No Excuses: California Bans Gay and Trans Panic Defenses for Anti-LGBT Violence
Those who commit violence against members of the LGBT community will no longer be able to hide behind “gay panic” and “trans panic,” at least in California.
Two Trans Women Shot in Detroit, Local Media Misgenders and Misrepresents Them
Two trans women were shot in the Palmer Park Neighborhood of Detroit this week. The local Detroit media repeatedly misgendered them and erroneously implied that they may have been sex workers.
Facebook Wants You To Do You, Adds New Non-Binary Pronoun and Gender Identity Options
Facebook has released an update that allows users to move beyond binary pronouns and the male/female gender options they’ve had since the social network launched a decade ago. Here’s how to change your settings.
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.
Binary or Blank: Germany Allows Parents to Refrain From Gender Assignment at Birth
Germany becomes the first country in Europe to give parents the option of male, female or neither in birth certificates, sparking what could be “comprehensive reform” in how gender is legally categorised and understood.
Lana Wachowski, Trans* Director of ‘The Matrix’, Gives Touching Speech That Will Probably Make You Cry
“Here in the absence of words to defend myself, without examples, without models, I began to believe voices in my head — that I was a freak, that I am broken, that there is something wrong with me, that I will never be lovable.”
Single-Sex Classrooms Great Place To Learn Stereotypical Gender Roles, Reports ACLU
They have feminists shaking their heads, no research to back themselves up, and the full support and funding of the government.
Nepal’s Colorful, Musical March to Even Greater LGBT and Gender Equality
Today Nepal’s queer community has fought to end fear, shame, and invisibility — and they made it fun.
New York Works for GENDA and Gender Identity Workplace Protection
Now that marriage equality has passed in New York state, one organization is turning its attention towards gender identity protection in the workplace.
Lesbian With Alternative Lifestyle Haircut To Compete In “Miss Long Beach” Pageant
A 25-year-old lesbian hairstylist will be competing in the Miss Long Island pageant in a purple tuxedo and hand-sewn boyshorts. Kinda awesome, right?
J. Crew’s Jenna Lyons’ Has a Girlfriend AND a Son With Pink Toenails!
A new lesbian power couple is born as JCrew creative director Jenna Lyons (she of the pink toenail polish incident) shacks up with a lady. Dr.Keith Ablow is really upset about it.
Help The Outliers Project “Contemplate the Space Between”
Be the change you wish to see in the world! And help this artist do the same.
Even the Daily Show Still Isn’t Showing Us Enough Female Faces On TV
What does an important person look like?
Lawrence King Murder Trial: Defense Blames 15-Year Old Victim and His Deviant Mascara
Yesterday Brandon McInerney’s defense team rested their case in the murder trial of 15-year-old Larry King and according to them, it was King that was the bully, not McInerney.
Tide Detergent Thinks Moms Want to Sabotage Their Daughters’ Tomboy Style
How many gender stereotypes can we fit into one 30 second commercial? You’d be surprised! This ad is REALLY special. I mean really really special. You should watch it.
Twitter Knows I’m Female!!! (But Only Because I Used Those Exclamation Marks)
“While women LOL, men tend to LMFAO.”
Are Dads Cool With Their Sons Wearing Pink? An ‘Investigation’
Good Morning America wants everybody to freak out over boys wearing pink.
New Sexual Orientation Study Suggests You Were Born This Gay
A new study says sexual orientation and “gender conformity” in women are genetic traits. Could this be the anti- anti-gay evidence we need? And at what cost?
Who Run the World? Boys!
The gender gap in Asia leads back to U.S. funding and research.
At Sweden’s Gender-Neutral Preschool, There’s No Boys or Girls, Only “Friends”
No “him” or “her” at the Egalia school in Stockholm.