Real News from the Real Transgender World |
Edition Date: April 19th, 2024 |
Via: Sky News Brighton Council defends its letter to thousands of parents after it was branded “utterly ridiculous” by a Tory MP. A council leader has said he is “proud” of a letter asking children aged four to choose the gender “they most identify with”. Brighton and Hove City Council wrote to thousands of parents…
By: Cleis Abeni A 32-year-old transgender woman of color was shot and killed Wednesday at approximately 1:20 p.m. within the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, according to local news station KABC-TV. Officer Tony Im of the Los Angeles Police Department told the Los Angeles Times that the shooting took place in the 500 block…
By: Cleis Abeni Katrina Johnson moved her family from Chicago to Burlington, Iowa, to escape rising violence in the big city, reports the Des Moines Register. She settled in the small city of around 50,000 residents in a culturally diverse, low-income neighborhood called South Hills. Her family thrived. Then the unthinkable happened. On March 2, Burlington police discovered the…
By: Katy Guest Like Maria Miller, who was interviewed in last week’s Independent on Sunday, I am shocked that arguments against giving equal rights to transgender people are coming from women purporting to be feminists. I am a feminist, too, and I can say what a politician can’t: it’s time to accept that bitching…
By: Paris Lees Now, I like to see a penis being chopped up and fashioned into a designer vagina as much as the next television viewer – but what a relief that transgender representation seems to have moved on in 2015. Yes, Channel 4 is still churning out those awful shock docs about “SEX CHANGE…