lgbtweekly.com – By Autumn Sandeen
Retired Senior Chief Kristin Beck’s book Warrior Princess was recently released about her 20 years in the Navy and the beginning of her transition from male to female. I won’t presume I can editorialize about or re…
smh.com.au – Samantha Lane – Sports Writer
The AFL has started landmark mediation proceedings with a transgender footballer who says her vilification case has been mismanaged for six weeks because it was “new” and “too hard”.
Kirsti Miller, who i…
miamiherald.typepad.com – By Steve Rothaus
A benefit will be held Thursday night at Score on Lincoln Road to help pay funeral expenses for Florida drag queen Wanda, who was slain a week ago in Tampa.
Wanda, whose real name was Anthony Jerome Lee,…
thefrisky.com – Julie Gerstein
There’s a well-known nursery rhyme that asks, “What are little boys made of? / Slugs and snails / And puppy-dogs’ tails … What are little girls made of? / Sugar and spice / And everything nice.” It’s a tiny piece of a …
huffingtonpost.com – Toni Newman – Writer, law school student and author, ‘I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman’
Living the life of a transsexual can be really hard. I know I don’t have to tell you that. But while the day-to-day can be difficul…
prweb.com
“It’s Not Who I Am” recounts the life of a woman experiencing gender dysphoria.
Australia (PRWEB) – The U.S. National Library of Medicine defines gender identity disorder as “a conflict between a person’s physical gender and the gender…
lgbtqnation.com – Daniel J. O’Donnell – Member, New York State Assembly
I had to speak up.
During the lengthy debate in the State Assembly last week about New York’s Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), I hadn’t planned to comment an…
americanprogress.org – By Kellan Baker and Andrew Cray
*Author’s note: This article has been updated to correct an omission. The California Department of Insurance was the first regulatory entity in the nation to specifically address insurance discr…
10thousandcouples.com – by Imara Jones reprint from Color Lines
As the Supreme Court weighed arguments on same-sex marriage, Chief Justice John Roberts wondered aloud from the bench whether action on the issue by the court was necessary, because “po…
huffingtonpost.com – Laverne Cox – Actress, producer and transgender advocate
On Tuesday, March 12, I woke up at 4:30 a.m. to meet with a group of representatives from Housing Works who, every Tuesday from January to June, travel to Albany, N.Y., to…