Trace Lysette is sharing her thoughts on whether cisgender actors should play trans roles. Over the weekend, the 42-year-old trans actress attended the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards where she was nominated for Best Lead Performance for her role in Monica. While walking the carpet, Trace weighed in on the debate about cis actors playing … Read more
Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Tumblr owner Automattic, is supposed to be on sabbatical. Instead, he’s arguing with Tumblr users over an individual content moderation decision, which has sparked communitywide outcry and accusations of transphobia. Over the last few days, the situation escalated to the point that Mullenweg has engaged with the user in question on … Read more
RuPaul’s Drag Race is currently in the midst of his 16th regular season! The drag queen competition series also has All Stars and international versions as well, bringing hundreds of drag performers to the masses and making them household names. While the series previously mainly only cast gay males impersonating females, there has since been … Read more
A paedophile butcher who abducted and abused a child for 27 hours may have his “excessive” sentence reduced amid claims it put “too much weight” on his transgender identity, a court has heard. Andrew Miller, 53, who also uses the name Amy George, was dressed as a woman when he offered the young girl a … Read more
Stand-up comic Dave Chappelle doubled down on jokes about trans people in his newly released comedy special, “The Dreamer.” The comedian’s decision to include such jokes in the comedy special comes after he previously faced severe backlash for his last Netflix show, “The Closer.” Dave Chappelle Opens His Show By Attacking Trans People MEGA Chappelle’s … Read more
A transgender girl recently won a popular Irish dancing competition in Dallas and the result has ignited a firestorm online, with petitions being launched to advocate for both sides on the controversial topic. The transgender girl, who was born a male, won the under-14 girls’ category at the Southern Region Oireachtas competition earlier this month, … Read more
For as much as Doctor Who’s first 60th anniversary special, “The Star Beast,” was a celebration of the old, it also brought plenty of new with it—including Heartstopper’s Yasmin Finney as Rose, Donna Noble’s trans teenage daughter. But for as important as Rose became to the episode, for showrunner Russell T. Davies, it was equally … Read more
A museum in the United Kingdom has identified the Roman emperor Elagabalus to be a transgender woman. The North Hertfordshire Museum in Hitchin, a town north of London, said that the decision was prompted by classical texts that allege the emperor once said, “call me not Lord, for I am a Lady.” The words were … Read more
Back in August, TIME traveled to Edinburgh to meet with Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf—the first Muslim politician ever elected to lead a Western democracy, as well as the first non-white and youngest Scottish leader—for a new cover story, in what was his first major interview with foreign media. At that time, Yousaf had been … Read more
Jonathan Van Ness got into an intense conversation about trans and intersex rights on a new episode of Dax Shepard’s podcast, and the encounter ended in tears. Van Ness, who identifies as nonbinary and trans, appeared on Armchair Expert in an episode that dropped earlier this week. When the conversation turned to trans rights — … Read more