Results for: you need help
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Ashton O’Hara, Black, Trans and Genderfluid, Has Been Murdered; I’m Running Out of Hope
O’Hara, a Black trans and genderfluid 25-year-old, is the 14th trans person murdered this year and the fifth murdered in the last month.
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Spread This Far and Wide: It’s Almost Time for the U.S. Trans Survey
If you’re trans and would like to help inform the next decade of trans advocacy, sign up and pledge to fill out this survey!
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What We’re Going to Say About Caitlyn Jenner
In just the few days since Jenner made her debut, I’ve received the same amount submissions that I received in the nearly two months before. All of these submissions are about Jenner.
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Transgender Teen Jazz Jennings is Starring in Commercials, Getting a Reality Show, on Top of the World
Not content with co-writing a book, being in Time Magazine and meeting people like Bill Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence, all by age 14, Jazz Jennings is now set to take over TV.
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17 Year Old Trans Girl Leelah Alcorn Commits Suicide After Parents and Community Refuse to Accept Her
She thought she would never be able to live the life she deserved. We need to change society so that young trans girls no longer feel that way.
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Just Two Weeks After Transgender Day of Remembrance, Another Black Trans Woman is Murdered in America
Deshawnda Sanchez was only 21 when she was fatally shot after a robbery in Los Angeles. A vigil will be held in her honor tonight.
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In Which Mari and Mey Have Conflicted Feelings About Trans Terminology and “New York Magazine”
“Does her personal language preference trump what is considered to be the non-offensive way to talk about trans women?”
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Laverne Cox Returns to “Katie”, Shows How to Do a “Teachable Moment” Right
“A part of me thought about making this article just be a list of Laverne Cox quotes from this interview because she says that many brilliant things. Where Cox was able to turn the conversation around and get in some great talking points last time, this time she was given free reign to talk about important issues for a full half hour.”
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REFUGE Restrooms: New Website Helps You Find Gender-Safe Public Restrooms
We talked with Teagan Widmer about her new site for transgender, intersex, and gender noncomforming folks, and how YOU can help develop the app even further.
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Asking the Question: When Public Interrogation of Trans Women’s Bodies Turns into Open Sexualized Violence
“Beyond being merely invasive, there are situations in which trans women can detect a seed of violence in these kinds of questions, which in numerous cases has manifested in actual violence. Last week in Atlanta just such a situation led to an extreme and violent incident in which two trans women were attacked, and one was beaten and forcibly stripped naked in public, evidently as a form of punishment for resisting such interrogation.”
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You Need to Help These Ten People Come Out
Girls are always asking me for advice on various coming out situations, and I don’t always know how to answer them. Perhaps you, dear reader, would like to take a swing at it?
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Trans Woman Denied Admission to Smith College: Why “Just Checking Female” is More Complicated Than it Sounds
Smith College’s inhospitality toward trans women ultimately threatens, rather than upholds, their institutional image as a women’s college.
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“Trapped in the Wrong Body:” Katie Couric Talks to and About Trans* People with Limited Success
A trans* take on Katie Couric’s “Growing Up Transgender” show.
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The RadRight And The Restroom
As Arizona reminded us this week, The RadRight has enjoyed a long and successful history of standing in the way of equality through deploying what I call the Bathroom Meme.
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Straight Allies: Every Little Bit Helps
Resources to help your friends help you.
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Survey About Trans* Voices Needs Your Trans* Voice
If you’re trans*, over 18, and use your voice to communicate, please consider taking this survey to help medical professionals improve research, treatment, and evaluate their preconceived notions.
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True Confessions of a Queer Lisa Frank Enthusiast
“I’m all about Lisa Frank right now because of what she means to my understanding of gender, sexuality, and the fluid nature of both.”
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This Transphobic UK Ad Will Enrage, Hopefully Inspire You to Combat Cissexism
Ending cissexism starts with you and me.
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Beware “The Reverse Gender Gap”!!!
The New York Times says the gender gap is closed! All the news that’s fit to print, now with baseless speculation!
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It’s National Coming Out Day and We’re Thinking of You
What does National Coming Out Day mean to you?