Evancho supports transgender rights — her sister Juliet is transgender.
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The increased visibility of transgender individuals, Time Magazine's 'transgender tipping point', has largely obscured the violence transgender communities continue to face.
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But Mr. Ernst, who is transgender, said he thought "Transparent" had made casting transgender people in transgender roles a more urgent issue.
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We continue to lose transgender women, especially transgender women of color.
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Trump has pushed back on transgender rights, rescinding protections for transgender students over bathroom use and trying to ban transgender people from military service.
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Therefore, discrimination against a transgender person for being transgender is sex discrimination.
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Forty-six were transgender women, and 46 were transgender people of color.
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He testified that he had slept with transgender women, not transgender men.
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Thirty percent of transgender people have experienced homelessness, according to a 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey; since 2014, at least 110 transgender women have been killed.
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In 8773, 2877,88600 transgender people from all fifty states took the National Center for Transgender Equality's United States Transgender Survey, the largest of its kind.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day meant to honor the transgender people who have lost their lives to anti-transgender violence, falls on Nov. 20.
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The National Center for Transgender Equality tweeted on Tuesday that it delivered transgender pride flags to every member of Congress to celebrate Transgender Visibility Week.
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In the fall of 2015, a congressional Transgender Equality Task Force was formed to address anti-transgender violence and issues related to the transgender community.
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Sixteen percent of transgender and gender non-conforming respondents to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey indicated they had spent time in jail or prison, with higher rates for transgender women (21%) and lower rates for transgender men (10%).
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The National Center for Transgender Equality, a trans rights group, condemned Trump's move as "an egregious attack" against transgender service members and transgender Americans more broadly.
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Laws like these deny transgender people access to the bathrooms that match their gender, sending transgender men into women's restrooms and transgender women into the men's.
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Many transgender people do not identify as transsexual and prefer the word transgender.
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"There is transgender talent, there's very beautiful transgender talent," Taylor told the audience.
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Nomi Marks (Jamie Clayton) is a transgender woman, played by a transgender actress.
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How do you feel about transgender narratives written by people who aren't transgender?
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We hear "transgender" and we think of a transgender woman, much like myself.
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Transgender people, particularly transgender women of color, are murdered at an alarming rate.
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Transgender protections The Trump administration wants to roll back protections for transgender people.
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Many physicians, however, reported a lack of familiarity with transgender transition care guidelines, lack of training in transgender-specific care, lack of exposure to transgender patients, and lack of knowledge about transgender patients among office staff, medical assistants or nursing staff.
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Non-transgender students are mistakenly thought to be the ones at risk of sexual assault by "transgender intruders" or by predators posing as transgender students, they wrote.
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It stops a plan to discharge all transgender troops, allows current transgender troops to re-enlist and permits transgender recruits to join the military starting in January.
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A transgender woman is suing Tinder on behalf of other transgender people living in the Portland area, claiming it rejects all transgender people from the dating service.
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Transgender people don't deserve protections The claim: Being transgender is not a valid condition.
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The Goodman study used the cases of 2,842 transgender women and 2,93 transgender men.
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Christine Hallquist, a transgender woman from Vermont, could become the nation's first transgender governor.
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It is easy to forget that only recently have transgender issues become part of the public consciousness, with transgender characters on major television shows and even transgender celebrities.
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" Those actors are cisgender but have played transgender characters: Mr. Tambor as a transgender woman on "Transparent"; Mr. Leto as a transgender woman in the 2013 movie "Dallas Buyers Club"; and Ms. Huffman as a transgender woman in the 2005 film "Transamerica.
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Letting children identify as transgender is harmful Claim: Children are too young to know if they are transgender, and supporting a child who identifies as transgender is child abuse.
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Barring transgender soldiers would reverse a decision made during the administration of President Barack Obama that allowed transgender soldiers to serve without having to conceal that they are transgender.
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Last year, India also got its first transgender mayor and its first transgender police officer.
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Fifty-eight percent reported being less comfortable with transgender patients than with non-transgender patients.
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Transgender people — particularly transgender women of color — face exceptionally high rates of violence and homicide.
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Jimmy invites transgender comedian Patti Harrison to #FallonTonight to address Trump's transgender military ban pic.twitter.
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Transgender people, especially black transgender women like India Clarke, are at particular risk for violence.
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What has your experience been like as a transgender woman dating cis (not transgender) people?
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Thirteen schools do not admit transgender students or have no published policy regarding transgender students.
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Weiler led transgender policy initiatives and directed protections for transgender children of military service members.
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Although Marsha P. Johnson never officially identified as transgender, she is considered a transgender pioneer.
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Blake Dremann, a transgender service member and the president of a transgender military advocacy organizationSen.
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"This is not anti-transgender unless the transgender person is committing indecent exposure," he said.
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The same was true of the more recent elimination of the military's transgender ban and, in a wider sense, the Obama Administration's transgender school guidance and support for transgender equality.
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If officials can't define who isn't transgender, it's unclear who will be classified as transgender — and on what criteria some inmates will be given a transgender designation while others won't.
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Warren said she would create a new grant program for transgender advocacy organizations, noting that at least 19 transgender people - almost all black transgender women - have been killed this year.
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For transgender athletes not taking hormone treatments, the NCAA dictates that transgender men can play on a men's or women's team, whereas transgender women cannot compete on a women's team.
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Go deeper: Trump administration plans to roll back transgender health protections Everything you need to know about the transgender military ban Trump is about to cancel Obama's transgender bathroom rules
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The total included 66,677 cisgender veterans, 320 transgender veterans, 448,644 cisgender civilians, and 1,898 transgender civilians.
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"There is now a transgender cop in Chennai, a transgender mayor in Raigarh" Patil told Mashable.
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When Trump describes transgender people as unqualified for service, Minter added, it smears transgender people generally.
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Blake Dremann, a transgender service member and the president of a transgender military advocacy organization. Sen.
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Trans Lifeline: The Trans Lifeline is a suicide hotline staffed by transgender people, for transgender people.
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He also wants to generally raise awareness of transgender pregnancies, both for cisgender and transgender people.
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The gist: No new transgender sign-ups, but current transgender military members can continue to serve.
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Transgender advocates say that fear is misplaced, and the far greater danger is to transgender people.
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Transgender advocates say you can't discriminate against someone who is transgender without thinking about their sex.
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Deadnaming can also inadvertently put transgender people in danger by "outing" their transgender status to others.
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There was an openly transgender model at the opening ceremony, but no openly transgender athletes participating.
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Searches for "transgender couple" grew 150 percent, and those for "transgender teen" were up 129 percent.
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Transgender people can also make transfer requests as it relates to his or her transgender identifications.
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Maria da Silva, a transgender woman, lawyer and activist, said that Brazilian society marginalized transgender people.
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Patricia King, a transgender soldier, as a protest of the Trump administration's transgender military ban. Sen.
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Top surgery [top sur-juh-ree] | noun (top surgeries) A gender-affirming surgery for transgender people, often to either remove breasts (for transgender men) or add breast implants (for transgender women).
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Anti-transgender bathroom bills further limit the ability of transgender people to function in most public spaces, and prevent people who are transgender from being able to fully participate in society.
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"It's not unusual for any given person to see a transgender person as just a transgender person and to tie any reaction they're having as a human to their medical needs as a transgender person or to their identity as a transgender person overall," Branstetter said.
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"The murder of TeeTee Dangerfield is a horrific example of the epidemic of violence facing transgender women — especially transgender women of color," Nick Adams, GLAAD's director of Transgender Media & Representation, told Refinery29.
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It's estimated that the U.S. military is the largest single employer of transgender people in the country, with transgender people twice as likely to enlist in the military than non-transgender people.
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The US Department of Education has previously sided with transgender students asserting rights under Title IX. The transgender community has urged the state to respect the rights and dignity of transgender individuals.
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Trump also has removed protections for transgender students and moved to ban transgender people from the military.
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Nearly 15,000 transgender troops currently serve in the US military, said the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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But like so many other transgender people, I have been physically assaulted by strangers for being transgender.
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Where we disagree is on the fact that transgender women are women and transgender men are men.
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" On his opponent Doug Jones disapproving of Trump's military ban on transgender individuals: "I oppose transgender rights.
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Transgender North Carolinians took selfies to take a stand against the state's controversial anti-transgender bathroom law.
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She's also transgender, making her the first transgender nominee from a major party for the US Senate.
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It remained unclear whether the policy would apply to existing transgender service members or new transgender recruits.
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And transgender models had their most visible season yet, with five transgender models cast in four campaigns.
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The researchers studied 73 adolescent patients treated at their center (50 transgender males and 23 transgender females).
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Two transgender women had been killed in less than 24 hours, prompting other transgender people to flee.
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As a result, many transgender men have a uterus and ovaries, while many transgender women have testes.
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Some people have argued that casting a non-transgender person to play a transgender part is offensive.
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"Pose" focuses on the lives of L.G.B.T. people and stars five transgender women who play transgender characters.
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Transgender service members are responding to President Trump's decision to ban openly transgender Americans from the military.
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According to the 2015 United States Transgender Survey, 12 percent of transgender women respondents had a vaginoplasty.
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Mr. Saenz said that transgender people, especially transgender women of color, were particularly vulnerable to police misconduct.
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It features what is billed as the first transgender role written for a transgender singer (Liz Bouk).
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Transgender soldiers are suing President Trump over the administration's ban on transgender people serving in the military.
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"Transgender women will have advantages," she said, noting that transgender women had never dominated in any sport.
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"It encouraged us to look at how we could serve our transgender artists and transgender audiences better."
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Every 36 hours, a transgender person is reported murdered, according to Transgender Europe's Trans Murder Monitoring project.
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In the transgender canvassing study, trans and nontrans canvassers alike managed to reduce people's anti-transgender attitudes.
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And those services are even less accessible for transgender people: A National Center for Transgender Equality survey published last year found that 26 percent of transgender homeless people avoided shelters due to mistreatment.
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If you want to show your support for the transgender community, consider donating to or volunteering with organizations such as The National Center for Transgender Equality, Trans Lifeline, and The Transgender Law Center.
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"I think there has been a fair degree of mobilization of the transgender population to protest the transgender bill," said Anindya Hajra, an activist with the Pratyay Gender Trust who is herself transgender.
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That number is even higher for transgender people of color, with one in four transgender Latinas and nearly one in two of Black transgender people experiencing incarceration at some point in their lives.
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The sample included 227.9 teens (217.6%) who identified as male-to-female transgender, 503 (250%) who were female-to-male transgender and 260 (230%) not exclusively male or female transgender, also called nonbinary.
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Equating transgender Americans with criminals and predators perpetuates widespread misunderstandings about what it actually means to be transgender.
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Trump rescinded protections for transgender students over bathroom use and tried to ban transgender people from military service.
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The epidemic of violence that targets the transgender community — particularly transgender women of color — is an urgent crisis.
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Transgender recruits will not be admitted, and removal of currently serving transgender troops will be at Mattis' discretion.
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Across their findings, transgender women displayed higher levels of reported alcohol consumption and associated problems than transgender men.
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Transgender troops The White House will soon give the Pentagon formal guidance on the President's transgender military ban.
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"It's not just about transgender people, it's about all of us," said Meredith Talusan, a prominent transgender journalist.
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"Transgender Americans, particularly transgender women of color, can face multifaceted discrimination in many areas of life," said Rep.
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For the new study, the researchers surveyed 15 transgender youths and 50 caregivers of transgender youths in 2015.
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Civil rights and transgender rights advocates slammed the move as an attempt to remove protections for transgender people.
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In those 12 seconds, the first openly transgender child appeared as a transgender character in a mainstream sitcom.
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There's even a festival devoted to transgender people — "Sparkle: The National Transgender Celebration" — running July 8 to 10.
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With Transgender Law Center, the idea is to create and deploy ally training specific to the transgender community.
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Maria Sundin, a transgender activist and former chairwoman of Transgender Europe, was forced to undergo sterilization in 1999.
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Transgender people in the United States, especially transgender women of color, experience fatal violence at a disproportionate rate.
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Among transgender women who had started the therapy, the clot risk was five-fold higher after two years of follow-up compared to non-transgender men and three times higher compared to non-transgender women.
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Under the Obama administration, the Pentagon rolled back its ban on transgender troops and called for services to help educate troops about issues facing the transgender community, as well as prepare for new transgender members.
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A report by the National Center for Transgender Equality found that 22 percent of transgender people who had interacted with the police reported being harassed; for black transgender people that figure is nearly 40 percent.
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And some transgender users may still want to identify themselves as male or female without specifying they are transgender.
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"It's a good representation for the transgender community," Angel said, adding that she grew up without transgender role models.
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Transgender people were occasional customers, but in that era, they self-identified as drag queens or transvestites, not transgender.
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At least 16 transgender women, all of them transgender women of color, have been murdered so far this year.
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Streaming services had the highest number of transgender characters across all platforms, but they also featured no transgender men.
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Jetmore was impressed that the policy included not just transgender women but nonbinary students and transgender men as well.
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The researchers also used a questionnaire specifically designed for transgender people, called the Essen Transgender Quality of Life Inventory.
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So far in 2018, at least 22 transgender people have been murdered — many of them transgender women of color.
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Since 2016, according to the National Center on Transgender Equality, an estimated 15,000 transgender soldiers have been serving openly.
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Smith, who is transgender, said she took the photo to prove transgender people "don't pose a threat" to others.
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In studies, the majority of transgender people have reported "serious discrimination," according to the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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Not from reporters or non-trans people who had written a book, but transgender people writing about transgender people.
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Doctors who had met transgender people were more willing to provide Pap tests to transgender men, the researchers found.
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" Moore peppered his speech with attacks on transgender people, saying that "we do not need transgender in our military.
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They will also consider if the same statute protects transgender people in the workplace, based on their transgender identification.
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International Transgender Day of Visibility marked on March 31 aims to raise awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people.
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Right now, Transparent is really the only major engine for transgender stories that are written mostly by transgender writers.
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They may also opt to take a Trans 101 workshop, a transgender history course and a transgender rights class.
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Not all gender-nonconforming people are transgender, and some transgender people express gender in conventionally masculine or feminine ways.
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Not all transgender people experience gender dysphoria, according to the American Psychiatric Association, which opposes a transgender military ban.
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Transgender rights groups said the new options were good for all travelers, and especially for those who are transgender.
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Something people forget when we talk about transgender people is that there's not just one way to be transgender.
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Other digitized objects are more personal, such as the photographs of Alison Laing, a transgender woman who co-founded the Renaissance Transgender Association and directed Fantasia Fair — the longest-running annual conference in the transgender community.
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"Zeke Smith, and transgender people like him, are not deceiving anyone by being their authentic selves, and it is dangerous and unacceptable to out a transgender person," Nick Adams, Director of GLAAD's Transgender Media Program, said.
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Related: Alexis Arquette dies at 47 - Actress and transgender activist Alexis Arquette was a transgender activist, but her brother David Arquette said during an interview in February 2016 that his sibling no longer identified as transgender.
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Officials from those 11 states said their aim was to protect children from predators, but transgender rights advocates argue it is transgender people who need protection, particularly transgender women who are disproportionately the victims of assaults.
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Transgender students campaign against legislation "It singles out transgender individuals and forces them to use something that they're not comfortable using," Nathan Leonard, a transgender teen and high school freshman from Watertown, told CNN last month.
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Movies and TV series like The Danish Girl and Transparent, which feature stories about transgender people, have not only increased the visibility of transgender people, but have also brought political attention to the transgender equality movement.
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He ordered prisons to house transgender women with men, a move that many human rights experts said put the transgender women at risk of assault, and defended President Trump's ban on transgender soldiers in the military.
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Please note that not all gender non-conforming people identify as transgender; nor are all transgender people gender non-conforming.
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People under the transgender umbrella may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms — including transgender.
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Writer, filmmaker and transgender community activist Andrea James said being a part of Tinder is important for the transgender community.
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While planning the updates, Grindr surveyed transgender users and consulted with the National Center for Transgender Equality, an advocacy group.
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In 2018, at least 26 transgender individuals — most of whom were black transgender women — were killed through acts of violence.
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), which honors the lives of those who've fallen victim to anti-transgender violence.
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Transgender lawsuits Texas leads a pack of officials from 11 states suing the White House over its new transgender directive.
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I can't say transgender because someone says transgender, what comes to my mind is a man dressed as a woman.
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A transgender man in Tennessee was suspended from his Christian college just hours after getting top surgery because he's transgender.
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So far in 2017, a reported 25 transgender women have been murdered — almost all of them transgender women of color.
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Growing up transgender in America is a torment, and Fox, like so many of her fellow transgender people, suffered mightily.
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READ: Opinion: America, move forward on transgender rights Transgender student Thomas Lewis told CNN affiliate KSFY the measure is unnecessary.
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Tambor encouraged directors to stop hiring so many cis people to play transgender characters, and actively recruit transgender actors instead.
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Someone telling you they're transgender means that they're transgender ― no matter how they looked or acted prior to coming out.
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The transgender duathlete inspired many, when he became the first out transgender athlete to qualify for a U.S. national team.
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Tara Ellyssia Zyst is Oregon's only transgender death row inmate, perhaps the only transgender death row prisoner in the nation.
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She supports transgender individuals' rights and introduced a bill to reverse Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military.
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Targeted for being transgender Emily Gorcenski said she was targeted by some of the white nationalists because she is transgender.
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The week prior is known as Transgender Awareness Week, and seeks to raise awareness around the issues transgender people face.
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The 2015 transgender survey found that 67% of black transgender respondents feel "somewhat" or "very uncomfortable" asking police for help.
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Hormone replacement therapy is a core treatment method for transgender people, acknowledged by leading medical organizations concerned with transgender health.
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Transgender advocates dismiss that as nonsense, saying that transgender people have been using their chosen bathrooms for years without incident.
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"Anyone who thinks that being transgender is a response to ideology," he said, "has not spoken to many transgender people."
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But transgender rights groups have called that move a "fake repeal" that didn't do enough to help protect transgender people.
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"So I had the thought of making Waxy a transgender character who wasn't funny because she was transgender," he said.
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He rescinded guidance to protect transgender workers and protect transgender students, saying they went beyond the letter of the law.
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The 2016 National Transgender Survey found that 12% of transgender Americans have turned to sex work to pay the bills.
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Banning shelter operators from denying services to transgender people It is unacceptable that transgender people are denied housing and shelter.
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President Trump jumped from supporting workplace protections for transgender people to ending supportive policies for transgender students in public schools.
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The arrest came as a string of violent actions against transgender women in the area has frightened the transgender community.
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From the new visibility of transgender students in our nation's schools to the prominence of individuals such as Phyllis Frye, the nation's first openly transgender judge, transgender people increasingly are seeking, and finding, public acceptance and support.
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The petition for a rule change was filed by Lambda Legal and the Transgender Law Center on behalf of Fulcher and another transgender veteran, Gio Silva, as well as the 2,200-plus member Transgender American Veterans Association.
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In 2019, at least 18 transgender people have been killed, according to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)According to the AMA, violence against transgender people in the US is on the rise, particularly effecting black transgender women.
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The petition for a rule change was filed by Lambda Legal and the Transgender Law Center on behalf of Fulcher and another transgender veteran, Gio Silva, as well as the 2202,2628-plus member Transgender American Veterans Association.
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Unlike other films about transgender characters that have made it to the Oscars winner's circle, like Boys Don't Cry, Dallas Buyer's Club and The Danish Woman, Una Mujer Fantástica's transgender lead is actually played by a transgender person.
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The criticism also inverts the bill's most basic frame: Rather than transgender people being the victims of discrimination (transgender people suffer indisputably high rates of bias), transgender people are portrayed as an all-male brigade that subjugates women.
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The Supreme Court's ruling may have a "major impact on the lives of over 1.4m transgender adults and hundreds of thousands of transgender students", according to Harper Jean Tobin, policy director at the National Centre for Transgender Equality.
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Transgender people of color, especially transgender women of color, face disproportionate levels of harassment and violence when they are forced to use bathrooms based on their birth certificates, said Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Transgender Law Center.
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The Obama administration had lifted the long-standing ban on transgender troops in June of 2016, saying transgender troops would not hinder national security, and set a July 1, 2017, deadline to allow new transgender troops to enlist.
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To be listed on MyTransHealth, providers must prove their experience working with transgender patients, and abide by standards for transgender care established by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health and Informed Consent for Access to Trans Health.
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"Marriage equality will be a key to many transgender people because transgender men often get surgery to marry their girlfriends," said Mameta Endo, a transgender man and founder of Niji-zu, an LGBT+ youth support service in Japan.
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Yet it never quite outran concerns aired by transgender critics, some of its fans and even some of its own staff, that the showrunner and its lead star were not transgender and therefore unfit to tell transgender stories.
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Advocates also point to actions by the Trump administration, including the rescinding of federal protections for transgender students, an effort to bar transgender troops and a Justice Department decision to stop applying workplace discrimination protections to transgender people.
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The show makes history by employing the biggest number of transgender actors playing transgender characters, and it's definitely something to celebrate.
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"On The Transgender Narrative The Media NeglectsJD: "A lot of transgender stories focus on the very young, and the very passable.
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"Transgender people have been here forever, and black transgender people have been here forever," she told the Washington Post Tuesday night.
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She'll make history on the show as the first transgender actor to play a transgender character on a broadcast network show.
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Knowing that a repeal of the military's transgender ban was in the offing, Wixson came out to his command as transgender.
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"The Transgender Persons Bill offers the promise of both changing archaic laws and thinking about transgender people in India," Ganguly said.
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Some 21 transgender people were killed in 2015, the most deadly year for transgender women since advocacy groups began keeping track.
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Additionally, the administration took away school bathroom rights for transgender students, failed to publicly acknowledge Pride Month, and targeted transgender workers.
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Last February, 12 transgender models were cast by brands; this season saw 31 transgender and non-binary models on the runway.
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According to the new report, 21% of Latinx transgender participants are unemployed — a significantly higher number than 12% of transgender whites.
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GLAAD, a U.S. advocacy group that tracks transgender murders said 24 transgender people were murdered, exceeding last year's tally of 22.
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" The National Center for Transgender Equality also celebrated the star, proclaiming transgender children "have a (super)hero in their corner now.
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But transgender plaintiffs said they would be vulnerable because making known they are transgender puts them at high risk of violence.
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"Transgender literature is mostly drawn from real-life experiences," said Dr. Manabi Bandopadhyay, the first transgender principal at a district college.
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And despite Trump's ongoing attempts to rollback transgender rights, recent history had also proved that America is ready for transgender politicians.
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Anti-transgender legislation "illustrates the conflicts, stressors, and concerns regarding diminished safety historically experienced by the transgender community," the authors note.
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She sees about 400 transgender patients in person, and began recruiting patients for her online transgender-focused practice in mid-2017.
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According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, one in five transgender individuals are homeless at some point in their lives.
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The ACA has saved thousands of transgender lives and has encouraged health centers to treat transgender people with dignity and respect.
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Second, if taken seriously, the Sessions letter could eviscerate transgender protections, notwithstanding that the letter acknowledges some protections for transgender persons.
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Because bigots bully transgender teenagers, liberalism has decided that everyone who differs with transgender activists must be complicit in that bigotry.
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About 250 troops have officially come out as transgender since the Obama administration lifted the ban on transgender troops in 85033.
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"The representations that did exist" of transgender people at the time, she wrote, "tended to pathologize transgender people as mentally unstable."
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In arguing for her amendment, Hartzler asserted that the transgender policy was "ill-conceived" and that allowing transgender troops harms readiness.
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He used his 30-minute speech Monday to hammer Jones, who supports transgender rights and opposes Trump's ban on transgender troops.
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Transgender service members are challenging President Donald Trump's memorandum directing the secretary of defense to bar transgender Americans from military service.
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Transgender troops and their advocates say such a policy would effectively create a new "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" for transgender service.
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She pointed to her organization's 2015 US Transgender Survey to illustrate how discrimination and stigma take a toll on transgender people.
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Several lawmakers hung transgender pride flags outside their Capitol Hill offices this week ahead of Sunday's International Transgender Day of Visibility.
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At least 26 transgender people, mostly transgender women of color, were killed in the United States in 2018, according to HRC.
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First transgender governor: In Vermont, Christine Hallquist is running as a Democrat and would be the nation's first openly transgender governor.
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Ms. Couric examines the evolving subject — and accompanying complexities — with scientists, activists, transgender people and parents of intersex and transgender children.
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Transgender boxer Patricio Manuel became the first transgender person to become the face of the iconic boxing brand Everlast this week.
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Here's what is happening: Transgender: The Department of Defense (DOD) is moving forward with new military identification requirements for transgender veterans.
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On Wednesday, transgender advocates across the country will pause to commemorate people like Cubilette-Polanco for the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
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The Obama administration lifted the ban on transgender service members in 2016, and 250 troops have come out as transgender since.
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Men who have sex with men continue to be disproportionately impacted as well as transgender women, especially transgender women of color.
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Ms. Diaz remembers one transgender woman from Mexico bringing her mother in so Ms. Diaz could help explain what "transgender" meant.
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Although transgender people are barred from serving openly in the U.S. military, more than 15,000 transgender people are estimated to be in the armed forces, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, D.C. Transgender veterans are more likely than nontransgender veterans to fall sick with some 16 medical conditions, along with ten mental conditions, it said.
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Trump has said that transgender people should be allowed to use the bathroom of their choosing, but his administration has made several moves hurting transgender rights, according to critics who point to actions such as Trump's attempted ban on transgender troops serving in the military and the Justice Department's ending of workplace protections for transgender people.
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Ellison, along with six other representatives, introduced a resolution with the House Of Representatives that criticizes Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recent decision to roll back worker protections for transgender people, recognizes that the murder of transgender people and especially transgender women of color is a crisis, and offers suggestions for legislators on how to better serve the transgender community.
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In June 2000, ICE issued a Transgender Care Memo, which put in place intake processes for detainees who identify as transgender and called for the establishment of a "Transgender Classification and Care Committee" to evaluate housing and security needs.
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But most of India's estimated 2 million transgender people face discrimination from a young age with transgender women particularly abused, reflecting the entrenched patriarchy in the country, said Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, a founder of the Asia Pacific Transgender Network.
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The 2015 US Transgender Survey conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), the largest study of its kind, found that "a large majority of transgender men and women (95 percent) have wanted hormone therapy," the survey states.
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Historically, transgender characters — whether they're fictional or based on real-life figures — have rarely been played by transgender actors, with many defaulting to casting cisgender men as transgender women instead of bothering to look any further for trans talent.
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" Combatting violence against the transgender and gender non-conforming community: "In 2019, at least 25 transgender and gender non-conforming people lost their lives due to acts of fatal violence — a majority of these victims were black transgender women.
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Homeless transgender people have also been targeted by the administration — which is especially troubling when statistics show that one in five transgender individuals experience homelessness at some point in their life, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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Over the past year, the Trump administration has repeatedly walked back rights and protections for transgender Americans, including reversing a policy that protected transgender individuals from workplace discrimination and trying to stop transgender people from serving in the military.
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Featuring several famous faces of the transgender community on 10 different covers, the issue is guest-edited by transgender model Hari Nef.
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Transgender rights: Massachusetts upheld a 2016 law that protects transgender people from discrimination in public places, including restaurants, hotels, hospitals, and stores.
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Although the world isn't a safe place for any transgender individual, statistics show that fatal violence disproportionately affects transgender women of color.
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"Transgender people are starting to live as their authentic selves at younger ages," said Nick Adams, director of GLAAD's transgender media program.
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Kasey Suffredini is a transgender attorney, chief program officer at Freedom for All Americans, and director of the group's Transgender Freedom Project.
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In that 2016 decision, the Pentagon decreed transgender soldiers could come out, and that officials would eventually allow transgender applicants to enlist.
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The Obama administration had lifted the ban on transgender troops and set a 2017 date to allow new transgender troops to enlist.
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Not just as talented actresses, but as some of the first transgender actresses to play transgender characters on major network television series.
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For a transgender viewer, these moments can be painful to watch—but A Kid Like Jake isn't made for a transgender audience.
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Transgender users gave feedback to app developers saying that their non-trans peers didn't know how to speak respectfully about transgender issues.
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Their policies vary widely: Many schools admit transgender women, some admit people who identify as nonbinary, and a few admit transgender men.
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"Transgender Dysphoria Blues" After coming out, Laura Jane Grace has become an activist for transgender people, working towards visibility for her community.
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Again, if a child has hit puberty and identifies as transgender, they are much less likely to later stop identifying as transgender.
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Transgender People Are People, Too & They Want To Be Treated That Way 17 Photos Reveal The Realities Of The American Transgender Experience
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"Transgender people's families refuse to own them and their bodies," Farzana Jan, president of Pakistan's Transgender Association, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Tragically, 2015 saw the highest rates of anti-transgender violence — particularly against transgender women of color — on record in our nation's history.
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Why it matters: 14 transgender individuals have already been killed in hate crimes this year, and 12 were transgender women of color.
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Once they make it into a provider's office, transgender patients are likely to have a negative experience related to their transgender status.
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Transgender people and especially the parents of transgender children say that they see a lot of ugliness on Facebook directed at them.
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According to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, only 24 percent of transgender adults have birth certificates that correspond to their gender identities.
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Eighteen percent of transgender people said their family was unsupportive of their gender identity, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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Johansson's casting, however, came at a moment when the LGBTQ community and allies are encouraging the casting transgender actors in transgender roles.
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Still, Ms. Drucker, who is transgender, remains optimistic that young people will continue to expand a growing transgender presence in pop culture.
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The National Center for Transgender Equality estimates that more than 15,000 transgender people are serving in the military, some openly, some not.
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According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, more than one in four transgender people has been assaulted because of their identity.
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Chase Strangio is a transgender man and a lawyer at the ACLU who is involved in legislating transgender rights across the nation.
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When it comes to Black transgender women and transgender women of color, I don't want us to just be speaking at events.
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Another attack in 'America's transgender murder capital'Blue said Jones did not consider himself a transgender woman, but he did wear women's clothes.
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Against transgender rights Pence's views on transgender Americans shouldn't be all-too surprising either, given his already controversial views on marriage equality.
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Liz Bouk will play what the company has called the first transgender role specially created for a transgender performer in an opera.
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At least 26 transgender people were killed in 2018, the majority of them black transgender women, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
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Ms. Ménard is one of few prominent transgender artists in France, a country where transgender issues have struggled to gain public traction.
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Greater transgender visibility today has been met with violent backlash against transgender women, especially trans women of color, often leading to death.
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HB 1572/SB 2077: Transgender students in sports Transgender student athletes could only compete against other athletes of the same biological sex.
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A number of transgender Texans testified against it, including Sierra Jane Davis, 22, a transgender woman from Austin and a former Marine.
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Researchers have extracted DNA from the blood samples of 10,1003 people, 3,000 of them transgender and the rest non-transgender, or cisgender.
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Yet 1.33 percent of transgender workers nationwide have been fired or denied a promotion, according to the 2015 United States Transgender Survey.
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His administration also restricted transgender service members in the military and rescinded protections regarding bathroom access for transgender students in public schools.
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Lambda Legal, an advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, already represents several transgender patients, including a New Jersey transgender man suing a Catholic hospital for allegedly denying a procedure related to his gender reassignment on religious grounds.
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A Facebook post in November by a transgender woman wearing a T-shirt that read "Transgender Veteran: I fought for your right to hate me" spread widely on social media and ignited a debate on transgender people and the military.
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One of the country's largest transgender rights groups on Monday unfurled a 28503-foot transgender pride flag in front of the Lincoln Memorial, the latest demonstration by the LGBTQ community against what they call the Trump administration's attacks on transgender people.
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Advocates are gearing up for a fight... Advocates vow to fight Trump rollback of transgender protections Transgender and public health advocates are ready to fight the Trump administration over a new proposed policy that seeks to roll back transgender health protections.
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Since appearing on Orange Is The New Black, Cox has continuously broken barriers for the transgender community, including becoming the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time and the first transgender actress to be nominated for an Emmy.
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The Trump administration has sought to ban transgender people from serving in the military, revoked anti-discrimination protection for transgender people in employment and rescinded guidelines directing public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice.
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This is the reverse case, brought not by a transgender student, but from students who object to sharing a bathroom with transgender individuals.
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If you are transgender, know that it is already legal to discriminate against the transgender community in a majority of these United States.
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The GOP, after all, does not embrace the cause of transgender acceptance, instead writing and passing legislation that advocates say target transgender people.
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The California-based Transgender Law Center and other groups issued statements this week demanding that transgender people not be detained by immigration authorities.
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She is remembered as one of the most significant activists for transgender rights, although the term "transgender" wasn't commonly used during her lifetime.
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They also tested out their new questionnaire specifically geared to transgender people, coining it the Essen Transgender Quality of Life Inventory, or ETLI.
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The issue of transgender bathroom rights has become the latest flashpoint in the long U.S. battle over lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.
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About 300 people testified regarding the legislation, including transgender residents, parents of transgender students and business owners, according to The Dallas Morning News.
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People write messages on a transgender flag during a gathering to remember 16-year-old transgender boy Ekai, who killed himself, in Madrid.
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According to a report from HRC, at least 26 transgender people were killed in 2018, with black transgender women making up the majority.
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"There has been a tremendous increase in visibility and interest in hearing the stories of the transgender community," said Adams who is transgender.
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A Freeze On Trump's Transgender Ban Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced Tuesday that transgender soldiers can remain in the military pending further study.
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And on transgender bills, Trump on Friday declined several opportunities to go after the Obama administration for issuing guidance to protect transgender students.
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The Trump administration has already rolled back protections for transgender students and called for a ban on transgender people serving in the military.
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The Pentagon, which found transgender people would not bog down the military, initially announced new transgender troops may enlist by July 1, 2017.
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Through her various projects, Rocero and co-founder Allie Hoffman seek to elevate the transgender conversation, providing more (paid) opportunities for transgender people.
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The Trump administration also restricted transgender service members in the military and rescinded protections regarding bathroom access for transgender students in public schools.
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Kirsten Gillibrand invited a transgender Navy lieutenant commander who would be affected by Trump's ban on transgender Americans serving in the military. Sen.
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Gunhill Road stars a transgender actress, Harmony Santana, and touched a community of transgender women who had essentially never been represented on screen.
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Are they denying medically necessary care to a transgender person (such as a hysterectomy) that is provided to people who are not transgender?
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He didn't mention the person was transgender CNN was unaware Clarke was transgender on Friday when another article was published about the killing.
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Pls give me & my sis the honor 2 meet with u 2 talk #transgender rghts Evancho's older sister, Juliet, is a transgender woman.
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" Trump announced the ban on transgender service members last year, stating that transgender applicants are "disqualified from military service except under limited circumstances.
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Selva said the policy allowing transgender recruits to enlist was delayed largely due to a "disagreement on the science" of treating transgender people.
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These rest stops weren't pristine idylls before this debate about which ones transgender people should use, and transgender people were present all along.
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The court said it will also examine if the same federal statute protects transgender people in the workplace, based on their transgender identification.
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The Mattis policy does not kick anyone out of the military for being transgender, nor does it give preferential treatment to transgender persons.
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Ms. Thomas's murder marked the 19th transgender murder of the year, and the sixth murder of a minority transgender woman over the summer.
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Through the internet and other resources, Kimberly learned about transgender people, trans healthcare, gender identity, and the medically recognized treatment for transgender people.
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Boyertown's policy had been challenged by some non-transgender high school students, who said sharing facilities with transgender students would violate their privacy.
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They also see transgender advocates as out of step with the public even as celebrities and the Democratic Party champion the transgender cause.
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Since the first anti-transgender "bathroom ban" bill was introduced in Arizona in 2013, the transgender community has been fighting off discriminatory legislation.
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The Katherine Heigl vehicle also stars Laverne Cox, making it the first network series to feature a transgender performer in a transgender role.
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There were jokes about Caitlyn Jenner, who came out as transgender in 2015, and Jeffrey Tambor, who plays a transgender woman on Transparent.
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Events featuring Ms. Manning, who came out as transgender while she was in prison, will look at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.
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The next season of "Supergirl" will introduce Nia Nal, a transgender hero played by Nicole Maines, who is also transgender and an activist.
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One challenge is that being transgender is not necessarily visually obvious, and not all transgender people want to be easily identifiable as such.
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The Office of Transgender Initiatives of San Francisco also confirmed her death on Twitter with a message of support to the transgender community.
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Having learned from these mistakes, we now follow new protocols that guide us to accept and affirm transgender youths in their transgender identities.
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Virginia's first transgender lawmaker claims victory in reelection bid Danica Roem, Virginia's first transgender lawmaker, claimed victory Tuesday night in her reelection bid.
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On social media, newspaper editorials and videos, the transgender community had slammed her casting as highlighting the limited opportunities given to transgender actors.
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"It can be hard to understand what it means to be transgender, especially if you've never met a transgender person," the speaker says.
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People who are transgender, particularly transgender women of color, experience appalling levels of violence, and this violence is exacerbated by poverty and racism.
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In 2015, they sued on behalf of a transgender student named Gavin Grimm, who has since become a figurehead of transgender civil rights.
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He's "arguing with your older uncle on Facebook about transgender bathroom bills when neither of you is transgender," reimagined as a sitcom character.
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Recognition of transgender people in the media shows mainstream America "we're real people," said Christine Connelly, a member of the board of directors of the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth who came out as transgender woman five years ago.
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And a 213 study of more than 6,000 transgender people by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National LGBTQ Task Force found that 19 percent said they had been denied health care because of their transgender or gender nonconforming status.
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According to one of the largest surveys of the trans population in the United States by the National Center for Transgender Equality, one in five transgender people do not have a permanent home and black transgender men and women are particularly vulnerable.
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"The death of a second transgender immigrant who was seeking asylum ... clearly tells us that ICE isn't equipped to meet the needs of transgender individuals," Emilio Vicente of Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, a transgender rights group, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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According to the 2628 United States Transgender Survey, a study of nearly 28500,6900 transgender adults, one third of those who saw a health-care provider during that year were turned away, harassed, or faced another form of mistreatment because they were transgender.
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Read more: A prominent transgender YouTube star was deadnamed at a panel on LGBTQ activism, and it sparked a big discussion and several apologies18 transgender people have been killed in 2019So far in 183, at least 18 transgender people have been killed.
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Elsewhere this cycle, Vermont Democrat Christine Hallquist has already made history as the first major-party transgender nominee for governor, and if she wins, she would be the nation's first transgender governor and one of the very few transgender officeholders around the country.
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A day after President Trump tweeted out that he wanted to ban transgender troops from serving in the US military, Chinese LGBTQ activists celebrated a landmark victory — a court ruling in favor of a transgender man in the country's first transgender discrimination lawsuit.
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"As president, he has a comprehensive plan to secure rights for transgender Americans, including passing the Equality Act, ensuring transgender people have access to affirming healthcare and working to end the crisis of violence against transgender women," the campaign spokesperson told NBC.
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Her decision, in October, not only halted a plan to discharge all transgender troops, it also allowed current transgender troops to re-enlist and permitted transgender recruits to join the military starting in January, a process the Pentagon has begun to implement.
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But not all transgender people can or will take those steps, and a transgender identity is not dependent upon physical appearance or medical procedures.
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The sad, ironic reality is that I am a transgender recruiter who is not allowed to recruit transgender men and women into the military.
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"Make no mistake: The President's proposal is a ban on transgender Americans that targets every single transgender person in our Armed Forces," Kennedy said.
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Read: Let transgender people achieve their American dream A couple of years later, I better understood the differences, but "transgender" still didn't quite fit.
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The other concerned a transgender woman, Aimee Stephens, marking the first time the court heard arguments regarding the civil rights of a transgender individual.
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Watch exchange between Don Lemon and transgender woman CNN's Don Lemon addresses a transgender woman's concerns during Beto O'Rourke's portion of the town hall.
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Monica Helms, who created the transgender pride flag, was especially disappointed to see the announcement — as both a transgender woman and a Navy veteran.
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The transgender case is especially noteworthy because it represents the first civil rights case concerning transgender individuals that the Supreme Court has ever heard.
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"They clearly say that they don't think transgender people have any protections in law," said Gillian Branstetter, of the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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But consider that Kandie Jackson, like so many transgender women, says she was chased out of her house at age 15 for being transgender.
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In terms of transgender and non-binary visibility, 45 transgender models and four non-binary models walked major and semi-major runways this season.
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Many transgender people and their advocates argued that on such a subject the voices of transgender people should be heard first, and perhaps exclusively.
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But transgender candidates face unique challenges in making their case to voters who often have never met another transgender person, at least not knowingly.
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Transgender model Carmen Carrera is not mincing words about how she feels about President Donald Trump's controversial decision to remove protections for transgender children.
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Pastor Seth Wynn, a transgender man, said transgender people are often the victims of violence, adding the bill offers them discrimination and not protection.
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Transgender people of color are especially harmed by state and federal efforts to deprive transgender and gender nonconforming people of their rights, advocates say.
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The update, which lands during Transgender Awareness Week, was designed with transgender and non-binary users in mind, according to Tinder CEO Sean Rad.
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But under Trump, the Justice and Education departments have reversed transgender student guidance, and indicated that investigators would back away from transgender restroom complaints.
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"Unfortunately, it can often feel disempowering for a transgender person to disclose to other people that they are transgender," reads GLAAD's tips for allies.
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And the 2016 National Center for Transgender Equality survey found that 30% of transgender and non-binary Americans have been homeless at some point.
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"We're dependent on society to give transgender people some kind of acceptance," says Christine McGinn, DO, a plastic surgeon who specializes in transgender surgery.
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But after watching a movie about a transgender woman in 2012, Corey realized that she, too, was transgender, and came out to her parents.
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In 2011, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of transgender and gender non-conforming U.S. respondents said they had attempted suicide.
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He will also be tasked with barring new transgender soldiers and cutting off money for medical treatment for transgender soldiers already in the military.
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Transgender custody case prompted bill Brinkman introduced the bill months after a Hamilton County court granted custody of a transgender teen to his grandparents.
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Advocates on Transgender Day of Remembrance typically highlight that transgender people are misgendered by law enforcement, police reports and media coverage when they die.
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons changed the wording in its Transgender Offenders Manual to dial down certain protections for transgender inmates, reports NPR.
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I'm just doing my own little part to try and make life better for all of us transgender people—not even just transgender people.
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One transgender group boycotting the event said attacks on transgender sex workers had increased since the launch and complained they had not bee consulted.
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Ms. Manning, a transgender woman, became a cause célèbre for free speech advocates and for gay and transgender activists while she was in prison.
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The United States Transgender Survey, produced by the National Center for Transgender Equality in 2015, remains the largest survey of trans Americans ever conducted.
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Wednesday also marked the Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to mark the memories of transgender people who were killed in anti-trans violence.
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For several years Gloria Allen, a transgender woman then in her 60s, ran an informal charm school for queer and transgender youths in Chicago.
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A year ago Mitr Trust, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender charity based in India, held auditions for the country's first transgender modeling agency.
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For the past three months, the only professional sports league in North America with an openly transgender player had no transgender policy in place.
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Firing a transgender woman for being trans is legal, they claim, if an employer would also fire a transgender man for the same reason.
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Borjas, a transgender woman from Mexico, has worked as an advocate for the transgender and immigrant communities since her conviction, the governor's office said.
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That report, the latest in a series on transgender populations, included estimates of the transgender population in each state and in different age groups.
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The findings of a recent survey of transgender people conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality shows how pernicious the damage can be.
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Transgender people experience broad disenfranchisement across social institutions, from housing to employment, and Alvarez's organization clearly shows transgender people succeeding and leading in life.
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The criticism also inverts the bill's most basic frame: Rather than transgender people being the victims of discrimination (transgender people suffer indisputably high rates of bias, which is why the bill exists), transgender people are portrayed as an all-male brigade that subjugates others.
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"Paired with the abuse we know transgender people regularly suffer in ICE detention, the death of Ms. Hernández sends the message that transgender people are disposable and do not deserve dignity, safety, or even life," said Isa Noyola, deputy director at Transgender Law Center.
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According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, about half of all people who identified as, or were perceived to be, transgender while still in school (K-12) report being verbally harassed, and nearly a quarter report being physically assaulted because they were transgender.
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The program comes at a time when the entertainment industry is employing more transgender people — notably on the television shows "Transparent" and "Orange Is the New Black" — and transgender models are beginning to get work through modeling agencies founded and run by transgender entrepreneurs.
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" According to The National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS), transgender people experience higher levels of "poverty, unemployment, homelessness, negative interactions with police, incarceration, and violent victimization.
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The finding that transgender veterans were healthier than transgender civilians suggests that "military service (is) a potentially independent social determinant of health," the authors write.
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Similarly, a 2011 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality found that 34 percent of Black transgender inmates had reported sexual abuse in prison.
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It moved to ban transgender people from serving in the military, and now the administration wants to use federal bureaucracy to deny transgender people's existence.
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Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, wants transgender people to know they are far from alone in this fight.
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Ryan tells Broadly that the parents of transgender girls typically "identify their child as gender-nonconforming at earlier ages" than the parents of transgender boys.
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Muvvala's disappearance sparked concern in the transgender community about her safety, according to Karthik, who is also a member of Telangana Hijra Intersex Transgender Samiti.
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Advocates for transgender people condemned the move, saying it would force transgender students to amend their birth certificates, a costly process, in order to play.
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The Breakthrough Fund, which launched this week, is a political action committee run by transgender activists and tailored specifically to elect transgender people to office.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy groups say the current White House policies protect transgender students from discrimination and dismiss the safety concerns as rubbish.
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A group of transgender men took a jab at Scarlett Johansson after the actress stirred up controversy for taking a role as a transgender man.
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And many transgender people experience verbal taunts, sexual harassment or assault, and other forms of physical violence, according to the National Center For Transgender Equality.
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The National Center for Transgender Equality: The National Center for Transgender Equality works to advance the rights of the trans community through advocacy and empowerment.
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Transgender Law Center: The Transgender Law Center works to challenge and change policies and laws to allow the trans community to live safer, authentic lives.
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Yet, greater media representation has not dispelled some pervasive myths about transgender people — including that simply being transgender means you're more likely to be depressed.
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And when we're discussing issues like transgender rights, it's vital to have voices like Cox's, and those of other transgender people, involved in the discussion.
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The town's latest victim was Elizabeth Castillo, a transgender woman, who police say was kidnapped in February after attending the funeral of two transgender women.
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Trump's transgender ban Gillibrand was among the harshest Democratic critics of Trump's transgender military service ban, saying she was working on legislation to block it.
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Gonzalez is the first transgender person to study at a university in Narino, and the first transgender woman in Colombia to run for local councillor.
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Taking hormone therapy as a transgender woman did not increase the odds of a heart attack compared to non-transgender men in the control group.
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Twenty-two European countries currently require transgender people to undergo sterilization when legally changing genders, according to Transgender Europe, a Berlin-based human rights organization.
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Let's face it, David Bowie might have been the world's first transgender ally — before we had words like "transgender" or even "ally" in our vernacular.
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As Vanita Gupta, the head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, made clear last week: Transgender women are women and transgender men are men.
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Transgender Americans are nine times more likely to attempt suicide than the general population, according to a 2015 survey of more than 28,000 transgender Americans.
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Transgender teens were not included in that study, but research has shown that transgender youth may face a similarly high, if not higher, suicide risk.
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The media guide for "transgender issues" by Glaad, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group, advises reporters to use whatever pronoun their subjects prefer.
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Polis became an unwitting symbol of the transgender community and the struggle for transgender rights when she stepped into a Rosedale McDonald's one April evening.
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If Roem wins today, she will become the first publicly elected transgender person in Virginia and one of the most powerful transgender people in politics.
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Muvvala is an activist with the Telangana Hijra Intersex Transgender Samiti, a local advocacy group for hijras - or transgender women - which campaigns against transphobic violence.
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"Transgender women are not biological males; they are transgender women," said Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
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" — Michael Meehan, 75, San Francisco "The main challenge that L.G.B.T.Q. civil rights face is the demonization of transgender women and especially transgender women of color.
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While the United States has prominent transgender performers, such as Laverne Cox and Trace Lysette, transgender identity is only just entering mainstream consciousness in France.
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That permitted transgender members currently serving to come out openly; openly transgender people are set to be allowed to join the military starting next year.
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The current U.S. Department of Defense policy states that transgender individuals can serve openly and cannot be discharged solely on the basis of being transgender.
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" Moore then went after his Democratic opponent, former federal prosecutor Doug Jones, saying he is taking up "transgender issues and transgender rights in the military.
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Unconscionably, nearly half of these countries still require sterilization for legal recognition of a transgender person's self-identified gender, according to the organization Transgender Europe.
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TRANSGENDER FACILITIES The Obama administration has taken the position that schools must permit transgender students to use the restrooms and locker rooms of their choice.
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Dallas police are investigating other transgender attacks Last week's attack is the latest in a string of attacks on Dallas' transgender community in recent years.
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I did not want to be associated with a group that did not allow transgender boys the same opportunity as boys who are not transgender.
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"This is a great victory for transgender students," Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Transgender Law Center, said of the Whitaker verdict in a statement.
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Psychiatrists no longer consider being transgender a disorder and several U.S. courts have found the Obama interpretation of protecting transgender people against discrimination as sound.
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The unnamed recruit is the first transgender person to formally sign a contract with the military since it formally began accepting transgender recruits on Jan.
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That includes: Rolling back an Obama-era order allowing transgender people to openly serve in the U.S. military Attempting to roll back protections for transgender people established under the Affordable Care Act Telling the Supreme Court that federal law doesn't protect transgender people from workplace discrimination Removing Title IX protections for transgender youth Changing an Obama-era policy allowing prisoners to be housed based on gender identity.
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When lawmakers across the country propose bills that target transgender young people, and police departments arrest transgender women just for walking down the street, and transgender people of color are harassed when checking into hotels, it is because we, as a society, have accepted the idea that transgender people are perpetrating a fraud just by existing and are less human than the rest of us.
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Between the transgender military ban and an HHS memo seeking to define "transgender out of existence," it's been a painful, difficult year for the LGBTQ community.
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Raquel Willis, a transgender activist serving as the national organizer for The Transgender Law Center, was a speaker at the Women's March on Washington last year.
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Under O'Rourke's proposed plan, he would also direct the Department of Justice to investigate crimes against transgender people, with an emphasis on transgender women of color.
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In June 2016, the Obama administration lifted a decades-long ban on transgender service, citing research that found transgender people would not bog down the military.
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The Obama administration has cited the ruling in its transgender lawsuit against North Carolina and in a letter to advising the nation's schools on transgender policy.
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It also seeks injunctions to prevent the district from adopting policies that treat transgender boys differently from other boys and transgender girls differently from other girls.
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Cox has been busy filming CBS's Doubt, in which she will be the first transgender actor to play a transgender main character on a broadcast show.
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State legislators across the country unleashed a slew of anti-transgender bills trying to stem the tide of rising social and legal acceptance of transgender people.
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Last year, Hatch defended transgender people after President Donald Trump Tweeted that he would not "accept or allow" transgender people to serve in the U.S. military.
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Long-time republican and transgender activist, Caitlyn Jenner, is speaking out in response to President Donald Trump's latest move to lift federal protections for transgender students.
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Vicky Hartzler's failed controversial amendment to cut funding for transgender service members' medical treatments, has sparked renewed debate over transgender personnel serving in the US military.
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Seventy-seven percent of transgender women who have done sex work have experienced intimate partner violence, and all violence against transgender people disproportionately affects Black women.
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" Trump formalized his "ban on transgender individuals joining the military but gave the Pentagon the authority to decide the future of openly transgender people already serving.
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Her initial casting sparked a backlash on social media as the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community criticized the lack of opportunities for transgender actors.
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Smith's comments came after the Pentagon imposed restrictions on transgender service members, limiting the scope of transgender people who are eligible to serve in the military.
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Transgender troop ban The House will also vote on a resolution expressing opposition to the administration's policy banning most transgender people from serving in the military.
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In the last few years, the number of Facebook groups for transgender adults and teenagers and for the parents of young transgender children has grown rapidly.
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So as more transgender people came to the social network to find others like them, other people on Facebook began to notice transgender people there, too.
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"Gun Hill Road" is significant in that it is a film in which a transgender character, Michael, is played by an actor who is herself transgender.
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Today she is retired, but continues to advocate for the transgender community and remains an outspoken activist fighting to end violence against transgender women of color.
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The pageant, which brings together transgender people from around the world, was launched over a decade ago to help transgender women feel more accepted by society.
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"There are 15,000 patriotic transgender Americans in the US military fighting for all of us," she tweeted after Trump announced his ban on transgender service members.
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The same survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality underscored the impact of stigma and discrimination on the health of people who identify as transgender.
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" On the military's transgender policy: Milley also said Thursday that Trump's policy banning most transgender people from serving in the military is a matter of "standards.
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Issues faced by transgender people In a country with deep-rooted discrimination that cuts across religion, region and gender, transgender people have become the greatest outliers.
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Trump first announced the ban on transgender service members last year, citing "the tremendous medical costs and disruption" that would be caused by transgender service members.
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In arguing against the transgender policy, Hartzler and other Republicans contend that it hinders readiness and costs too much to pay for transgender troops' medical care.
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A 22018 National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) survey found that transgender people are twice as likely to be living in poverty as the general population.
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Other estimates place the number of transgender troops higher, such as a 2014 UCLA Williams Institute study that said there are 85033,800 active duty transgender troops.
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ILGA-Europe, which lobbies for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, said employers needed to address the exclusion of the transgender community from the workplace.
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In July, Trump announced on Twitter that transgender troops would be banned from the US military, citing false information about transgender soldier's impact on their units.
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At a meeting in Santa Clara County, he "spoke about transgender young people" alongside local transgender advocates, including a chapter of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
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Today she is retired but continues to advocate for the transgender community and remains an outspoken activist fighting to end violence against transgender women of color.
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But despite its high number of transgender citizens per capita —not to mention the annual Miss Tiffany's transgender beauty contest—the country has a conflicted attitude.
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Lawmakers have introduced a number of measures this year, from criminalizing those who prescribe hormone therapy to transgender youth to banning transgender athletes from sports teams.
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He supports prosecuting those who commit violence against transgender victims but opposes reading the law in a way that broadly extends discrimination protection for transgender people.
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Shows like "Pose," which focuses on the lives of L.G.B.T people, have been praised in the past for casting five transgender women to play transgender characters.
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If you look at surveys of transgender individuals, I think you would see not a small possibility, but an enormous likelihood, that transgender individuals face discrimination.
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The Trump administration has sought to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military and has taken other steps aimed at rolling back transgender rights.
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WPATH [the World Professional Association for Transgender Health], the world's largest and longstanding transgender health professional organization, has since denounced reparative therapies as ineffective and unethical.
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"The women's movement has never been all-inclusive," said Susan Stryker, a transgender studies scholar at the University of Arizona and the author of Transgender History.
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In studies of twins, if one is transgender, the other is far more likely to also be transgender if they are identical, rather than fraternal twins.
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Transgender rights activist Chelsea Manning on Thursday headed to the White House to join protests against President Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military.
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A number of prominent YouTubers have come out as transgender on their channels over the years, advocating for transgender rights and standing up for LGBTQ youth.
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" "The Department of Defense will continue to comply with the court orders and access transgender applicants for military service as well as retain transgender service members.
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The Trans Lifeline operates hotlines for people struggling with their gender identity, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health offers many resources for transgender individuals.
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Inspired by her own transgender parent, the show's creator, Jill Soloway, makes a point of putting transgender people both in front of and behind the camera.
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When students are educated about routine pap smears, the importance of screening transgender men is also taught; the same goes for prostate exams and transgender women.
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Dr. Cecile Ferrando, director of the Transgender Medicine & Surgery Program at Cleveland Clinic, told Insider 5 ways people can support transgender friends and family during pregnancy.
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"Transgender children are among the most vulnerable members of the next generation," Gillian Branstetter, media relations manager at the National Center for Transgender Equality, told Vox.
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"Transgender folks are criminalized in our society," said Mateo De La Torre, a racial and economic justice policy advocate at the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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Authorities in Washington State announced this week that transgender teenager Nikki Kuhnhausen was killed earlier this year by a man after he learned she was transgender.
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Reality check: Decreased muscle mass, decreased strength and body-fat redistribution are three standard effects for transgender women receiving estrogen through hormone replacement therapy (HRT), as shown by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and UC San Francisco's Center of Excellence for Transgender Health.
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Read more:A powerful new Gillette ad features a dad teaching his transgender son how to shaveThe Supreme Court just rejected an appeal over a school district's policy about which bathrooms transgender students can useAmerica's only all-male historically black college will begin admitting transgender men in 2020
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In Idaho, two anti-transgender bills scheduled for State Senate votes this week would prohibit transgender people from changing their birth certificates to match their gender identities and would ban transgender athletes from playing on sports teams that do not correspond to their sex assigned at birth.
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For advocates of gay and transgender people, the step was stunning coming from Mr. Sessions, a conservative who has rolled back legal protections for transgender people as a group, including reversing a policy of encouraging schools to let transgender students use bathrooms that fit their gender identities.
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Joe Kennedy of Massachusetts, who serves as chair of the Congressional Transgender Equality Task Force, blasted Trump's transgender ban on Wednesday and said on the House floor that transgender service members "are willing to sacrifice their lives to protect our freedom" and "deserve better" from the president.
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"There were transgender lawyers in that courtroom, and the transgender men were following the men's dress code and using the men's restroom and the transgender women were following the women's dress code and using the women's restroom and the sky has not fallen," he told reporters.
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Down-ballot races across the country offered some of the starkest examples of LGBTQ progress, particularly for transgender rights and representation of voices from the transgender community.
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On May 13, 2016, the Department of Justice released a letter on transgender students that made it clear the sex protections of Title IX include transgender people.
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Mara Keisling is the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, the nation's leading social justice advocacy organization, winning life-saving change for transgender people.
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Even after Manning walks free in May, transgender people all over the nation -- particularly black transgender women -- will continue to face discrimination, mistreatment and violence while incarcerated.
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In response to President Donald Trump's new bathroom ruling rolling back protections for transgender children, transgender actress Ivory Aquino writes exclusively for PEOPLE about the controversial decision.
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The 2015 US Transgender Survey, the largest survey of its type to date, found 1 in 4 transgender adults had experienced housing bias within the previous year.
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LGBT leaders must begin years in advance, above all, to "build familiarity with transgender people and their lives" and "systematically engage transgender staff and leaders," she wrote.
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It's a huge win for transgender rights to healthcare in California, but also highlights out how difficult it is for transgender people to access gender-affirming treatments.
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As of last year, 14 states had laws explicitly banning transgender exclusions in both private health insurance and Medicaid, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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That can mean that transgender people aren't able to afford hormone replacement therapy that, for example, would deepen a transgender man's voice and facilitate body hair growth.
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The change is the latest in a series of actions companies and governments are taking to affirm the identities of transgender people as transgender equality activism surges.
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Gender Proud started out focused on transgender rights, specifically gender recognition laws, then branched into a production company to help tell people's stories of the transgender experience.
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A number of congressional Democrats will bring transgender people with military experience to the speech in protest of Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military.
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Debbie Hayton, a transgender campaigner, reckons that, were she ever jailed, she might plump for a men's prison rather than a faraway transgender wing holding sex offenders.
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Malcolm Maune, who works for Trans Lifeline, a hotline staffed by transgender people for struggling transgender people, has lupus and has frequent interactions with doctors he trusts.
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"When a brand like Bud Light shows support for the transgender community, it makes a difference," Nick Adams, GLAAD's director of transgender media, said in a statement.
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Would weaken protections for homeless transgender people, including allowing HUD-funded shelters to deny them access or force transgender women to share quarters and bathrooms with men.
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Despite growing media attention for transgender children, we still have so much work to do to make sure growing up transgender is a beautiful and peaceful experience.
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The same study, by advocacy group the National Center for Transgender Equality, found transgender adults were nine times more likely than the general population to attempt suicide.
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Hosoda is the second transgender politician to be elected in the country, after a transgender woman, Kamikawa Aya, was elected as a Tokyo city official in 2003.
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He enacted a policy that allowed transgender people to serve openly and receive transition related care, while setting a plan in motion to enlist new transgender troops.
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He enacted a policy that allowed transgender people to serve openly and receive transition-related care, while setting a plan in motion to enlist new transgender troops.
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In 2018, at least 22 transgender Americans were killed, and in 2019, seven transgender women have been reported killed so far, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
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Such discrimination is likely to discourage transgender service members from making the leap to serving openly, said Denny Meyer, a spokesman for the Transgender American Veterans Association.
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For many transgender people, the cost of surgery, often not covered by insurance, is too expensive a hurdle, and not every transgender person desires such a procedure.
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I am transgender, and have dedicated a significant portion of my work to issues related to the state of life for transgender people in the United States.
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For example, while the Affordable Care Act prohibits anti-transgender discrimination, the 2015 US Transgender Survey found that one in four respondents still encountered problems with insurance.
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Carter's directive ended the previous ban on transgender individuals from serving openly and also instructed the Pentagon to decide how to allow new transgender recruits to join.
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When Trump announced a ban on transgender people serving openly in the military, the cathedral was quick to announce that it would always welcome the transgender community.
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Stone revealed his transgender status to military personnel in 2016 after the Defense Department concluded there was no basis for the military to exclude transgender service members.
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Transgender people are four times as likely as non-transgender people to have incomes below $10,000, often due to rampant employment discrimination and criminalization of the community.
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The Supreme Court's 2014 ruling and the transgender rights bill - passed by parliament's lower house last week - both describe intersex people as a type of transgender person.
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Judy Bowen is a transgender activist who started two transgender support organizations in New York City in the early years after the riots at the Stonewall Inn.
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Transgender rights - military: The Supreme Court handed the president a partial win, allowing the administration to temporarily enforce its restrictions on transgender people serving in the military.
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MORE, said it will be easier for Trump to implement a policy to restrict transgender people from enlisting than it will be removing transgender people already serving.
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"I know how to strengthen the military, and it isn't by putting transgender troops and opposing President Trump's ban on transgender troops in the military," Moore said.
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" The bill "bars transgender people from using public restrooms that match their gender identity and prohibits cities from passing antidiscrimination ordinances that protect gay and transgender people.
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It's a whole lot of fun, but this week's episode was also quietly revolutionary in the simplest of ways: It cast transgender actresses to play transgender roles.
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They need to know which transgender actors are out there, but the problem is that the vast majority of transgender actors are not being represented by anyone.
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Transgender teens were not included in the US government's survey, but research has shown that transgender youth may face a similarly high, if not higher, suicide risk.
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We've talked a lot, in general, about transgender performers, and when a cisgender performer plays a transgender character, the story is almost always about the character's transition.
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Related: 11 States Are Suing the Obama Administration Over Its Transgender Bathroom Policy However, as many accounts have shown, transgender students are usually the ones in danger.
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One measure bans transgender girls from playing on girls' and women's sports teams, while the other prohibits transgender people from changing their gender on Idaho birth certificates.
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A transgender Navy officer is suing the Pentagon over its ban on most transgender military service, arguing she faces involuntary discharge despite a successful record of service.
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Even as transgender people have scored political victories and turned public opinion in favor of more protections, violence has risen, especially against black and Hispanic transgender women.
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Rather, "it prohibits plans from excluding a service related to gender transition for transgender people when the same service is covered for non-transgender people," he said.
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Mr. Sessions authorized that the murder of a transgender teen be prosecuted as a hate crime, even as the department resisted civil rights protections for transgender people.
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Mary Ann Horton's 1997 lawsuit against her employer, now-defunct Lucent Technologies, secured non-discrimination protections for transgender employees, marking a groundbreaking moment for transgender workplace rights.
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WASHINGTON — Not long after the Pentagon lifted its ban on transgender troops last year, a West Point cadet named Riley Dosh came out as a transgender woman.
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"Allowing vital records to match gender identity is an important step forward that will allow transgender individuals to control the disclosure of their transgender status," he continued.
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A group of transgender troops and students asked a federal judge to halt the administration from moving forward its proposed ban on transgender people in the ranks.
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There's a transgender flag emoji on the way (the proposal for which was sponsored by Google and Microsoft), as well as an emoji for the transgender symbol.
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It announced in June 2016 that transgender service members could serve openly, and that the Defense Department would work to figure out how to allow transgender recruits.
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Another transgender woman was shot and injured in Dallas on Friday, the latest in a spate of assaults against transgender individuals in the city in recent years.
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According to the Human Rights Campaign, a national civil rights organization, a majority of the transgender murder victims it has counted this year were black transgender women.
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Part of the argument offered by the Trump administration in opposing transgender service has been the alleged dollar cost of providing adequate health care to transgender troops.
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Transgender Americans have just half the homeownership rate of non-transgender people, and almost half of same-sex couples report negative treatment when searching for housing. 3.
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Many European countries, such as Finland, Switzerland and Greece, still require transgender people who want to legally change their gender to undergo sterilization, according to Transgender Europe.
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But herein lies the paradox: The process by which transgender individuals become "just like everyone else" requires less attention paid to the fact that they are transgender.
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The Kardashian family believes Caitlyn Jenner has betrayed the transgender community by sticking with Donald Trump after the President vowed to ban transgender soldiers from the military.
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Two transgender students and one transgender employee in North Carolina can now use bathrooms which match their gender identity, thanks to a federal judge's ruling on Friday.
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This announcement follows a series of reversals by administration centered around the topic including the Education Department's reversal of its position on transgender student bathroom access and the Justice Department's decision to not apply workplace discrimination laws to transgender communities and limits on transgender troops in the U.S. military.
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In a 2015 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality, 38 percent of black transgender respondents were living in poverty (the figure for Americans in general is 14 percent), and 19 percent of black transgender women had HIV (the prevalence in the general population is 0.3 percent).
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From the Johansson controversy to Chilean actress Daniela Vega becoming the first transgender presenter at the Oscars and a Cannes Film Festival award for "Girl" - about a transgender teenage girl's quest to become a ballerina - this year has seen debates on transgender representation in film come to the fore.
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In an amicus brief filed Tuesday, two advocacy groups, the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, joined Whitman-Walker Health, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit health center, in arguing the case was important in removing barriers to transgender people receiving healthcare.
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A group of parents of transgender children — all members of the Human Rights Campaign's Parents for Transgender Equality Council — are asking President Trump, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions for a face-to-face meeting to talk about the decision to rescind Obama's transgender bathroom guidance.
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Zil Goldstein, a nurse practitioner and program director at Mount Sinai's transgender center, said that while she had concerns about the long-term safety of transgender hormones, she worried more about the possible harm from not prescribing them — researchers report that 41 percent of transgender people attempt suicide.
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The Oregon case was one of a number of recent legal efforts to overturn school policies guaranteeing transgender students the use of facilities matching their gender identity, though courts have largely sided with transgender students, said Harper Jean Tobin, policy director at the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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The bill, passed 236-173, comes as departments across the Trump administration have dismantled policies friendly to gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, like barring transgender recruits from serving in the military or formally rejecting complaints filed by transgender students who are barred from restrooms that match their gender identity.
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What they're saying: The administration argues that "Title VII's protections apply fully to transgender individuals" when it comes to sex discrimination — women being treated worse than men, or vice versa — but "treating a transgender person less favorably than a non-transgender person" is not part of the law's protections.
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"Paired with the abuse we know transgender people regularly suffer in ICE detention, the death of Ms. Hernández sends the message that transgender people are disposable and do not deserve dignity, safety, or even life," Isa Noyola, deputy director at Transgender Law Center, said in a statement in May.
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In a 0003 poll by Human Rights Campaign/Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, 22 percent of respondents said they personally knew or worked with a transgender person — up 17 percent from the previous year — and knowing someone transgender meant a corresponding increase in favorable feelings toward transgender people in general.
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In a 2015 poll by Human Rights Campaign/Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, 22 percent of respondents said they personally knew or worked with a transgender person — up 17 percent from the previous year — and knowing someone transgender meant a corresponding increase in favorable feelings toward transgender people in general.
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Trans [trans] | adjective (trans people) Used as shorthand to mean transgender or transsexual — or sometimes to be inclusive of a wide variety of identities under the transgender umbrella.
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In fact, only 11 percent of transgender people have their preferred name and gender marker on all of their identity documents, according to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey.
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Transgender rights activist Monica Roberts invoked Booker's name at a legislative hearing as an example of why Texas should expand its hate crime act to protect transgender people.
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"And the fastest way to end it is, end the Trump administration," he said, before referencing Trump's transgender military ban and move to withdraw protections for transgender students.
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A transgender woman filed a complaint with the state when a salon refused to provide a nail service; the transgender woman said she also wanted a Brazilian wax.
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The executive committee is half transgender, and though they're behind the scenes, they've found there's also no messenger more effective than a transgender person — especially a trans teenager.
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He issued preliminary injunctions in a case concerning guidance for transgender workers and students, and in a case on transgender health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
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Odds of a transgender person attempting suicide or abusing drugs and alcohol are significantly reduced (almost on level with non-transgender people) when they have their families' support.
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In a final windfall, courts recently halted President Trump's ban on transgender service and a federal judge ordered that new transgender recruits must be allowed starting Jan. 1.
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Sacayán was heavily involved in the transgender rights movement in Argentina, having successfully pushed for a law establishing transgender employment quotas in the provincial government of Buenos Aires.
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Many doctors aren't aware that some transgender men may still need pap smears, breast exams and mammograms, and that all transgender women should be screened for prostate problems.
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Ashley Smith, a transgender woman and San Antonio architect, said transgender women suffer more violence than the general public, and a bathroom bill would make her more fearful.
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The lookbook features transgender models Stav Strashko, Torraine Futurum, and Marcs Marcus, and it's notable for a luxury label to include so many transgender models in one sitting.
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In 2017, over 170 transgender people were murdered in Brazil, compared to 56 in Mexico and 25 in the United States, according to Transgender Europe, an advocacy group.
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She'll also be a resource for gender non-conforming and transgender students, which is incredibly important now that Trump's administration has lifted what few rights transgender students had.
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"This study shows that being a transgender person in the U.S. today - being transgender in a society that you know doesn't fully accept you - is hard," Baker added.
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This is an attack on the very humanity of transgender people, designed to create a limbo in which our transgender friends and neighbors will be forced to exist.
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If taken literally, it would mean, for example, that employers can't fire transgender persons because of their gender non-conformity, but they could simply because they are transgender.
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They point to the fact that currently serving transgender troops can continue doing so and that only transgender people diagnosed with gender dysphoria will be barred from enlisting.
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On June 29, transgender YouTuber Lilah Gibney accused the video editor Blane O'Roark of saying she and her transgender woman friend weren't "real girls" before kicking them out.
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Several transgender service members filed a lawsuit after Trump said in July he would ban transgender people from the military, citing concern over military focus and medical costs.
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Karina Samala is an award-decorated performer who commands the stage for transgender beauty pageants as well as an activist working for transgender equality in the United States.
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Today, March 31, is Transgender Day of Visibility, a day centered on celebrating the accomplishments, achievements and presence of transgender and gender non-conforming people across the globe.
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Actress Scarlett Johansson on Friday pulled out of production for the movie "Rub and Tug" after her casting as a transgender man sparked backlash from the transgender community.
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The Army is preparing to integrate transgender soldiers in the service, despite an indefinite hold on the decision to permit transgender individuals to serve in the armed forces.
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"Transgender people have been here forever, and black transgender people have been here forever," she said after winning about 73 percent of the votes in Minneapolis's Eighth Ward.
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On "Modern Family," Mr. Greenberg, the casting director, said he had consulted the organization Glaad and a transgender agent, Ann Thomas of Transgender Talent, before he found Jackson.
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Only 11 percent of transgender women had their testicles removed and 12 percent underwent vaginoplasty, according to a 2016 U.S. survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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Like the crossdressing laws of the 20th century, anti-transgender bathroom legislation is but another attempt by the government to push transgender Americans back into the nation's shadows.
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The administration included the word "transgender" on its banned word list for the Center for Disease Control and also disqualified transgender people from the military earlier this year.
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Why it matters: If elected, she will be the first transgender governor in U.S. history, as well as the first transgender person elected to statewide office in Vermont.
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We have a transgender movement right now, really a gender revolution is beginning, and it intrigued me how transgender people are always asked about what's in their pants.
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When cisgender actors like Tambor, Leto, Huffman, and Johansson are cast to play transgender characters instead of actual transgender actors, it reinforces the flaws of a broken system.
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Democratic Senator John Whitmire said the bill was fatally flawed and would force transgender people like a bald transgender man with a beard to use a woman's bathroom.
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"We don't need transgender bathrooms and we don't need transgender military and we don't need a weaker military," Moore reportedly said over the weekend during a political rally.
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"The School District's policy also subjects Ash, as a transgender student, to different rules, sanctions, and treatment than non‐transgender students, in violation of Title IX," she said.
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Transgender people and gay and lesbian minorities also experience higher levels of H.I.V. and sexual violence, according to the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Transgender Survey.
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The National Center for Transgender Equality estimates that more than 15,000 trans individuals are serving in the military today, and that more than 134,000 American veterans are transgender.
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At least 26 transgender people were killed in the United States last year, most of them black transgender women, according to the Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group.
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That is why my Congressional Task Force on Transgender Equality held a roundtable in my district recently, about creating acceptance and understanding of transgender children in our schools.
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Vermont picks transgender woman for governor Christine Hallquist will win her Democratic primary in Vermont, CNN projects, becoming the first transgender gubernatorial nominee for a major political party.
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The gesture was to recognize Transgender Day of Remembrance, first observed in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith to honor Rita Hester, who was killed in 85033.
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Paul Zukunft said this week that the service "will not break faith" with its transgender members, despite President Trump's promise to roll back policies allowing transgender service members.
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When he joked that transgender women were actually men, the hosts laughed along, but they quickly corrected him when he referred to transgender people using a derogatory term.
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Transgender troop restrictions take effect this week Also this week, the Trump administration's restrictions on transgender troops go into effect after the Supreme Court declined to stop it.
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Advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender crime victims said Ms. Slater's death was part of what they described as an alarming spate of violence against transgender people.
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With the attention transgender personalities have received in the press and pop culture in recent years, it's hard to imagine that transgender models are still at a disadvantage.
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At the end of June, Mattis said he would undertake a review of the Pentagon's transgender policy after he delayed allowing transgender recruits to enlist for six months.
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"Transgender sex workers — primarily black transgender sex workers — were already in the furthest parts of the margins," Spellman said, experiencing high rates of homelessness, unemployment, and food insecurity.
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The complaint was brought by transgender people who have taken steps to enlist in the military and other openly transgender active service members, according to a BuzzFeed reporter.
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Ms. Huxtable, who is transgender, said she believed that too much of New York's night life for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people was oriented toward gay men.
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Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), the original author of the House's transgender proposal, attempted to reach Mattis by phone numerous times in recent weeks to discuss the transgender issue.
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Gillian Branstetter, a spokeswoman for the National Center for Transgender Equality said that isolation and solitary confinement were among the ways that transgender people were victimized in prison.
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Transgender women frequently report that police assume they are participating in sex work simply because they are "walking while transgender" or because condoms are found during a frisk.
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In another transgender rights case, a number of states challenged the Obama administration's May guidance to public schools nationwide to let transgender students use bathrooms of their choice.
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Hormone therapy is critical for transgender individuals and losing access to estrogen injections could create a serious health threat to transgender women, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
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The results demonstrate that a campaign led by transgender activists, relying on young transgender people to become the face of their efforts, prevailed at inoculating voters against unfounded smears about "men in women's bathrooms" — a line of attack used by the Christian right elsewhere to reverse protections for transgender people.
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Transgender advocates fear their administration will present immense challenges to the mission of transgender activism, and legal experts agree: "All the necessities to survive and thrive in this country are on the line following this election," Kris Hayashi, Executive Director of the Oakland-based Transgender Law Center, recently told me.
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Guidance from the Departments of Justice and Education that public schools should allow transgender students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity, and a separate civil rights lawsuit against a North Carolina transgender law, firmly put the White House and the Democratic party at the forefront of transgender rights.
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"Unfortunately, until we build out a robust public education campaign that centers on the lives and leadership of transgender people—particularly transgender women of color—we are going to continue to face a public that is willing to risk money and jobs just to harm and stigmatize transgender people," Strangio said.
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Boy Scouts decide to allow transgender youth in their ranks Boy Scouts decide to allow transgender youth in their ranks The Boy Scouts of America will now allow transgender youth to join its ranks, overturning a 100-plus-years-old position on gender identity, the group said in a statement Monday.
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Read more:8 viral transgender coming out stories that will warm your heart9 celebrity parents raising gender non-binary and transgender kids5 ways to support transgender men and non-binary people during pregnancyTransgender kids aren&apost just &aposgoing through a phase&apos and develop like their non-trans peers, researchers say
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" • "World Health Organization Report: Trannies 49 Xs Higher HIV Rate" A December 2015 article by Austin Ruse, using a slur for transgender people in the headline, argued that a public health study on sexual health in the transgender community was actually a warning about "how dangerous it is to become 'transgender.
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One-third of transgender people reported a negative healthcare experience in the previous year such as verbal harassment, refusal of treatment or the need to teach their doctors about transgender care, according to a landmark survey of nearly 28,000 people released last year by the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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She and the MAC AIDS Fund Transgender Initiative, to which 100% of the proceeds of Jenner's lipstick shade were contributed, will donate $1.3 million to 21 transgender organizations nationwide.
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Transgender students The Trump administration rescinded guidance from the Obama administration that protected the right of transgender students in public schools to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identities.
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"We can defend transgender people in the face of this administration," Jennifer Levi, a lawyer on the case and the director of GLAD's Transgender Rights Project, told VICE News.
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Perhaps most famously, he has represented Gavin Grimm, the transgender boy from rural Virginia who has become a figurehead for transgender civil rights; he's the perfect advocate for Grimm.
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While unsupported by data, the myth suggests transgender-rights laws create a loophole for cisgender men to stalk women, while exploiting centuries-old stigmas of transgender people as creeps.
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According to a 22014 study by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and National Center for Transgender Equality, a whopping 41% of transgender people admitted to attempting suicide.
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From the rise of transgender celebrities, to the federal government's affirmation that transgender people are protected by law, equality is — if not yet a reality — more achievable than ever.
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Jeff Sessions, who has reversed civil rights protections for gay and transgender people, dispatched a hate-crimes prosecutor to Iowa last year over the murder of a transgender teenager.
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This allows providers to deny hormone therapy, hysterectomies, orchiectomies, and other transition-related services for transgender people, said Gillian Branstetter, a spokesperson for the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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Federal officials now "will use biological sex" to determine the type of housing transgender inmates are assigned, resulting in conditions that increase the likelihood of rape for transgender women.
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Elaina Vermeulen, a transgender detention release specialist for the Santa Fe Dreamers Project, said there are 50 to 60 transgender women in need of sponsors in the current caravan.
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Transgender people had been allowed to serve since an Obama administration decision in 2016, and transgender people have been allowed to join the military since the beginning of 2018.
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"One day, I was in a transgender support group, and a representative from an NYU speech group came and said they were focusing on the transgender voice," she said.
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The subject of these works is a transgender woman named Anonnya, with whom Lipi develops a deep friendship; Anonnya helps her come to her first understanding of transgender identity.
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"It's a nasty piece of work," says Harper Jean, director of policy at the National Center for Transgender Equality, which held its Transgender Lobby Day after the bill's introduction.
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Trump had ordered a reinstatement of the longstanding policy that barred transgender individuals from joining the military; service members who were revealed to be transgender were subject to discharge.
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Details: Protecting the LGBTQ community: O'Rourke is pledging to use his executive authority to reverse Trump's policies to expand protections for transgender Americans, including reversing the transgender military ban.
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My casting source confirmed Razek's comments about transgender models coming to castings this year, explaining that the company has had transgender models audition for at least three years now.
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" Kris Hayashi, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, called it an "outright attack from the Trump administration on the health, well-being, and survival of transgender people.
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These opponents to transgender equality want to violate my right to privacy, because I am a transgender girl—and to them that means I'm not a girl at all.
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Regardless of whether they choose hormones or surgeries, transgender people often struggle to find basic health care providers who are respectful of their gender and knowledgeable on transgender issues.
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"After a transgender person has transitioned, they may be less likely to want to tell others about their trans identity," says Nick Adams, director of GLAAD's Transgender Media Program.
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McCrory's actions were swift, and the bill was surrounded with false rhetoric about the so-called danger that transgender people, particularly transgender women, pose to cisgender people in bathrooms.
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The ACA requires that managed care health plans provide services to all transgender beneficiaries with the same level of health care benefits that are available to non-transgender beneficiaries.
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We are also supporting the National Center for Transgender Equality's effort to protect transgender students, and enabling our audience to take immediate action by raising funds for Casa Ruby.
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Washington (CNN)Transgender service members filed suit in federal courts on Monday challenging President Donald Trump's memorandum directing the secretary of defense to bar transgender Americans from military service.
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Bindya Rana, another community activist, who heads Jiya, a transgender rights group in the port city of Karachi, put the total number of transgender people at 300,000 across Pakistan.
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According to the National Center For Transgender Equality, 173% of transgender individuals have suffered from discrimination at work, while more than 25% have lost a job due to bias.
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According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which tracks violence against transgender people, Steinfeld is the 21st transgender person who has been killed in the United States in 2017.
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That provision said patients cannot be turned away because they are transgender, nor can they be denied coverage if they need a service that's related to their transgender status.
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The provision says patients cannot be turned away because they are transgender, nor can they be denied coverage if they need a service that's related to their transgender status.
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The head of the U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday said it will continue allowing transgender members to serve in the military branch until a policy officially bans transgender troops.
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Opponents of the transgender ban fighting the administration's appeal filed the memo in court as evidence the Pentagon is prepared to accept transgender recruits, contrary to administration lawyers' arguments.
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The response came in a lawsuit filed by five transgender active duty troops as well as a Naval Academy student and an ROTC student who both identify as transgender.
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In the past, Trump has worked to ban transgender people from the military and the Education Department got rid of guidelines for how to accommodate transgender students at schools.
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The census will for the first time also count Pakistan's transgender community, though members in Peshawar were surprised to be given forms without a separate column for transgender people.
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North Carolina law allows a transgender person to change the sex indicated on a birth certificate, but only after gender reassignment surgery, which most transgender people do not undergo.
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The current policies also affect transgender men, transgender women, sex workers, intravenous drug users, or anyone who has sexual contact with a man who has sex with men (MSM).
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Cosmopolitan reports that Cox earned a role on the upcoming CBS drama Doubt, whichmakes her the first transgender person to star as a reoccurring transgender character on broadcast television.
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When Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender in 2015, she expanded public awareness of transgender identity in the US arguably more than any other individual in our nation's history.
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Last week's victory for Trump has left many transgender advocates fearing a backlash against their community after the Republican candidate sent mixed messages on transgender rights during the campaign.
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Experts say Sahoo's is a rare story in India, where most of its estimated 2 million transgender people face discrimination from a young age with transgender women particularly abused.
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And Representative Barbara Ehardt said her bill seeking to ban transgender athletes was intended to ensure fair competition for those who may be physically outmatched by their transgender peers.
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According to The New England Journal of Medicine, the rate of suicide attempts among transgender people is 40 percent, compared to 4.6 percent among those who are not transgender.
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And yet I'm so proud of the steps that our transgender sisters and brothers have made, and [that] the world has made in recognizing and embracing the transgender community.
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Yet an Aunt Eller who is a transgender woman played by a transgender woman, as she is in Mr. Rauch's staging, is still, after all, Laurey's dear Aunt Eller.
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The Pentagon denies the policy is a ban because of the transgender troops grandfathered in under the previous policy and because transgender people can serve in their biological sex.
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In March, a transgender New Zealand woman crushed her competition in her first international weight-lifting meet, and a transgender boy won a Texas state championship in girls' wrestling.
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As a result, transgender women are more likely to work with voice therapists, though transgender men can benefit as well, as some struggle with pitch instability and voice fatigue.
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Among the most damaging myths are that being a sexual minority or transgender is a disease, a sin or not normal, says Dr. Coolhart, who specializes in transgender issues.
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It was not clear on Thursday how the series, which was groundbreaking for its use of transgender actors and its portrayal of the transgender community, would proceed without him.
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Transgender military members walked the signature blue carpet at MTV's Video Music Awards Sunday, just days after President Trump ordered the Pentagon to implement a ban on transgender troops.
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The work was a blur of 12-hour-shifts, but there was a silver lining: Two employees, themselves transgender, told her about a park where other transgender people gathered.
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Trump has tried to block transgender people from serving in the military and reversed several Obama-era policies that protected transgender Americans from discrimination in workplaces, schools and prisons.
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Lawyers for transgender service members have said the policy, which the Supreme Court allowed to take effect this year while litigation continues, amounts to a ban on transgender people.
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In a 2015 survey on transgender experience in the sex trade, the National Center for Transgender Equality found women of color had the highest rate of sex trade participation.
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Certainly many gay white men are active in promoting transgender rights, recognizing that transgender women of color in particular suffer from discrimination in ways they did 50 years ago.
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The first openly transgender recruit has signed up for the U.S. military after federal courts blocked President Trump's proposed ban last year, forcing the Pentagon to accept transgender people.
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Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Transgender Law Center, said he had never heard of another case of a transgender individual arrested for voyeurism in a bathroom or fitting room.
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The crowd had gathered at the end of Transgender Lobby Day, an event sponsored by the National Center for Transgender Equality, to appeal to representatives on issues facing gender minorities.
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The newly public company is also offering name-change support for transgender drivers with the National Center for Transgender Equality, which includes $200 for name change fees and paperwork filing.
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No harm While opponents of transgender equality stoke fears around bathrooms, the reality is that allowing transgender people access to restrooms -- without fear of discrimination or harassment -- doesn't hurt anyone.
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Smith College in Massachusetts drew national attention and sparked student protests when it refused to admit a transgender woman in 2013, before finally agreeing to admit transgender women in 2015.
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They were the subject of a 2015 New York Times mini-documentary, Transgender, at War and in Love, and have been vocal about their experiences being transgender in the military.
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In fact, 9% of transgender people reported being physically attacked in the previous year because of their gender identity in a 2015 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which co-sponsored the event with CNN, more than 26 transgender people were murdered in 2018, most of whom were black transgender women.
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The survey revealed that while 703 percent of doctors said they had treated at least one transgender patient, only 1 in 5 reported having any formal training in transgender care.
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But advocates for LGBTQ and transgender rights like the Human Rights Campaign and the ACLU are not satisfied and are tweeting that the bill doesn't protect transgender people from discrimination.
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Cruz takes on Caitlyn Jenner over transgender fight The Justice Department does not mention those concerns in their suit; it does mention potential harm inflicted on the U.S. transgender population.
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The lawsuit is brought by active-duty transgender soldiers who fear being discharged, identified as Jane and John Doe, and two transgender students who plan to enlist in the military.
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After several seasons that saw an increasing number of transgender models on the catwalk — from 12 to 45, during spring 2018 — transgender visibility is increasing, though it's all but clear.
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U.S. elections this year could double the country's number of transgender officeholders, currently at six, according to the Victory Fund, which works to elect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender candidates.
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A recent survey conducted by the Association of Transvestite Transsexual and Transgender Communities of Argentina showed that 95% of the transgender individuals surveyed had done sex work in the past.
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According to the Daily Beast, the Anti-Violence Project counted 17 transgender or gender-nonconforming people murdered in the first seven months of this year; 13 were black transgender women.
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In 2016, about 22 transgender people were killed, which has been recorded as the deadliest year for the U.S. trans population; Black transgender women account for the majority of victims.
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"Transparent" star Jeffrey Tambor and series creator Jill Soloway both delivered pleas on behalf of the transgender community, with the former asking Hollywood to give more transgender talent a chance.
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Read these stories next: 12 Things We Should Be Doing For Transgender Women Of Color 11 Sex Tips From (And For) Trans People Why Being Transgender Can Be So "Awkward"
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Over a year on, his administration has revoked protections for transgender students in school bathrooms, tried to ban transgender people from the military, and failed to even acknowledge Pride Month.
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Five transgender candidates were victorious, among them a woman who won a heated race for state legislature in Virginia, the highest elected office ever for a transgender candidate, experts said.
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"Until now, transgender people have been burying their dead in private graveyards, out of the public gaze," said Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani, who heads a provincial government committee on transgender rights.
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G.G. A major transgender rights dispute over whether a public school district in Virginia can prevent a female-born transgender student who identifies as male from using the boys' bathroom.
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She confirmed her son is transgender In June, Nixon paid tribute to her son Samuel, who goes by Seph, on Trans Day of Action by revealing that he is transgender.
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In one national survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality, 85033 percent of AAPI transgender and gender nonconforming respondents reported a household income of less than $10,000 a year.
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The survey revealed that while 80 percent of doctors said they had treated at least one transgender patient, only 1 in 5 reported having any formal training in transgender care.
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Transgender military ban: Ivanka and Jared were "shocked" by the President's tweets a couple of weeks ago banning transgender individuals from serving in the military, according to the Daily Beast.
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"When I was growing up, they put people in mental institutions for being transgender," Hallquist tells Broadly, reflecting on the historical absence of positive transgender role models in American culture.
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Ramstad carves out a space for domestic tasks within the lived experiences of everyone — including queer, non-binary, and transgender communities — by engaging in sewing as a transgender person himself.
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The National Center for Transgender Equality was founded in 2003 by a group of trans activists, determined to fight for policy change that would advance equality for the transgender community.
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Kristen Gillibrand has invited Blake Dremann, a transgender member of the Navy, which is seen as a direct rebuke of Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military. Sen.
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Blake Dremann -- who in September became the first known openly transgender service member to be promoted following Carter's repeal of the transgender military ban -- also pushed back on Hunter's comments.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Transgender women in India face persistent bias that denies them education and jobs despite India having progressive laws for transgender people, according to a leading activist.
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After that victory, Manning continued to work as a public critic of the US military's stance on transgender issues, publishing an article on the military's new transgender policy last week.
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The undercounting of transgender people will have serious consequences, said Kami Sid, a transgender woman who works as a model and actor - but whose identity card marks her as male.
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She put the current battle over laws that seek to regulate which restrooms transgender people may use in historical context and assured transgender people that history is on their side.
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All this progress has catalyzed a backlash that threatens to not just stall the momentum of the transgender equality movement, but to put transgender people at heightened risk of harm.
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They are not going to elect me because of the fact that I'm transgender — that's the reality," Hallquist said, while adding that "obviously, nationwide it's significant, the first transgender governor.
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Last year, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter cited a study by the RAND Corporation saying there were about 2,500 transgender active-duty service members and 1,500 reserve transgender service members.
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Transgender advocates have applauded the changes, saying that many of the procedures that insurers consider to be strictly cosmetic can be "life-affirming" or even "life-saving" for transgender people.
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The American Psychiatric Association added the term to its diagnostic manual in 2013 to distinguish between the condition of being transgender and symptoms that arise from distress over being transgender.
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"Scarlett Johansson's announcement, together with the transgender voices who spoke out about this film, are game changers for the future of transgender images in Hollywood," Ellis said in a statement.
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Estimates vary on how many transgender soldiers serve in the military, but there is little doubt that thousands of transgender people are currently members of the United States armed forces.
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Roem is the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature in the US, according to Monica Roberts of the TransGriot blog, which covers issues in the transgender community.
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That ObamaCare provision said patients cannot be turned away because they are transgender, nor can they be denied coverage if they need a service that's related to their transgender status.
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The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on transgender rights, but came close in 2017 when it agreed to hear a similar case brought by a transgender student in Virginia.
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Transgender troops Almost three-quarters of Americans say people who are transgender should be allowed to serve in the US military -- 73% say they should, 0013% that they should not.
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The Obama administration's new policy for transgender service in the military looks a lot like North Carolina's HB2 when it comes to transgender access to restrooms, showers, and changing facilities.
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For example, 30% of transgender employees report that they have been fired, denied a promotion or mistreated at work due to their gender identity, according to the 2015 Transgender Survey.
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Hodgman didn't get to ask DeVos a question about transgender students, but told MLIVE they hope DeVos will push for policies to make school a safe place for transgender students.
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In what is being hailed as a victory for the transgender community, a federal judge on Monday blocked part of President Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military.
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Only four percent of those surveyed said that transgender people would "fit in" to their workplace, and 34 percent said they would be less likely to hire a transgender person.
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Cosmopolitan reports that Cox earned a role on the upcoming CBS drama Doubt, which makes her the first transgender person to star as a reoccurring transgender character on broadcast television.
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This president, who previously promised to maintain LGBT nondiscrimination protections, has turned his back on the transgender community and shown a willful disregard for the safety of transgender students everywhere.
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I'm not the only one to see Sephiroth as a transgender icon; in certain online communities, there's a subcultural discourse around the idea that he could be read as transgender.
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Read more: A Florida teacher told a transgender girl to either identify as a man or leave his classSlater was one of only two openly transgender people in the area.
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But some lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists called the package "shameful," because, among other things, it left transgender people confused about which public bathrooms they were allowed to use.
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Dr. Green also testified on behalf of a transgender woman who was suing to keep her job as a pilot, and a transgender parent who was suing for child visitation.
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A measure entitled The Massachusetts Transgender Anti-Discrimination Veto Referendum will be on the state's 2018 ballot, and the rights of transgender individuals across the state will be at stake.
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Dawn Ennis, an American transgender woman and mother of three who writes about transgender and family issues, said there were daily hurdles during her transition, despite a legally receptive environment.
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WASHINGTON — Five transgender people serving in the United States military sued President Trump and top Pentagon officials on Wednesday, asking that transgender troops be allowed to stay in the military.
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Among the new emoji are a transgender flag and a transgender symbol, as well as gender-inclusive emoji like a woman in a tuxedo and a man in a veil.
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" The Pentagon went on to ban service by transgender individuals and even characterized transgender identity as a "deficiency" classified alongside bed-wetting and "disturbances of perception, thinking, [and] emotional control.
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And a third law created a Transgender Equality Task force, which will identify the barriers for transgender people in areas like criminal justice, health care and housing, according to NorthJersey.com.
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A prominent transgender airman pushed back against President Trump's announcement Wednesday to ban transgender people from serving in the military, saying he's determined to continue serving in the Air Force.
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But that tension paled next to disagreements about the inclusion of transgender people, exemplified by yearly fights over whether to allow transgender women to attend the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival.
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Now 65, Ms. Caldwell has revealed that she is transgender, in connection with taking on a role in New York based on the real life story of a transgender teacher.
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The moves at the Justice Department follow the new limits on transgender troops in the military, announced in March, that disqualify transgender people from serving, though exceptions can be made.
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Hate crimes are rising, and more than 21987 transgender people — most of whom are transgender women of color — have been killed in the United States in the last five years.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Trump Surprises Military With a Transgender Ban" (front page, July 27): On Wednesday, President Trump announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military.
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This year several transgender activists joined, spurred by President Trump's decision this week to rescind protections for transgender students that allowed them to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity.
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Trump first called for a ban on transgender troops in a series of tweets last summer, and followed up in August by issuing a memo banning transgender people from enlisting.
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Two transgender women were killed in the US within a week this September and at least 18 transgender people have been killed this year, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
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The National Center for Transgender Equality actually does conduct a regular US Transgender Survey, though the future of that survey is as unclear as the future of the organization itself.
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Wanda Sykes doesn't think transgender soldiers in the military are a problem, she thinks the guy taking away transgender soldiers' rights to be in the military is the real problem.
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"Transphobia is still part of our daily life; it is rooted in the institutions which pathologize transgender people," said Giovanna Rincon, a transgender activist who leads the organization Acceptess-Transgenres.
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Indeed, the profound insecurity plaguing transgender Americans was also pointed out at CNN's recent LGBTQ town hall, which activists interrupted, rightfully, on multiple occasions to draw vital attention to the unique violence aimed at transgender women of color -- underscoring the extent to which transgender people are still fighting for recognition and protection.
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The Trump administration on Friday took one of its most aggressive steps yet to legalize anti-transgender discrimination by telling the Supreme Court that federal law allows firing workers solely for being transgender, arguing a Michigan funeral home could fire a transgender woman because she wanted to wear women's clothing on the job.
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LOS ANGELES — During a nationally televised forum on Thursday focusing on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues, several Democratic presidential candidates were interrupted by transgender activists who repeatedly called for more focus on the murders of black transgender women and said that the forum had not done enough to include their voices.
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In recent years, Ms. Rajput has helped officials conduct a regional census of transgender Indians and persuaded her home state of Chhattisgarh to include sections about L.G.B.T. people in high school textbooks, to donate 190 apartments to transgender people and to spend thousands of dollars on a project recruiting transgender police officers.
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When the point is reached where transgender characters are portrayed by transgender performers with scripts that transgender people create, the opportunity will arise to bring television and film with a deep understanding of the humanity of trans people that is so routinely lost in cis-produced and -cast media seen to date.
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Some transgender advocates believe the inclusion of gender dysphoria in the DSM is necessary in order to advocate for health insurance that covers the medically necessary treatment recommended for transgender people.
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The first was about bias against transgender people, in which a co-worker came out as transgender and a problematic co-worker didn't understand why they had to use different pronouns.
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For this second annual report on "LGBTQ inclusive representation in Spanish-language media," GLAAD found 1.43 gay men, 3 lesbians, 2 bisexual women, 1 transgender woman and 0 transgender men characters.
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The committee said the National Health Service (NHS) was failing transgender people because of a lack of knowledge and understanding of transgender issues and urged the NHS to review its services.
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But sadly, Parker's experience is not the norm: According to data from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, many transgender people have trouble finding providers who are sensitive to these specific needs.
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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER CLAIMS HE WAS FORCED TO RESIGN BECAUSE OF TRANSGENDER POLICY Kluge said the district's transgender name policy goes against his religious beliefs and violates his constitutional rights.
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The group crusaded to elect Democrat Roy Cooper — but as governor, Cooper quickly made a deal with Republicans to replace the old anti-transgender law with a new anti-transgender law.
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Evangelical Christians have managed to block several transgender rights measures — and comprehensive LGBT nondiscrimination policies — with claims they let transgender people, or men posing as them, sexually assault women in restrooms.
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Joe Kennedy III, who delivered the Democratic response to Trump's speech, invited a transgender soldier to attend, highlighting the president's attempt to bar transgender people from serving in the armed services.
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It also asks the district to give transgender students access to facilities that match their gender identity and to ensure that all school staff respect the gender identity of transgender students.
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But critics of transgender troops, including Trump, have raised concerns that transgender service members burden the military because they are undeployable while they recover from gender-transition surgeries and other treatments.
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"The documents address common questions – like how to handle educational records of transgender students and how to address harassment of transgender students," the U.S. Department of Education wrote in a statement.
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In October, a federal judge temporarily blocked the White House policy barring military service by transgender troops, ruling that it was based on "disapproval of transgender people generally," according to TIME.
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And more than one in five transgender people don't seek care to begin with because they fear being mistreated, according to a 2016 study by the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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RELATED: Feds issue guidance on transgender access to school bathrooms Public school leaders should be left alone in determining how to determine which bathrooms transgender students may use, the senators wrote.
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Furthermore, transgender and gender nonconforming people were also disproportionately targeted, with transgender black women at the highest risk of homicide, according to the Times's three-year survey of the NCAVP's figures.
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Although transgender people and fictional characters depicting them are becoming more common in popular culture, most Americans (85%) say they don't have a family member or close friend who is transgender.
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Dallas transgender advocate Leslie McMurray tells Dallas radio station KRLD that although she believes Dallas to be a safe place for transgender people, any death among them makes them feel vulnerable.
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What's happening: USA Powerlifting created its policy on transgender athletes in January, after powerlifter JayCee Cooper's application to compete in Minnesota was denied based on her status as a transgender woman.
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The policy bans the use of HRT for competing transgender men — as well as for "any and all medical conditions" — and bans transgender women with or without the use of HRT.
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According to Transgender Europe's Trans Murder Monitoring Project, as of 229, more than 1,700 transgender people have been murdered around the world since 2008 — the majority of them in Latin America.
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In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE Now, Jackie Cruz, 29, shares how Cox has helped her understand the transgender community in an effort to understand more about her own transgender cousin.
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But when trans advocates and allies say that "trans women are women," they're not actually trying to say that transgender women are the same as cisgender women (women who aren't transgender).
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Despite World Professional Association for Transgender Health guidelines to the contrary, transgender people are normally required to undertake a year of hormone therapy for a year, before they can have surgery.
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" She sees a need for wider organization against anti-transgender violence within Black Lives Matter, allyship with the efforts of transgender activists, and support for "Black trans women who are living.
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Transgender Pride Flag, a blue, pink, and white striped flag was designed by Monica Helms, a transgender woman, activist, and author, in 1999.
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Thailand is widely seen as a paradise for gay and transgender people, with transgender women commonly seen on TV, in beauty pageants and cabarets, and at hair salons and cosmetics counters.
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Washington (CNN)Five active duty transgender service members filed the first lawsuit Wednesday against President Donald Trump's directive -- expressed on Twitter -- to prohibit transgender individuals from serving in the armed forces.
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SPART*A, an online support group that includes roughly 500 active-duty transgender members of the military, said at least 10 transgender soldiers had sought to formally register their preferred gender.
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According to a 2015 NCTE survey, nearly one in 10 U.S. transgender people said they had been physically attacked because of being transgender in the year prior to completing the survey.
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Transgender rights have been a divisive political issue in the United States the last few years, with President Donald Trump recently reinstating a ban on transgender people serving in the military.
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Opponents of Trump's transgender service ban argue that it was a politically calculated move to discriminate against transgender individuals and that the President did not have any military basis the decision.
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It will tell the military to stop admitting transgender people and to consider a transgender service member's ability to deploy when weighing whether to expel them, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Take Catherine McGregor, a former group captain in the Royal Australian Air Force now transgender advocate, who is one of the leading figures on the issue of transgender rights and diversity.
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"Transgender people in the United States right now are just under attack," Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, Lush's US-based trans campaign partner, told Broadly.
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Both contributed to the recent policy brief "State Anti-Transgender Bathroom Bills Threaten Transgender People's Health and Participation in Public Life," co-published by Fenway and the Center for American Progress.
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Discussion Questions 'Gun Hill Road' (Film by Rashaad Ernesto Green) The movie "Gun Hill Road" distinguishes itself from other recent transgender films by relying on an actress who is herself transgender.
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"This is a victory for transgender students everywhere and sends a clear warning to school districts with anti-transgender bathroom policies," Lambda Legal lawyer Omar Gonzalez-Pagan said in the statement.
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Previously, she served as a policy adviser for the National Center for Transgender Equality, where she led racial and economic justice initiatives focused on low-income and transgender people of color.
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Althea Garrison, elected in Massachusetts, was the first openly transgender person to serve in a state legislature, but did not campaign as an openly transgender person during her race in 1992.
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But transgender troops and their advocates say it is effectively a transgender version of the defunct "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that banned gay, lesbian and bisexual troops from serving openly.
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Green has said that "transgender is a disease" and cited a Bible verse about "crushing evil" to explain why he opposes allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice.
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Obama to Issue Directive on Transgender BathroomsPresident Obama will issue a decree to make sure public schools allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their chosen gender identity.
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Instead of canceling her North Carolina show given the state's anti-transgender "bathroom bill," the pop artist has decided to show her support for transgender equality by donating proceeds to charity.
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In the wake of Trump's plan to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon invited transgender comedian Patti Harrison to say a few words.
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Cox, a black transgender actress known for her role in Orange is the New Black, was held up as a symbol of the mainstream's newfound acceptance and celebration of transgender life.
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Still, 41 transgender people were killed in the Philippines between 2008 and 2016, the highest rate in Southeast Asia, according to the Trans Murder Monitoring Project of the organization Transgender Europe.
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The question of transgender fairness arose for Western States in December, when Grace Fisher — a transgender runner who is an outstanding ultradistance competitor — was selected through the race's traditional lottery system.
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In Mexico, transgender women often lack access to gender-confirming health care, including hormone therapy, according to a 2016 report by the Transgender Law Center and Cornell Law School's LGBT Clinic.
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In August, President Donald Trump signed a memo directing the U.S. military not to accept transgender men and women as recruits, reversing a policy that allowed transgender people to serve openly.
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Transgender people have been serving in the US military since its inception, albeit not openly until June 2016, when President Barack Obama's administration lifted the longstanding ban on transgender service members.
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I think there's a way in which the other side is attacking the humanity of transgender people by challenging something so core and basic about Aimee Stephens and other transgender people.
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He has declared a ban on transgender men and women in the armed services, and according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Trump administration is reconsidering Obamacare protections for transgender people.
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A ban on transgender troops would reverse the gradual transformation of the military under President Barack Obama, whose administration announced last year that transgender people could serve openly in the military.
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Increased transgender visibility has also joined the emoji oeuvre, with a transgender symbol and flag, Mx. Claus, and gender-fluid wedding figures to complement an ever-expanding vocabulary of nonbinary emojis.
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"We've been a priority for this administration since the day they got in the door," said Gillian Branstetter, a former spokeswoman for the National Center for Transgender Equality, who is transgender.
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Gina Duncan, the group's director of transgender equality, who is transgender, said she went back to the conference's attendees to urge them to "do the right thing" and disregard Washington's actions.
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Through her advocacy work, she has interacted extensively with transgender athletes and she estimates there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 to 200 transgender athletes currently competing in NCAA sports.
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Transgender people's bathroom choices became a hot-button issue after North Carolina passed a law that said transgender individuals should use public bathrooms that match their biological sex assigned at birth.
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This is why Olivia joined 13 transgender and 17 cisgender (non-transgender) women as party to a civil rights complaint filed last week against the City of Santa Ana and ICE.
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But rural libertarians, Democrats, transgender people and the medical community have lined up against it, saying that it would harm transgender teenagers who greatly benefit from those treatments, particularly puberty blockers.
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Two years ago, Berman served on the center's organizing committee for the Transgender Day of Remembrance, an international event that memorializes transgender people killed in transphobic attacks over the past year.
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However, the president singled out transgender service members earlier this week when he announced a ban on transgender people joining the military, sparking outrage on both sides of the political aisle.
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However, the Pentagon was forced to allow transgender applicants to the military on January 1 after a federal judge ruled that the US military had to allow transgender recruits to join.
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With the rule soon set to enter into its final stage of consideration, the National Center for Transgender Equality partnered with the Transgender Law Center to procure comments of their own.
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In 2002, Mr. Dorsey founded the Fresh Meat Festival in the Bay Area to showcase transgender and queer artists across genres, and is a vocal advocate for transgender representation in dance.
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" The rationale is that white people who fight against racism wouldn't call themselves "black," just as straight people who rally for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights wouldn't call themselves "transgender.
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For example, a 2015 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality found that 20 percent of formerly incarcerated transgender respondents said they'd been sexually assaulted by other inmates or guards.
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Late last year transgender people were allowed for the first time to enlist in the U.S. military, after the Trump administration decided not to appeal rulings that blocked his transgender ban.
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