Discriminatory legislation targeting transgender students is gaining traction in South Dakota. Scheduled for a hearing on Monday in the House State Affairs committee, HB 1008 seeks to prevent transgender students in public schools from using restrooms or locker rooms that are consistent with their gender identity and requires taxpayers to assume the costly financial consequences…
Following a six month review the Pentagon has affirmed it will make a determination on the transgender military ban this spring reports The Washington Blade. In response to a Washington Blade inquiry this week for an update on the review Pentagon spokesperson Matthew Allen told The Blade that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will make a…
WASHINGTON – After legal threats by an anti-LGBT hate group forced a school in Mount Horeb, WI, to cancel plans last month to support a transgender student by reading “I Am Jazz,” a book by transgender teen and HRC Youth Ambassador Jazz Jennings, more than 600 residents showed up at a public reading organized by…
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – In an industry that is categorically dominated by males, female DJs have been progressively multiplying in the nation’s clubs, bringing their own unique sounds and individual talent. Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend has continuously been championing this blossoming movement, year after year, proving these DJs can more than rise to the occasion….
Transgender U.S. military sergeant and bodybuilder Shane Ortega has joined Athlete Ally as a Professional Ambassador. Ortega joins MMA Fighters Jessica Aguilar and Nicole Upshaw, National Women’s Soccer League Forward Zakiya Bywaters, Great Britain’s No. 1 male blind ski racer John Dickinson-Lilley and Canadian National Soccer Team Defender Carmelina Moscato who were also welcomed today…
Chelsea Manning, who is currently serving 35 years for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks launched a Christmas attack against Caitlyn Jenner saying she ‘sold out’ the trans movement. The Daily Mail reported that Manning criticized the reality star over Christmas Eve on Twitter writing, ‘In 2015 @CaitlynJenner was the Grinch who stole (& sold out)…
A transgender couple in Ecuador have made history with a unique pregancy, believed to be the first of its kind in South America. The Associated Press reports that Fernando Machado and Diane Rodriguez went public with the pregnancy through Facebook, announcing that the father-to-be is carrying the baby. The report states that Rodriguez, who was…
Monday, the New York City Commission on Human Rights released new guidance that makes clear what constitutes gender identity and gender expression discrimination under the NYC Human Rights Law, making it one of the strongest in the nation in protecting the rights of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals. Although discrimination based on gender identity and…
LOS ANGELES — A coalition of California civil rights and LGBT organizations announced Monday that supporters of a proposed anti-transgender ballot initiative announced that they have failed to submit the signatures necessary to qualify it for the November 2016 ballot. “Privacy for All”, the group behind the failed measure, needed to submit 365,880 valid signatures to the California Secretary of State’s…
LOS ANGELES — Rizi Timane — recording artist, author, actor, and life coach to the transgender community — has just released three new trans-affirmative singles: “Yeah! It Feels Good to Finally Be Me,” “Let’s Make Love,” and “I’m Beautiful,” all of which are available for download from iTunes and at www.rizitimane.com. The video for “I’m Beautiful,”…
