Search Results: transgender people (1590)

[…] to the election in Virginia and encourage people to vote. Polls show a tight contest in Virginia, with the campaign dominated by misinformation about LGBTQ-inclusive schools and transgender students. (See coverage here and here.) 309,000 LGBTQ people live in Virginia, 40% of whom are LGBTQ people of color. 26% of LGBTQ Virginians are raising […]

[…] a conventional Muslim family confronting its own desire for a sexual rebellion after one of the married brothers takes a job as a backup dancer for a transgender woman in a local theater show. Filmmaker Saim Sadiq cast trans actress Alina Khan to play Biba, the performer who entrances the brother.  TIFF  TIFF Vera Drew’s […]

On Tuesday afternoon more than 12,000 Virginia students walked out of school in protest of Governor Glenn Youngkin’s revision of school policies for transgender and gender nonconforming students. Across the commonwealth —at over 100 schools—students spoke up for themselves and their classmates with shouts of “DOE, leave us be” and “Trans rights are human […]

[…] Debi Jackson, who has a transgender child, told her story, explaining that when her daughter starting expressing her true gender, Jackson herself was conservative and unfamiliar with transgender people: “We had no idea what it meant,” but she and her family sought out advice from doctors, including endocrinologists, to get educated about healthcare for trans […]

[…] play a Faerie named Jae. A chill, musical, funny charmer who can communicate with nature. One of the most rad things about Jae, is that they are Transgender/Non-Binary, just like me. Streams Jan 20th 2022! pic.twitter.com/O44ZvE5O42 — Ali J Eisner (@AliEisner) December 12, 2021 Video Games:  Dusa, Hades In the (very queer) roguelike video game […]

[…] DAY ONE The Stroll / U.S.A. (Directors: Kristen Lovell, Zackary Drucker, Producer: Matt Wolf) — The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, […]

[…] number of over 300 anti-LGBTQ bills were proposed in state legislatures. Twenty children’s hospitals received bomb threats for providing medically safe and best practice health care to transgender youth. There were nearly 150 attacks on LGBTQ events. Since 2015, hate crimes have increased by 40%. And a new GLAAD poll found 48% of all […]

[…] Ellis said the words, “There is no LGBTQ without the T” — and on Thursday night that statement couldn’t be any more accurate. On the eve of Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31), the trans community stood tall and stood proud at the annual ceremony honoring media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of […]