Get More: Beautiful As I Want To Be // Logo TV NEW YORK – Logo today announced the premiere of Beautiful As I Want To Be, a digital-exclusive video series spotlighting transgender youth, Wednesday, Oct. 28, on LogoTV.com and Logo’s YouTube. Each of the 4 episodes will be introduced by Geena Rocero, a transgender supermodel…
NEW YORK, NY – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LBGT) media advocacy organization, has released the findings of a new survey, conducted online by Harris Poll among over 2,000 U.S. adults age 18+, which shows that the number of Americans who report knowing or working with someone who is transgender has doubled in…
After Sunday’s 67th Primetime Emmy Awards, YouTube LGBT content creator Raymond Braun caught up with the cast and crew of Transparent, the winner of five Emmy Awards, live on the red carpet at Amazon’s Emmy celebration. Watch above as Raymond talks with the cast and creators of Transparent, including Emmy winners Jeffrey Tambor (Outstanding Lead…
Jeffrey Tambor won the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series at the Emmys Sunday night for his role in Transparent. Tambor, who plays a trans woman on the Amazon show dedicated his award to the transgender community. “I’ve been given the opportunity to act because people’s lives depend on it,” Tambor said….
WASHINGTON – Amanda Simpson, the highest ranking transgender appointee of any administration in history was today sworn in as the deputy assistant secretary of defense (DAS) for Operational Energy. Prior to her new position, Simpson has been active in politics and recognized at the federal level for her work. She was the first openly trans…
WASHINGTON, D.C.— The countdown has begun for the last week to take the U.S Trans Survey, the largest ever survey undertaken on trans lives in America. The survey, which closes for participants at 11:59pm on September 21st, 2015, aims to gather a more comprehensive understanding of the experiences of transgender people in the United States….
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights proposed a regulation that provides explicit protections from discrimination on the basis of sex stereotyping and gender identity in healthcare and insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) praised the proposed regulation, as well as the…
SACRAMENTO – The Assembly today passed two bills authored by Sen. Mark Leno that provide protections and equal benefits to transgender Californians. The first bill, SB 703, prohibits state agencies from doing business with companies that fail to offer transgender employees the same health care coverage and benefits they provide all other workers. The second…
WASHINGTON – Friday, the American Military Partner Association (AMPA), the nation’s largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) military families, responded to the results of a new national survey that show a majority of Americans support open service by transgender people in the U.S. military. The results were released by University of Illinois Springfield Survey Research…
This article originally appeared on Seattle’s Child and is reproduced by permission. This year’s Gender Odyssey Family conference, held at the Washington State Convention Center, tackled an enormous range of issues around gender and the family: How to support a trans child; the unique concerns of trans folks who are parents; how to create support…
