‘Raising Zoey’ Doc Puts a Latina Face On the Struggles Faced by #TransYouth

The doc follows a year in the life of Zoey Luna, a 13-year-old girl living in California with her mother, Ofelia, and her older sister, Letty. Like many other girls her age, Zoey wants nothing more than to enjoy her life and have a great group of friends. But facing a willfully ignorant and intolerant community, especially at her school, made her childhood and teenage years a difficult time in her life. Chronicling the support she got from her mother and sister and the eventual legal fight they all became involved in as they sought to protect Zoey’s right to self-expression at school, Raising Zoey puts a Latina face on the ongoing battles trans youth have to wage every day.

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Trans student won right to run for prom king, now he’s suing to use boys’ bathroom

“Transgender youth should have the same opportunity as all other students to go to school and get an education without being singled out for harassment and discrimination by school administrators,” said Kris Hayashi, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, which is representing Whitaker along with lawyers from firms in Milwaukee and Washington, D.C.

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A look inside Detroit’s black transgender community

Across the country, the transgender community has been experiencing an unprecedented level of visibility. Openly transgender celebrities like actress Laverne Cox and model Isis King are proudly gracing television screens and newsstands. Gender dysphoria – the medical term describing those whose identities differ from their birth gender – is now widely recognized in the medical community, and many major health care providers cover gender reassignment surgery for those who are diagnosed with it. Here at home, the Detroit Police Department recently hired its first transgender officer, who will be graduating from the academy in June.

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Berkeley schools go beyond bathrooms to support gender non-conforming students

Berkeley High School sophomore Ellie began identifying as a girl last year. The 16-year-old’s birth certificate says male but, as she entered adolescence, it became clear to her that she was not a boy.

Ellie was homeschooled until high school. At BHS, she was thrown into a new environment where she found more opportunities to compare herself to her peers and consider how she fit in socially.

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Executive Order and Health Care Bill are Attacks on Transgender People

From TLC executive director Kris Hayashi:

Last week, as the House of Representatives passed President Trump’s dangerous bill undermining the Affordable Care Act, the President signed a so-called “religious liberty” Executive Order that attempts to chip away at the Constitution’s separation of church and state and encourages government agencies to discriminate.

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20 Trans People Talk About The Beauty Standards They’re So Tired Of

Societal standards of beauty affect us all. From birth, we’re encouraged to internalize various myths, from the good ol’ “no white shoes after Labor Day” to the much more harmful “fat folks can’t wear tight clothes.” Transgender people face the same beauty myths, plus an extra helping of transphobia-flavored fashion rules, like “if a trans man wears makeup, it means he’s not really a man” and “all trans people must have gender affirmation surgery.”

Transgender and undocumented leader fights for rights in Arizona

Karyna Jaramillo lives in fear that she’ll be deported and sent back to her hometown in Morelos, Mexico where she could face persecution. “Deporting me is like sending me straight to my death,” she said in Spanish.

Jaramillo is a transgender woman, an undocumented immigrant and leader for migrants who fear persecution in their home countries and feel excluded by LGBTQ organizations in the U.S.

The Transgender Politician Fighting for LGBT Rights in the Philippines

There is an elevated stage in the basketball court-cum-community hall that Philippine Congresswoman Geraldine Roman is using to address her constituents, but she chooses not to use it.

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