Transgender / Transsexual

/ /

Trans Health Official Romoured for Key Role in Biden Administration

Dr Rachel Levine, Pennsylvania’s secretary of health, has been tipped for a high-ranking position in the Joe Biden administration. Levine is one of the highest-ranking transgender officials in the US, and has spent this year leading Pennsylvania’s response to the pandemic in the face of shameless transphobia. Her hard work and decades of medical experience could soon be rewarded, with her name now attached to two key White House roles. The LGBTQ Victory Fund, a political action committee (PAC) that helped elect hundreds of queer politicians in the 2020 election, has suggested Biden should appoint Levine either secretary of health and […]

/ /

Trans, Gender Fluid Teens 7 times as Likely to use Drugs; Alcohol before Sex than Cisgender Youth, Study Finds

Trans youth are twice as likely to be depressed and seven times as likely to engage in risky sexual behaviours, a new study has found. A Minnesota study of 411 teenagers who went to the emergency department at a hospital found that rates of cis and trans teenagers having sex was not significantly different – 20.8 per cent and 23.3 per cent, respectively – but that trans youth were more likely to use drugs or alcohol before sex. The study found that 35.7 per cent of trans youth reported that they’d drunk alcohol or used substances before sex, compared with […]

/ /

Angel Haynes, a ‘Free-spirited, Smart and Giving’ Transgender Woman, Killed

Angel Haynes has become at least the 34th transgender person to be murdered in the United States so far this year. Haynes, 25, lived in Jackson, Tennessee, but was staying in a hotel in Whitehaven, Memphis when she was shot dead on October 25. Police were called to the Motel 6 on East Brooks Road, near Fontaine Road, at 2.19am and she was pronounced dead at the scene. Haynes, a cosmetologist, had contacted her friend Shinese Weddle earlier that evening to say that she would be staying at the motel. “Angel wasn’t only my best friend, she was my sister,” Weddle said, according to WREG. […]

/ /

After 36 Years, a Transgender Veteran Granted Discharge Upgrade

,

The US airforce has finally granted an honourable discharge to a trans veteran whose life was marred by mental illness, homelessness, unemployment and drug use. In 1984 Kelly Katherine Roser’s exemplary military career was upended by a one-time positive drug test for marijuana, which she used as a form of self-medication for the distress of her gender dysphoria. For years she battled with the shame of her discharge, until now. At 59 years old, Roser has finally received the full honours she earned. “Soldiers don’t fight for the flag or the Constitution – they fight for other soldiers. When you […]

/ /

Political Candidates Face Uptick in Anti-LGBTQ Attack Ads

State Rep. Brianna Titone, who made history in 2018 when she became the first transgender lawmaker in Colorado, is now running for her second term. But while her platform focuses on the bread-and-butter issues of transportation, education and jobs, her opponents have targeted her gender identity. The group Take Back Colorado released a Facebook ad this month that misgenders Titone and refers to her by her “deadname,” the name she used before her transition. The ad also claims Titone has “always supported violence” and sexualizes children. “It’s just a nasty, transphobic ad that’s blatantly full of lies,” Titone told NBC […]

/ /

Indianapolis Trans Woman Shot to Death

Another transgender American has died by violence, bringing this year’s total of trans or gender-nonconforming homicide victims in the nation to 33. Sara Blackwood, 29, was shot around 10 p.m. Sunday in Indianapolis, The Indianapolis Starreports. She died shortly afterward at a local hospital. Police said she was apparently walking home from work when she was shot, Indianapolis TV station WXIN reports. She had worked at a Kroger grocery store for several years, but she was on her way home from a different job, according to the station. “She was very sweet and a very good person,” her friend Jimmy Johnson, a Kroger […]

/ /

Police ‘Cracked Jokes’ while Trans Woman Bled on the Floor after Attack

,

Kendall Stephens, a trans woman who survived a horrific transphobic attack in her own home, has described the shocking reaction by police who “cracked jokes while she bled onto the floor”. Warning: contains graphic descriptions of violence against a trans person.× Kendall Stephens, a community advocate and Temple University student, was brutally attacked by a group of people in her own home in August this year.  The 34-year-old was studying and enjoying a quiet night in with her two goddaughters, aged 12 and 16, when she heard a fight breaking out outside her house in South Philadelphia. When the group refused […]

/ /

A Gender Neutral Spanish Pronoun? For Some, ‘Elle’ is the Word.

Ivon Garcia, 26, grew up two exits from the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego. Garcia was so steeped in Mexican-American culture and Spanish that Garcia “didn’t really conceptualize someone not knowing Spanish.” At a young age, Garcia identified as nonbinary. But this got consistently swept under the rug by Garcia’s extended family, who was often hostile to anyone different. “To me, Spanish and Mexican, Chicano, Xicano, Mexican-American culture has consisted of being a matter of ‘one or the other, otherwise not acknowledged,’” Garcia said. “There is so much unsaid, but still judged, because it simply doesn’t fit.” It didn’t take […]

/ /

Killings of Transgender Americans Reach All-time high, Rights Group Says

A 33-year-old Georgia woman has become at least the 31st transgender or gender-nonconforming person to die by violence in the U.S. this year, according to LGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign. Felycya Harris was shot and killed Saturday in Meadowbrook Park in Augusta, Georgia. On Monday, the Richmond County coroner classified her death as a homicide. Human Rights Campaign, which has been tracking transgender deaths since2013, said it has never seen such a high number of deaths at this point in the year, with more additional deaths likely unreported or misreported. “More accurate reporting may be a factor in the […]

«‹ 90 91 92 93›»