huffingtonpost.com – Nadia Cho – Student, University of California-Berkeley
Nothing is more heavily enforced in our society than gender. We assume that gender is predetermined, that being a man or a woman is black-and-white, that our genitalia clear…
huffingtonpost.com – Stephanie Mott – Executive Director, Kansas Statewide Transgender Education Project
A new school year will be starting in a few weeks. It will be the eighth school year since I moved into a little house across the street from a …
usatoday.com – Tom Vanden Brook
Convincing transgender troops that they could speak openly about their experience — and confirming their identities — was more difficult than finding them.
A very good source, a member of the military who is acti…
psmag.com – By Alice Dreger
In my email in-box a few weeks ago, I received a polite message from a woman named Sarah Hoffman who was writing to ask why I was being such a gender conservative. Sarah didn’t quite put it that way, but that was the gist…
huffingtonpost.com – Toni Newman – Writer, law school student and author, ‘I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman’
As Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center, Masen Davis brings over two decades of leadership and activism in the movement…
avclub.com – By Sam Adams
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.
The actor: In Swinging London, Terence Sta…
huffingtonpost.co.uk – Richard Adams – Specialist Family Lawyer at the Sussex Law Firm Bennett Griffin
Same-sex marriage is looking increasingly likely to be a reality in England and Wales as, following a hotly contested path, the process of the Mar…
womensenews.org – By Alana Chloe Esposito – WeNews correspondent
Amman, Jordan (WomensENews) — With taboo topics all around, Maryam Jum’a, a 26-year-old Jordanian filmmaker, says she has no end of subject matter.
Currently, she is working on a f…
pressrepublican.com – By Kelly Metzgar – Press-Republican
The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) is New York state’s transgender non-discrimination bill.
GENDA successfully passed the State Assembly for the sixth straight year in Ap…
policymic.com – Cristina Mazain
For many observers, Pakistan’s May 2013 electoral campaigns symbolized a transition to a functioning democracy and the embrace of diversity in a country known for violence and discrimination against both ethnic and re…