Where all sides (will) meet
Sexuality, discrimination, sexism, and crime
State laws are quickly materializing to prohibit athletic competition between cisgender girls and transgender girls, among other things. But nobody seems to mind girls besting boys. Another look at how society views girls and boys, and what it says to them.
Being Black, being transgender, and being a woman puts one on three different paths to danger in our society, and society as a whole has a long road to travel for change. But Maude asks, locally, who’s responsible for the mistreatment of Black trans women?
A proposed terminology change in the U.K. has stirred up conversation in the U.S. Should all parents be included in the art of feeding babies?
This morning Lisa Montgomery became the fourth woman in the nation’s history to be executed by the federal government, the first in 67 years. Here’s how that happened.
If America were an individual person, would she find that all of her needs are met?
How anti-trans sentiment and sexism end up in the same bed, and take us all with them.
Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed by the United States, December 8. Following a delay on account of her lawyers contracting COVID-19, she is now set to die January 12, 2021. If she is executed on that date, she will be the first female federal inmate executed in nearly seventy years, and the 55th woman executed since 1900.
Every year, November 20 is observed as the Transgender Day of Remembrance, in honor of transgender people lost in the previous year. Transgender Day of Remembrance, or TDOR, is preceded by Transgender Awareness Week. The goal is to bring national and worldwide awareness to anti-transgender violence, and put a stop to it.
November is when we observe Transgender Awareness Week. But Election Day also brought a huge week for LGBTQ candidates. While many might have thought the Presidential election was the only thing happening (not unusual), this November down-ballot races made a substantial bit of history: LGBTQ history.
Sex, gender, same thing, whatever. But are they? Here’s the difference, and why it’s important to know.
