Tagged: transgender

Editors Pick / Relationships & Sex / Technology

16 May, 2018

Introducing Transdr, a new transgender dating app

Transdr, a Tinder-like app for trans people, has just launched across the globe. This new transgender dating app, which was released to the Apple App store right after Craigslist closed its personals section, has...

Relationships & Sex

6 Oct, 2017

Gender is new battleground in culture wars

With a wave of films, television series and art shows championing “gender fluidity” — and catwalks awash with “gender neutral” models and clothes — the old dividing line between the sexes is being increasingly...

Transgender soldier makes waves with Vogue swimsuit spread

Transgender soldier Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst jailed for leaking troves of classified information to WikiLeaks, has turned heads by posing in a red one-piece bathing suit for the September issue of...

Transgender Vietnamese turn to black market hormones

Every week, Huynh Nha An faces the same dilemma: spend her paltry salary on food, or buy the black market hormones she needs to keep her facial hair from growing back. Born male but...

Indian fashion week set for first transgender model

A Nepali who will become the first transgender model to walk the runway at an Indian fashion show hopes to inspire other victims of gender identity discrimination across conservative South Asia. Anjali Lama, who...

Transgender identity should no longer be classified as mental disorder: study

Transgender identity should no longer be classified as a mental disorder in a World Health Organization list of diseases, according to a study presented in Mexico on Thursday. Violence and social rejection are the...

Being transgender: facts, myths and rights

Transgender people live under dramatically varying circumstances around the world — often facing violent repression, but also conquering crucial new rights most notably in Europe and the United States. There are few reliable statistics...

Bruce Jenner’s gender transition to be documented in TV series

Bruce Jenner’s transition from male to female is going to be documented in an eight-part reality TV show. E! has announced that it will be airing the ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ star’s transgender...

Technology

1 Oct, 2012

New app may help end discrimination against gays

Paul Ramscar believes his Pink Dollar “app” is a lot more than just another snippet of smartphone software: it is a social game-changer that will help end discrimination against gays and lesbians. The smartphone...