Real News from the Real Transgender World |
Edition Date: November 23rd, 2024 |
By: Lindsay Bever Nine-year-old Stormi set out last month to sell cookies just like every other Girl Scout — with a sales pitch and a goal. “I like to sell cookies because it’s very nice to sell cookies,” she told BuzzFeed News. Cookies, she said, “make people smile.” But when Stormi, who is transgender, started knocking on neighbors’ doors near…
By: Katy Guest Like Maria Miller, who was interviewed in last week’s Independent on Sunday, I am shocked that arguments against giving equal rights to transgender people are coming from women purporting to be feminists. I am a feminist, too, and I can say what a politician can’t: it’s time to accept that bitching…
By: Zack Ford The Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) has been wrestling with what to do with transgender athletes for years. In December of 2012, the NSAA quietly opened the door for transgender students to play for the teams that match their gender identities, but its latest policy proposal places several hurdles into the process,…
By: Claire Cohen Transgender women are being refused entry to a festival in Australia, because they are preoperative and therefore ‘physically men’. The Seven Sisters Festival, takes place in March 2016 in Mount Martha, in the state of Victoria – 60km south-east of Melbourne. The three day women-only event encourages the 1,100 attendees to: ‘relax,…
Media Matters | September 3rd, 2015 Ainsley Earhardt: “The Protesting Students Would Prefer That Lila Perry Use The Existing Gender Neutral Restroom Because She Is Still Physically A Male” Fox News used an on-screen graphic reading “Gender Bender,” to highlight protests against a transgender student’s use of the girls’ locker room at her high school, and emphasized the protesters’ claims that she “is still physically…