transgender youth
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200 Medical Professionals Oppose Bills Aimed at Trans Youth. If Only Republicans Believed in Science
So by all accounts, medical professionals and researchers have come to the conclusion that transgender people are just, you know, people. Yet, Republican lawmakers are driven by a bizarre desire to destroy everything they don’t understand, even if that means targeting children. Last month, ya boy wrote about how Republican legislators in southern states had…
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Republican Lawmakers Are Introducing Numerous Bills Targeted at Transgender Youth
The Republican party is continuing its assault on anyone who’s not a straight, cisgender, white man. Their current target? Kids. NBC News reports that Republican lawmakers across a dozen states are introducing bills that would essentially criminalize being a transgender youth. Some of the proposed laws would prevent doctors from providing them with gender-related treatment…
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Jeff Sessions Praised for Taking Action on ‘America’s Most Vulnerable Minority’
ABC Nabs Gold Star Widow, Angry About Trump CNN Pushes Back With ‘Facts First’ Slogan Va. Paper Sorry for Black Conservative’s Column In Too Many Venues, Asian Americans Are Missing Fox News Covers Immigration More, but Negatively One-Third Say Diversity Focus Slights White Men Bernal E. Smith II Dies, Publisher in Memphis Short Takes “On…
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Meet Gloria Allen, Trans Icon Who Led Charm School for Transgender Youths of Color
Gloria Allen, 71, is a transgender African-American woman who is seen as an icon by many in her community. She volunteered for years teaching a charm-school class at Chicago’s Center on Halsted, trying to teach transgender and gender nonconforming youths how to survive and to believe in themselves. “If we were all the same way…
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Report: NJ Transgender Boy Barred From Local Cub Scouts Pack
A transgender boy in Secaucus, N.J., has been barred from his local Cub Scout pack because he was born a girl. Kristie Maldonado said that she received a call from a Scouting official a month after her 8-year-old son, Joe Maldonado, joined the Secaucus pack, telling her that Joe would not be allowed to participate,…