Alice Cooper, who built a career partly out of defying and toying with gender expectations, said he’s afraid that being transgender “is a fad” in a new interview with Stereogum, where he also leaned on right-wing, anti-trans scare tactics about “woke” culture and bathrooms. During the chat, Cooper was asked …
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North Carolina blocked minors from accessing gender-affirming treatment — including hormone therapy, puberty-blocking drugs, and surgical gender-transition procedures — on Wednesday after Republican lawmakersvoted to override the governor’s veto on bills targeting transgender youth. The bill on gender-transition treatment, House Bill 808, was approved by the State Legislature in June. …
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Three people who were interviewed in theanti-trans filmWhat Is a Woman?say the filmmakers used deceptive recruiting tactics that contradicted the doc’s promise to be a “fearless” examination of the modern gender debate. The participants told NBC News that they felt they’d been “tricked” by producers who hid behind the facade …
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When trans activist and actress Ts Madison was scrolling on Instagram last week, she never considered that a small circulating video from a trans TikTok creator would end in a transphobic rant from one of the internet’s biggest Black comedians. But that’s exactly what happened. On Saturday, comedian Jess Hilarious …
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A little over a week ago, Twitter owner Elon Musk announced that targeted harassment on the site would lead to account suspensions — which had been company policy well before he bought the social platform at a grossly inflated price. His declaration was in response to a user indignant that …
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Kim Petras spoke about finding and celebrating community as a way of dealing with the deluge of hate directed at trans people in a new interview on Call Her Daddy. “It’s such a beautiful, beautiful community and that’s one thing that I just like want people to know: The dolls …
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It isn’t uncommon for state lawmakers to launch campaigns to level up and join the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride‘s announcement on Monday morning is particularly notable, though, as if her campaign is successfully she will become the first trans person to serve …
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LGBTQ+ hate is on the rise, and a startling joint report from GLAAD and ADL offers hard numbers that document an epidemic of intimidation and violence. The report charts 356 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents — ranging from harassment to mass shooting — in the period between June 2022 and April 2023. It …
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Megan Hunt had a bad feeling, just not at first. The Nebraska state senator had been approached in May about participating in a documentary titled It Takes a Village, which she was told would air in August and spotlight “issues facing children and parents in the trans community and how …
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Even onlookers seemed to struggle processing the scene unfolding in front of them. It was the first day of West Hollywood’s Pride celebration, and eight Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputies were wrestling two LGBTQ activists to the ground. “At Pride, oh my god!” exclaims one bystander in a now-viral clip on …
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