Imagine how all these headlines about Upenn betraying trans athletes will affect #transgender people. Then imagine what cis people who have not made up their minds about trans people may think.
This is what the fascists want: To create a constant cacophony of hate and invalidation, so that people stop caring.
By giving in to Trump the University of Pennsylvania has not only betrayed trans people. They have betrayed the very foundation sound, independent and critical research and higher education is built upon.
This name will live in infamy forever: President J. Larry Jameson (top photo).
(Is the logic here that men are smarter than women, and since trans girls are thought to be “men”, they must have an advantage? That is not only transphobic, but sexist as h*ll.)
Trump still thinks he will get the Nobel Peace Price for bombing Iran and torturing transgender children. This photo of the Nobel Peace Center in downtown Oslo tells a different story.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has issued a landmark ruling affirming that transgender women are legally recognized as women in India, irrespective of reproductive ability.
Justice Venkata Jyothirmai Pratapa dismissed the notion that womanhood is defined solely by the ability to bear children, calling it unconstitutional and contrary to fundamental rights.
I have noticed that what the birthday boy and his hateful crew do as almost an instinct is reduce a who to a what, and they do it to women in just the same way as they do it to immigrants and anybody else they want to target, and for the same reason, which is to exclude them from their full humanity so that they can be more easily abused. What is a woman? is meant to convey “we will control your gender, and we will be extremely deadly to you if you won’t be controlled.” This control is being established for all women, by the way, not just trans ones. If you want to establish women as lesser than men, you’re going to need to hold a secure border between who is and who is not a full person, so that you can operationalize the inequality with precision.
“I’ve been trying to get up here all day for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every motherfucking week and ask for your help, and you all don’t do a goddamn thing for them.”
But for India’s trans community—particularly trans women and transfeminine people—beauty is rarely a simple act of self-expression. It’s tangled in survival, societal validation, and the burden of getting by.
The Trump administration removed transgender and inclusive Pride flags from the federally governed Stonewall National Monument, replacing them with only the traditional rainbow flag.
This decision was part of broader efforts to erase transgender visibility from public spaces and federal resources, including altering historical references like the one about trans activist Sylvia Rivera.
In response, LGBTQ+ activists and New Yorkers have staged acts of resistance, bringing their own trans flags to the site and creating impromptu tributes.
In a new documentary, Enigma — premiering on HBO this Tuesday, June 24 — Drucker explores the lives of two women: Amanda Lear (video) and April Ashley (photo). The two started their careers at the same trans cabaret, Le Carrousel, in Paris, but their lives took completely different paths from there.
