LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Around a half a dozen anti-trans “bathroom bills” were considered in state legislatures during 2015 and all failed to become law, although some came close to succeeding. Proponents, however, said they would be back… Read More ›
Month: December 2015
Gov. Christie jokingly equates trans youth access to bathrooms to domestic terrorism
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Responding to a question about trans youth access to bathrooms while campaigning in New Hampshire this week, New Jersey governor Chris Christie jokingly stated, as reported on CNN: “Men go to men’s rooms, women… Read More ›
Trans science: Anti-trans reparative center closed; UA to offer trans studies program; new trans studies
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — A notorious center for anti-trans reparative therapy in Canada has been shut down, curtailing decades of harmful treatment. The closure of Dr. Kenneth Zucker’s Child, Youth, and Family Gender Identity Clinic at Toronto’s Centre… Read More ›
Stealth transgender model’s smiling face was everywhere in the ’70s!
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — If you had walked into a supermarket or drug store in the 1970s, you’d walk by a wall of Clairol hair dye products, and looking at you would be the smiling face of 512… Read More ›
GOP governors of Maine & North Carolina gang up on a Virginia transgender youth
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — All trans youth Gavin Grimm wants to do is pee in peace at his school in Gloucester County, Virginia. But peeing has resulted in an outpouring of hate from almost his entire community. If… Read More ›
Why the Mount Horeb School Board pro-trans kids decision is a ‘big f*cking deal!’
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Vice President (and trans ally) Joe Biden famous’ quote: “This is a big fucking deal” is most apt here, following a recent unanimous decision by a Mount Horeb, Wisconsin school board to adopt a… Read More ›
Positive trans exposure in popular culture continues: “I Am Jazz” renewed, “Transparent” second season underway
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — The TLC reality series “I Am Jazz” is being picked up for another season. The show follows 15-year-old Jazz Jennings, and show the world as seen from the eyes of a transgender kid. Jazz,… Read More ›
FOX News fanatic brandishing an automatic weapon terrorizes trans man
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — ISIS fear-mongering on FOX News prompts an angry wife’s husband to confront a trans man and accuse him at gun point of being a member of ISIS: “I know what you’re doing, motherfucker. You’re… Read More ›