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The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

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Contact Neville Hardman at nhardma1@kent.edu.

Against Me! front woman launches new web series

Neville Hardman September 30, 2014

Punk band Against Me! has come a long way since 2012. First, Laura Jane Grace, formerly Tom Gabel, came out as a transgender woman. Second, the band lost two members, bassist Andrew Seward and drummer...

Police investigate assault of transgender teen

Garance Burke March 4, 2014

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Police on Tuesday were investigating the physical and sexual assault of a transgender teen who said he was attacked in a bathroom at a suburban San Francisco public school where another...

USG proposes transgender resolution

Blair Donald February 10, 2014

Editor's note: Because of a reporter’s error, this story incorrectly quoted Roxie Patton as using the word “colored.” Her quote now reads: a transgender person is more likely to be murdered “if...

Our View: Staying neutral on an issue of neutrality

DKS Editors January 26, 2014

American linguist Noam Chomsky has referred to language as “a weapon in much of human affairs.”  Indeed, we acknowledge existing inequities in our language that can often make certain speakers feel...

Our View: Creating a safe space for all

DKS Editors January 24, 2014

Transgender people are those who do not identify with the sex they were born as, and the transgender community is one that has long been misunderstood by officials, the media and other Americans alike....

Kieran Raines, an information architecture and knowledge management graduate student, founded Trans*Formers, the transgender organization on campus, last year because of a lack of resources for transgender students.

KSU group aids transgender students

Christina Suttles January 23, 2014

A recent Pew poll revealed that only 8 percent of Americans personally know someone who is transgender. The KSU Trans*Formers work to shed light on a sometimes-misunderstood faction of the university.In...