Transgender

One of the constants in life always facing us, regardless of race, creed or gender is the need to move forward with ones life, regardless of the challenges or hurdles facing us. Strangely enough, though I moved out of my apartment today, and for the time being I am homeless, I find myself in a surprisingly good mood. Maybe it's because for the first time in a long while, I am no longer in a diff ....

Wait, we thought everything was OK now? After a heated controversy surrounding Canada's transgender beauty queen Jenna Talackova's disqualification from the Miss Universe competition for not being a "naturally born female," we learned that Donald Trump decided to revise the organization's policies and allow transgender women to enter and compete. But even with all that squared away, he brought ....

A few weeks back Queerty reported on Indiana legislator Bob Morris, who refused to sign a proclamation celebrating the Girl Scouts 100th anniversary because, he felt, the group was a “radicalized organization” that promoted abortion, homosexuality and transgenderism. Well, his head must be exploding right about now: The Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana Michigan (GSNIM) have hired a trans stu ....

Transgendered people are often seen as courageous; they have the guts to take radical steps to become the people they really are.  But I don’t see them as any different from people, mostly women, who get nip-and-tuck surgeries, botox, and breast enlargements.  After all, they too take radical steps to become the people they feel they really are – youthful and sexually attractive.I un ....

RIO DE JANEIRO (IPS) - The state of Rio de Janeiro in southeast Brazil will introduce a pioneering policy in March to reduce the under-reporting of crimes against transvestites and transsexual people, who will be able to identify themselves with their preferred names when they report crimes to the police.The right to use the names and pronouns chosen by transgender people, rather than the names on ....

Air travel is a stressful enough situation for trans people to endure, especially when we have combinations of identity documents that may or may not match our current gender presentations for various reasons.   Mercedes Allen has a post up at her Dented Blue Mercedes blog which comments about a Canadian regulatory change in the Aeronautics Act pushed through by Harper government ministe ....

U.S. civil rights movements — ones formed to address the oppression of minority populations — have often had significant pushback by societal oppressors that have included bathroom and/or significant shower components. Jim Crow states passed statutes severely regulating social interactions between the races. Jim Crow signs were placed above water fountains, door entrances and exits, and in ....

When I was seven years old, I was excited to join a Brownie troop. Whatever experiences I had in those first few years of Girl Scouts stuck with me — I’m now in my 20s and still a scout. I pay my yearly dues, spent three summers counseling at a Girl Scout camp and I chow down frozen Samoas by the box. The Girl Scouts of America are, in part, responsible for who I am today — I learned abou ....

Helen Boyd never expected to write about transvestites and their partners, yet here is her fascinating account of marriage to a cross-dresser, the intent of which is to reduce the tumult his cross-dressing causes in the couple's lives and to help more women deal better with having transgendered husbands. Boyd was supportive from the onset of her knowledge of "Betty," but even after two years' soci ....