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Meet Stephen, Warren Beatty and Annette Benning’s transgender son. He’s reaalllllyyy smarrrtt, and talks super fast, and has really awesome things to say. Sit up and pay attention!
More Protection for Transgender Workers
On Monday the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that “intentional discrimination against a transgender individual because that person is transgender is, by definition, discrimination ‘based on … sex’ and such discrimination … violates Title VII.”
This is fantastic news! Read more here
Tom Gabel of Against Me! comes out as transgender
Check out how amazingly Rolling Stone handled the correct pronouns in this story!
Tom Gabel in St. Augustine, Florida.
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Against Me! singer Tom Gabel reveals plans to begin living as a woman in the new issue of Rolling Stone. Gabel, who has dealt privately with gender dysphoria for years, will soon begin the process of transition, by taking hormones and undergoing electrolysis treatments.
Gabel will eventually take the name Laura Jane Grace, and will remain married to her wife Heather. “For me, the most terrifying thing about this was how she would accept the news,” says Gabel. “But she’s been super-amazing and understanding.”
Gabel only told a handful of family and friends about her plan to transition before talking to Rolling Stone. Because this is the first time a major rock star has come out as transgender, the singer made a point of s
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-gabel-of-against-me-comes-out-as-transgender-20120508#ixzz1uPu9zwVH
Zackary Drucker is a transgender performance artist who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality and seeing.
““The Gold Standard” is a collection of Drucker’s projects, including performances and photography, documentation and exhibitionism, and combinations of the above. In one featured collection, entitled “Distance is where the heart is, Home is where you hang your heart”, Drucker, a trans woman, and Amos Mac, a trans man, journeyed back to Drucker’s childhood home of Syracuse, New York. As Michelle Tea put it: “There is so much going on here it’s insane.” To find out more, we asked Drucker and Mac some questions about the work..”
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Meet Anna Grodska, the first trans woman in Polish government:
This may be a little old, but it’s news to us. Anna Grodzka, 57, became the first transgender woman elected to Polish government when she was sworn into Parliament back in the fall of 2011.
GLAAD, MISS UNIVERSE ANNOUNCE POLICY CHANGE TO ALLOW TRANSGENDER WOMEN
GLAAD and the Miss Universe Organization today announced that the competition would become open to transgender women. The announcement comes just weeks after contestant Jenna Talackova was disqualified from the Miss Canada pageant because she is transgender. The Miss Universe Organization has since reversed that decision and will allow Jenna to compete — an offer Jenna told ABC’s The View she will take.
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They didn’t know this Ms. Universe Canada finalist was trans, so they disqualified her..
‘She may look every bit the part of a beauty queen, but Jenna Talackova has lost her chance for the crown because she was born a biological male.
The 23-year-old Miss Universe Canada finalist was disqualified from the competition after it was discovered she had undergone sexual reassignment surgery..’
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This is incredible! Mom becomes dad, and it works out
We found this incredible story of real love persevering, and the core of a person being the only thing that truly matters in partnership, via NPR StoryCorps. Listen to the whole thing at the link at the bottom.
‘This spring, Les and Scott GrantSmith will mark their 25th wedding anniversary. The couple raised two daughters along the way. But 15 years ago, they hit a crisis that nearly shattered their family. Les was keeping a secret, and that became a problem. But they solved it as a family, in a way that kept them together and happy .
In the weeks leading up to that day back in 1997, Les was certain of two things: She was a mother who loved her daughters — and she was also transgender, the term for someone born in a body of the wrong sex.
Les grew depressed and withdrawn, terrified that revealing her need to live her life as a man would mean losing Scott and their daughters, Thea and Amanda.
Weeks passed in which the couple barely spoke. Finally, Scott confronted his wife, just two days before Thanksgiving.
Not long ago, the two of them sat down to recall the conversation that followed.
“I said, ‘What’s going on?’ ” Scott recalls. “And then you said, ‘I can’t tell you. Because if I do, you’ll leave me and take the children and I’ll never see them again.’ And I said, ‘You’d probably better tell me then. Because you can’t … you can’t leave it hanging like that.’ “
Read the full story and listen to their StoryCorps HERE
