Search Results: transgender people (1585)

[…] an Arvada Democrat and the state General Assembly’s first out transgender member, calls the bill “imperative” to protect patients and medical professionals who provide health care to transgender people. “As laws around the country seek to prevent this care outside their borders, we need a shield to provide these essential services. SB188 will do just […]

[…] from their assigned sex at birth. (We typically understand our gender much earlier than we figure out our sexual orientation. It is important to note, however, that transgender people may come to understand their own gender at any age. It does not make a person more or less transgender if they figure it out at […]

[…] seen so many changes with myself …not only physical, but, like, mentally and emotionally.” Which makes sense, considering every major medical association unequivocally supports health care for transgender people for its evidence-based benefits and positive outcomes. In 2021, Arkansas introduced the so-called “SAFE Act.” The dangerous piece of legislation outlaws life-saving, best practice healthcare for […]

[…] with Stasha Sanchez, who was crowned Miss Continental 2018, to recognize Transgender Awareness Week (November 13 – 19), when people across the country help raise awareness about Transgender people and address issues members of the community face. The video conversation, posting Wednesday on GLAAD’s social channels, will also feature grantees and comes as TRANScend enters […]

[…] 21st century, and more. The report also includes advice to reporters from transgender spokespeople around the nation who have had experience educating reporters on the homicides of transgender people, and working to improve media coverage, including: Shelby Chestnut, National Organizing and Policy Strategist, Transgender Law Center: “Reporters can play an important role in correcting the […]

  GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, released a joint statement today with Equality Texas and Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) on the passage of Texas’ ban on transgender children, kindergarten through 12th grade, participating in school sports on teams that align with their gender. […]

[…] an unsafe world, acting as a bridge to help connect them to resources that are often intimidating to trans people used to facing stigma. One in five transgender people in the United States has faced discrimination when seeking a home, and more than one in ten have been evicted from their homes because of their […]

[…] of non-LGBTQ people believe that gender is not limited to female and male, an increase from 38% in 2020.  81% of non-LGBTQ people expect that nonbinary and transgender people will become a more familiar part of life just as gay and lesbian people have. While understanding is advancing and many people are aware that gender […]