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Chelsea Manning is asking a court to formally change her name. Read more... ...

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s performance in Dallas Buyers Club annoyed me from the first moment his character, Rayon, a transgender woman, appeared on screen. She peeked around a curtain in the hospital like a stalking cat, looking to snatch a glimpse of the half-naked man in the bed next to her. Her action sent a message that carried throughout film: This character was weird, and as the movie's protagonist Ron Woodroof (played...

Jared Leto's performance in Dallas Buyers Club annoyed me from the first moment his character, Rayon, a transgender woman, appeared on screen. She peeked around a curtain in the hospital like a stalking cat, looking to snatch a glimpse of the half-naked man in the bed next to her. Her action sent a message that carried throughout film: This character was weird, and as the movie's protagonist Ron Woodroof...

Today, Barneys introduced its spring 2014 campaign. It's titled "Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters," and it stars seventeen transgender models photographed in black and white by Bruce Weber. Read more... ...

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In December, the city council of Shreveport, Louisiana passed an ordinance banning housing and employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. What great news! Everyone in Shreveport must be throwing dance parties in the name of progress and RuPaul's Supermodel (You Better Work) — because employment equality! — is probably playing 24/7 from every speaker in town!...

For Fallon Fox , the following comments are par for the course as she enters one of her MMA fights: Read more... ...

s Secret to hire Carmen Carrera as a model. Carmen Carrera is a transgender burlesque performer extraordinaire, well known for her pre-transition stint on RuPaul...

Some people are just rotten to the core, and it appears that Frank Schubert is the goblin king of those subhumans. Schubert, a National Organization for Marriage and My Vomit strategist and a key figure in California's 2008 anti-same-sex-marriage initiative Prop 8 , has set his sites on a new target: transgender children . Read more... ...

I never intended to be an advocate. I never intended to be the person kids would come to when they felt suicidal. But somehow, somewhere along the line, that’s exactly what happened. Read more... ...

I never intended to be an advocate. I never intended to be the person kids would come to when they felt suicidal. But somehow, somewhere along the line, that’s exactly what happened. Read more... ...

Everything seemed a little better and brighter in the world when a California high school crowned 16-year-old trans girl Cassidy Lynn Campbell homecoming queen — but it turns out the waste of humanity came to crap on her parade. Read more... ...

Homecoming events aren’t just opportunities for creepy alums to revisit their old schools and watch high school kids play football. Sometimes, homecoming can be an opportunity to demonstrate a level of inclusion and tolerance high school (in general) isn’t exactly known for. That’s what happened at Marina High School in Huntington Beach, Calif. this Friday when a 16-year-old trans girl was crowned...

The CW is developing a one-hour drama, ZE , about a transgender teen. The show, from the producer of the Academy Award-winning film Milk , will focus on a Texas teenager who begins transitioning into living as a boy. Read more... ...

Since appearing on Orange Is the New Black as Sophia Burset (Litchfield Prison's premiere fire fighter-turned-hairstylist), actress and activist Laverne Cox has become a household name as both a fan favorite and as the actress — and trans woman — currently being credited with shining a light on the trans community and the issues trans people face on a day-to-day basis. Read more... ...

Lori Duron is the author of Raising My Rainbow , a popular parenting blog (now a memoir) where she documents what it's like raising C.J., her non-gender conforming son who prefers dresses, dolls and makeup to toys that are typically seen as boyish. Thanks to her popular website, Duron has become the face of non-gender conforming parenting, a style of child-rearing that creates a safe space for children...

t see it that way. Manning will be sent to a men...

s big news story/pounding headache is courtesy of convicted spy Bradley Manning's announcement that she wishes to live the rest of her life as a woman/the internet...

A most excellent bill was signed into law by California's governor Jerry Brown today — one that requires California public schools to respect students’ gender identity and makes sure they can fully participate in all school activities, sports teams, programs, and facilities that match their gender identity. Read more... ...