Later this year Netflix will present a new six-episode limited series adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1813 masterpiece Pride and Prejudice. The nonbinary actor Emma Corrin plays Elizabeth Bennet.
Kansas has moved to invalidate the driver’s licenses of transgender residents whose documents list a gender marker different from their sex assigned at birth, an abrupt change that will make daily life riskier and more precarious for hundreds, possibly thousands, of people.
The American Psychological Association (APA) makes clear that it has not retreated from its strong, evidence‑based support for gender‑affirming care for transgender youth, directly contradicting claims made in a recent New York Times column by Jesse Singal, Erin in the Morning reports.
The campaign, which began on Valentine’s Day and continues through late February, encourages supporters to write simple but heartfelt letters in support of transgender people’s dignity, worth, and right to exist.
Not In Our Name, a group of cisgender trans-allies which stands behind the project, also run another campaign in support of trans people. 84,384 have signed that letter at the moment of writing. The goal is 100,000 signatures. Women, cis or trans, can sign the campaign letter here!
Izzy Trazona Family in Philippines Transgender Clash A public dispute involving former Filipino pop star Izzy Trazona, her husband Alvin Aragon, and their transgender daughter Sofia has sparked widespread backlash in the Philippines.
“Everyone has different reasons for coming out or not, but for me it feels like a coming of age thing.” He explains that when he was younger, he was terrified of people knowing he was trans, but as he’s gotten older and more comfortable in himself, he doesn’t care as much.
According to a US survey presented and analyzed by Lakshya Jain in The Argument, measures once widely opposed, such as bills requiring transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding to their sex assigned at birth, now has the support of a majority of voters, with about 52 % backing such legislation and only 33 % opposing it.
