• White House hires its first openly transgender staffer

    White House hires its first openly transgender staffer

    Aug 18, 2015 04:29 PM EST

    ... Tuesday. Freedman-Gurspan is an outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel in the Office of Personnel. Transgender advocates say she is the first openly transgender official to serve in the White House. Freedman-Gurspan previously was a policy adviser for the National Center for Transgender Equality's racial and ...

  • World’s first transgender modeling agency to open this summer

    World’s first transgender modeling agency to open this summer

    Jul 29, 2015 08:35 PM EST

    At a time when transgender models are gaining more recognition than ever, Thailand-based firm Apple Model Management is set to open the world’s first modeling agency for transgender models this summer in Los Angeles. The agency began representing transgender models in 2014 and its new branch in L ...

  • Poet creates first class for transgender poetry

    Poet creates first class for transgender poetry

    Jul 27, 2015 09:39 PM EST

    ... of literature are very comfortable approaching transgender subject matter as theory, or as types of metaphor. But there’s very little study of literature by transgender people," she said. But that has the potential to change as new publications and conferences move to create spaces where transgender poets can be ...

  • Transgender people still denied health services despite Affordable Care Act

    Transgender people still denied health services despite Affordable Care Act

    Jul 23, 2015 06:52 PM EST

    ... medically sensitive to our transgender members before, during and after their transition,” Espinal said. Advocates say their goal is to add new categories, such as ”transgender man,” or “transgender woman,” into insurance application forms, as well as into research, to get a more accurate picture of the number of transgender ...

  • Pentagon announces plan aimed to lift transgender ban

    Pentagon announces plan aimed to lift transgender ban

    Jul 13, 2015 10:05 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the Pentagon's current regulations banning transgender individuals from serving in the military are outdated, and anyone willing to serve the country should be able to do so. Carter is creating a working group to do a six-month study on the impact of ...

  • What hormone therapy means for transgender people

    What hormone therapy means for transgender people

    Jun 09, 2015 05:48 PM EST

    Video by ACS How do hormones affect the appearance of gender? Many transgender people find themselves facing questions from others about what it means to transition. After the public transition of Caitlyn Jenner, a new video from the American Chemical Society (ACS) explains the role that estrogen and testosterone can ...

  • Giving homeless transgender youth a safe haven from the streets

    Giving homeless transgender youth a safe haven from the streets

    May 22, 2015 11:20 PM EST

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: Hari Sreenivasan is back with a report on one of a handful of programs in the country that's helping homeless transgender youth get their footing in society. It's another in our Transgender in America series. HARI SREENIVASAN: It looks like any other row house in ...

  • Michigan driver’s license policy violates transgender rights, ACLU says

    Michigan driver’s license policy violates transgender rights, ACLU says

    May 22, 2015 06:02 PM EST

    ... to carry and show to others a basic identity document that fails to reflect an essential aspect of personhood -- their gender. Denying Plaintiffs and other transgender people a driver’s license that matches their gender identity and lived gender results in the routine disclosure of their transgender status, as well ...

  • Smith College changes admission policy to allow transgender applicants

    Smith College changes admission policy to allow transgender applicants

    May 04, 2015 05:28 PM EST

    ... practices at Mount Holyoke and Wellesley and other women's colleges. The past year, students held rallies to protest the school's refusal to admit transgender women. More specifically, a transgender woman, Justin Kilian, was barred from attending the October 2014 meeting with the school's Board of Trustees, Buzzfeed ...

  • The quiet revolution behind the word ‘transgender’

    The quiet revolution behind the word ‘transgender

    Apr 23, 2015 11:15 PM EST

    ... live as who I am. And, in part, I am able to do that because I have that category, that container to hold my identity, transgender. HARI SREENIVASAN: Transgender people are gaining visibility, at least in Hollywood. Several award-winning series showcase transgender characters. The Netflix series "Orange Is the ...