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New Year’s Day 2022, a time when people make new resolutions and are ready for a fresh start has already marked the first report of a Black transgender woman, 21-year-old Amarey Lej (also known as Myara), who was killed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. SisTers PGH, a Black and trans-led shelter transitioning program which focuses on […]

Govenors in three states are considering whether to sign discriminatory legislation that bans transgender youth from school sports: Arizona, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. Lawmakers in Indiana will meet to vote on overriding their governor’s veto. A bill to restrict access to gender-affirming care passed Arizona’s legislature and goes to Gov. Doug Ducey. Every major medical association […]

  Students at 100 schools in Virginia held school walkouts across the state Tuesday to protest Governor Youngkin’s recent reversal of policies for transgender students in the state. The original model transgender policies were meant to protect LGBTQ students, including the right to not be outed by school officials, use bathrooms that align with […]

With the release of Season 15 tomorrow, Apex Legends will be getting its first playable transgender woman character. Revealed on October 17th via an animated short on Apex Legends’ official YouTube and Twitter channels, Catalyst (a.k.a. Tressa Crystal Smith) is a transgender woman whose terraforming powers are used to save the dying moon of […]

[…] non-LGBTQ undocumented people in the country along with discrimination they face for being LGBTQ. Many LGBTQ immigration advocates have worked hard to spotlight the precarious situation of transgender women in detention. Many transgender people are forced to leave their countries of origin to escape violence and or social ostracism. Within detention, however, they often […]

[…] remains a huge opportunity existing in the spectrum between these models for meaningful LGBTQ storytelling – and for unambiguously marketing and promoting those movies. GLAAD recorded zero transgender characters in the 44 major studio films released in 2020 – this is a finding consistent with the previous three years of this report. Factually, that […]

[…] it.” GLAAD: “Lawmakers in Oklahoma and across the country continue to double and triple down on their discriminatory and dangerous rhetoric and behavior against their state’s citizens. Transgender people are under attack by extremists who are baselessly trying to limit their private, best practice healthcare. Every Oklahoman and every American should be outraged that […]

[…] the best gift I was ever given. I can’t imagine my life without running. And so every time I hear about another state bill threatening to ban transgender kids from competing in sports, it breaks my heart. From Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller who are targets of a lawsuit in Connecticut, to Lindsay Hecox […]