transgender
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Donald Trump Is Just A White Man Allowed And Encouraged To Be As White As He Wants To Be
Even when considering the torrential stream of bullshit that drips and sprays and drips and sprays and drips and sprays from Donald Trump’s mouth, his tweets today calling for a ban of transgender people from the military were remarkable. Because there’s no fucking way he believes that even the dumbest of his supporters believe a word of his…
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Trump Used Twitter to Announce Ban Against Transgender People Serving in the Military Because He’s an Asshole
The president of racist, xenophobic, homophobic and transphobic America just announced on social media that he will be banning all transgender people from serving in the military because he’s actively trying to unseat Adolf Hilter as the most hated person in history. Also, because Donald Trump is a dirtbag, he made the announcement, which will…
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Trump Will Sign Executive Order to Make Discrimination Great Again
As early as Thursday, Donald Trump will sign a new executive order that allows entities to discriminate against the millions of Americans whose gender and sexuality fall outside the boundaries of those entities’ religious beliefs, CNN reports. You’ve heard of the so-called religious-liberty laws. In March 2016, Georgia’s governor vetoed House Bill 757 that would…
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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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Lawmakers in NC Will Consider Repealing Controversial ‘Bathroom Bill’
North Carolina’s controversial “bathroom bill,” passed eight months ago, could be repealed during a special legislative session Wednesday. The law known as House Bill 2 requires transgender people to use public restrooms corresponding to the sex listed on their birth certificate. It also limits statewide protections for LGBT people in public accommodations and employment, and…
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La. Navy Sailor Pleads Not Guilty in Transgender Woman’s Death
Dwanya Porche Hickerson, 20, pleaded not guilty to the stabbing death of 25-year-old Dee Whigham, a transgender Mississippi woman, CBS News reports. Hickerson, a U.S. Navy sailor from New Orleans, was charged with capital murder; he is accused of stabbing and slashing Whigham 119 times in a coastal Mississippi hotel room in July. Whigham had been…
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Federal Magistrate Judge Sides With Transgender Teen in Ill. Bathroom Case
A federal magistrate judge has recommended that a transgender teen be allowed to use the girls’ locker room at her high school. The Washington Post reports that “Student A,” a transgender girl at Fremd High School in Illinois’ Palatine Township, is at the center of a lawsuit brought on by four female students, one male…
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NC Governor Drops Controversial ‘Bathroom Bill’ Federal Lawsuit
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has dropped his fight to get a federal court to uphold the state’s notorious H.B. 2 bill, which, among other things, regulates which bathrooms transgender people can use. NPR reports that in court documents filed Friday, McCrory wrote that pursuing the action did not serve the “interests of judicial economy…
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Political Prisoner Chelsea Manning Goes on Hunger Strike Over Lack of Medical Treatment
Coinciding with the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising and a national prison work strike to raise awareness about inhumane conditions, political prisoner Chelsea Manning, 28, has begun a hunger strike, citing lack of proper medical treatment and “high-tech bullying.” Manning’s act of resistance begins one week after political prisoner and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, 62,…
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Deeniquia Dodds: Another Black Trans Woman Was Killed. Do #BlackLivesMatter Still?
Deeniquia Dodds, known to her friends and loved ones as “Dee Dee,” died Wednesday from a Fourth of July shooting in Washington, D.C. On a day commemorating the alleged freedom and equality for all people in this country, Dee Dee, a 22-year-old black transgender woman raised in the nation’s capital, became at least the 15th trans…