By Zack Ford In March, RuPaul’s Drag Race, a reality competition show in search of “America’s Next Drag Superstar,” featured a mini-game called “Female or She-male.” Contestants looked at pictures of bodies and tried to guess whether the person in the picture was a drag queen or a cisgender (not transgender) woman. This prompted a…

It was announced that Laura Jane Grace, front woman of Against Me!, will be the center of a new web-series called “So Much More” by AOL. It is among 16 new and original web-series launched by the company. In a release, this particular series is described as: Docuseries about punk-rock singer Tom Gabel, who came…

Victims of female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso are struggling to get surgery to remove pain and increase pleasure during sex. A hospital for this purpose was built by donors from the Raelian movement in America but never opened. Why? A tall, striking woman addresses a group of women sitting under a mango tree in…

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — An independent commission led by a former U.S. surgeon general has concluded there “is no compelling medical reason” for the U.S. armed forces to prohibit transgender Americans from serving and that President Barack Obama could lift the decades-old ban without approval from Congress, according to a report being released Thursday. The…

SACRAMENTO — A measure to block California’s transgender students rights law failed to qualify for the November ballot Monday, according to the secretary of state’s office. The referendum would have repealed a law passed last year that requires school districts to let transgender students participate in school programs and use school facilities, such as bathrooms…