A few people have asked why I write “trans*” (with the asterisk) instead of just “trans” when referring to trans* folks on my site. Well, I’m happy to answer that! Trans* is an umbrella term that refers to all of the identities within the gender identity spectrum. There’s a ton of diversity there, but we often group them all together ... Read More »
A first-of-its-kind study to be published in the February issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology has dealt a devastating blow to the notion that men and women are fundamentally different when it comes to how they think and act. “Although gender differences on average are not under dispute, the idea of consistently and inflexibly gender-typed individuals ... Read More »
WATCH THE VIDEO – CLICK HERE! By Anna Gorman Amber, a soft-spoken, feminine 12-year-old who loves Hello Kitty and fashion design, lives with a secret. It is a secret most sixth-graders can’t fathom, one she hides behind pink skirts and make-up. It is a secret that led to all her baby pictures being tucked away as though her childhood ... Read More »
Remember Kameron Slade, the adorable 5th grader who wasn’t allowed to give a speech on gay marriage at his school until the media caught wind of it? Well, the tyke is still giving his heartfelt stump speech, only now to people with more authority than a elementary school children. Slade spoke before the City Council July 25th(before it went and ... Read More »
Kids learn the gender rules very young, and elementary schools are key sites for the construction and affirmation of culturally patterned gender relations. They learn that biological sex, gender, and sexuality are interrelated pieces of who we are and how we see the world, and they quickly learn that there are “normal,” expected ways for these three things to fit ... Read More »
“Gender Identity Disorder” is now a term of the past as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, will be replacing the term with “Gender Dysphoria,” according to the Associated Press. This change is a result of years of lobbying the American Psychiatric Association to change or remove the “mentally ill” characterization given to all who are ... Read More »
Looking at today’s magazine covers, many of us may not realize that only a few years ago one of those beautiful models could easily have been a man. Simply look at this list of 10 of the most successful transsexual models for proof that such people do exist. Andrej Pejic Andrej Pejic is a Serbian-Australian male model. He is ... Read More »
Toxic tush transgender nurse charged with manslaughter after patient DIES following ‘injection with rubber cement and tire sealant in backroom cosmetic surgery’ The so-called ‘toxic tush’ nurse who allegedly injected patients with Fix-A-Flat and Super Glue has been charged with manslaughter after one of the women receiving her ‘treatments’ died after receiving the toxic serum in her buttocks, hips and ... Read More »
RuPaul’s Drag Race star Carmen Carrera, who recently came out as transgender, says she was humiliated by her appearance on the reality show Cake Boss, and the program’s network, TLC, has pulled the episode. Carrera was part of a set-up where she flirts with the Cake Boss‘s Cousin Anthony, who does not know she is transgender. Carrera says she informed ... Read More »
On June 5, 2011, Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald set out with three friends to go to a grocery store in Minneapolis. On the way they passed by the Schooner Tavern, where they encountered Dean Schmitz and Molly Flaherty. McDonald was 22, black, and transitioning from male to female. Schmitz and Flaherty, who were white, shouted racist and transphobic slurs at McDonald ... Read More »
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