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FB Newswire shared a post. Just now · WOMAN CLAIMS SHE WAS HARASSED AFTER BEING MISTAKEN FOR TRANSGENDER: A 22-year-old Connecticut woman said she was harassed in a bathroom in a Walmart in Danbury on Friday by a woman who mistakenly thought she was transgender. Aimée Toms said she was washing her hands in the…
Noted critical race thinker bell hooks is no stranger to letting people know that she doesn’t exactly see it for Beyoncé. Two years ago, while speaking on a panel at The New School titled “Are You Still A Slave: Liberating the Black Female Body,” hooks accused Beyoncé of being a cultural “terrorist” when it came…
The men shouting to women from fire escapes and construction cranes to tell them that they “look beautiful,” or that they should “smile more,” never seem to understand why the subjects of their “compliments” never seem to take them in stride. But one tweet from author Kate Harding offers a succinct explanation for why women…
The Obama administration will order all US public schools to allow transgender students to access restrooms that match their identities in a move that escalates the national fight over LGBT rights that has erupted in response to North Carolina’s controversial “bathroom bill”. The Justice Department and department of education will send the decree, a copy…
Obama to public schools: open restrooms to transgender students Today the Obama administration will issue a sweeping directive to public schools across the US to allow transgender students to access restrooms and locker rooms that are consistent with their gender identities. In a move that is likely to escalate the contentious national battle over LGBT…
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch in March 2016.Alex Wong/Getty Images On paper, the current conflict between the U.S. Department of Justice and North Carolina can seem dry, academic even. North Carolina passed a law forbidding trans people from using certain bathrooms that align with their gender identity. The Department of Justice notified the state…
The company is anti-LGBT, Councilman Danny Dromm said. View Full Caption Flickr/scuddr ELMHURST — National chain Chick-fil-A plans to open its first location in the borough at the Queens Center Mall — but not everyone’s excited to eat more chicken. The company’s first Queens restaurant is set to open this fall, an effort to serve…
Photo Protesters rallied outside the Capitol against House Bill 2 in Raleigh, N.C., last month. Credit Ray Whitehouse for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday warned North Carolina state officials that they would lose millions of dollars in federal funding unless they change the controversial measure limiting access to bathrooms…
Photo Donald J. Trump, right, appeared with family members on NBC’s “Today” show in Manhattan on Thursday.Credit Richard Drew/Associated Press Updated, 8:37 p.m. | Donald J. Trump said Thursday that transgender people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable with — including at Trump Tower in New York. Dipping into a…
· Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Eva Tiamat Baphomet Medusa — Tiamat for short — prefers to be identified as “it” and wants to become a “mythical beast” through a series of intense surgical procedures. Tiamat claims to be the first person to ever have both ears surgically removed for purely cosmetic reasons, and says it’s…