Them reports: Nava Mau and Laverne Cox had a heartfelt exchange about their experiences as transgender actresses on the Emmys 2024 red carpet.
The Baby Reindeer star and the trailblazing Orange Is the New Black actress first shared a wordless, emotional hug before Cox expressed her love for Mau, saying “I’m so proud of you.”
Wachowski, who directed The Matrix and Bound alongside her sister Lana, will produce the animated film Hell Followed With Us (book cover above), a full-length animated movie based on the 2022 novel by Andrew Joseph White.
HELL FOLLOWED WITH US, my book about a trans boy, the autistic guy he has a crush on, & giant corpse monsters fighting Evangelical cultists is getting an ANIMATED MOVIE
with the help of Lilly Wachowski (THE MATRIX) and Powerhouse Studios (CASTLEVANIA) 🔥https://t.co/92VgPdHAlm
“We’re a small state of neighbors,” Mcbride says. Delaware only has a population of about one million. “The power of proximity allows people to see one another as fully realized multidimensional human beings. This creates a foundation for politics that’s not only more rooted in kindness, but also politics that’s more diverse. This election here in Delaware is a prime example of that.”
“A comprehensive approach to transgender health research should consider the entire lifespan, from childhood through older adulthood. Journalists can help highlight the importance of long-term studies and the need for age-specific health interventions for transgender and gender-diverse people. “
Amriah Hardwick (photo), a transgender woman, moved to Missouri to pursue a degree. But she says the state’s restrictions made it hard to access her hormone treatments.
AP reports: “The families of Parker Tirrell (photo), 15, and Iris Turmelle, 14, sued in August seeking to overturn the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act that Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law in July. While Turmelle doesn’t plan to play sports until December, Tirrell successfully sought an emergency order allowing her to start soccer practice last month. That order was expiring Tuesday.
“In issuing a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Landya McCafferty found Tirrell and Turmelle were likely to succeed in their lawsuit. She found that the students “demonstrated a likelihood of irreparable harm” in the absence of a preliminary order.”
Bailey Anne has become Maryland’s first trans woman titleholder. She is also Maryland’s first Asian American winner and the oldest contestant to represent the state in the Miss USA pageant.
Beyond the party’s health care protections, which would “require that federal health plans provide coverage for gender confirmation surgery, and hormone therapy,” Democrats also vow to enact other policies making legal services more accessible for transgender people, including “guaranteeing transgender students’ access to facilities based on their gender identity.”
“We will ensure that all transgender and non-binary people can procure official government identification documents that accurately reflect their gender identity,” the platform states. “We will stop employment discrimination in the federal government, and will restore full implementation of President Obama’s executive order prohibiting discrimination by federal contractors on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Walz: This is what these folks are focusing on. Like reading about about two male penguins who love each other is somehow going to turn your children gay… It’s a fact of life some people are gay, but you know what’s not a fact of life? That our children get shot dead in schools. pic.twitter.com/tFAXOMkZNG
