About the show: Barack Obama made the first transgender political appointments that we know of recently–Amanda Simpson, appointed last week as senior technical adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security in the Commerce Department, and Dylan Orr, special assistant to Assistant Secretary of...

From the moment we’re born, our gender identity is no secret. You’re either a boy or a girl, gender organizes our world into pink or blue. As we grow up, most of us naturally fit into our gender roles. Girls wear dresses and play with dolls, for boys, it’s pants and trucks. But for...

From the moment we’re born, our gender identity is no secret. You’re either a boy or a girl, gender organizes our world into pink or blue. As we grow up, most of us naturally fit into our gender roles. Girls wear dresses and play with dolls, for boys, it’s pants and trucks. But for...

This 2010 calendar featuring transgender models in typically religious poses was the cause of much debate at this past summer’s Madrid Pride. Although seen as sacrilegious by some, still others are fascinated by its re-interpretation of the gender binary found in English translations of...

Conservative activists are pressing Republican senators to support an amendment that would ban federal funding for gender reassignment surgery in a public health insurance plan. The amendment to the health care overhaul may never gain traction, but some conservatives promote it with enthusiasm, according...

On Halloween 2006, Vandy Beth Glenn, unlike some of her costumed colleagues, came to work dressed in typical business attire. For that, the former editor with the Georgia General Assembly was fired, as her then-boss recently acknowledged in court documents. Weeks earlier Glenn Morrison had decided that...