transgender activist

Transgender activist Janet Mock visits The Colbert Report for the first time.

Chaz Bono is headed back to school. The transgender activist and former Dancing With the Stars contestant will appear on TeenNick's long-running drama, Degrassi: The Next Generation.

Straight ally Kelly Osbourne has tweeted an apology after angering transgender activists and much of the LGBT community by using the word "tranny" and an even more derogatory term while discussing her breakup with ex-boyfriend Luke Worrall over trans model Elle Schneider.

October 2010 will mark the fifth anniversary of GLBT History Month sponsored by Equality Forum – an international civil rights organization. This year, Equality Forum has invited none other than First Lady Michelle Obama into its fold. No word yet on whether or not the First Lady plans to attend. The 2010 list of activists and advocates has just been released and include the following lesbian-familiar names:Sharon Farmer – White House Photographer, Leslie Feinberg – Author/Activist, Mara Keisling – Transgender Activist, Sharon Lubinski – U.S. Marshal, Jane Lynch – Actress, Patsy Lynch – Photographer, Cynthia Nixon – Actress, Catherine Opie – Photographer, Eleanor Roosevelt – First Lady

Meghan Stabler is a business executive, national LGBT activist, transsexual woman, and transgender advocate.  She has served on the Human Rights Campaign’s Board of Directors since 2008 and is currently Senior Director and Executive Advisor at CA Technologies, a New York-based multi-billion-dollar IT management software and solutions company. Stabler shares with dot429 her journey of transition, its impact on her career, and the work she has done towards establishing equality in the corporate workplace.

Radical activist, blogger, and attorney Cathy Brennan claims a San Francisco writer 'maligned' her in an online post about MichFest, lesbians, and trans women.

Turning the tables on Fusion's Alicia Menendez, trans author and activist Janet Mock assumed the role of interviewer to demonstrate the invasive and inappropriate questions trans women regularly face in the media.

Are feminist and activist dirty words?

Cynthia Nicole, a leading Honduras transgender rights defender, was murdered on January 9, 2009 in Barrio Guaserique in Comayaguela, a town just outside the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.  The most recent attack in a rash of murders against transgender people.

Media Advocates Giving National Equality to Transsexual & Transgender People (MAGNET) is hosting a panel discussion tonight entitled ‘Women Demanding Change Now: The Dehumanization of Transsexual Women through the Gay Male Hollywood Lens’

Today's Google Doodle celebrates International Women's Day with a video celebrating women around the globe — including two openly trans women.