Articles- Collected Articles For The Transgender Community

Jan 17, 2012 5:22 PM EST
By Tricia Romano
From Albert Nobbs to Dancing With the Stars to the Work It controversy to the Girl Scouts, transgender issues are everywhere.

There is a scene in Albert Nobbs, the movie starring Glenn Close as a woman who passes as a man to survive in late-19th-century Dublin, in which Albert Nobbs and Hubert Page, another woman living as a man, played by Janet McTeer, take a stroll on the beach wearing dresses.

They’ve been living for so long as men that wearing women’s clothing is as much drag to them as it would be if their male counterparts were donning lace frocks. They stagger awkwardly, inelegantly walking like bowlegged cowboys, before Nobbs suddenly breaks stride and begins running through the wind. After a moment of feeling freedom, Nobbs trips and falls. Soon, the gentle butler is back in his usual garb, a suit and tie covering a constrictive corset that hides his breasts. (more…)

Being fired for “gender non-conformity” is a violation of the constitution, an important court recently found
By Adam Cohen | @adamscohen | December 12, 2011

When Vandiver Elizabeth Glenn was fired from a state job in Georgia, she filed a lawsuit saying that she had been discriminated against for being transgender. Georgia civil rights laws do not cover transgender people, but a powerful federal court ruled last week that Glenn’s firing violated the U.S. Constitution. There was also a second major piece of transgender news last week: a new study shows that a growing number of major American companies are paying for their employees’ gender reassignment surgery. Taken together, the ruling and the study are strong indications that transgender rights are starting to enter the mainstream. (more…)

Published on 1/11/2012 under Misc – by Beverly Jenkins

Many people don’t realize that transsexual models are popping up in magazines and on runways everywhere. These gorgeous models look and feel like women but were born with male reproductive organs. If we didn’t know, we definitely wouldn’t be able to tell that they weren’t born female! Could you?
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Published on 1/18/2012 under Misc – by Beverly Jenkins
These ten men are all successful, handsome, and accomplished in their chosen fields. They were also all born as women!
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