to identify as a girl and be addressed as such. Not only is […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania court this week will consider a legal challenge by three transgender women to a two-decade-old state law that prohibits people who have committed serious felonies from ever changing their names. Commonwealth Court will hear oral arguments Thursday in the lawsuit brought by plaintiffs who live as women but are […]
Flame Monroe wants you to keep one thing straight, she’s not a transgender comedian, she’s a comedian who happens to be transgender. She just wants to be treated as a professional. She’s been in the comedy game for over 20 years, she just recently was thrust into the spotlight after being a part of Tiffany […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Valentina Sampaio has become the first openly transgender model hired by Victoria’s Secret nearly a year after a top company official was pressured to apologize for implying trans women are off brand. Sampaio, a Brazilian, has been posting from behind the scenes of a VS Pink campaign to the delight of […]
In a now deleted Instagram post, former Savage x Fenty model Carissa Pinkston apologized for lying about being transgender. Pinkston, who Vogue once credited her for “revolutionizing the freckle movement across all skin tones,” said she’s “taking full responsibility” for falsely coming out as a male-to-female trans after she came under fire for her anti-trans comments. The 20-year-old model […]
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The 12th known transgender person to violently die this year was found fatally shot in South Carolina. News outlets report 29-year-old Denali Berries Stuckey was found dead Saturday on the shoulder of a North Charleston road. Deputy Chief Scott Deckard said Monday the investigation is ongoing. The Human Rights Campaign says all […]
Trans activist Samson Bonkeabantu Brown is featured in the latest Gillette ad, which shows him shaving for the first time with support with his father. “I always knew I was different. I didn’t know that there was a term for the type of person that I was,” Brown says in the ad. “I went into my transition just wanting […]
A transgender woman has become the first transgender person in the world to receive a vagina reconstruction. The procedure was done using the skin of tilapia. It involved making an incision where the vagina should be and then inserting the tilapia skin to create the vaginal tract. Medicine is amazing isn’t it?! Don’t Miss Out! […]
LGBTQ advocate Michelle “Tamika” Washington is the fifth transgender woman to be killed this year.
