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Philly.com – By Gloria Hochman for The Inquirer
As puberty hits, transgender youths are increasingly finding it the catalyst for coming out about their sexual identities.
Shortly after school began in the fall of 2004, an eighth grader named Tye …
PrideSource.com – by Dan Woog
If Jesse Ream has her way, terms like “men’s sports” and “women’s hoops” will one day seem as archaic as leather football helmets and basketball bloomers do now. Everyone who plays sports is an athlete, Ream says; separ…
LubbockOnline.com – By Marlena Hartz – Avalanche-Journal
Alone, the boy grabbed his mother’s lipstick from the bathroom counter. Clutched in his hand, it felt like a prize, one he knew his schoolmates in this tiny town in the Texas Panhandle, and h…
AgoraCosmopolitan.com – Special to The Canadian
For some years I have grappled with disclosure issues in relation to friends, lovers and potential dates. I have wondered about both ethics of disclosure and the practical consequences. Like you, I dou…
AgoraCosmopolitan.com – by Kennidi Monroe
I completed an interview of Calpernia Addams on feastoffools.net Podcast, on the tenth anniversary of the Vagina Monologues. Calpernia did one of the trans versions of the show. That is when I had this brill…
Isthmus.com – Emily Mills
Drag kings dress as men, but it’s more complicated than that
The lights dimmed, the crowd let forth an appreciative cheer, and onto the stage strolled the confident, swaggering, decidedly masculine figure of a dapper gen…
TheAtlantic.com – by Hanna Rosin
Since he could speak, Brandon, now 8, has insisted that he was meant to be a girl. This summer, his parents decided to let him grow up as one. His case, and a rising number of others like it, illuminates a heated sci…
BayWindows.com – by Laura Kiritsy – Editor-in-chief
October 11 is National Coming Out Day. In honor of the big “Yep, I’m gay,” holiday, Bay Windows reached out to some folks in the LGBT community for their thoughts and advice on doing the deed.
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NJJewishNews.com – by Debra Rubin – NJJN Bureau Chief/Middlesex
Synagogue ceremony marks transsexual’s emotional journey
Barbra Siperstein came to her Perth Amboy synagogue on Sept. 13 to receive her new Hebrew name – and to celebrate her new ide…
PhiladelphiaWeekly.com – by Tara Murtha
My new friend Juli invited me to a party for transgendered people out in the ’burbs. After hours at a fancy restaurant in a posh pocket of manure-smelling McCain country is the unlikely spot where men – mostly…