Department of Homeland Security documents obtained last month reveal details of incidents in which transgender travelers were subjected to heightened scrutiny when passing through airport security checkpoints. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests netted civil rights complaints, incident reports and internal memos and emails from the DHS’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and…

What a horrible pile of shit the Mail on Sunday ran on its cover last weekend: “NHS to give sex change drugs to nine-year-olds: Clinics accused of ‘playing God’ with treatment that stops puberty”. You know what that means, don’t you? That the NHS is definitely NOT giving nine-year-olds any “sex change drugs” and won’t…

It’s the end of an era, and a triumph for trans activists, as SF-based drag queen Heklina (a.k.a. Stefan Grygelko) announced this week that she’ll be taking the “tranny” out of Trannyshack once and for all. The beloved 18-year-old drag club, which now travels the country and the globe throughout the year, is undergoing a…

Transgender Muslim women say law criminalising ‘posing as a woman’ violates Malaysia’s constitution. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Nisha Ayub is the face of a community that lives largely in the shadows. An outreach worker with the PT Foundation, an HIV/AIDS organisation in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, Ayub fights for the rights of the…

In downtown Manhattan same sex marriages have become beautifully normal. No longer are they celebrated for their rarity, they are simply celebrated as any wedding is: in whatever manner the couple wants. Go only five or 10 miles away, to the poorer parts of New York City, and things are dramatically different. In these communities…