Australia recently began offering a third gender category in addition to male and female on their country’s passports. In addition to “M” for male or “F” for female, people can choose “X.” This change was made to help fight discrimination…
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May 22nd is Harvey Milk Day—a day when we pause to remember the first openly gay man elected to public office. This really got me thinking about the possibility of one day having a gay president. Check out this excerpt […]
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TGIF! It’s finally Friday morning. You’ve just sat down in first period English, and you can’t wait to talk all about your upcoming plans for the weekend. Grinning, you tap your best friend on the shoulder, eager to share the […]
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Can you imagine being in a place where it’s normal to be a gender-nonconformist pansexual? Or where it’s only natural to see a trans lesbian with a masculine gender expression? At this year’s True Colors conference at the University of […]
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When I clicked on the link to PutThisOnTheMap.org, I had no idea what I was about to see. Ten minutes later, I was grinning. Like some of the people in this promotional video for the Reteaching Gender and Sexuality campaign, […]
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I recently watched an episode of ABC’s What Would You Do? about homophobic bullying. The show hires actors to play out morally questionable situations in public to observe how people react. This episode featured a guy being pushed around and…
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George Washington University athlete Kye Allums is beginning his third season on the women’s basketball team and making history as the first publicly transgender person to play NCAA Division I college basketball. Kye was born female, but his…
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Imagine it. You’ve been attending the college of your dreams for three years. But there’s a problem: you’re at a men’s college, but you’ve come to identify as a woman. Or maybe you’re a woman at a women’s college,…
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