transgender
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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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Marsha’s Plate Trans Podcast Wants to Liberate All Black People
For the past two years, Diamond Stylz and her podcast co-hosts Mia Sloan and Zahir Alexander have been providing space for black people to liberate themselves from transphobia. They want trans black people to speak freely about their experiences without the pressure of accommodating the white gaze. They want cisgender people to have a space…
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GLAAD Media Awards 2020: Janet Mock to Be Honored for LGBTQ Advocacy
Awards season is buzzing and it’s time for GLAAD (formerly known as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) to dip their toes into the pool. LGBTQ Advocacy honorees for the 31st Annual GLAAD Media Awards have been announced and we spot a fabulous choice—Janet Mock! Oh, and Taylor Swift, too. “Janet Mock is a…
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But Wait, There’s Yet Another Black Beauty Queen to Celebrate This Year!
This year has been a groundbreaking one for black women in the world of beauty pageants—a forum that sparks understandable and ongoing debate about its enduring relevance and impact on beauty standards. Nevertheless, the pageant world’s definition of beauty has been visibly expanding, as evidenced by the crowning of four black women in internationally recognized…
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On This Transgender Day of Remembrance, a New Campaign Reminds Us That Trans Is Phenomenal, Too
To date, 22 trans or gender-nonconforming people have been murdered in 2019; a majority of them black trans women. Today, Wednesday, Nov. 20, is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a time to not only mourn the lives we’ve lost, but to renew our focus on stemming the epidemic of transphobic violence and better respect and protect…
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The Category Is ‘Campaign Star’: Pose Star Mj Rodriguez Scores Her First Beauty Campaign With Olay Body
“When I got Rent off-Broadway in 2011, I just got to be myself and actually go on my journey through my art,” said Mj Rodriguez as she sat on a panel at Glamour’s Women of the Year Summit on Sunday. “I could live out my truest dreams, which is completely being me in front of…
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The Fight to 'Be First': Patricio Manuel, the First Transgender Professional Male Boxer, Breaks New Ground With Everlast
“Be first.” In boxing, it means to throw the first punch. As super featherweight Patricio Manuel explains, it also means risking being hit, “but if you’re able to land that shot, that’s gonna give you victory,” he says. Manuel knows a lot about being first: He is the first boxer to fight professionally as both…
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Not Only Does Facial Recognition Software Often Get Racial ID Wrong, a New Study Finds It Misgenders Trans and Nonbinary Folks Almost All the Time
Nonbinary and transgender identities are increasingly being accepted and normalized throughout society, but not when it comes to high-tech facial recognition software developed by some of the largest tech firms in the world. According to Forbes, a recent study by the University of Colorado, Boulder, found that when it comes to transgender and nonbinary people,…