Tag: Transgender

The long awaited sequel to the hit Zoolander is planned for release in February 2016. However, the release of the film’s trailer last week was met with disdain and has been slammed for poor taste. The main characters, Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) have a disturbing interaction with a new androgynous model named “All.” The character is played by Benedict Cumberpatch, appearing to be a plastic, goofy representative of the transgender community. His character is asked by Zoolander...

Statistics: about 81 transgender people were beaten and murdered around the world this year. This is the number of the victims whose deaths were reported. But there are some deaths that remained unreported. Today it is the 16th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. The first remembrance event was organized by Gwendolyn Ann Smith in Allston, Massachusetts to commemorate a trans woman of color, Rita Hester, who was killed in 1998. Every year the number of trans people murders grows extremely rapid worldwide. People need...

Zoolander was released in 2001, and starred Ben Stiller as a retiring high fashion model, ousted by the up and coming rising star.  The movie was a box-office success, and received mostly good reviews.  Fast forward to 2015, and we await the February 2016 release of the sequel, 2oolander, again starring Stiller and his costar Owen Wilson.  Another satirical comedy, Zoo 2 has elements which focus on the current trend of androgyny in high-fashion. Cast as a gender fluid top...

The Department for Veterans Affairs cared for transgender veterans and opened the clinic for them, that became the first one for the US. Hormone therapy and specialized mental health care will be provided in this clinic for transgender ex-service members. But in accordance with the law, Pentagon bans transgender people to openly serve in the armed forces. But the attempts to call for an end to this ban were made by the vice-president Joe Biden who claimed that “All Americans that are qualified...

In the latest in a long line of prison authorities punishing transgender women by forcing them to serve jail terms in all male prisons, Tara Hudson of Bath has been sent to Bristol Prison for six years. metro.co.uk Hudson has been living as a woman full time for six years, but because she doesn't have a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC), the judge has ruled in line with current policy that she must serve her jail sentence in an all-male prison. dailymail.co.uk It's long...

Sona Avedian is a 33 year old transgender woman who came to terms with her gender identity three years ago. She confessed that she identified herself as a girl since an early age but hid it until recently. In 2012 Sona decided that she didn’t want to live a lie anymore, the heaviness of not being able to be who she was became too overwhelming. So she told her friends and family about it and decided to follow surgery and...

Alexis Arquette comes from a famous family of Hollywood actors including siblings Patricia and David. As a young actor, she often appeared in androgynous roles, and later went on to front mainly indie and low budget films. Her acting career has been representative of her own personal journey, as she continued to play ambivalent characters and drag queens. She later transitioned, filming a documentary in 2007 called 'Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother'. liputan6.com Known for her uncompromising views on Hollywood, and...

Oscar winning actor Eddie Redmayne played the role of 20th-century transgender icon Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl and that changed his perspective towards people who transition from a gender to another. begeek.fr In 2014, Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his acting in The Theory of Everything, a movie that is depicting the life of famous physicist Stephen Hawking from an early age. Eddie’s performance was touching indeed, and those...

At 18 Jamie Raines started taking testosterone to transition from female to male and for 3 whole years he has been taking selfies to monitor the transformation. expressen.se Initially he wanted to do it for just one year, but the fact that he didn’t grow any facial hair in that first year made him go on with documenting the process of transformation. “Some people get loads of facial hair within the first six months, and some people never get it,” he...

Her name was Keisha Jenkins and she was a gorgeous 22 years old transgender woman from south Philadelphia. Unfortunately, everything reached to an end for her, when she was deadly shot on Tuesday by 5 or 6 men, at around 2:30 AM. Police responded to a call saying that a robbery seemed to have taken place and that shootings were heard. pennlive.com Reaching the location, they discovered the body of a young female, lying near a children playground. Witnesses said that...

Nowadays, you can’t say Matrix, without instantly having the name Wachowski popping in your head. Indeed, Lana and Andy Wachowski got a taste of future fame with their Matrix trilogy, but their first breakthrough was the 1996 thriller Bound. Most likely people know everything there is to know about the movie Matrix, but something that not everybody knows is that it was on this movie’s set where former Lawrence “Larry” Wachowski decided to come out regarding his true identity,...

Are you ready for watching top 10 transgender movies of all times? These movies will reveal the secrets of transgender lives and fortunes. About Ray (2015) This great, new movie stars Elle Fanning as a boy “born in a girl’s body”, as he explains it to his half siblings, the children his dad (Tate Donovan) had after leaving his wife (Naomi Watts) and “daughter”. Now that Ray (Ramona) wants to transition, she needs both her parents’ legal consent. This is a...

Yes, this actually happened and the said event took place in Orlando International Airport, where Shadi Petovski, a writer working for an entertainment company located in L.A., was searched and detained, just enough to cause her to lose the flight. The reason for this action undertaken by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), was in fact “an anomaly”, like Shadi Petovski herself put it on her Tweet account. It later turned out that the anomaly in question was the nature-given...

Hi, I am Samantha! I am 16 years old, I am from USA and my former name was Samuel. I want to share my story to the world, because I want to help people who are experiencing the same situation I am in. I have been struggling my entire life with a problem that no one that I knew of have had. Ever since I was a little boy I liked playing with dolls and dressing up in my...