Transgender / Transsexual

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shuts down transphobes after being mocked for saying ‘menstruating person’

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has absolutely eviscerated transphobes everywhere, telling them they can “stay mad” or “grow up” after she was mocked for using the phrase “menstruating person”. The trailblazing congresswoman isn’t afraid to speak out in support of LGBT+ rights – and she was quick to clap back when a newspaper mischaracterised her comments about menstruation. “AOC calls women ‘menstruating people’ while explaining the female body,” read a screenshot of a headline from the Daily Mail that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared to Twitter – and the much-loved congresswoman was having none of it. “Not just women!” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Trans men & non-binary people can also menstruate. “Some women also *don’t* menstruate […]

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Nearly half of trans people have been mistreated by medical providers, report finds

For three years, Jesse Brace avoided getting care for their seizures after they experienced discrimination at an emergency room near their home in Lawrence, Kansas, in 2017.  They said they told the staff that they are transgender and nonbinary, that their name is different from their legal name and that they use gender-neutral pronouns. “They refused to even so much as acknowledge this information, and not only did they not use [my pronouns], but they also sent me home without treating me for what I went in for,” said Brace, 25.  When they tried to get care elsewhere after that, […]

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Trans Adoption: 7 Things you should know from my own personal experience

Like most LGBTQ families, my partner and I didn’t become parents in the most conventional way. In fact, for most of my life, I never considered having kids! But when my partner and I got a call asking if we’d be willing to take immediate guardianship of our niece and nephew, we agreed to do everything in our power to create a loving home for these two children. After years of visits from social workers, inquiries from investigators trips to the courthouse, and mountains of paperwork and fees, we had the privilege of becoming a forever family through legal adoption. […]

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He was famous for being ‘the pregnant man.’ Here’s where Thomas Beatie is now

It’s been 13 years since Thomas Beatie sat down for his first TV interview and told Oprah — and the world — how he could possibly be pregnant, as a man. Today, the concept of a transgender man giving birth is hardly novel, although research, education and awareness are still severely lacking. But society has come a long way, and so has Beatie. The father of four, now a stockbroker in Phoenix, spoke to TODAY Healthabout how he thinks the trans community benefited from the media attention his pregnancy garnered, and how he and his family are doing today. “When my story […]

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Faces of 850 ‘overlooked’ trans people to be immortalised in historic Trafalgar Square artwork

Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth will welcome an artwork featuring casts of the faces of 850 trans people. For the artwork, 850 Improntas (850 Imprints), Mexican artist Teresa Margolles will cast the faces of 850 trans people in London and beyond. The proposed sculpture would highlight people whose “lives are often overlooked”, many of them sex workers, forming one of the world’s highest-profile public art commissions. The casts will be arranged around the fourth plinth to create a Tzompantli, a skull rack from Mesoamerican civilisations used to display the remains of war captives or sacrifice victims. Due to London’s weather, Margolles expects the casts to wear away and eventually disintegrate, […]

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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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