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In a landmark moment for Tennessee, Dahron Johnson, an out transgender chaplain, recently addressed the Tennessee House of Representatives — the first transgender person to do so — presenting a powerful rebuke to the state’s recent wave of legislation aimed at the LGBTQ+ community. Johnson’s January speech on the House floor, as detailed in an …

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Authorities in Russia have arrested two nightclub employees and accused them of establishing an outlawed extremist group for hosting a drag show. The case is believed to be the first of its kind in the country following the passage of a new law that defines nearly all LGBTQ+ organizations as extremist.

Cable news outlets couldn’t avoid covering the rash of anti-transgender bills in state legislatures in 2023, but they didn’t often feature trans people talking about the subject, according to new research from Media Matters for America.

Joseph Kuilema figures that a place of privilege was a good place to fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

Alors que les enjeux en lien avec la transidentité sont de plus en plus visibles, l’accès à l’emploi reste problématique pour cette population. On fait le point avec Anis Kaiser, de TGNS, en prélude à une table ronde organisée par la Ville de Genève. L’article Employabilité des personnes trans: le travail commence maintenant est apparu …

Caitlyn Jenner, an Olympic gold medalist, reality television personality, and a prominent, though controversial, transgender figure, expressed her support for a New York ordinance that restricts female sports teams with transgender athletes from accessing Nassau County-owned facilities. Speaking alongside County Executive Bruce Blakeman in Mineola on Monday, Jenner, 74, emphasized her concern that allowing transgender …

When a child dies – any child – the loss is incalculable. There’s the loss of a son or daughter, a sibling, a cousin, a best friend. There’s a loss of a life, snuffed out before its time. The loss of a future – who knows what that child could have accomplished?

For decades, transgender Americans have lived under a constant threat of violence. Whether at their homes, places of work or in public, there seemingly is nowhere out of reach from hate.