Whoopi Goldberg is the executive producer of the Oxygen reality show Strut, which features transgender people who want to be models. On Saturday she accepted the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Reality Program.
We finally have an identification. A transgender woman was discovered unconscious on a Chelsea street on the evening of April 25 after someone called in to 911 saying an assault was in progress. The victim was rushed to Bellevue Hospital for treatment of a head injury, but she died on May 4.
New research has been performed at the Boston Medical Center which reveals that most trans patients do not elect to undergo gender affirming surgeries.
The study followed 99 transgender patients who were undergoing hormone therapy at BMC, the majority of whom were transgender women.
Kaig (pronounced Cage) Lightner is 37. He is founder of the Portland Community Football Club and Director of Coaching.
I spent 36 years as a teacher. I started as a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon, where I spent 5 years teaching first year college mathematics. After receiving my PhD, I spent three years at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. That was not a productive three years since both my parents died during that time. So I moved on to the University of Central Arkansas, where I taught for 16 years.
At a time when the federal government is bent on reducing, if anything, protections for people considered to be "outside the norm," it is important for states and local institutions to step up to fill the void.
In Connecticut the Board of Regents has adopted two new policies in order to implement an executive order issued by Governor Malloy this past February.
The Evanston (IL) Township High School District (District 202) school board voted 6-1 on Monday to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity.
MiraCosta College is a public community college in San Diego County with two campuses in Oceanside, plus a campus in San Elijo and a Technology Career Institute in Carlsbad.
The college has announced that it will award a $1,000 scholarship annually to a student who identifies as transgender or is actively involved with the transgender community.
Jake Graf's short film Headspace was released in February, but Upworthy decided to promote the video on Friday Afternoon, so LGBTQNation followed suit today.
If you have not yet seen it, the film explores the inner thoughts of some transgender people who encounter some uncomfortable situations.
Here it is:
