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[…] are underscored by an increasingly hostile climate toward LGBTQ people in state legislatures across the country. Nearly 160 bills have been proposed in 2022, most (91) targeting transgender people and youth, and there’s been a surge of anti-LGBTQ school policy bills (60) banning classroom conversation and books about LGBTQ people under the guise of […]

[…] “transexual” to describe herself and refers to “transexuality” throughout the interview. According to the GLAAD Media Reference Guide, it is best practice to use the word “ transgender” to describe trans people unless they refer to themselves otherwise.   Interview was conducted in Spanish and translated into English / SPANISH ARTICLE Trans Day of Visibility is […]

[…] Messing, Tyra Banks, Julianne Moore, Glenn Close, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Billy Crystal, and Diane Sawyer. Also joining the lineup are celebrity Peloton Instructor Cody Rigsby and transgender recording artist, actress and RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Peppermint, who will serve as the evening’s hosts. Additional special guests for the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards […]

[…] to visits from politicians. Six years ago, they invited Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over for dinner. Amber and Adam Briggle are the parents of a teenage transgender son, Max, and they wanted to discuss equality for transgender people, specifically protecting trans kids in public school, which Paxton opposed. Earlier this year, instead of […]

[…] Act and the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act 2013 (SSMPA) are illegal. Men and women can be arrested with a maximum sentence of 14 years. Same-sex relationships, including transgender people, may also be criminalized under Shari’a Law at the state level with a possible sentence of death by stoning. There are other state-level British-colonial era […]

[…] alliance with various grassroots community groups, nationally and internationally—announced in a press release that this year’s march will focus on freedom, reproductive justice and bodily autonomy for transgender, Black, Indigenous, people of color. This year’s announcement came shortly after the Supreme Court of the United States’ (SCOTUS) Roe v. Wade draft opinion, which exposes […]

[…] 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, […]

[…] while we are certainly not in the place with mpox that we were over the summer, we still have work to do,” Smith says. Barnes-Balenciaga, a Black transgender woman, amplified the erasure of transgender people in mpox vaccine outreach. “Trans people have saved gay and queer lives forever. It seems more important for people […]