Russia passed a law preventing people considered to be "sexual deviants" from obtaining driver's license in an attempt to curb the country's atrocious number of car accidents. However, human rights groups and activists have decried the Kremlin's actions.
A 17-year-old student, who was born as a boy named Joshua, but identified as a girl named Leelah Alcorn, decided to end her life early Sunday morning by walking onto Interstate 71, where she was hit by a tractor-trailer.
Ryan Seacrest's studio produces Transgender docu-series for ABC Family ABC Family is preparing to launch "My Transparent Life," a docu-series chronicling the life and times of a teenager whose finds out that his parents are getting a divorce and that his father is transitioning into a woman.
Internet fandom be warned: Elementary school student Alex has become a social media phenomenon after standing in front of a live audience rapping the story of his coming out as transgender.
Advocates in the transgender community are pushing New York City lawmakers to pass a bill that would make it easier for someone to change the sex on their birth certificates.
The mayor of Houston, Texas has had a change of heart regarding her fight against evangelical Christian leaders who oppose legislation promoting LGBT rights.
The marine is currently held aboard the USS Peleliu in Subic Bay, the Philippines until the investigation ends. He faces murder charges for killing a transgender woman in a hotel room.
“19 Kids and Counting” star Michelle Duggar is speaking out against transgender people and a pending Fayetteville anti-discrimination ordinance that would protect the LGBT community in Duggar’s hometown of Arkansas.
TwoXChromosomes, the Reddit community that was constructed as a safe space and discussion board for cisgendered women, transgendered women and any female-identified individuals to address gender-related issues, has recently been met with a bout of misogynistic messages and internet trolls after being made a "default" subreddit. Previously, posters had to seek out the community whose motto is "women supporting women," but the new setting directs all users of the massive internet forum toward 2X content.
Twitter feud over biological sex and gender identity Piers Morgan Live caused a controversial stir within the transgender community due to a Twitter faux paus ahead of his interview with the 29 year old transgender author Janet Mock, who has a new book entitled Redefining Realness.
Zachary Kerr’s work in the transgender community at just 19-year-old, has changed lives. Kerr facilitates educational programs through Greater Boston’s PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), demonstrates fearlessness in the face of adversity, and is a role model to thousands of transgender individuals who struggle daily with their identity.
The film, which premiered at the GALA Hispanic Theater in Washington, DC, reveals the story of five religious Latino families who learned to look beyond binding church teachings, in order to accept their daughters, sisters, brothers and sons, whose gender identities or sexual orientations are outside of the norm.
Late May of this year, 22-year-old Victor Diego, a gay, transgender man who goes by the name of Vivian Diego and works as a waitress at Eva Longoria's Hollywood Boulevard restaurant, Besos, was faced with the unthinkable. He left work at 2:30 a.m. after working a lengthy shift. As he made his way home, he was accosted by four men, and beaten until he lost consciousness.
UCLA Williams Institute just released a new report estimating that 1.4 Million, or 4.3 percent, of the Latino adults in the U.S. identify themselves as LGBT.
DJ Mister Cee, who resigned from his job as radio host on New York's Hot97, returned to the station a day later to discuss accusations that he was soliciting sex from a transvestite prostitute and to come clean about his personal life.
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday morning for his role in the WikiLeaks scandal that brought an unprecendented amount of scrutiny on the United States government's military actions. Now that he's headed to jail, Manning says he wants to live as a woman.
The 20-year veteran made the decision to transition to female after leaving the military in 2011. A former Navy SEAL and long-time member of the elite Team 6 that was responsible for killing Osama bin Laden has just revealed another harrowing journey of his: he is no longer a he.
