Issues on gender equality, as well as societal issues surrounding transgender people, were presented to students in the Kiva Tuesday night.Susan Stryker headlined the presentation, speaking about how transgender...
The world has lost an important voice. Though hardly a unique case, roughly fifty percent of transgender youth attempt to take their own life before the age of 24, Leelah Alcorn’s suicide is a profound...
The topic of same-sex marriage has given rise to many problems. The U.S. Supreme Court stated it “would not accept cases from any of five states whose same-sex marriage bans had been struck down by federal...
Through the telling of her personal experiences with shame, suicide and hate speech, actor and advocate Laverne Cox told students the night of Wednesday, Nov. 5 that in order to become truly just and nondiscriminatory,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
