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The right-wing representative launched a campaign following Angela Carini's loss to Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who conservatives were falsely claiming is a transgender woman.
Various celebrities and politicians are issuing hateful, transphobic remarks about the Algerian boxer competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Her passport now says “F” for female.
The denial of trans people's existence would marginalize them even further, in many ways—but we can keep it from happening.
It's a big victory for intersex and non-binary individuals in the state.
"People get so mad when I say that.”
The transgender community is celebrating a small victory today after the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation made the announcement that they have agreed to allow transgender individuals to identify themselves more accurately on forms supplied by the state agency.
To celebrate Nonbinary Awareness Week we're highlighting the amazing contributions of nonbinary people in history!
In celebrating Black History Month, I want to personally celebrate the courage and strength of sistah-warrior Gladys Bentley (1907-1960). Bentley a 250-pound African-American lesbian (who today we would consider transgender) was known as "America's Greatest Sepia Piano Player" and the "Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs." Her fall from the entertainment spotlight, however, is a cautionary tale about what can happen to us during a repressive political era when both church and state are our enemies.
Gladys Bentley (1907 -1960), was born in Philadelphia, and ran away from home as a teenager. Like many African Americans of her generation, she traveled north to the black metropolis known as Harlem. Bentley, a 250-pound African-American lesbian (who today we would consider transgender), was known as “America’s Greatest Sepia Piano Player” and the “Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs.”
