Never one to retreat from controversy, San Francisco archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has weighed in on the trans-Jenner debate, arguing that men don’t suddenly become women just through a physical operation, cross-dressing or being addressed with new names.
Creative Artists Agency has signed Bruce Jenner to its public speakers department, where they will work with the former Olympian to create a platform to bring awareness to the transgender community.
During Tuesday’s “CNN Tonight,” host Don Lemon found himself in a war of words with three panelists while discussing the newly-named Caitlyn Jenner. Jenner, an Olympian, was recently named the 2015 “Arthur Ashe Courage Award” winner and will receive the
In a CNN interview on Tuesday, Walt Heyer warned viewers that the relief accompanying gender reassignment surgery doesn’t last. After Jenner expressed exhilaration over the Vanity Fair cover, Heyer responded that such elation is normal, but transient.
On Monday, the Obama administration paved the way for transgendered individuals to sue their employers if they are unhappy with the restroom arrangements where they work.
The first promo for the Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner reality TV show I Am Cait debuted on Today Wednesday morning. “How many people go through life and just waste their entire life because they never deal with themselves, with who they are?” Jenner says at the start of the 60-second spot.
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal’s online edition promoted a June 2014 op-ed by Dr. Paul McHugh, former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, which argues that transgender identity is a mental illness akin to bulimia and should not be treated with surgery, which can cause more harm than good. Though the article did not appear in the paper’s print edition, its promotion on the website coincides with the debate over former Olympian Bruce (Caitlyn) Jenner.
As we travel pell-mell into a “transhuman” future, one where humans physically remake themselves at will, we are now being presented with “transabled” individuals. People who want to purposefully cut off their arms and/or legs, people who want to blind themselves, and people who otherwise covet becoming disabled in one form or another should be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies, and the taxpayer should pay for it.
One of the most famous transgender individuals in America Laverne Cox released a statement on Tumblr in which she agreed with Breitbart Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro. Shapiro said in a column for Breitbart on Tuesday that it is ridiculous to portray Bruce Jenner as a womanly woman on the cover of Vanity Fair in order to make it more credible that Jenner is a woman. There are many transgenders who look nothing like women.
Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer,” Republican presidential candidate and former governor of New York George Pataki said of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s joke about transgender bathroom issues we should “give people their dignity” and “respect
On Monday, Bruce Jenner announced that he wanted to be called Caitlyn Jenner in a photo spread for Vanity Fair. The now-famous photo featured Jenner, heavily made up, photoshopped, wearing a Trashy Lingerie-brand corset, splashed classical Hollywood ingénue-style across the cover. Media quickly compared Jenner with Jessica Lange and Geena Davis.
President Obama weighed in on Bruce Jenner’s transformation into Caitlyn Jenner on this month’s cover of Vanity Fair, hailing the former Olympian for having the “courage” to do so publicly.
In lieu of former Olympian Bruce Jenner’s sex change, a video has surfaced of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, joking at the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in February in Nashville, TN about
Jenner did more than debut as a woman on Monday; she also broke President Obama’s Twitter record.
Top modeling agency IMG has added transgender model Hari Nef to its A-list roster. The 22-year-old joins the likes of international superstars Gisele Bundchen and Candice Swanepoel, who have become the face of the agency. She shared the news on
$100,000. That’s the prison’s estimated cost of the sex change operation California inmate Michelle-Lael Norsworthy demanded and was scheduled to receive in July before a Thursday court order delayed the first ever prison-paid procedure of its kind in California. But even if he’s released on parole, the taxpayers could still have the privilege of picking up the tab under Medi-Cal, says one bay area legal director.
For news outlets that really care, the transgender ascendancy and the pronouns therefrom are a real minefield.
The Girl Scouts of America (GSA) is the latest organization to cave to pressure from the LGBTIQA lobby, adapting its policies to extend membership to boys who identify as girls.
Jane Orient, M.D., executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), observes to Breitbart News the ACP “is in a logical dilemma in advocating insurance coverage for treatment for transgender persons because insurers require a diagnostic code, and assigning a diagnostic code suggests the existence of pathology.”
The American College of Physicians (ACP), the largest group of internal medicine doctors in the country, has now parroted the LGBT supporters’s line, calling for civil marriage rights for same-sex couples and opposing conversion or reparative therapy for homosexuals.
Miley Cyrus released the fourth video in her “Backyard Sessions” on Saturday, enlisting Laura Jane Grace and Atom Willard of Against Me! for an acoustic rendition of the punk band’s “True Trans Soul Rebel.”
E! has released a one-minute teaser video of the upcoming two-part episode focused on Bruce Jenner and the Kardashians coming to grips with Jenner’s transitioning to a woman.
The Hawaii Legislature passed a bill that could make it a lot easier for transgender people to change their gender on their birth certificates, joining a growing number of states to make the change.
Rick Santorum was the target of a well-crafted gotcha question the media only create for Republican conservatives.
Hollywood trade publication Variety published its guide to “7 Names to Know in Transgender Hollywood” on Wednesday.
Public school officials in Kittery Point, Maine apologized to parents of students in kindergarten through third grade for failing to notify them before their children were exposed to a book about a transgendered child during a lesson on tolerance and acceptance. A parent of a first-grader at the school called school principal David Foster when her son came home asking questions about sexual identity.
Fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg posted and then deleted a photograph on her Instagram page Tuesday of Bruce Jenner’s head superimposed onto her body, modeling her signature wrap dress.
Wheaties boxes featuring Bruce Jenner following his 1976 Olympic triumph are being auctioned off on eBay just days after a highly anticipated interview with Diane Sawyer aired, in which he ended months of speculation by confirming he is transitioning to female.
With his Diane Sawyer special in the rearview mirror, Bruce Jenner’s journey to becoming a woman will be documented by E! as part of an eight-part series, the network confirmed Friday.
In an Interview with Diane Sawyer Friday night on ABC, Bruce Jenner ended months of speculation by confirming he is in the process of transitioning into a woman.
NBC used to stand for National Broadcasting Company, but given its proclivity for attacking traditional gender roles in youngsters, it may be more accurately described as the network for Neutered or Befuddled Children.
Laverne Cox, the transgender star of the Netflix drama Orange Is the New Black, was named on People’s 2015 list of the World’s Most Beautiful People.
Just days ahead of the premiere of his televised special with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, Bruce Jenner was allegedly photographed wearing a dress outside of his Southern California home this week. The former Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year and
In August 2013, Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 1266, titled the School Success and Opportunity Act by the bill’s author, then Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D) of San Francisco. This rosy title was never really used, as the legislation, amongst the
The Girl Scouts are concerned about falling membership and a declining number of adult volunteers, so a Girl Scout staffer in Salt Lake City cooked up the idea to start a troop headquartered in the area’s “gay pride center.”
Transgender actress Laverne Cox has decided to bare it all for Allure Magazine’s Nude Celebrity Portrait series.
Hollywood’s major studios warmed to the idea of demonstrating white lesbian, gay, and bisexual characters on film last year, but completely ignored the transgender community in 2014, according to GLAAD’s third annual Studio Responsibility Index.
President Barack Obama is calling for an end to psychiatric therapy treatments aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of gay, lesbian and transgender youth.
On Sunday night documentary maker Louis Theroux introduced British TV viewers to the rapidly growing American trend of “transitioning” so-called transgender children at the earliest possible age. The growing movement is not restricted to the US. The number of under
Walt Heyer offers a chilling autobiographical account of abuse and gender confusion, sexual reassignment surgery, a short reprieve from anxiety and eventually deep regret at his decision.