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...
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....
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...
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.
Those who oppose ENDA or oppose transgender inclusion in it ask why we need it when 84 percent of U.S. companies include gender identity in their equal opportunity statements. The short answer is that what we have in place is not preventing discrimination against transgender people.
HuffPost Live recently hosted a conversation discussing the challenges that face transgender student athletes. School officials and students themselve...
Red Lion Area School District administrators in Pennsylvania refuse to read Issak Wolfe's assumed name at his 2013 graduation. The district has decide...
A transgender Canadian woman is crying foul after allegedly being denied service at a bridal boutique. Of her experience at Jenny's Bridal Boutiqu...
With the need to advent new technologies that prioritize the queer community, it is important for LGBT advocacy organizations to stake a claim in this growing culture and embrace hackathons for several reasons.
There are whys to transgender activism, but beyond the whys, there are the whats of transgender activism: the goals. Here are seven goals of trans activism, with some explanation as to why these are trans activism goals.
I am a proud African-American trans woman, and my goal is to show society that transgender people are intelligent, creative and hardworking individuals who need equal opportunity to succeed. We are not asking for special considerations, just equal rights in a democratic society.
On Tuesday, March 12, I woke up at 4:30 a.m. to meet with a group of representatives from Housing Works who, every Tuesday from January to June, travel to Albany, N.Y., to speak with New York state legislators to encourage them to pass the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act.
As governor of Vermont, with help from LGBT advocates and others, Dean led his state to become the first in the nation to pass civil unions. He recently took some time to speak with me about his take on the evolution of LGBT rights in the United States and where we're headed next as a nation.
In what The Santiago Times' Elizabeth Trovall calls "the first recorded male pregnancy in Chile's history," a Chilean transgender man is making headli...
A Philadelphia city councilman has sponsored a bill that would require newly constructed or renovated city-owned buildings to have gender-neutral bath...
A New York-based transgender woman is crying foul after being jailed alongside male inmates when she was arrested in Georgia for allegedly exposing he...
McDonald's tagline is "I'm lovin' it," and one Washington franchise is giving us a big reason to love the hamburger chain, other than just the Big Mac...
Stereotyped as dancers, beggars and prostitutes, Pakistan's vibrant but shunned transgender community is striking out into politics with individuals c...
LEWISTON, Idaho -- A transgender woman was banned from a western Idaho grocery store after customers complained she used the women's restroom, police ...
I and my guest panelists Masen Davis (Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center), Cristan Williams (Director of the Transgender Foundation of America) and Arizona State Rep. John Kavanagh discuss how the transgender community will be affected by Kavanagh's new bill.
This week I had one of those productive conversations on transgender issues with a manager. She confessed that she had deliberately steered away from reading about these issues in the past, though not from squeamishness but because "both sides just seem so angry all the time."
A D.C. homeless shelter for women is being sued for discrimination practices after refusing to admit two transgender women, according to the Washingto...
My name is Nico Lang, and I used to be transphobic. I never thought about myself that way. I thought that my emotions were normal and valid, feeling justified in my passive disgust for trans bodies.
An Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight has been suspended after he fired off a shocking missive at a transgender mixed martial arts (MMA)...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Though some media reports have used male pronouns to refer to Tony Zamazal, The Huffington Post editorial policy is to use the preferre...
