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Transgender Man Featured On VH1 Reality TV Show

The Huffington Post | Glennisha Morgan | Posted 06.19.2013 | Gay Voices

On the latest episode of VH1's "I'm Married To A..." Scott, a transgender man and his partner Jessica are featured. Scott is a performer who travels d...

Cavan Sieczkowski

Groups Rally Against Fox News' Transphobia

HuffingtonPost.com | Cavan Sieczkowski | Posted 06.19.2013 | Gay Voices

Fox News isn't exactly known for its inclusive news coverage, but now, a number of equality groups are taking particular issue with the network's cove...

The Canary in the Coal Mine

Brynn Tannehill | Posted 06.18.2013 | Gay Voices
Brynn Tannehill

Last week's Pew study on LGBT people paints an extremely negative picture of the battlespace as it stands for transgender people. We have almost no cultural acceptance. We lack all the traditional methods for changing this for the better. The risk of being "left behind" is strong.

A Huge Small Step: The Obama Administration Delivers Big

Mara Keisling | Posted 06.14.2013 | Gay Voices
Mara Keisling

Most readers won't know that the updated policies announced last week by the Social Security Administration (SSA) are among the most humane and important public policy advancements for transgender people during the Obama administration or even ever.

Australia's 'Intersex' Move

Agence France Presse | | Posted 06.14.2013 | Gay Voices

The Australian government has announced new guidelines on gender recognition which state that individuals should be given the option of selecting "mal...

Sasha Bronner

Famed Helicopter Reporter Comes Out As Transgender: 'I Was Contemplating Suicide'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sasha Bronner | Posted 06.15.2013 | Los Angeles

Bob Tur is a macho man. He is known for flying helicopters into chaos, capturing famed footage of the O.J. Simpson low-speed Bronco chase and document...

Talking About ENDA With Republicans

Brynn Tannehill | Posted 06.11.2013 | Gay Voices
Brynn Tannehill

Too often, progressives focus entirely on the social justice arguments for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and fail to address the concerns of libertarian-leaning Republicans. The following are common comments expressing skepticism about ENDA, and how I answer each.

WATCH: Bystanders React To Trans Teen Fighting With Father About Buying Prom Dress

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rudolph | Posted 06.11.2013 | Gay Voices

The ABC show "What Would You Do?" has tackled various gay and transgender issues in the past, such as coming out to unaccepting parents and transgende...

Jan Diehm

LOOK: Where You Can Be Fired For Being Transgender

HuffingtonPost.com | Jan Diehm | Posted 06.11.2013 | Gay Voices

When Congress last voted on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in 2007, the bill would have prevented employers from discriminating on the b...

SheZow, Bam, Pow! Children Trangressing Gender in Real Life and Media

Dana Beyer | Posted 06.07.2013 | Gay Voices
Dana Beyer

The one group of trans persons over whom there is still oftentimes fierce debate in the medical community is composed of children. We simply don't have any evidence-based understanding of which gender non-conforming boys will turn out trans, which will be gay, and which straight -- gender conforming or not.

At Long Last, Some Good News For Arizona's Transgender Community

AP | Posted 06.06.2013 | Gay Voices

PHOENIX -- The sponsor of an Arizona bill targeting transgendered people who want to use bathrooms of the gender they identify with says he's giving u...

Good News For Ohio Transgender Teen

The Huffington Post | Glennisha Morgan | Posted 06.03.2013 | Gay Voices

Great news for Chris Calderon-Perez: the 17-year-old Fostoria High School student has won the right to wear a girl's graduation robe to her 2013 comme...

WATCH: 'Gay' And 'Transgender' Person Attacked In Alleged Hate Crime

Posted 06.03.2013 | Gay Voices

EDITOR'S NOTE: The victim's family uses male pronouns but also makes reference to Diego as a woman, so we have updated the following story to read wit...

Pornographic Activism: The Rebranding of Buck Angel

Logan Lynn | Posted 06.03.2013 | Gay Voices
Logan Lynn

Buck Angel (and his vagina) are full-blown gay porn stars, friends. Is your mind blown? Well, good. That's the point.

Amazing Grace

Chris Delyani | Posted 06.03.2013 | Gay Voices
Chris Delyani

I should've known she'd find me. Within minutes of my March blog posting of my first visit to the Boston Alliance of Gay and Lesbian Youth, Grace Ste...

Misidentification and Transphobia: One Musician's Experiences Touring America

James Nichols | Posted 05.31.2013 | Gay Voices
James Nichols

With the knowledge that Janke identifies as trans and has experienced violence in multiple forms in response to this identification, I felt that their travels performing their musical project would in some way speak to issues for trans individuals during this crucial time for the queer community.

WATCH: Should OkCupid Expand Gender And Sexuality Options?

Posted 05.31.2013 | Gay Voices

Gay, lesbian and bisexual users are among the many who turn to OkCupid to liven up their personal lives, but is the dating and networking site too lim...

Increasing Transgender Acceptance One Family at a Time

Crystal Cheatham | Posted 05.28.2013 | Gay Voices
Crystal Cheatham

Dr. Michele Angello is a therapist who works specifically with transgender youth and their families. Through her interactions with transgender youth and, subsequently, their families, Dr. Angello has led the way in educating entire churches, schools and communities about transgender identity.

'Boy Or Girl?' The Challenges Of Gender In Schools

AP | MARTHA IRVINE | Posted 05.28.2013 | Gay Voices

CHICAGO -- From the time they are born, we put our boys in blue beanies and our girls in pink ones. It's a societal norm, an expectation even, that yo...

LGBT Narratives, Memory and The Sense of an Ending

Dana Beyer | Posted 05.22.2013 | Gay Voices
Dana Beyer

The point of coming out and living free and equal is to allow all to not have to create memories based on shame and fear, to allow a life and its remembrance to be based on the emotions that we all have as human beings but which are grossly distorted by the closet.

Why I'm Not Interested In Being A 'Good' Transgender Woman

Autostraddle | Vivian | Posted 05.18.2013 | Gay Voices

A month or two after I started living full time out as woman, one of my friends suggested I talk to an acquaintance of his, an older trans woman who h...

High School Nixes Transgender Student's Graduation Plans

The Huffington Post | Glennisha Morgan | Posted 05.17.2013 | Gay Voices

A New Mexico-based transgender student is being denied the opportunity to walk during his graduation ceremony in the cap and gown designated for boys....

No Bigotry With My Big Gulp!

Sue Kerr | Posted 05.13.2013 | Gay Voices
Sue Kerr

Recently I stopped by my neighborhood 7-Eleven convenience store and found myself taking a big gulp when I encountered overt transphobia with a side of woman bashing. I witnessed a clerk use the word "tranny" while telling an anecdote to a co-worker and at least one customer.

Great News For Hong Kong's Transgender Community

AP | KELVIN CHAN | Posted 05.13.2013 | Gay Voices

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's top court granted a transgender woman the right to marry her boyfriend Monday in a watershed ruling that falls short of allow...

My First Rainbow Ball

Wayne Maines | Posted 05.13.2013 | Gay Voices
Wayne Maines

Nicole was in the audience and I wanted so much not to embarrass her, but within minutes I was in tears. I saw girls, boys, and chaperones openly weeping. Every story touched a chord, snowballing into more emotion.