Members of the Tufts sorority Alpha Omicron Pi recruited transgender woman this semester. A representative from the sorority's national headquarters told them this was going to be a problem.
There have been plenty of articles about the terror sweeping through the transgender community which stems from the results of this election. There is talk of people detransitioning for a few years...of people going back into the closet.
But now is not the time for that.
Transgender people survived Nixon (those of us not killed while serving in Vietnam). We survived Reagan (at least those of us who did not die of AIDS). We survived...even flourished somewhat (which was mostly carryover from the Clinton years) under W.
Of course there were some murders and plenty of suicides. There are unconfirmed rumors of trans youth suicides since Tuesday night.
Abigail Austen transitioned ten years ago. At the time she became the British Army's first transgender officer.
Recently she and her fiancé traveled to the American South attempting to glean the state of the American transgender community in these times.
And she reveals a recent visit to the far-right dominated, notoriously anti-trans states, which support the Republican candidate, left her so traumatised she was unable to leave her home for two weeks.
State officials in Delaware are changing regulations involving changing of birth certificates.
Officials are deleting current language that says a birth certificate can be amended upon receipt of a court order indicating that the sex of a person born in Delaware has been changed by surgical procedure.
The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law has published another study about the transgender community. Race And Ethnicity Of Adults Who Identify As Transgender In The United States, prepared by Andrew R. Flores, Taylor N. Y. Brown, and Jody L.
Overhills High School in Spring Lake, NC has elected a transgender student as homecoming queen. Selena Milian, an 18-year-old Native American, won the race on October 21.
Her win comes as North Carolina faces increasing pressure to repeal the transphobic HB2 bill, which makes it illegal for trans people to use the correct bathroom. The state has suffered a number of sporting and cultural boycotts, costing around $395 million.
Bloomberg News's "constitutional law expert" Noah Feldman believes that SCOTUS should not have agreed to hear G. G. v Gloucester County School Board because it is too soon to address transgender equality.
What with our election bringing depression to millions for far too long, it's easy to understand why one could begin to tune out any news from our more civilized neighbors to the north.
The Fort Des Moines Church of Christ on Wednesday filed for voluntary dismissal of its lawsuit against the state of Iowa and the city of Des Moines challenging an antidiscrimination law church leaders believed could force them to operate their restrooms under "transgender bathroom rules."
