Real News from the Real Transgender World |
Edition Date: November 23rd, 2024 |
By: Dominic Holden Roughly 1.4 million adults who live in the United States are transgender, according a new report released Thursday by the country’s leading researcher on LGBT demographics. The figure doubles previous population estimates released in 2011 by the Williams Institute, a division of the UCLA School of Law. The revision, based on new federal…
By: ARNO SCHUETZE AND COLLEEN JENKINS The headquarters of Germany’s Deutsche Bank is photographed early evening in Frankfurt, Germany, January 26, 2016. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) is freezing plans to create 250 new jobs in North Carolina after the state enacted a law last month that opponents say discriminates against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…
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…