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The United States House of Representatives has just passed a historic gay and transgender reform bill aimed at safeguarding the equalities of the community. According to NBC News, the so-called Equality Act was passed after a vote made on Thursday, February 25. The new bill prohibits discrimination based on sexual…
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WWE superstar Gabe Tuft – ring name 'Tyler Reks – came out as a transgender woman this week. The 42-year-old ex-wrestler is now called Gabbi Tuft and is using the pronouns she/her, as confirmed in a press release issued on Thursday (February 4). In it, Tuft spoke about how she wrestled with her…
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President Biden has officially reversed the Trump administration's transgender military ban. The White House said Biden's order "sets the policy that all Americans who are qualified to serve in the Armed Forces of the United States should be able to serve." "President Biden believes that gender identity should not be…
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Joe Biden intends to reverse the ban on transgender people serving openly in the military imminently, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement on Wednesday, as reported by NBC News. Although it isn't one of the 15 executive actions the Biden administration said it would take on…
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Joe Biden has nominated Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to serve as his assistant secretary of health in the Department of Health and Human Services, POLITICO reports. As such, she is set to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the US Senate. A qualified pediatrician,…
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Rupert Grint has once again defended transgender people following J.K. Rowling's divisive public comments on gender and trans people last year. The controversy was ignited back in June when the 55-year-old Harry Potter author retweeted a news headline that read: "Opinion: Creating a more equal post-Covid-19 world for people who…
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Coming out can be a nerve-wracking experience for members of the LGBTQ+ community, which is why people can sometimes opt for a creative approach when embracing their true selves. Now, writer Amanda Mancino-Williams has gone viral on Twitter after sharing a handmade booklet that her 13-year-old son created to tell…
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Elliot Page has taken to Instagram to thank fans and well-wishers for the "love and support" he has received since coming out as transgender. The actor made the revelation earlier this month in a poignant social media post where he said that he was "proud to share that I am…
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Mara Gomez has made history by becoming the first transgender woman to play professional soccer earlier this week. The 23-year-old played up front for Villa San Carlos after she was officially registered by the Argentinian FA in November, and even though the team lost the game 7-1, Gomez was delighted…
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Laverne Cox has opened up about being attacked in public, claiming that it is "not safe if you're a trans person." In a ten-minute-long video shared with her 4.4 million Instagram followers, the 48-year-old Orange Is The New Black actress spoke about how she and a friend had been attacked…
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President-elect Joe Biden has announced his plans to overturn Donald Trump's military plan for transgender people. ABC News reports the existence of a policy campaign document belonging to the Democrats stating that Trump and Mike Pence have "given hate against LGBTQ+ individuals safe harbor and rolled back critical protections." In…
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A man has taken to social media to reveal that he told his wife to "get over herself" after she refused to accept their transgender son. Three days ago under the Reddit username Throw_away4679, the unnamed father wrote a post in which he revealed that his trans son first told…
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Izaak Theo Adu - the son of British music icon Sade - has taken to social media to proudly show off his gender confirmation surgery scars. Taking part in the 'Body Stories' photo series by photographer Stella Malfilatre, Izaak can be seen posing shirtless with his top surgery scars proudly…
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A transgender man has lost his legal battle to be listed as his son's 'father' instead of his mother on his birth certificate. Freddy McConnell became pregnant and gave birth to his son Jack in 2018 when he was legally registered as a man. Prior to the birth, he had…
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A teenager born with male genitalia has become pregnant after making the shocking discovery that she also has working ovaries during a routine doctor's appointment. Mikey Chanel, 18, was assigned male at birth, but she always felt different from her peers. Prior to her birth, she had been revealed to…
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A Filipino-German transgender woman who was disowned by her family has officially been named Miss Intercontinental New Zealand 2020. Per The Metro, Arielle Kiel, a 26-year-old model who hails from Auckland, was born in Davao City in the Philippines and assigned as male at birth. But throughout her life, Arielle…
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The world is full of famous names. In fact, some are so ordinary that they unintentionally catapult regular people into a stardom of sorts for no reason other than they share that name with a famous person. Now, one transgender woman has opened up about it was like growing up…
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The plot of J.K. Rowling's latest crime novel has caused widespread controversy online. As per a now-viral tweet from Pink News, the new novel, titled Troubled Blood and written under Rowling's pseudonym 'Robert Galbraith', is about "a murderous cis man who dresses as a woman to kill his victims". Now,…
