Trans Symposium Forwards Mission of Educating Medical... Fort Lauderdale Trans Symposium Forwards Mission of Educating Medical Fieldby Christiana Lilly, SFGayNews It’s pouring rain outside, but those inside the conference rooms at the Embassy Suites in Fort Lauderdale are too engrossed in their seminars to care. During the second day of the third annual Transgender Symposium,...

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Trans Kids Jazz and Coy Honored at GLAAD Awards GLAAD President Herndon Graddick focuses on Trans issues at the GLADD Awards At the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York this past weekend, GLAAD President Herndon Graddick spoke about the evolving mission of the organization, and the importance of the transgender community in his vision for the future of equality....

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TLDEF Files Complaint to Protect Transgender Child... Complaint Alleges Six-Year-Old Transgender Girl Denied Access to Girls' Bathrooms at School TLDEF today announced that it has filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division on behalf of a 6-year-old girl who has been barred from using the girls' bathrooms at her elementary school. For the past year, Coy Mathis,...

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Transgender Tween Jazz Talks Dating With Barbara Walters A Special Edition of “20/20 Saturday” Airing Saturday, January 19 at 8pm on ABC. Jazz is a typical 11-year-old girl except for one thing — she was born as a boy. From the moment she could speak, Jazz sensed that she was trapped in the wrong body and decided to dress and live as a little girl. Her parents made...

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Generation LGBTQIA By Michael Schulman STEPHEN IRA, a junior at Sarah Lawrence College, uploaded a video last March on We Happy Trans, a site that shares “positive perspectives” on being transgender In the breakneck six-and-a-half-minute monologue — hair tousled, sitting in a wood-paneled dorm room — Stephen exuberantly declared...

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