Real News from the Real Transgender World |
Edition Date: April 23rd, 2024 |
By Jamie Feldman | July 28th, 2015 Transgender supermodel Andreja Pejic may soon be getting a whole modeling agency’s worth of competition. Thailand’s leading Apple Model Management announced it will open an all-transgender modeling agency in Los Angeles this summer. Filmmaker Cecilio Asuncion, whose 2012 documentary “What’s The T?” followed the lives of five transgender women, will head up the…
By Mitch Kellaway | July 27th, 2015 This year has already demonstrated why activists continue to decry an ‘epidemic’ of fatal violence directed at transgender women. Transgender advocates have, for years, been calling for an end to what they label the “epidemic” of transphobic violence. And while every November 20, the community and its allies…
By Matthew Jacobs | July 23rd, 2015 After about 80 minutes of the wild foot chase that forms the central plot of “Tangerine,” the kinetic comedy slows down for a thoughtful meditation on its eccentric politics. As a result, the film concludes with one of the year’s most special scenes — one that unassumingly crystallizes…
By Hannah Al-Othman | July 21st, 2015 Drag queens have been banned from performing at a Pride event in case they offend transgender people. Organisers of Free Pride Glasgow, which bills itself as an ‘anti-commercialist’ alternative to the Scottish city’s main Pride event, have announced the controversial ban. Despite the fact that drag queens…
Early this year, a transgender woman filed a federal lawsuit demanding better protections, alleging she has been raped seven times, punched, stomped, and knocked unconscious. Now, in the midst of her legal battle, Ashley Alton Diamond claims she was raped again and pressured to stay silent about it. Diamond, who began her prison stint in…