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GLAAD works with trans kids like Coy to ensure they’re treated equally. Help us continue the work by pitching in on GiveOUT Day: http://www.razoo.com/story/glaad
Congrats to individuals chosen as part of The Trans 100, produced by We Happy Trans and This Is H.O.W.!
GLAAD is proud to sponsor the inaugural Trans 100. Read more: http://www.glaad.org/blog/first-ever-trans-100-list-released-we-happy-trans-and-how
TAKE ACTION NOW: Don’t let Arizona write discrimination against trans people into law!
TAKE ACTION: Arizona State Rep. wants to legalize anti-trans discrimination
Arizona State Representative John Kavanagh has backed away from his initial attempt to regulate bathroom usage by transgender people which would have criminalized trans people using the correct bathroom, and is now instead trying to take away the protections for transgender people that were granted by the Phoenix City Council last month on a statewide basis.
We believe Coy and other trans kids deserve equal treatment!
Support Coy: http://glaad.org/coymathis
Kathryn and Jeremy Mathis, parents of six-year-old Coy Mathis from Fountain, Colorado, have launched a Change.org petition asking Coy’s school to allow her to go back to using the correct bathroom. Just before Christmas, Coy’s school notified her parents that their daughter would no longer be allowed to use the girls’ bathroom, because she is transgender.
We love this letter from Sadie, an 11-year old trans child. In the letter, Sadie writes, “It would be a better world if everyone knew that transgender people have the same hopes and dreams as everyone else… It really isn’t that hard to like transgender people because we are like everyone else.”
GLAAD Board Member and author Jennifer Finney Boylan answered some questions for We Happy Trans. Check out the video!
Today we observe Transgender Day of Remembrance.
This Transgender Awareness Week infographic explains some of the health disparities affecting the transgender community. Learn more here.
Our thanks to the National Center for Transgender Equality, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Center for American Progress, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition whose work contributed to the creation of this graphic.
View and share the rest of Fenway Health’s series of infographics and learn more about Transgender Awareness Week here!
(Source: fenwayhealth.org)
