Topline The GOP-controlled Florida legislature convenes a new session Tuesday in which they’re set to take up a series of controversial bills on topics like immigration, LGBTQ rights, gun rights...
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Elon Musk Faces Heat After Mocking Trans Community
Elon Musk, a billionaire and the head of Twitter, dropped a bomb on the platform. He denounced people who impose their pronouns on others. In response to Scott Kelly, a former NASA astronaut, who took...
Monkeypox In Women Frequently Misdiagnosed As Sexually Transmitted Infections, Study Finds
Topline Monkeypox mainly spreads among women and nonbinary people through sexual contact, but some infections could be flying under the radar as they are often misdiagnosed as other diseases known to ...
Trans And Nonbinary Youth Far More Likely To Be Admitted For Suicide Attempt Or Self-Harm, Study Finds
Topline Transgender and nonbinary youth were much more likely to be admitted to hospital after a suicide attempt or self-harm, according to a study published in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Healt...
Sam Smith And Kim Petras Become First Openly Nonbinary And Trans Artists To Reach Billboard’s No. 1
Topline Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ song “Unholy” earned the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 on Monday after three weeks in the top ten, making them the first nonbinary and transgender artists, respec...
Use ‘Accurate, Sensitive, Unbiased Language’ To Cover Trans People
A participant in L.A. Pride holds photos of transgender people killed in 2022 at the annual Pride … [+] Parade on June 12, 2022 in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Calif. Photo by David McN...
Trans Swimming Champion Lia Thomas Nominated For ‘NCAA Woman Of The Year’
University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas reacts after finishing tied for 5th in the 200 … [+] Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18th, 2022 at the McAul...
Billy Porter Picked This Trans Screenwriter’s Movie For His Directorial Debut
Director Bill Porter and actors Kelly Lamor Wilson and Eva Reign and on the set of their film … [+] ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE An Orion Pictures Release Photo credit: Tony Rivetti © 2022 Orion Releasin...
‘Friends’ Co-Creator Apologizes For Treatment Of Trans Character
Topline Marta Kauffman—one of the co-creators behind the mega-hit sitcom Friends—apologized in an interview about the way the show handled a transgender character, one week after she pledged a donatio...
What Is This Transgender Journalist Doing In Ukraine? Covering A War
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo reports from Ukraine. Sarah Ashton-Cirillo On Feb. 2, the U.S. State Department warned Americans in Ukraine to “depart now” and also issued a travel advisory warning against going...
Texas Judge Blocks Investigations Into Trans Youth Families
Topline A Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday afternoon blocking state investigations into many families of transgender youth who have received gender-affirming care, according to ...
NFTs Artwork Earned A 19-year Old Trans Teen $50 Million
19-year-old transgender artist Victor Langlois has earned $50 million selling his NFT artwork in a time period of little over a year. The trans teen first got famed the previous year when his NFTs and...
Netflix Under Fire—Again—Over Trans Jokes, This Time By Ricky Gervais
Topline Seven months after dozens of Netflix staffers walked out of work to protest a Dave Chappelle comedy special critics called transphobic, the streaming service immediately came under fire by rel...
Traveling Through Time With Star Trek’s Wil Wheaton: Geek And Trans Ally
SPOILER ALERT: If you don’t know what happens in the season two finale of Star Trek: Picard, you may want to watch that episode first before continuing to read! Wil Wheaton plays the Traveler once kno...
Ariana Grande’s fundraiser for trans visibility adds crypto option
Fundraising platform Pledge has launched PledgeCrypto to allow nonprofits to accept crypto donations in more than 130 cryptocurrencies — including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and Tether (USDT) — and th...
Disney networks among outlets that will air PSA featuring trans teen
Disney employee Nicholas Maldonado holds a sign while protesting outside of Walt Disney World on March 22, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. Employees are staging a company-wide walkout today to protest Walt ...
2 Out Trans NCAA Athletes Compete Head-To-Head
Penn’s Lia Thomas, left, leaves the pool deck as Yale’s Iszac Henig, right, prepares to swim in a … [+] qualifying heat of the 100-yard freestyle at the Ivy League Women’s Swim...
Lia Thomas Just Proved Transgender Athletes Don’t Always Win
Lia Thomas waves to her friend Schuyler Bailar after finishing fifth in the 200 free. Dawn Ennis Lia Thomas, the controversial college swimmer who won the NCAA DI National Champion trophy in the 500-f...
Lia Thomas Is NCAA’s First Transgender DI National Champion
Pennsylvania’s Lia Thomas gestures as she holds the trophy after winning the 500-yard freestyle at … [+] the NCAA swimming and diving championships Thursday, March 17, 2022, at Georgia Tec...
Indonesian Billionaire Chairul Tanjung’s Trans Retail Teams Up With Bukalapak For Online Grocery Platform
Chairul Tanjung, founder and chairman of CT Corp., speaks during the Belt and Road Summit in Hong … [+] Kong, China, on September 11, 2017. Vivek Prakash/Bloomberg Trans Retail Indonesia, contro...
Is Lia Thomas Finished? New USA Swimming Policy Means Big Changes
Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, swims for the University of Pennsylvania at an Ivy League swim meet … [+] against Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. on January 22, 2022. Photo by Joseph Pre...
‘I Hope People Can Finally Leave You Alone’
Oberlin diver Lucas Draper. Lucas Draper Lucas Draper is a junior at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Lorain County, Ohio, outside Cleveland. He is 21, majoring in both computer science and theater...
Goodbye, Lia Thomas? New NCAA Trans Student-Athlete Policy Is ‘Effective Immediately’
Lia Thomas of the Pennsylvania Quakers after competing in a freestyle event during a tri-meet … [+] against the Yale Bulldogs and the Dartmouth Big Green at Sheerr Pool on the campus of the Univ...
Trans Woman Could Be First Federal Inmate To Undergo Gender Confirmation Surgery
Topline A transgender woman serving time in a Texas prison could become the first federal inmate to recieve gender confirmation surgery in custody after a judge ordered the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to e...