On Sept. 16-17, TLC, GSA Network and Trans Youth - Truth Project will host a two-day organizing workshop for transgender and gender nonconforming youth of color (14-21) in the East Bay Area.
Apply today: bit.ly/GetLitYouth
TRANSform Tech this Thursday in San Francisco!
#TRANSformTech is this week in San Francisco! If you’re trans or gender nonconforming and interested/working in tech, this is the conference for you!
*No cost tickets (not including transportation) available for community with limited means. DM us for more info. http://bit.ly/TransformTech
I’m a Trans Woman of Color, and I’ve Never Been More Scared to Live in North Carolina
I used to tell everyone I wasn’t going to make it past 30 because I was convinced that I wasn’t. I was suicidal and pretty much a hermit—everything was wrong but I didn’t know why. Then I realized it was because I wasn’t living as a woman, so at 29 I decided to transition. I started to go out and meet people, and I learned that North Carolina isn’t really friendly toward transgender people. People just get quiet around you, they whisper. And my family was in shock. They tried to be supportive, but I don’t think they could cope with missing the son they had loved and raised—we haven’t really talked much since.
Join TRANSform Tech next week!
We’re thrilled to invite you to TRANSform Tech, a summit for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people in tech!
TRANSform Tech welcomes TGNC people who are currently working in these fields, those who are interested, as well as companies and businesses who want to grow more in this area. The summit will include TGNC people, advocates, and experts in a multi-format, daylong event.
This commercial is redefining India’s traditional family.
The touching short film above, which Procter & Gamble’s Vicks created, tells the true story of a young orphan in India named Gayatri who was adopted by 37-year-old Gauri Sawant, a transgender woman and social activist who lives in Mumbai.
On the way to boarding school, Gayatri recounts her life, her adoption and meeting her new mother, Sawant, for the very first time. Gayatri says that her mother sends her to boarding school so she can one day be a doctor. But Gayatri says she wants to be a lawyer instead, so she can fight for the rights of people who are like her mom.
“My civics book says that everyone is entitled to basic rights,” Gayatri says. “Then why is my mom denied them?”
Even amid the swell of anti-LGBT legislation being introduced by conservative lawmakers, it would be wrong to make assumptions and generalize about religious people and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, rights. Communities of faith are broadly supportive of the LGBT community, including transgender people. People of faith are especially concerned about bullying and protecting transgender people through comprehensive nondiscrimination policies, and many have expressed their support for the transgender community through the passage and implementation of denominationwide policies. In fact, apart from a small vocal minority, many diverse faith traditions show majority support for transgender rights and inclusionary policies both in and outside houses of worship.
Transgender Murders In El Salvador Leave Community In Fear
Three transgender people were killed in San Juan Talpa in February alone, police say, spreading fear through members of El Salvador’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community.
The spate of murders puts a spotlight on the violence El Salvador’s LGBT community faces, a problem rights activists blame on powerful street gangs and entrenched social prejudices.
Until recently, the LGBT community in San Luis Talpa, a town surrounded by fertile green hills an hour’s drive from the capital San Salvador, had a softball team that used to play near the beach. But they have since stopped in fear they could be next in the firing line.
CasaRuby, Elle Hearns of #M4BL and DC will speak out for the #ProtectTransWomen Day of Action at 6 PM tomorrow! bit.ly/2n7kBpA
Familia TQLM will lead a Black Trans Liberation Rally tomorrow for the #ProtectTransWomen Day of Action bit.ly/2mL0IDZ