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Tag: Trans Rights
50 Years After Stonewall, Young Trans Women are Leading the Fight for LGBTQ Equality
Fifty years after the Stonewall Riots began the modern LGBTQ+ movement, young people like Lillian Lennon and Raquel Willis are forming a new front line in the fight for trans equality—and giving young trans people hope for the future.
Trans Rights are on the Ballot in Massachusetts
Voters in the Bay State will decide whether to keep or repeal the state’s 2016 anti-discrimination law this November in what will be the first statewide referendum on transgender rights.
War on Women Report No. 8
This week, the Trump administration put an undocumented 10-year-old in a migrant facility, kept fighting to block Jane Doe from accessing an abortion in violation of her rights and doubled down on the ban on trans service members—and the ambassador to New Zealand is under investigation for sexual harassment.
Why It (Really, Really) Matters Who Gets to Serve in the Military
The right to participate in public life through military service has often gone hand-in-hand with the basic civil rights we consider an essential foundation of democracy.
The Latest Victims: On Trump’s Attacks on Transgender Military Personnel
Though transgender individuals are facing an uncertain and potential unjust fate, they’re not the only ones. They’re merely the newest minority group made into political targets.
Giving Voice to Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Violence
As a trans survivor of sexual and emotional abuse, Lexie Bean has spent a lot of time trying to make sense of their own body.
Meet the Activist Who Just Launched the Nation’s First Trans Employee Job Placement Program
Ms. talked to transgender activist Michaela Mendelsohn about her launch of the California Transgender Workplace Project.
What “Trans Panic” Means for My Family and Me
Most of us already hate using public bathrooms. There’s a reason all those news stories compare the bacteria levels of common surfaces—steering wheels, doorknobs—to the bacteria levels in public bathrooms. We’re grossed out by them. They’re malodorous caverns to which we must expose our most sensitive external organs and deposit our own smelly, bacteria-ridden waste […]
So-Called Predators in the Bathroom… Again
The transgender “bathroom panic” is making legislative gains across the country, thanks to conservative scare tactics to vilify the transgender community as sexual predators. Recently, an anti-LGBT bill, HB 2, was introduced in the North Carolina General Assembly; within hours, it had been signed by GOP Gov. Pat McCrory. The bill was introduced in response to a […]