advocate.com – By Greta Martela
Although I am in the 59 percent of transgender people who have never attempted suicide, I’ve been hospitalized for suicidal ideation six times.
The details of the last time are the most instructive for the purposes…
commonhealth.wbur.org – Martha Bebinger
Massachusetts is drafting rules that will define the transgender services insurers will be required to cover. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has just released guidance on training doctors…
huffingtonpost.com – Jonny von Wallström – Self shooting director, human rights advocate, farmer and world exploring artist living in Sweden
Starting out in the Swedish film industry 10 years ago, I found myself making music videos for a famous Ugan…
windycitymediagroup.com – By Frank Pizzoli
John Epperson’s legendary Lypsinka is now on the New York stage until Jan. 3, 2015.
The character is his lip-synching drag alter ego. He brings to the stage Lypsinka! The Trilogy consisting of three diff…
pqmonthly.com – By Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly
November is Transgender Awareness Month, and Portland nonprofit TransActive Gender Center is marking the occasion with the launch of The Super Hero Challenge.
The challenge is an effort to raise awaren…
huffingtonpost.com – Toni Newman – Writer, law school student and author, ‘I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman’
Fallon Fox, the first openly transgender female to compete in the MMA, discusses transistioning, fighting, her goals and being authen…
deepseanews.com
If you can think of anything involving sex, from group sex to monogamy for life to males with penises on their heads, you can probably find good examples in fishes. Here I want to focus on a particularly interesting and bizarre aspect …
takepart.com – By Nicole Pasulka
In the late summer of 2010, Tamara Lusardi, whose birth name is Todd, informed a supervisor that she wanted to start transitioning from male to female at work. Tamara Lusardi had been working as a quality assurance s…
theatlantic.com – Ali Liebgott
I was born in 1971, and came of age watching soap operas. This was pre-Internet, before gay marriage was even a thought, when homosexuality was still a mental disorder in the DSM. When I remember back, the only images …
blogs.tribune.com.pk – By Sonia
It is prime time bulletin on Lotus News, a satellite news channel in southern Indian town, Coimbatore. Dressed in a dark brown silk sari, 31-year-old Padmini Prakash is all set to read out the day’s headlines. In matc…