Search Results: transgender (1794)

[…] rhetoric, and direct violence. In 2021 alone, there have been over 250 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures across the United States, most of which specifically target transgender people and youth. Many of these laws target the rights of trans youth to play school sports or criminalize doctors for providing life-affirming care to trans […]

[…] even said that this year for the first time LGBTQ competitors reached out asking to be added to its listings. And Tokyo marked the first games where transgender athletes had qualified for competition, 17 years after the International Olympic Committee passed rules to allow them under strict qualification standards. But this year’s incredible show […]

[…] Our mothers, eventually, I think, become our sheroes. JM: Regarding Renée Richards, the tennis player who is trans, you admit to not knowing very much about being transgender back then, but that didn’t stop you from advocating for her and letting her play. BJK: She was on the tour back in ’77. I think […]

[…] protects the healthy well-being of young men of color. Transinclusive Group (Wilton Manors, FL) advocates and works with community partners to “Build Trust and Relationships” within the transgender community by ending discrimination, mistreatment, and racial disparities in healthcare, employment, education and housing. Arianna’s Center (South Florida) engages, empowers and lifts up the trans community […]

[…] Over the weekend, two LGBTQ advocates were installed as synod bishops in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). On Saturday, Megan Rohrer (they/he) became the first transgender bishop in the Lutheran church, installed as the Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod, which covers northern California and northern Nevada.  And on Sunday, Brenda Bos […]

[…] November 8, 2021 8) Synchronicity Films has announced plans to develop a scripted miniseries based off of the forthcoming non-fiction book “The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment”. The book explores the real life story of Aberdonian doctor, farmer, and baronet, Ewan Forbes-Sempill, who in 1952 […]

[…] kick off the weekend. 1) Out actor, producer, and activist Elliot Page has signed on as an executive producer of Nel Mio Nome (Into My Name), a transgender-themed documentary from Italian director Nicolò Bassetti, which will premiere at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival next month. The documentary follows a group of four friends— […]

[…] an epidemic of violence on their LGBTQ population, and Jair Balsonaro, far-right President of Brazil, has only encouraged further persecution.  From October 2019 to September 2020 over 152 transgender and genderqueer people were killed in Brazil, the most in the world, according to a 2020 report conducted by Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) of Transrespect versus […]