LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — In Seattle, Washington, trans woman Lizzi Duff filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court against People’s Bank for denying her service because she sounded like a man over the phone. Although Duff answered… Read More ›
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS In Detroit, Michigan last month, a jury found Larry B. Gaulding guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the death of trans person of color Ashton O’Hara. Last week, during sentencing, the judge handed down a sentence… Read More ›
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — On the heels of the announcement of a transgender studies degree program at the University of Arizona last month, word comes of the establishment a chair of transgender studies at a Canadian university. This… Read More ›
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Proponents of “Bathroom Bills” are primarily using a “predator-in-a-dress” fear mongering tactic to scare parents and citizens into supporting anti-transgender legislation — something many would not otherwise support had they known they were being… Read More ›
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Back in November, a noted hate-group filed a lawsuit to prevent a Wisconsin school, the Mount Horeb Primary Center, from using trans youth advocate Jazz Jennings’ book “I Am Jazz” at the school. The… Read More ›
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — It was instant cringing for me when the Golden Globe Awards host Ricky Gervais began his opening monologue by joking about Caitlyn Jenner and actor Jeffrey Tambor and his transgender character in the TV series Transparent…. Read More ›
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — The American Dialect Society selected they for their yearly selection of “word of year” for 2015. From Time magazine: “[the “word of the year” winner], with this specific definition: they: gender-neutral singular pronoun for… Read More ›
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — On the presidential primary campaign trail this week, Sen. Ted Cruz unleashed a verbal assault on trans kids: “[The U.S. Department of Education is] trying to force a junior high to let a teenage… Read More ›
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — While Bernie Sanders was speaking during a rally on January 2, a unidentified man wearing a Trump t-shirt shouted “shame on you Bernie” while holding up a sign that read, misspelled of course, “Obama… Read More ›
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