Real News from the Real Transgender World |
Edition Date: November 23rd, 2024 |
By: Lolita C. Baldor WASHINGTON (AP) — Transgender people will be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, the Pentagon announced Thursday, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces. Saying it’s the right thing to do, Defense Secretary Ash Carter laid out a yearlong implementation plan declaring that “Americans…
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: Johanna Li Jamie and Chloe O’Herlihy share a unique story unlike most Irish sisters — they were born brothers. “We always felt like women,” Chloe, 20, told InsideEdition.com. Despite growing up in a supportive environment, both Jamie and Chloe agreed that understanding who they were separately was lonely — until they discovered they were going through…
By: Zulfiqar Ali and Shashank Bengali A 23-year-old transgender activist died at a northern Pakistani hospital Wednesday after a shooting and delays in medical care that her friends blamed on discrimination in the South Asian country. Shot seven times in an altercation Sunday, the activist — who went by one name, Alisha — was brought to Lady Reading…
By: Victoria Ho In the first case of its kind, the UK will allow a Singaporean transgender woman to stay in the country, so that she does not have to return to her home country and do compulsory military service as a man. In Singapore, males are conscripted into the army for full time national…