The San Diego Press Club will be hosting its first-ever panel discussion addressing the media coverage of the LGBT community, with GLAAD's own Monica Trasandes as a featured panelist.
Transgender
News that impacts the transgender community, from transphobic news coverage to positive and uplifting personal stories
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11/14/12
Coming out as trans is a difficult process for many individuals. In this post, Deen, a trans man originally from a Connecticut, shares his story about coming out as a brown trans-identified person.
11/12/12
Today is the first day of Transgender Awareness Week! You can help spread the word by sharing a graphic from Fenway Health.
11/12/12
Despite the lifting of the so-called 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy, transgender veterans still face challenges receiving proper acknowledgement and treatment for their service. In this post, transgender veteran Autumn Sandeen shares her trailblazing story about being among the first to update her gender marker with the VA.
11/08/12
Voters in New Hampshire elected the state's first openly transgender lawmaker, Stacie Laughton. She will serve Ward 4 in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
11/07/12
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project celebrates 10 years of service to loc income trans communities and trans communities of color by honoring New York City based activists who are fighting for equality.
11/07/12
San Francisco's health access program, Healthy SF, will remove exclusions that deny medically necessary transition-related care to transgender people.
11/05/12
Despite national attention on voter suppression, transgender voters still face unprecedented efforts to thwart their right to vote come Tuesday.
10/31/12
As LGBT History Month comes to a close, The Huffington Post named trans advocate Isis King as their icon of the day.
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03/25/13
A new Canadian web series follows the trials and tribulations of a recently fired transgender woman named Sü, and stars trans actors in all the transgender roles.
03/24/13
GLAAD will no longer be an acronym for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
03/22/13
MSNBC’s Alex Witt talks to Masen Davis, Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center, about a bill in Arizona directed towards transgender individuals.
03/22/13
A primary school teacher believed to have killed herself after her gender reassignment became national news sent emails complaining about being under siege by the press, it has been claimed.
03/22/13
A transgender former inmate who says she was raped in jail is suing Orange County, 14 jail employees and another inmate, claiming a violation of civil rights.
03/22/13
A large majority of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender middle and high schools students in New York say they are called names.
03/21/13
Coy Mathis is six years old, and she just wants to use the bathroom at school. For a year and a half, it wasn't an issue. But in December, Coy's school informed her parents that she would no longer be permitted to use the girls' restroom.
03/21/13
Two transgender women in Jamaica have added their voices to the We Are Jamaicans campaign to encourage respect and understanding for LGBT people and increase their visibility in the Caribbean nation.