Aydian Dowling, the trans model and bodybuilder is a runner up in the Men’s Health Ultimate Guy competition. Dowling traveled to New York in August for a photo shoot as one of five finalists in the Men’s Health cover competition. Tim Boniface, a firefighter from Kentucky won the competition. The four other finalists—Omari Gray, Danny…
When Shadi Petosky entered into TSA screening to take to the air at Orlando International Airport Sept. 21, she did so with the presumption she had a terrorist body – whether she knew it or not. She may have never been singled out in exactly that way before, or talked to in the way she…
Monday, Shadi Petosky, a transgender woman, was detained unexpectedly at Orlando airport by TSA officials. Petosky live tweeted her experience where she reported she was publicly humiliated and repeatedly questioned about her gender identity after clearly stating that she is a transgender woman in an encounter lasting for more than 40 minutes. As reported by Vox, she…
I’ve had a peer trans journalist who’s 1) been out as trans about a decade less than the twelve years I’ve been out, and 2) makes a hell of a lot more at our trade than I do, tell me this past week that she doesn’t believe that the trans community exists. And, of course,…
Cathy Brennan, a well-known activist who considers herself a gender critical feminist (GCF), and someone many trans feminists and trans activists consider a transgender exclusionary radical feminist (TERF), is suing Joey Stevenson of AfterEllen.com for monetary damages “of at least $70,000 and an injunction to prevent the continuation of the defamation,” according to a report…
Today, the Emmy-nominated co-creators and producers of This Is Me (Outstanding Short-Format Nonfiction Programming) Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst sat down with YouTube content creator Raymond Braun. Zackary and Rhys talk with Raymond about how working as consultants and producers on the Emmy nominated show Transparent inspired this documentary series that explores lives of several…
At 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, I found myself at a protest in Los Angeles over the number of trans people, mostly trans women of color, who’ve been murdered this year so far. The latest was Tamera Dominguez in Phoenix, Ariz. who was run over multiple times in a church parking lot by an SUV….
BBC2 will air Britain’s first trans sitcom this fall. Boy Meets Girl was created and written by Elliott Kerrigan and Simon Carlyle, the Manchester-based comedy was discovered through the Trans Comedy Award – a BBC Writersroom talent search in partnership with Trans Comedy, which offered aspiring writers up to £5,000 for the best script that promoted a…
For the second time in two years, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed a bill that would have made it easier for transgender residents to obtain an appropriate birth certificate reflecting their identity. The bill Christie vetoed (S1195) would have allowed state agencies to change a birth certificate as long as proof was provided…
Team Canada is set to make history at this month’s World Dodgeball Federation World Championships as it fields its first out trans dodgeball player. Savannah Burton, will take to the court at Tarkanian Basketball Academy in Las Vegas Nevada this weekend as part of Team Canada, reports Pink News. Burton, who is also a professional…
