All avocado trees are hermaphrodites, but at any given time their flowers function either as male by releasing pollen, or as female by receiving pollen.
“One of the really interesting early insights that’s come out of this process is that a lot of anti-trans misinformation is really hard to nail down. A lot of it is vaguely conspiratorial question-raising, with a lot of plausible deniability baked in.”
Trans actor Hunter Schafer’s next TV role sees her kicking all types of butt alongside Michelle Yeoh, leading Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming miniseries Blade Runner 2099.
“In the seven months after the 2024 election, 9% of transgender adults reported moving to a different state—against 5% of LGBTQ people overall, and 2% of Americans generally,”
“Skuse looks at the cultural meaning of castrati: men castrated in childhood to preserve a high singing voice. She argues that early modern writers rarely treated castrati as full human subjects. Instead, they described them as “instrumental” bodies: surgically altered for elite entertainment, aesthetic pleasure, sexual fantasy, and profit.”
Saturday’s march through the baking heat started near the BBC’s central London headquarters, where placards read: “let people piss in peace”; “marching for all my trans siblings past and present”; and: “these meds save lives”.
Trans Lifeline, which runs a crisis hotline for transgender people, is one of the nonprofits Grande has supported. The group has received $125,000 total — $75,000 in emergency funding last June and $50,000 when the foundation formally launched in May.
Family and friends say the 19-year-old Black trans teen was shot and killed in Belle Glade—leaving her community to document the life, identity, and violent death that public systems failed to name.
“That’s the thing about being trans online. We’re expected to be educators, inspirations, cautionary tales, and proof of concept all at once. And in trying to protect ourselves or each other, we sometimes put on a little more armor than we need.”
An influential liberal think tank is urging Democrats to stand firm on supporting transgender people serving in the military and gender-transition care for youths but also to accept some restrictions on transgender athletes.
