Why Hollywood Needs Trans Actors: An Open Letter Nine trans actors explain why Hollywood needs to do better by the trans community, and why cis actors shouldn’t play trans roles.

What will Chelsea Manning do with her freedom? On Wednesday Chelsea Manning will be released from jail. A lot of media attention awaits her—which she might usefully capitalize on in a new life as a trans activist.

By freeing Chelsea Manning, Obama saved her life Manning’s freedom will be a major victory for LGBT rights, but other incarcerated trans people continue to suffer

Obama may have just saved Chelsea Mannings life — but it's not necessarily a big win for trans right Obama's action brings a crucial issue to the fore, but offers no change for trans prisoners whose names aren't Chelsea Manning.

Chelsea Manning, Soon to Be Released, Showed How Dangerous It Is to Be Trans in Prison When it comes to Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who was sentenced to prison after leaking a trove of classified government data ...

Anti-Trans Activists Admit It: We Don’t Like Trans People Because of Our Religion On Wednesday, I laid out the case that anti-trans leaders can’t really believe in the “bathroom predator myth”—after all, the notion that trans-inclusi ...

Trans People of Colour Are Still Fighting for Representation and Survival I am sure you already know the names of the celebrities who have come out as trans this year, the trans actors playing trans characters on television, the trans stars who have paved the way in 2015. But these trans people do not represent me. I don't Read more ... write their names because they don't represent us. The colour of their skin is a reminder that trans people of colour are still fighting for representation and survival. So, has 2015 been a year to celebrate the trans community? Or has 2015 just shown us how far there is to go?

2015: The Trans Moment? Was 2015 really a watershed for trans people? If we're talking specifically about transitioners in the media, then it's been the latest of several, a veritable continuum of watersheds. Before Caitlyn Jenner, there was Laverne Cox, Chelsea Manning, Read more ... our own Paris Lees (making Question Time memorable), and so on. Just as each "trans pioneer" stands on the shoulders of those who came before, there is no one Trans Moment, but a succession of Moments.

Against Me! Rocker Laura Jane Grace Opens Up About Trans Identity in 2015 "Trans people are not cliches and there is no one way to 'do trans right'..."

Trans Day Of Visibility Inspires Solidarity (& Adorable Selfies) It's undeniable: we're at a crucial moment for trans rights and visibility right now. Trans icons like Laverne Cox and Janet Mock are everywhere; television producers are casting trans actors in trans roles; there are trans rock stars, like Laura Jan Read more ... e Grace of Against Me!, and movements are