Real News from the Real Transgender World |
Edition Date: November 27th, 2024 |
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…
By: Bethania Palma Markus | July 20th, 2015 A black transgender woman is currently in solitary confinement in an Iowa jail because she is transgender. Meagan Taylor, 22, was arrested Monday by Des Moines police after staff at the hotel she was staying with another transgender friend called police. According to the police report,…
By Jessica Hamzelou | July 17th, 2015 Differences in the brain’s white matter that clash with a person’s genetic sex may hold the key to identifying transsexual people before puberty. Doctors could use this information to make a case for delaying puberty to improve the success of a sex change later. Medics are keen to…