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Kim Petras: How the trans artist made history
The first transgender singer to go number one in the U.S., German-born Kim Petras endured long rites of passage in her homeland before finding her voice abroad.
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Cuba’s families code a bold step forward for LGBTQ+ rights in the hemisphere
Passed in a referendum with 67% of the vote, the law expands women’s, children’s, and gay and lesbian legal rights.
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How trans rights activists changed Argentina
Ten years ago Argentina passed groundbreaking gender identity laws, a victory won through solidarity, diverse tactics and longstanding activist traditions. The experience has lessons for us all, write Alessandra Viggiano and Siobhán McGuirk.
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Next on the GOP’s list: starving queer kids
Republican attorneys general, including Ken Paxton, have filed suit over a federal school lunch program that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ+ children.
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What’s behind the escalating attacks on trans people?
Thirty-one members of the white supremacist Patriot Front from across the U.S. were detained after preparing an assault on a Pride festival in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, June 12.
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Junk science is being used to attack trans youth
In Florida and elsewhere, Republican lawmakers are using faulty research to deny young people access to vital gender-affirming care.
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“We are not done”: Policy, protections, and the people’s struggle for Pride
June is Pride Month. It is a time to celebrate. It’s also a time to remember the struggle for equal rights, a history we are continually encouraged to forsake, fragment, and forget.
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Don’t trust polls on ‘Don’t Say Gay’
Last month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a “Parental Rights” bill to restrict some instruction in schools that pertains to sexual orientation and gender identity. Three polls have been conducted purporting to measure the public’s reaction to the bill, but they produce the illusion of public opinion rather than reality.
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The problem with ‘Don’t Say Gay’: Children aren’t asking about sex. They’re asking about love.
Queer advocates worry how the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, set to go into effect in Florida, could impact education on gender diversity and sexual orientation of young Canadians.
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‘Don’t say gay’: anti-equality legislation spreading state by state in the US
Florida’s anti-LGBTQ bill and Texas’s ban on abortion after six weeks shows that political battles at state level are more important than ever.
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Hands off trans youth!
Trans people, and especially youth, are under attack in state capitols across the U.S. And the most egregious attack so far has come in a state that is a stronghold of the neofascist takeover of the Republican Party – Texas.
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The pending task of securing transgender rights: A conversation with Rummie Quintero Verdú
A trans activist talks about LGBTIQ+ rights in Venezuela.
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Transgender rights: China advances while U.S. backslides
The Republican evangelical right scapegoats trans people as their latest “culture war” to mobilize far-right support and secure corporate interests.
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Hormonal wars: A brief regulatory history of puberty blockers
The use of political and military metaphors in medicine is a tradition dating back at least to the turn of the 20th century when immunologists regularly distinguished between “Self” versus “Other,” and the “body’s own” defenses armed against external (and internal) enemies such as bacteria, viruses, or even tumors.
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Cuba seeks more equality and inclusion with the new Code of Families
Roxanne Castellano, professor at the Psychology Faculty of the University of Havana, explained that this is a Code based on paradigms of non-discrimination that creates spaces for all, seeks solutions to conflicts, and is consistent with the conception of our socialist state of law and social justice.
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ACT-UP and Win: a riveting account of NYC activism during the AIDS crisis
Sarah Schulman’s recently released political history shines light on AIDS activism that often goes unrecognized.
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At this niche clinic, no stares, smirks, or stigma
How China’s first gender dysphoria clinic is slowly but surely transforming the transgender community’s access to healthcare.
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Censorship is ok when transphobes do it
An interview in the Guardian (9/7/21) made waves—not because of something it said, but because of something it didn’t say.
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Taking to the streets to teach China’s gay migrants about safe sex
Grassroots organizations, many of them started and staffed by gay men, are doing the oft-neglected work of outreach in migrant communities.
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What I learned from 10 years teaching Chinese students about gender
The author, a teacher at a college in East China, reflects on the successes and challenges of her “Gender and Media” class.