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Shayla Anderson Sues Apartment For Discrimination
A Black trans woman says her housing complex discriminated against her family and refused to respect her gender identity. Shayla Anderson...
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Sep 20, 20221 min read
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Families Sue Alabama Over Transgender Medical Ban
Two transgender children, their parents, and two doctors have sued Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey to stop the state's transgender...
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Apr 13, 20222 min read
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Transgender Disney Heir And Speaks Out Against H.B. 1557
Charlee Corra Disney, an heir to the Disney fortune, has come out as transgender and is speaking against Florida`s H. B. 1557, also...
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Apr 12, 20221 min read
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Georgia Republicans Snuck In A Trans Sports Ban Bill
A bill has been introduced to ban the teaching of nine "divisive concepts." These concepts include that the United States of America is...
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Apr 6, 20222 min read
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Utah Republicans Propose Panel To Evaluate Trans Kids’ Bodies
Republican lawmakers in Utah are pushing a bill that would establish a panel to analyze the bodies of individual trans youth and decide...
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Feb 16, 20221 min read
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Transgender Woman Held In Rikers Island Was Raped 3 Times
A transgender woman being held at Rikers Island in a men’s prison pending her trial is suing the New York City Department of Correction...
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Feb 14, 20221 min read
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Emira D’Spain Is Victoria’s Secret’s First Black Trans Model
Emira D’Spain just made history by being the very first black and transgender model to work with Victoria’s Secret. The 25-year-old...
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Feb 9, 20221 min read
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Police Investigate Death Of Two Trans Women In 2022
Amariey Lej (spelled Amarey in some reports), a 20-year-old dancer and youth artist apprentice, was found with a fatal gunshot wound by...
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Jan 6, 20221 min read
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Nikai David is 50th Transgender Non Binary Person Killed 2021
A 33 year-old Black transgender woman from Oakland is being recognized as at least the 50th transgender or gender non-conforming person...
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Dec 14, 20211 min read
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TERF Group Sues California For Placing Transgender Women In Female Prisons
The Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), a group that opposes the extension of legal and civil rights to transgender people, recently filed a...
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Nov 30, 20211 min read
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Bullies Forced Trans Teen To Expose Himself
Students at Berlin High School in Berlin, Wisconsin walked out of class to protest the police and school response after their transgender...
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Nov 18, 20211 min read
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Jenny DeLeon 46th Trans Gender Non-Conforming Death
De Leon’s body was found on a suburban road, right next to a busy street, in the Sulphur Springs neighborhood. She was discovered in the...
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Nov 15, 20211 min read
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Football Player Charged With Murder Of Trans Woman
David Etute, who was arrested back in June for the May 31 killing, has said that Smith presented himself as a woman named Angie on...
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Nov 8, 20211 min read
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Rikkey Outumuro 44th Trans Non- Gender Confirming Person Killed in 2021
Otherwise known by her drag stage name as Tru Starlet, Outumuro fatally shot in Centralia, Washington, Saturday evening (30 October) by...
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Nov 8, 20211 min read
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Zoella Rose Martinez Is 41st Trans Person Murdered in 2021
known by her friends as Zo Zo or Zoey, was shot in a nature area north of Maple Valley in late August. At around 8.45pm on 31 August,...
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Oct 20, 20211 min read
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Royal Poetical Starz is 40th Trans Person Killed In 2021
Royal Poetical Starz, 26, was fatally shot in Miami Gardens, a city in the north-central Miami-Dade County, on the afternoon of 2...
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Oct 19, 20211 min read
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Trans Netflix Employees Plan Walk Out To Protest The Closer
Transgender Netflix staff members and their allies are staging a walkout in protest of Dave Chappelle’s controversial special ‘The...
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Oct 18, 20211 min read
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Transgender Inmates Transferred Out of Rikers Island
230 women and trans inmates will be transferred out of the overcrowded and understaffed jail where 11 people have died so far this year....
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Oct 14, 20211 min read
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Brianna Hamilton 37th Trans Person Violently Killed In 2021
Hamilton, also known as Brianna Ulmer, was fatally shot in Chicago, Illinois on 17 September. She was 25 years old. Her death was...
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Sep 27, 20211 min read
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Police Search For Motive In Murder Of Trans Makeup Artist
Pooh Johnson, a 25-year-old Black transgender woman and makeup artist, was shot to death in Shreveport, Louisiana on August 23. She is at...
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Sep 3, 20211 min read
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