Real News from the Real Transgender World |
Edition Date: November 27th, 2024 |
By: Mac Scotty McGregor | August 10th I’m a well-known sex educator and activist. I teach about coming out all the time. And I have found myself in a committed relationship with a beautiful woman who has a son that I have come to call my own. And at the time of this writing, I…
Pronouns. America’s been buzzing about ’em since Caitlyn Jenner debuted on the July cover of Vanity Fair. Before her transition, Jenner told ABC’s Diane Sawyer to continue to call him (then, Bruce) “him.” So what’s in a name? My neighbor is mid-transition and we call her Hannah now, not Aaron. Another New Yorker I know…
By Thomas Matt | August 4th, 2015 Love wins, right? That is the victory cry of the marriage equality ruling. But please excuse the bitterness of those of us who know that, for now, that is not true. As a cisgender man who is attracted to trans women, I would like to know when…
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…