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McBride and Chris Hayes explored the significance of her election as the first out transgender member of Congress, a landmark victory amid a divisive election season dominated by ineffective anti-trans ads.
“Every day, I fight to prove that transness is something to be celebrated, not eradicated,” Chase Strangio tells The Advocate.
Vivian Wilson is once again calling out her biological father for claiming she's "dead" just because she transitioned.
We must "fight for women and our children and their futures and fight against tyranny, one day at a time," says Curtis, the mother of a transgender daughter.
Some of Donald Trump’s strongest supporters are celebrating that the far-right agenda will see the light of day.
“There is this paradox where a majority of Americans voted for Trump, who is extremely anti-trans, and yet many Americans also voted for out transgender candidates and in favor of LGBTQ rights in referendums,” A4TE executive director Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen told The Advocate.
Donald Trump may have won in part based on lies Republicans spread about a vulnerable minority of Americans.
America elected a man who promised to roll back the rights of transgender people.
Republicans voted to bar Zephyr from speaking on the floor of the state legislature in 2023 after she said that conservatives' ban on gender-affirming care for youth would result in “blood on [their] hands.”
Democrat Sarah McBride has beaten Republican John Whalen for Delaware's sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, making history.
The LGBTQ+ youth mental health support network is reporting a increase in election-related conversations and young people feeling anxiety, fear, and confusion about the outcome of the election.
One transgender woman has perfectly encapsulated the fears of queer Americans in a moving clip shared by out journalist Don Lemon.
Looking at the groups that threaten drag queens, transgender people and the broader LGBTQ+ community.
Brandy Livingston claims that Hooters workers denied her job application based on her appearance and harassed her for using the bathroom.
According to the FCC, there’s nothing the agency can do to prevent this kind of content from being broadcast by legally qualified political candidates.
Beggs said that not only did Cruz not get his permission to use his image in the ad, but that it failed to mention that he was forced to compete against women because the state's laws prevented him from competing against men.
Dominique Morgan, 42, was indicted on one count of second-degree grand larceny and 23 counts of first-degree falsifying business records during her time as executive director of the OKRA Project.
Salih Ali Mohammed Alhemoud, 30, was indicted Wednesday on six felony charges related to the kidnapping and assault of two trans women he met through Grindr.
Transgender Americans face unique challenges accessing the franchise.
"It's natural to be pissed off and fearful and defensive. It's about accepting that and finding a way to challenge that," a licensed psychotherapist tells The Advocate.
