Real News from the Real Transgender World |
Edition Date: November 23rd, 2024 |
From: Associated Press | August 11th, 2015 The decision makes it less likely that the 51-year-old will be able to have the surgery funded by the prison before she is released. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown is allowing parole for a transgender inmate who is trying to force California to become the first…
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…
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…
Via Gay Voices, Tyler Kingdale | June 9th, 2015 Earlier this year, University of California President Janet Napolitano invited deans and department heads to a seminar on inclusivity on campus. A large theme was how the university could better address microaggressions, the subtle comments, “slights” or “snubs” that signal bias against someone’s race, background or identity. …
As the first breakthrough transgender star in Hollywood, Laverne Cox has certainly mixed it up with the A-list. The “Orange Is the New Black” actress recently attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where she rubbed shoulders with the president (“Oh God — he knows who I am!”). She fan-girled out for Viola Davis at the…