Results for: be the change
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How To Support Your Transitioning Partners and Friends
It can be helpful to see a transition as smaller, interlocked transitions.
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Five Trans Service Members on the Glory and Agony of the US Military
These are stories of trans people who have served or are serving in the US military; their experiences range from the positive to the deeply traumatic and everywhere in between.
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The Complete History of Transgender Characters in American Comic Books
The most comprehensive and expansive look at trans representation in American comics you’re likely to find.
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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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A Tale of Two Trans Characters: Glee’s Trans Representation Problem
“Glee” gets no brownie points from me for introducing a new trans storyline when they already had a trans character — a trans woman of color — and treated her horribly. That’s not how you do positive trans representation.
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Portrait of a Community: Inside Barneys’ Groundbreaking Campaign Featuring 17 Trans* Models
Autostraddle chatted with Eve Lindley and Ryley Pogensky, two models from “Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters,” about what brought them to the shoot and how it’s keeping them around.
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back for Trans Anti-Discrimination Work in Malaysia
Reactionary conservatism stands in the way of the Southeast Asian nation’s first state-based transgender welfare committee, but change could still happen with its first out trans political appointee.
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It’s Transgender Day Of Remembrance: Let’s Celebrate Trans* Lives And Accomplishments
Today we honor all of the transgender people who have died due to anti-trans* violence. This year we want to honor their memories by celebrating the achievements and victories of trans* people in the past year.
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A Muslim RuPaul At The Dawn Of Islam: Tuwais and the Mukhannathun
The mukhannathun are an inspiration for queer Mulims, and queer non-Muslims alike. They’ve certainly inspired me.
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OPEN THREAD: Transgender Day of Remembrance
“Today is a reminder that we all must take responsibility for combating transphobia.”
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Annika and Sebastian Answer Your Trans* Questions (Part Three)
In Part 3 of the series, we’ll be addressing issues like dealing with internalized transphobia, going “stealth”, and how you can help your partner if they are struggling with gender dysphoria. PLUS a video!
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Our (Extra) Ordinary Evening Watching Nightline’s “Transgendered Special”
AKA “How to not make a trans* documentary”
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Annika and Sebastian Answer Your Trans* Questions (Part One)
Do you think gender is a social construction? How do hormones affect your sex life? What can my LGBT organization do to better include trans people?
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Annika and Sebastian Answer Your Trans* Questions (Part Deux)
“In this second installment, we discuss topics like “undoing” the effects of puberty, intimacy with a trans* person, and how to address gender ambiguous people.”
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Carmen’s Team Pick: Becoming Visible
The Becoming Visible Kickstarter page is running for another 18 days. That means you hardly have time to pledge away as much as possible!
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House of Commons Passes Bill C-389, One Step Closer to Trans* Equality
Yeah, that’s right, if passed through the Senate, trans and genderqueer people would be able to see themselves in the law as equal to every other Canadian citizen, and crimes motivated by transphobia would be potential hate crimes.
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Nepal Will Count its Transpeople, Court Gay Travelers (Especially Buddhists)
Nepal is open for gay tourists and just announced it will add a transgender category to its Census. Nepal is deeply conservative. Other countries should feel embarrassed.
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Trans Etiquette 101: No Offense, But That’s Offensive
“So let’s say you are a non-trans person and you are with someone who is out about being trans and is knowingly open to questions. You have some things you want to ask. Here are some guidelines to follow.”
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Obama’s ‘Small Victories’ for LGBTs This Week: Is It Change We Can Believe In?
The Obama Administration is making small steps towards helping the LGBT community with the Shepard Act & new initiatives from the departments of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services. Also; Dan Choi gives great interview to the Metro Weekly – with tales of a childhood spent praying “Jesus, make me pop a boner for Michelle Pfeiffer, in Jesus’ name, amen!”
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28 Docs Later You’ll Be A Better Person, Just Watch
Autostraddle has a serious soft spot for documentaries, and we want to give you the same. Here’s the official Autostraddle list of the documentary films everyone should see before they die.