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"I look pretty good for a dead bitch," Vivian Wilson, a transgender woman, said of her biological father's claims that gender-affirming care "killed" her.
Brooke Guinan brings a trans lens to one of the world's most macho professions.
A transgender woman, 23-year-old Lashai Mclean (pictured), was shot to death in northeast Washington, D.C., early Wednesday morning. Police say the investigation is still under way but, according to The Washington Times, the shooting occurred about 10 blocks from a group home for homeless gay and transgender youth where Mclean had sought housing assistance.
"What is inherently trans when you're not transitioning?"
Bobby May, sheriff of Arkansas’s St. Francis County, says he believes the death of transgender woman Marcal Camero Tye is a routine murder case and not a hate crime. According to preliminary autopsy results, the 25-year-old Tye, who was born a man but had been living as a woman, was killed by a gunshot to the head. Shell casings found at the scene appear to corroborate this
Trans woman Erin Vaught entered Ball Memorial Hospital in East Central Indiana on July 18, 2010 and was instantly met with discrimination. Upon checking in with her wife and son at the admissions desk, Vaught was ridiculed and disrespected for being transgender. She showed her identification card to the workers, but was entered into the system as “male” instead of “female” even though her ID stated otherwise. When she pushed the issue, they flat-out denied changing the entry in the system.
The name change "honors the transgender woman of color" who paved the way for LGBTQ+ rights.
A transgender woman who worked for the campaign claims she was mistreated by a supervisor due to her identity.
Planet Fitness is standing behind its decision to ban a member who photographed a transgender woman in a locker room.
Sarah McBride made history last year when she was the first transgender woman to address the Democratic National Convention.
Kenyan L. Jones has been charged with second-degree murder for the Christmas Eve shooting of Dee Dee Pearson, a transgender woman in Kansas City, Mo.
Despite all the press coverage we receive on bathroom bills and locker rooms, there's still many myths and half-truths floating around about being a transgender woman.
DC Comics, home to queer-friendly characters like the out lesbian Batwoman and openly gay Green Lantern, just introduced a character who may be the first out transgender woman to have a recurrent role in mainstream comics.
Bridgerton is ripe this season with queer romance and representation. Is it time for the hit Netflix show to embrace a trans narrative?
A transgender woman has been arrested for using the women's restroom in a downtown Houston library. The legality of Majanae Chambers's arrest is in question, however. Earlier this year Houston mayor Annise Parker (pictured) expanded an anti-discrimination policy to allow city employees to use the facilities of their choice on the basis of their gender identity, not their sex.
A transgender woman in Tennessee is asking the state to make a consistent ruling about her gender after a government office labeled her a male but police arrested her on a female-specific charge. Andrea Jones of Morristown, Tenn., who had gender reassignment surgery and has been recognized as a woman by the Social Security office, decided to make a statement after her local Tennessee Department of Safety office refused to let her change the gender on her driver’s license from male to female.
Nicole Kidman is slated to play a male to female transgender woman married to Charlize Theron's character in the upcoming biopic The Danish Girl. Kidman and Theron will star as Danish artists Einar and Greta Wegener, whose portraits became the toast of Copenhagen in the 1920's.
The full trailer is out for the Chloe Sevigny starrer Hit & Miss, the new series from the UK’s Paul Abbott, who created Shameless and State of Play. Sevigny, who’s starred in Boys Don’t Cry, If These Walls Could Talk 2 and Big Love, to name a few, plays Mia a transgender woman trying to reconnect with her family, who is also a contract killer by trade.
A transgender woman filed a privacy claim Wednesday against the California Department of Motor Vehicles after one of its workers found her personal contact information and sent a letter to her home condemning her gender identity. Amber Yust said she received the letter less than a week after going to the DMV in October to changer her license.
Administrators of an Indiana hospital involved in a discrimination complaint say the hospital plans to remedy problems incurred by a transgender woman who entered the hospital seeking treatment, but was ridiculed and turned away in July. Erin Vaught went to the hospital on July 18, but when she tried to submit her information for hospital records, two workers entered her gender as male, despite her identification saying she is female.
