Creators of the Gender book, a colorful visual primer on the world of gender, have announced their manuscript is complete and they are ready to go to press. The Gender book has been called “clear enough for your mom to understand, real enough to hit home on every page.” (Lily Hiott-Millis, buzzfeed.com). It discusses terms…
Media Matters for America latest post reveals the actor who plays a transgender character on the Fox television series Glee has responded to criticism from Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, who warned that allowing “dopey kids” to watch a transgender character on television might encourage them to experiment with homosexuality. In April 2012, O’Reilly criticized Glee for introducing a transgender…
Protest against Pacific Justice Institute in front of the campus of Trinity Law School in Santa Ana, Calif. It’s not enough to know what one’s against. One often actually needs to know what one is for, and then be willing to work – and sometimes sacrifice – to facilitate those things to become reality. I…
DETROIT – A murder victim found discarded in a trash receptacle off Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Nov. 8 has not yet been identified, but is believed to be a member of the transgender community. Equality Michigan, a statewide anti-violence and advocacy organization, supports victims of anti-transgender crime and tracks violence against transgender people throughout Michigan. The…
A port bow view of the guided missile frigate USS Ford (FFG-54) There are beginnings and there are endings; sometimes beginnings and endings have personal resonance. I recently had such an experience. June 29, 1985, the USS Ford (FFG-54) commissioned at Naval Station Long Beach, Calif. She was a Perry-class guided missile fast frigate, abbreviated…
Media Matters for America’s latest post reveals Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly continued a pattern of transphobic commentary when he said that bringing a 12-year old boy to Hooters was comparable to allowing transgender students to use appropriate locker rooms or restrooms — a right that O’Reilly believes will be exploited by mischievous adolescents who want to spy on…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has demanded that the La Feria Independent School District allow Jeydon Loredo, a transgender student and senior at La Feria High School, to appear in his high school yearbook wearing a tuxedo or risk a federal lawsuit against the Texas school district. The demand was made…
SACRAMENTO – Following conservative groups obtaining the necessary number of signatures to place a referendum on the 2014 ballot for Assembly Bill 1266, which will allow transgender students in public schools to have access to sports teams and school facilities such as restrooms with respect to their gender identity, California State Assembly Speaker John A….
“Jim Crow states passed statutes severely regulating social interactions between the races,” states a Web page for the Ferris State University’s Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. “Jim Crow signs were placed above water fountains, door entrances and exits, and in front of public facilities. There were separate hospitals for blacks and whites, separate prisons,…
I work mostly on trans civil rights issues. I work on issues involving trans youth and trans military service. In past years I’ve worked on trans antiviolence issues, especially issues involving hate crimes and trans media coverage. I haven’t worked on other issues that I care about, such as a woman’s right to choose and…
