I felt proud at how far I’d come, and how I’d got there.

I had my first T4T crush (trans for trans, a term that originated on Craigslist in the early 2000s) when I was 11 years old, at a sleep-away camp for trans and nonbinary kids. At the same camp the ...

As Mayela got off the bus, she saw Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers raiding the pupusería she worked at in Los Angeles. The undocumented transgender Salvadoran woman watched from behind a ...

The following is an excerpt from “Trans & Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences,” edited by Alex Iantaffi and produced by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. There is the narrative that as ...

There is so much in the media these days about families raising transgender kids. Much of it comes from a place of hate, discrimination, and misinformation. But even when the subject of raising ...

I remember the first moment when I felt it, the sensation that “A baby will make me more beautiful, more shiny.” I was a 10-year-old sitting in church, an old Atlanta AME Zion one to be exact, and I ...

A queen, demimondaine, and better known as 'Your Lovable Trans Auntie', Marie-Adélina de la Ferrière is the Community Editor at equalpride, publisher of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, Plus, and ...

If you teach college students for a long time (I’ve been at it for more than 40 years at more than one institution), you get to see young people go through powerful changes. After all, most are ...

My life pre-transition was defined by deep depression. A profound emptiness, wrongness and passive suicidality suffused every day. I saw therapists. I saw psychiatrists. I took anti-depressants. I ...

Sandy Ernest Allen Sandy Ernest Allen is an author, essayist and journalist whose work focuses on mental health and gender from a human rights perspective. Back when I lived in cities during my ...