Real News from the Real Transgender World |
Edition Date: April 26th, 2024 |
By: Michael K. Lewis | September 11th, 2015 A federal judge on Friday ruled against a transgender teenager who continues to challenge his Virginia school district’s policy requiring students to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their “biological gender.” U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar rejected Gavin Grimm’s request for a preliminary injunction…
By Sarah Savage | Sept. 11th, 2015 Trans activist Sarah Savage writes for PinkNews, reacting to suggestions that LGB and trans people should be seen as members of differint communities. There has been a lot of talk within the trans* community recently about whether there should be an effort to separate ourselves from the…
Photographer Dave Naz has just completed “Identity: In & Beyond the Binary“, a 60 min documentary interviewing trans, genderqueer, butch and queer people on their varied experiences with gender identity. Addressing topics from hormones to employment to growing up, “Identity” is a series of enlightening and heartfelt interviews. “When I started photographing the subjects for…
By: Dana Beyer | September 3rd In the post-Jenner world, with multiple mainstream media outlets covering trans stories with increasing degrees of accuracy and respect, we are now faced with the question of who are the gatekeepers to that history. Who gets to tell the story which will become the accepted and acceptable narrative for…
Media Matters | September 3rd, 2015 Ainsley Earhardt: “The Protesting Students Would Prefer That Lila Perry Use The Existing Gender Neutral Restroom Because She Is Still Physically A Male” Fox News used an on-screen graphic reading “Gender Bender,” to highlight protests against a transgender student’s use of the girls’ locker room at her high school, and emphasized the protesters’ claims that she “is still physically…