Tag Archives: Trans

A new national research, policy and education centre to improve health outcomes for all Australians will challenge the ‘one-size-fits-all’ male-centric approach to medical care that results in significant disadvantage for women and girls, people with variations of sex characteristics (intersex people), trans and gender-diverse people. This video looks at the challenges …

Vera Drew’s debut feature The People’s Joker evades all easy descriptions. It’s a trans coming-of-age film constructed with deep knowledge and affection for DC comics (and their many film adaptations) that also takes aim at the male-dominated comedy community and the mechanisms that determine stardom. Combining comedy, action, drama and …

At the Juno Awards in Halifax on Sunday night, Calgary-raised pop duo Tegan and Sara received a standing ovation after speaking out against policies Alberta’s government is proposing that would affect transgender youth. “If the world were not so hostile to 2SLGBTQ+ people, we would see ourselves purely as musicians,” …

Orlando’s transformation happens without much fuss. The eponymous hero of Virgina Woolf’s novel went to sleep as a man and woke up, a week later, a woman. “No human being, since the world began, has ever looked more ravishing,” Woolf’s narrator, an anonymous biographer, observes. The subject herself seems unperturbed …

Getty Images for GLAAD | Bryan BedderGetty Images for GLAAD | Bryan Bedder “I’m emotionally exhausted.” That’s what Jonathan Van Ness — activist and beloved star of the Netflix show “Queer Eye” — said to actor and “Armchair Expert” podcast host Dax Shepard last week. And it was a sentiment …

Bam!  Kokomo City grabs viewers from the first frame as Liyah, a Black trans woman, recounts meeting with a man at her home who was going to pay her for sex. Things were proceeding as expected until Liyah discovered a gun on the man’s person and concluded she faced an …

There is a raw, dangerous yet distinctly unapologetic demeanor to the grainy archival footage in the documentary film The Stroll, now streaming on HBO, where transgender sex workers bravely walk the streets of New York City and solicit potential customers cruising by in their cars. Winner of the Special Jury Award – …

Brigitte Bandit and her fellow Austin, TX, drag performers have taken extra precautions when heading to shows in recent months. She and others in the drag community have been the target of false claims and anti-trans legislation lobbed by conservative activists and politicians in the state. That has emboldened hate …

ITV Orders Trans Child Facility Doc ITV has greenlit a documentary series exploring the rise and fall of the UK’s only dedicated NHS service for trans children. The Tavistock Centre’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has attracted plenty of headlines over the past few years and The Clinic will probe what happened …

In the opening moments of Transition, Jordan Bryon, the documentary’s subject and one of its directors, angles his face toward the camera. He moves in close and inspects his chin for hair. There are faint signs of growth, short whiskers that Bryon caresses as he speaks to us. “My nerves …

Image Credit: Courtesy of Amber Briggle When Amber Briggle’s toddler, was was born a biological girl, was just 2 years old and beginning to put together sentences, “he” started  telling her that “he” was a boy. However, the first time-mom now relates that she had no idea at the time what her …

The director and subjects of Kokomo City are expressing shock over the death of Rasheeda Williams, one of the trans women featured in the award-winning documentary, who reportedly was shot to death in Atlanta Tuesday night. Atlanta police say they are investigating the killing after being called to the scene …