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6 months ago · 121 notes · Reblogged from alloutorg
The transgender community faces a number of health disparities stemming from discrimination.
7 months ago · 2,217 notes · Reblogged from fenwayhealth
Lauren Foster, Transgender Model, And Alex Davis, Transgender Musician, Discuss Trans Issues
From the Voice-to-Voice Conversation series on HuffPost:
Lauren Foster: There are really two beginnings to our journey together, Alex. The first: Our childhoods, which were worlds apart. You in Hollywood and me in a small colonial outpost in South Africa. The second: When we met in the studio of celebrity photographer and image-maker, Greg Gorman.
Alex Davis: I totally did not expect that day at Greg’s to change my life the way it did. I’ve met so many people since I’ve transitioned who have been awesome, but you were the first person outside my family to tell me outright that I’m not just a transman, I’m a man, no two ways around it. Not a second-rate man, which is what I feared I would always be seen as. Growing up in Hollywood, I was consistently bombarded with messages that told me that transgender people are contemptible, or at best, “fascinating freaks of nature.” You sat across from me and told me I had to believe otherwise if I was going to live at all, words from the ultimate glamorous woman herself. From what you’ve told me, it sounds like you are on the fearlessly honest path of knowing who you are and making yourself a visible reality long before most transgender people. And you credit your parents with creating that condition for you.
Click on the link to read more and please give it a read.
11 months ago · 4 notes
Tom Gabel of Against Me! Comes Out as Transgender Singer reveals plans to begin living as a woman in the new issue of Rolling Stone
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 speaking openly about it. “I’m going to have embarrassing moments,” says Gabel, “and that won’t be fun. But that’s part of what talking to you is about – is hoping people will understand, and hoping they’ll be fairly kind.”
The full story of Gabel’s transformation is in the latest issue, on newsstands this Friday (May 11th). In it, the singer tells Josh Eells about her history of gender dysphoria, the specifics of the transition process and what becoming Laura Jane Grace will mean for the future of Against Me!
1 year ago · 361 notes · Reblogged from holisticsexualhealth
A piece on MSNBC about trans issues.
1 year ago · 29,517 notes · Source · Reblogged from gay-men
Becoming Me from In the Life
Eight families with transgender and gender non-conforming children ranging in ages from 5 to 25 share their stories. With the healthy development of their children at stake, parents must confront binary perceptions of gender, widespread transphobia and controversial parenting decisions.
8 True Stories: How Real Families Handle Trans Children
By Lucas Grindley, Advocate.com
The question of what to do when your child is transgender becomes real for eight families followed by In the Life in its April episode.
In the Life tells the powerful stories of eight different families with transgender and gender-nonconforming children in its latest episode, which debuted Sunday and airs throughout April on public television.“As soon as he could talk, he started saying he was a boy,” a mother says of her 5-year-old child, Jake. Another child declares, “I’m a girl, I don’t play boy stuff.” A parent wonders, “How are we going to navigate puberty?”
You can watch the video (full episode) above.
1 year ago · 1,548 notes · Reblogged from loveincolororg
LGBTQ* Equality Videos You Should Watch
AllOut.org’s Global Equality video
1 year ago · 186 notes · Reblogged from knowhomo
Jimmy Kimmel on “How Gay Marriage Could End Humanity”
1 year ago · 60 notes · Reblogged from loveincolororg
California grants new rights to LGBT community
Sacramento took notice last year of the political clout of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. New laws that took effect Sunday include:
1. Requiring school districts to have a uniform process for dealing with gay bullying complaints.
2. Mandating that school personnel intervene if they witness gay bullying.
3. Requiring state universities and colleges to create and enforce campus policies protecting LGBTs from harassment and to appoint employee contacts to address on-campus LGBT matters.
4. Correcting inequalities between domestic partnerships and heterosexual marriages, including domestic partner health benefits sharing.
5. Allowing courts to consider the relationship between a child and a nonbiological parent when considering child rights cases involving birth parents, adoptive parents and gay or lesbian guardians.
6. Providing public accommodation and protection in education, housing and employment for gender identity and expression.
7. Making it easier for transgender Californians to get a court petition to change their gender on official documents such as birth certificates.
8. Requiring employers with state contracts worth more than $100,000 to have nondiscrimination policies in place for LGBT workers and their partners.
9. Including gender identity and sexual orientation of potential judges into the state’s Judicial Applicant Data Report to ensure that state courts are diverse.
10. Providing that if a gay couple got married in California but live in a state that won’t grant them a divorce, the California court will have jurisdiction to grant them a legal divorce.
11. Mandating that school textbooks and social studies include gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender accomplishments.
Everything EVERY state needs to be doing. EVERY STATE! You here that, LA? Because we’re everywhere and we need the same respect non-queers have!
1 year ago · 834 notes · Reblogged from youjoqueer
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