Tag Archives: transgender-rights

The Republican campaign of voter suppression — voter ID laws, closures of polling places, voter purges — is normally aimed at making it harder for people of color to vote, in the hopes of preserving Republicans’ white-minority rule for as long as possible. But another population has found itself in …

It had been seven years since Last Week Tonight first devoted its main story to transgender rights. On Sunday, John Oliver celebrated the fact that more people now appear to feel comfortable coming out as trans, but he also acknowledged that “in the past few years some on the right …

For trans children, finding a community of peers is challenging. That’s why Maya, whose name has been changed to protect her family, was thrilled this past spring when she and her nine-year-old son were able to join a carefully vetted children’s group through the Gender Development Program at Lurie Children’s …

The FBI has arrested a suspect in the bomb threat that was made at Boston Children’s Hospital last month, the agency announced on Thursday. Catherine Leavy of Westfield, Massachusetts, has been charged in a complaint with one count of “explosive materials – willfully making a false bomb threat.” Should she …

Although J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series was rooted in fantasy and make-believe, the author seems to be drawing inspiration from something a little more realistic for her latest book: her own life. Rowling’s new novel, The Ink Black Heart — part of her crime-thriller series Cormoran Strikeand penned under the …

Ellia Green, a retired Australian rugby champ, made history as the first Olympian to come out as a transgender man. Green — who has kept his name — announced his transition in a video yesterday, Aug. 16, tied to the Bingham Cup, a biennial gay and inclusive rugby tournament. In …

Bette Midler insisted she did not mean to be transphobic in her not-the-good-kind-of-viral tweet about the erasure of women — which she said was inspired by a New York Times op-ed widely criticized for being transphobic. On Sunday, Midler tweeted, “Women of the world! We are being stripped our rights …

When Aaron White began training for a position as Director of Operations at a Georgia Chick-fil-A franchise in the summer of 2021, she assumed that she’d spend the next few weeks learning the ins and outs of the fast food business before officially starting the job. But according to a …

UPDATE (3/22): Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a bill banning transgender girls from playing school sports on Tuesday, Associated Press reports. The news follows Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb’s decision on Monday to veto a similar bill banning transgender girls from competing in girls’ school sports. “I struggle to understand so …

Haley Dahl took the stage at Austin’s Mohawk bar on March 16 dressed like a witch from folklore, which checks out, considering her band Sloppy Jane’s recent albumMadison was recorded in a cave. She stood head to toe in royal blue, her velvet suit’s sharp shoulder pads providing a trusty …