Results for: non-binary
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Hillary Clinton Unveils a Promising Plan to Improve Mental Health Care
Clinton’s new plan calls for prioritizing mental health care and putting it on par with physical health care when it comes to access or quality of treatment. For LGBT people, who are more likely to suffer from mental illness compared to straight people, this is a really hopeful announcement.
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More Brits Than Ever Are In Between on the Kinsey Scale, New Survey Shows
In poll results published Sunday by YouGov, a full 49% of 18-24 year olds identified as something other than exclusively heterosexual on the Kinsey scale.
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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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And Then Miley Cyrus Launched #Instapride To Amplify Trans and Genderqueer Stories
This campaign, at least in its first hours, seems seriously groundbreaking in scope and wonderfully positive in its approach.
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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.
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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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Denmark’s New Law Makes Legal Gender Recognition A Lot Easier
The law, which allows trans folks to legally change their gender without any medical or surgical requirements, is the first of its kind in Europe and could hopefully set new precedents in the region.
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LGBT Youth Also Need To Hear “I Believe You, It’s Not Your Fault”
“The all-too-real worries and fear of coming forward as a queer victim of abuse and sexual assault run the gamut. Beyond the base erroneous idea that assault can’t happen, or doesn’t happen, between queer folk, especially women, or if it does it isn’t as “bad,” there’s the fear of how coming forward will be received in regards to your orientation or gender, regardless who assaulted you.”
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Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Lesbian, Activist, Author, and Revolutionary Dies at 65
Leslie Feinberg died at home in Syracuse, NY, with hir partner and spouse of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt, at hir side. Hir last words were: “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.”
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Obama Rolls Out Plan For Executive Action On Immigration; The Struggle Continues
Is the President’s plan enough? As long as there are people whose lives and families are in the US remain vulnerable to deportation, is not enough, but it is something, and it is the result of the hard work of thousands of activists who have put everything on the line to make their presence known as undocumented and immigrant Americans who deserve rights and dignity.
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2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced, Include Alison Bechdel, Imogen Binnie And More
This year’s Lambda Award winners were announced yesterday evening and now it’s time to read ALL OF THEM.
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It’s Time For People to Stop Using the Social Construct of “Biological Sex” to Defend Their Transmisogyny
The Chicago Sun-Times recently republished a hateful and ignorant article claiming that Laverne Cox is a man due the “biological reality” of sex. Unfortunately, this essentialist, simplistic and just plain incorrect understanding of sex is often used against trans people.
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Asylum Seekers and “Dishonest” Sexualities: Bisexuality at the Border
The UK Home Office has a questionable track record when it comes to LGB asylum seekers, and for bisexual asylum seekers, narratives of “proving” sexuality or being “gay enough” can be deadly.
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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.
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CW Developing Transgender Teen Drama, Will Hopefully Cast Actual Trans* Actor
The CW, a station most famous for Tyra Banks, The Winchester Brothers and Teen Vampire Romance is currently developing a new drama that will focus on a transgender teenager’s life.
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Here’s How NYC Public Schools Plan To Better Support Their Trans* Students
With 1.1 million students, NYC is the largest public school system in the country, and has a lot of influence setting standards for how other big school systems and states support trans* students.
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The Journalistic Quest to Write An Accurate Story About Bisexuality
The New York Times takes it upon itself to discover whether bisexuals can be proven to exist, and comes up with a treasure trove of flawed research and ill-advised assumptions along the way.
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University of Iowa Brings Groundbreaking Gay Question to College Admissions
The University recently added an optional question on sexual orientation to their undergraduate application, as well as a non-binary gender option.
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I’m Not A Gender Zombie and Neither Are You: Rejecting Anti-Trans Bigotry From Rachel Ivey and Deep Green Resistance
Word has quickly spread on the web in the last week or so that Rachel Ivey, a member of the Deep Green Resistance environmentalist movement that holds openly transphobic views as “core” principles, is putting together a speaking tour consisting of a few relatively high profile events in June and July.
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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.