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Tyra Banks is teaming up with VH1 for a series titled TransAmerica . Read more... ...

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Prisoner Chelsea Manning may receive the hormone treatment she desires, but she must be transferred to a civilian prison to obtain it — and that’s where it gets tricky. Read more... ...

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Time and time again , we've seen reporters misstep when interviewing people who are transgender. Rather than getting to discuss the book, TV show, activism or whatever else it is that they're there to talk about, guests instead face invasive questions about their bodies and personal, private experiences. Read more... ...

Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox will executive produce and host an hour-long documentary to air on both MTV and Logo this fall called Trans Teen: The Documentary . Read more... ...

Recently the term "transgender culture" has became more and more common a term in discourse about LGBT topics. Perhaps alongside "gay culture" or "queer culture," this new term is seen as recognising the unique lived experiences of transgender individuals. Yet, is this a term with actual substance? Read more... ...

Dr. Kim Seok-Kwun is known as the "father of South Korean transgender people," and he is the leading surgeon performing sex reassignment surgeries in South Korea. Despite his own strong Christian beliefs, he says he has come to the decision that performing SRS for his patients is the right thing to do, even if it earns him ire from evangelical Christians in the very religious East Asia nation....

Yesterday India's Supreme Court legally recognized the country's neither male or female third gender, and declared them entitled to the same education, jobs, and driver's licenses as those who identify as male or female. To Western eyes, this ruling is unprecedented given the same court's recent outlawing of homosexuality. Read more... ...

Alexa Huang, Professor of English at George Washington University, writes about her experiences of the intersection of gender identity and race by looking at how her transition as a trans woman of color, specifically as an Asian trans woman, has altered the way privilege is applied, not applied, restricted, or revoked as she moves about her daily life. Read more... ...

With what could have major implications on sex reassignment surgery for transgender women, four young cisgender women have been successfully implanted with vaginas made from their own cells. Follow up tests have shown that the engineered vaginas are not distinguishable from the rest of the young women's bodies. Read more... ...

The video chronicles the reunion of a woman with her best friend, with whom she was in love when they were teenagers. However, there's a twist, as her best friend knew her as a "boy." She is, in fact, a "ladyboy," which is the preferred term for many individuals in Thailand we might label as trans women in a Western context. The video by Vid Hiper has gone viral with almost nine...

A substitute teacher at a public intermediate school in Lumberton, Texas has reportedly been suspended for being transgender because of parent complaints. Read more... ...

"So I was asked to write about the Trans(-?) male/men/dude/masculine or whatever else we feel like calling ourselves, experience and feminism (or at least my personal experience and thoughts)," writes C, a trans man who wants to offer his perspective: Read more... ...

Transparent , a TV series written by Jill Soloway and features a later transitioning trans woman named Maura, has been given the green light for production of a full season. Read more... ...

Transparent , a TV series written by Jill Soloway and features a later transitioning trans woman named Maura, has been given the green light for production of a full season. Read more... ...

A student at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina alleges that she was harassed by campus security and suspended by the Dean of Student Life for being transgender after she used the female restroom. Read more... ...

GUYS. I thought we talked about this. I could have sworn we already had a long, drawn out, excruciatingly detailed conversation about why this kind of shit is not okay. After maybe a week or two of total freak outs about Bruce Jenner, I thought we had agreed to shut the fuck up about him and leave him the hell alone. Read more... ...

Gary Sconce, a California high school teacher, surprised students, parents and administrators by announcing that the long-time educator would return from spring break as Karen Adell Scot. Read more... ...

Transition isn't just about medical transition. It isn't just about hormones. It isn't just about surgeries. If any of that stuff. It's about making a lot of life changes. Choosing to move from unhappiness behind a mask to happiness unmasked. And here's a couple of transition montage videos that will really inspire you, and should be looked at as inspiration for trans folks in general: Read more......