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The moves that my school has made provides a starting point for discussions about transgender students, and the unique issues we face when approaching college. While I am forever grateful to be able to avoid being deadnamed in my school system, I can’t help but feel as if a plan must be put into place providing school systems with the proper limits, boundaries, and resources to create an environment that’ll allow us to succeed like our peers. Performing at the best possible level is the only thing a student should be worrying about when approaching college, not the complex legality issues we currently face.
While we adjusted quickly, the world around us did not. The first day we held hands, I remember someone approaching us… he barely knew A himself, but he felt comfortable enough to say this: “Why do you even like her?” He brushed it off, but it stayed in my mind. Later, he was asked more and more inappropriate, intimate questions about my body
With India’s supreme court ruling to finally make gay intercourse legal in September, and the landslide of legalizations…
With the recent showing of the reality television show, Genderquake and the debate that followed, the identity of…
Newly-weds Hannah Rose, née Winterbourne, and Jake Graf were met by the transphobic headline ‘Tran and Wife’ from…
President Donald Trump is continuing his attempt to prevent transgender military members from serving. After federal courts thwarted…
In June 2016, Obama allowed transgender people already in the military to serve openly, and openly transgender people…
The LGBTQ community is celebrating a win. This Monday, October 30th, a federal judge blocked Trump’s transgender military…
In recent times, trans rights have advanced tremendously, especially in developed countries. Nations like Sweden, Israel and New…
Last Thursday, the news broke to the public that a 15-year-old transgender boy had committed suicide in England…