Showing posts with label transgender issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transgender issues. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Trans Models Represent During NYFW 2015

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"As a transgender person of color, as an immigrant who grew up poor in a tiny little alley in the Philippines, and here I am in New ...
Friday, September 04, 2015

Nikki Araguz Loyd Gets Another Legal Win At SCOTX!

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It's another great day for Nikki Araguz Loyd in a Texas courtroom as the Texas Supreme Court in Austin ruled in her favor in her ongoi...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

JCPS Finally Passes Trans Policy Expansion!

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Last night some old Louisville human rights business I'd been working on since 2007 and had to unhappily leave undone when I moved in ...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Trans Class of 2016, Have A Wonderful School Year!

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Seeing the pictures of my niece and other kids dressed for school on my Facebook feed reminded me that the 2015-16 school year has started...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

US Trans Survey Goes Live Today

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The 2015 edition of the US Trans Survey, the largest one devoted to chronicling the lives of trans people in the United States, will go li...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Why Is It Taking This Latina Nearly 5 Years To Get A Passport?

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MeChelle Salinas is a hardworking Austin based hairstylist and makeup artist who I met when I attended my first Southern Comfort Conferenc...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Italy Becomes Sixth Nation To Allow Trans Self Identification Without Surgery

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Thanks to a recent Italian Supreme Court ruling, Italy has now become the fifth nation to acknowledge that trans people have the right to se...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

How A Black Trans Woman Ended Up In Jail Because Of An Iowa Transphobe

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When 22 year old cosmetology student Meagan Taylor and a trans feminine girlfriend traveled to Des Moines, IA from Illinois for a visit,...
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I'm Happy With The Person I See In The Mirror...

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And I don't give a rat's anus what you peeps wallowing in unrealistic beauty standards or not doing the human rights work think. ...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Statement By Secretary Of Defense On DOD Transgender Policy

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TransGriot Note:  Another day I thought I would never live to see when I started my activist journey, but here is the statement from Secr...
Tuesday, July 07, 2015

US Navy And Marines Adopt Trans Policy Changes

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The trans community has a long and proud history of people who have answered the call in war and peacetime to serve in our country's mil...
Monday, July 06, 2015

Back Up Off Jennicet, And Do Something About Trans ICE Detainees

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I met Jennicet Gutierrez during the 2015 edition of Creating Change in Denver, and I enjoyed the time I spent getting to know her. She is ...
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Sunday, July 05, 2015

John Oliver's On Point Transgender Rights Commentary

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If you don't have HBO or haven't seen it yet, John Oliver, the host of HBO's Last Week Tonight had a ten minute segment on his...
Saturday, July 04, 2015

Girl Scouts Return Transphobe`s Donation, Get Paid

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`If a girl is recognized by her family, school and community as a girl and lives culturally as a girl, Girl Scouts is an organization that c...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

We Trans Peeps Are Just Like You Cis Peeps

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Now that our right wing opponents have lost their war on marriage equality, I expect them to shift their time, effort and prodigious fundi...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Time To Root Out US Embassy Transphobia

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Last month I talked about the situation of Amruta Soni, an Indian trans person whose visa application was held up to visit the United S...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

All The Seven Sisters Will Admit Trans Feminine Students

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The Seven Sisters are a group of historical elite women's collegiate institutions in the Northeast US founded between 1837-1889 whose p...