In the final days leading up to the election, Trump’s team is making a calculated and expensive effort to inspire votes by stoking hatred against transgender people. Why does he think it’s going to work?

Your first anal sex, your first kinky sex, why embarrassment has no place in the bedroom and more.

“As a white woman, you may not understand this but the simple act of getting up and being in the public eye and proclaiming your transness unapologetically is an act of revolution for every trans person of color, and in that right, they are doing the work.”

Carmen Carrera, a transgender model and activist is set to star in a brand new docuseries about a group of young trans women living in Chicago. The series, produced by Tyra Banks, will debut its eight hour-long episode run on VH1 in late 2014 or early 2015

A #herocrush isn’t romantic or sexual, it’s about people you admire. People you’d love to work with to dismantle systems of oppression. This year most of my #herocrushes happened to be trans women.

Queer leadership, Mother’s day, marriage, Brittney Griner, and dumb homophobes.

In which Barbara Walters thinks it’s okay to ask, “so if I saw you undressed you would look like a woman to me, totally? Yes?”

If you’re lucky enough to have an August Pride, it’s time to take to the streets and trade in your vuvuzelas!

“There are so many things about our lives that are so much more than our bodies and this transition that we go through.”

MSNBC’s 20-minute segment on “Trans in America” is so good I can’t believe it actually happened. Guests include Kate Bornstein, Mara Keisling and Mel Wymore.

Or at least I am.

Donald Trump does something not-awful for once, Bully gets a PG-13, Alaska votes against being nice to gay people, and other stories we missed this week.