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What’s happening the news? Former collegiate swimmer and transgender activist Lia Thomas is back in the news scaring conservatives. A U.S. district court judge grants an injunction barring Arizona from forbidding transgender females from women’s sports. Louisiana legislators override the governor’s veto in a special session. The Virginia Department of Education releases its guidance on how schools should deal with transgender students. There were three times as many hate crimes against LGBTQ people this year during Pride month compared to last year. Rachel Levine rattles conservatives by talking about the “wrong puberty.” Paramount studios creates a school for trans actors in Israel. More that 30,000 trans people and allies attend Trans Pride in Brighton. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is 80 years old and a veteran of the Stonewall riots. She is calling on transgender people to get active, peacefully, in opposition to the anti-trans laws being passed. A young trans man creates a Build A Queer kit in response to Florida’s anti-trans laws. Charles Barkley uses strong language to rebuke the haters on the right. That’s just a sample of Trans News Now!
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Welcome to Dina’s Diner. Today’s menu starts with a large portion of being in the closet from family and friends. After that Chef Amberle serves a taste of Asian drag diversity and then plates a tasty portion of small town drag queens working in upstate Pennsylvania. Then she places the next course in the skillet and adds a crossdresser quiz dredged in breadcrumbs. Bon appetit!
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It’s Transgender in Film and Video! Rebecca Romijn says she wouldn’t be cast as a trans character today like she was in Ugly Betty. A trans actress from Columbia is cast after just one audition in the Prime Video movie Los Iniciados. Inky Pinky Ponky is a queer Polynesian love story written and starring transgender actress/director Amanaki Prescott-Faletau. Evangelicals have a problem with Barbie. An Indian actor known for his tough guy roles slips into a sari and glamor makeup to portray a trans woman. It’s chaos on the set of Celebrity Family Feud as Willam Belli pulls a banana out of her wig and shocks host Steve Harvey. The original crew of queens on We’re Here aren’t there anymore. Don’t miss the trans entertainment news!
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Michelle Rogers is scared. She lives in a red state that has passed several laws aimed at oppressing the transgender community. She worries that the laws will interfere with her getting hormones, and block her ability to have GRS. Maybe she will be forced to detransition. Michelle is a conservative but the GOP’s attacks on trans people have her worried. She has pondered what could be done and her suggestion is sue the SOBs.
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While assembling the stories for the news Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
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A woman from The Netherlands will become the first transgender woman to compete for the Miss Universe title. Trans + Pride was held in London, and thousands of people showed up. A lawsuit seeks to have the Texas ban on gender-affirming care for minors overturned. More legal maneuvers continue on both sides. A trans woman is running for a seat in the New York Assembly. The Union Cycliste Internationale announced this week that it will not allow transgender females to compete as females. Non-binary actor Bella Ramsey is nominated for an Emmy award in the Best Actress category. Wait times of five years to get a first appointment with a gender specialist are common in Britain. Portland, Oregon renames a downtown square for a local drag icon. Russia outlaws gender reassignment surgery. While many transgender people are leaving Florida others chose to stay and fight on. That’s just a taste of the news in the feature we call Trans News Now.
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Not to be outdone by Oprah, Linda Jensen has created her own magazine titled Linda snd this is Issue #2. It contains several stories of her crossdressed adventures. The magazine is in PDF Format which can be read in your browser using Google Viewer. When you see Linda on the cover of her magazine look for the “pop out” icon in the upper right corner of her first page. Click to get an enlarged view of the magazine’s pages that is scrollable.
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While enjoying herself at a transgender event Shelley Anne met a lady named Candice Taylor. Ms. Taylor began to tell her story of starting to crossdress privately, advancing to dressing in public and finally coming to the decision to go full time. Shelley was there to relax but her work ethic told her, “Here’s someone to interview for Tell Shelley Anne! This is that interview.
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While assembling the stories for the news Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
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First up, the news. A Venezuelan trans woman is competing for the title of Miss Venezuela. Several governors have vetoed anti-trans bills and many such pieces of legislation are blocked by judges. The Supreme Court turns down a case in which an appeals court ruled transgender people are protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Acquaintance with Delaware State Senator Sarah McBride influenced President Biden’s views on trans rights. 95% of transgender employees have experienced negative behavior from colleagues. A recent study shows that most people know very little about gender-affirming care. The Guinness Book of World Records recognized Lucy Clark as the first openly-transgender football (soccer) referee in the world. Hari Nef talks about her role in Barbie. The United Nations creates a pilot program to raise awareness of gender identity. The winner of the Mrs. America pageant is a trans woman from Michigan. One-fifth of the congregations in the United Methodist Church of the United State are about to leave the denomination, over concerns about LGBTQ+ issues. There’s all that and so much more waiting for you in Trans News Now!
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TrantTainment is all about transgender people in the entertainment biz. Today we have news on a grant recipient who has to write a nonbinary play. Anohini and the Johnsons have a new album. A Casa Susanna documentary airs on PBS and is now available for streaming. Drag King Murray Hill hosts a television show. Drag Race Allstar winner Monét X Change will perform at Scotland’s Fringe Festival. Artist inventor and “gender hacker”Pippa Garner has her first U.S. solo museum show. All that and more is waiting for you to view.
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Deborah Nicole is a TGForum member who is sharing her life story with you. She starts the tale when she was a young lad in the U.K. and takes you along through the years to her current residence in the USA. Readers of a certain age will find aspects of her story to be familiar and younger folks will gain some understanding of our history. Today is Part Two.
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Paris Lees is a British trans woman who proves that people can change if they really want to. She, (pre-transition) during her teens commited a crime and was sentenced to eight months in prison, beginning at age 18. While in prison she decided to shed the negative experiences that landed her behind bars and concentrate […]
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While assembling the stories for the news Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
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Delaware’s Sarah McBride runs for congress. Federal judges are blocking implementation of several state’s anti-trans laws. Michigan bans conversion therapy on minors. Georgia bans gender-affirming care for minors. Trans filmmaker Zachery Drucker has several film projects coming out or in the works. Mexico allows trans people to change their gender marker on ID cards and driver’s licenses. A study finds that transgender people are at a higher risk for suicide than cisgender people. Miss Benny stars in the Netflix show Glamorous. An animated film on Netflix features a shape-shifter character. A number of transgender people used the Covid lockdown to start their transition. An anti-trans law in Britain was rejected by parliament. There’s all that and more news waiting for you to scroll through in Trans News Now!
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Sophie Lynne takes a dive into the world of superhero comics to bring attention to the superheroines who are transgender in one way or another. Some by choice and others by accident. And there are a few gender switching villains as well.
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With a nod to July 4th Christy Lewis looks at independence and what it means from the national level on down to each individual. She recommends that we look for a meaningful and visible way to celebrate, besides cookouts and fireworks.
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Finally, my online MBA was finished. It had taken a bit longer than I planned to complete. But it is finally done. I flew to Indiana University in Bloomington for several days for my MBA orals and my present my thesis. I was glad it was a short flight from Chicago. Diane was out for […]
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While assembling the stories for the news Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
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A corporate attorney by day is a drag queen at night. A judge rules Arkansas’ law banning affirming care for kids to be unconstitutional. Another judge finds the Florida law forbidding the state’s Medicaid program from paying for gender-affirming care to violate the Affordable Care Act. The state of New Jersey sues three school districts over requirements that teachers must inform parents if their child changes gender presentation in school. New York City is an official sanctuary city for trans people. Other areas are still busy introducing anti-trans legislation. Former NJ governor Chris Christie speaks out against bans on gender-affirming care. Seven sorority sisters file a lawsuit to kick out a trans sister. U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is caught making fun of transgender women. And that’s just the start of Trans News Now!
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Time for the news about all things trans in film and video. Today we meet a transgender character in a Star Wars series, get info on the so-called documentaries that are actually anti-trans propaganda, and more.
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Rabbah Rona Matlow writes about the Black trans women who were there at the beginning of the gay rights movement.
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Michelle Rogers is concerned about the attacks on transgender people that have blossomed all around the country. The religious right wing are introducing anti-transgender bills in the red states and right-wing politicians are fanning the flames. What can be done to defend transgender rights? Michelle has some thoughts on the problem.
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While assembling the stories for the news Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
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What’s new? The leader of Sweden’s liberal party dons drag to make a video opposing anti-drag laws. The AMA increases its support for gender-affirming care. On the other hand, the U.K. NHS is restricting access to puberty blockers. Republican Governor Joe Lombardo of Nevada signs a bill into law requiring insurance companies to cover gender-affirming care. On the other hand, Governor Abbot of Texas extend’s the ban on trans girls in sports to the college level. Trans activist Rose Montoya is banned from the White House for baring her breasts while there for the White House Pride event. The Ohio legislature is working on “One big terrible mega-bill” to take away the rights of trans citizens of the state. A murderer who took the life of a trans woman is using the insanity defense. A transphobe punched a transgender library worker and tried to run down a fellow employee who defended the trans staffer. Punching also happened at a McDonalds in the U.K. when a transphobe punched the winner of the 2019 RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee won Tony awards this past week. They are the first non-binary performers to do so. There’s all that and a passel of other news waiting for you in Trans News Now!
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Sarah Scott is a transgender woman from Oklahoma. She is on the board of directors of HeartlandTG. Ms. Scott began her transition three years ago. Recently she sat down with Shelley Anne Baker for an interview.
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