News From A Colorful Perspective
Attorneys are fighting for their client, a Honduran transgender migrant, to be released from inhumane conditions. The attorneys also say that Nicole Garcia Aguilar, 24, is being illegally held, oftentimes in solitary confinement, even though she was granted asylum in October 2018. She is currently being held at an immigration…
Petition in protest of school goes national.
The Supreme Court has allowed President Trump to move forward with his ban of transgender people from military service, as the case continues to make its way through lower courts. The nation’s highest court ruled 5-4 in favor of allowing the ban to take effect. Conservatives voted in favor of…
#WontBeErased hashtag erupted hours after The New York Times reported the Trump administration’s push via a memo for a new legal definition of gender, which would essentially eradicate the estimated 1.4 million Americans who identify as a different gender than the one assigned assigned at birth. Mara Keisling, executive director…
“If he wants to be a female, make him a female. A good sharp knife will do the job really quick.” This is just one disturbing post hitting Facebook this week after a 12-year old transgender girl used the girl’s bathroom at Achille Independent Middle School in Oklahoma. For the…
Two months after the highly publicized, and eventual flop, of Starbucks’ diversity training, a transgender employee with the company for nine years has filed a lawsuit because her manager in Fresno, Calif., made her work days intolerable. Maddie Wade, who loved her colleagues at Starbucks, said she had a good…
A new sheriff may soon be in town in Texas, and she’s already making history. Former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez narrowly defeated her opponent in the primary race for Texas governor Tuesday night. Her nomination alone is an achievement; Valdez is the first openly gay and Latina to win…
With four weeks left in the year, 2017 will be remembered by the LGBTQ community as the deadliest year for transgender people in the United States. According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), at least 25 transgender people have had their lives cut short due to transphobia against people who…
Danica Roem made Virginia history last night when she became the state’s first openly transgender person to be elected to the state’s legislature. And come January, she will become the first openly transgender person in the nation to be elected to and serve in a state legislature. Roem, a 33-year-old…
Spelman College, a historically Black women’s institution, is revamping its admissions policy that will now allow transgender women access to education at their institution beginning in 2018. In the wake of mounting hate crimes against transgender women, more specifically ones of color, 2017 has already been hit with 19 deaths…
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