Transgender / Transsexual

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Married couple plan ‘re-wedding’ after one of them comes out as trans during honeymoon

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An already married couple are planning a beautiful “re-wedding” after one spouse came out as a trans woman. Jae and Rayna Harvey, of Somerset, England, first got married in 2018 in Texas, where Jae is from, but shortly after the wedding Rayna came out as a trans woman. Rayna told The Mirror that she had been suppressing her true self since she was 11 years old, and that she felt hugely “liberated” after coming out while on their honeymoon in Wiltshire. The couple are now planning a “re-wedding” to celebrate their love now that Rayna is out, and Jae said: “There’s a bit of a disconnect […]

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Olympian-turned-doctor ‘made herself a target’ by offering gender-affirming healthcare to trans kids

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Dr Michelle Telfer, who represented Australia in gymnastics at the 1992 Olympic Games, has described how she “made herself a big target” by becoming a global leader in caring for trans kids. In a short documentary for ABC News In-depth, Telfer explained that after the end of her gymnastics career at the age of 18, she was inspired to become a doctor by those who had treated her various sports injuries. She said: “I was trying to decide between doing paediatrics or doing psychiatry. And then in paediatrics, I found adolescent medicine, which is that perfect combination of paediatrics and mental health… I’d found […]

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In the Southeast, heightened danger and few protections for trans people

Before the coronavirus pandemic tore through the U.S., resulting in nearly 600,000 deaths and a slew of collateral damage, transgender people across the Southeast were participating in self-defense classes catered specifically to them. The courses, organized by LGBTQ advocacy group Campaign for Southern Equality, had one goal: to teach trans people to protect themselves should they be the target of an attack.  The campaign saw the classes as a necessity, with trans Americans facing disproportionate levels of violence — including record levels of reported fatal violence against the community. “When folks are being attacked and murdered, helping with a name change doesn’t really do much […]

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5 Trans Activists Discuss the Complexities of “Visibility”

Every year it gets better and worse for the transgender community. March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility and the first in four years we’re celebrating under political leadership championing queer and transgender rights.  Politics plays a critical role when it comes to including and empowering transgender people. At the highest level, inclusive laws and protections must be enforced to create equal access to basic human needs like healthcare, housing, and employment.  However, the cis-heteronormative powers that sit in the decision-making chairs have deliberately chosen to exclude and dehumanize transgender and nonbinary folks. This creates inequality that waterfalls into their involvement […]

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Transgender recruit sues New Orleans Police Department for alleged hiring discrimination

Britton Hamilton said, as a trans man, he wanted to become a police officer to help promote change from the inside. He applied to the New Orleans Police Department in June 2020, and after several exams and a panel interview, he received a conditional job offer in December. “It was like a dream job,” Hamilton said. “I want to be able to help the community and help people to view police officers differently than how they are feeling now.” The offer was conditional on him passing a routine medical and psychological evaluation, during which he said the psychologist asked him […]

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Trans woman strangled to death during sex ‘was fully clothed when paramedics arrived’

An investigation has unearthed worrying evidence in the case of Mhelody Bruno, a trans Filipino woman who was strangled to death by a former Royal Australian Air Force corporal. Bruno died on 21 September, 2019, in Wagga Wagga, Australia after being choked during sex Her killer, Rian Ross Toyer, 33, initially walked free despite pleading guilty to her death due to a sentencing error. In March 2021, after outrage from activists that Toyer was allowed to escape a prison term, the judge was forced to reopen the case and ultimately sentenced him to 22 months. Details about the days before her death, which were […]

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One non-binary person’s perspective on how to transition thoughtfully and safely

Miami and Baltimore– Urban Health Media Project reporter Vanessa Falcon, a high school student in Miami, interviewed Arin Jayes, 30, of Baltimore, about his gender identity journey and experience transitioning to a non-binary trans man. Jayes, a behavioral health therapist, is also an urban farmer and embroidery artist. Q:  How was your transitioning process? Was it overall very difficult? Why? How long did it last? A: As a non binary person, I have a flexible view of how individuals develop their gender identity. It’s something that may evolve throughout a person’s lifetime, based on experiences; changes in personal values and relationships; bodily […]

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Women’s Institute puts proud trans woman on magazine cover in historic first

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The Women’s Institute (WI) has featured a trans woman on the cover of its magazine for the first time ever: 74-year-old activist Petra Wenham. Petra, a member of the Cake and Revolution WI in Suffolk, said she was “honoured” to be the first trans person to grace the cover of WI Life. In the magazine, she explained that she came out as trans to her wife, Loraine, in 2015 and came out publicly in 2018. Around the same time, she began delivering a talk to other WI groups titled: “Have you ever met a trans woman?” In it, she explains to members the difference between […]

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N.J. will house transgender inmates by gender identity after lawsuit

New Jersey has adopted a policy that requires state prisons to house transgender people according to their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth. The policy change is part of a settlement the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey announced Tuesday, and it puts the state among the handful of others with similar policies. The ACLU of New Jersey and attorney Robyn Gigl of GluckWalrath LLP sued the N.J. Department of Corrections and its officers in August 2019 on behalf of a trans woman who went by the pseudonym Sonia Doe in court documents. Prior to Doe’s lawsuit, the […]

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Pride means knowing LGBTQ history — including that of Indigenous Two-Spirit people

As cities around the United States celebrated Pride this month — including here in Denver on Saturday — there’s been a great deal of attention given to the prominent role that transgender folks have played in the LGBTQ rights movement in the country. There’s also been a serious look into the ways anti-LGBTQ jackals have disproportionately focused their attention on trans people and trans kids over the last few years. But, as with every June, there is often less acknowledgment given to the fact that Indigenous LGBTQ people were the first people on this continent victimized by the white Christians […]

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