Transgender swimmer finishes last in final college race

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More than 10,000 miles from his childhood hometown in Ukraine, San Francisco Bay Area gay Ukrainian Leonid "Leo" Volobrynskyy is horrified watching Russia destroy the country where his family and close friends still live."It was a nightmare since the day started," said Volobrynskyy about Russia's invasion of Ukraine that began February 23.Volobrynskyy, 40, was born and raised in a Jewish-Russian-Ukrainian home in Odesa, the country's third largest city, until he was 20 years old, he told the Bay Area Reporter. That was when he and his father joined his mother in the United States as a part of a reunification program in 2002.

Across the country transgender youth and their parents are coming under attack by Republican elected officials. Even in California, anti-LGBTQ groups continue to rail against legislative attempts to bolster the rights of such children and their families.Missing from the debates in Sacramento has been the voice of a state legislator whose child is transgender or nonbinary.

Twitter. Foster's account is now deleted.He then doubled-down in an statement sent to the Mississippi Free Press explaining why he was declining an interview request."I said what I said," he told the outlet.

approved by the Arizona House last week and had previously been OK’d by the Senate. Meanwhile, Stitt signed an anti-trans sports bill into law, following its final approval by legislators last week.“Today I signed S.B. 1138 and S.B.

Piers Morgan, who has been campaigning against transgender people competing in women's sport for years, took to Twitter in celebration."Finally, a ray of common sense shines up from the virtue-signalling insanity," he wrote jubilantly in view of almost eight million followers.If she had taken part, 21-year-old Emily would have been up against some formidable competition, including five-times Olympic champion Laura Kenny.However it is believed that those who were assigned male at birth face physical advantages against those who were born female, including levels of the hormone testosterone.Although the hormone is present in both males and females, it is men who have significantly higher amounts of it - and the substance, which promotes the building of muscle, is one of the factors in men having an athletic advantage.The Union Cycliste Internationale requires their contestants to have had testosterone levels that are below five nanomoles per litre for at least a year prior to competing.However the association has confirmed that Emily does not meet the criteria and British Cycling subsequently issued a statement to say so.It read: "We have now been informed by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) that under their current guidelines Emily is not eligible to participate in this event."Piers had earlier hit out over the victory of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in the 500-yard freestyle swimming contest in the USA's NCAA Championships, deeming it "unfair".World Athletics President Lord Sebastian Coe has taken the same stance as Piers, arguing in his professional capacity that decisions to allow transgender athletes and sportspeople to compete is placing the "integrity" of women's sport under threat.He has insisted that

It's Women's History Month and the time of year that state lawmakers choose a woman in their district to honor. On Sunday, March 27, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), right, recognized Jupiter Peraza, left, a transgender woman who is the director of social justice and empowerment initiatives at the Transgender District, as his Senate District 11 Woman of the Year.

Last month, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced Senate Bill 293, the TGI Inclusive Care Act. This bill will require that California health care providers and staff receive crucial training in transgender, gender-nonconforming, and intersex (TGI) cultural humility, in order to provide inclusive care to these communities.

Pride parades are banned in Moscow, but that hasn’t stopped leaders in the Russian Orthodox Church from blaming them for the invasion of Ukraine.

PFLAG National, the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents, families and allies, announced Wednesday its partnership with Have A Gay Day, a non-profit LGBTQ+ organization based in Dayton, Ohio, on a nationwide digital billboard campaign.

“I just felt so awful for my friend, Chris. And it was sickening.

Boris Johnson allegedly made a joke at the expense of the transgender community hours before the first-ever UK MP came out as trans.

“Umbrella Academy” character Vanya Hargreeves is going through their own transformation!The 35-year-old’s onscreen superhero will come out as transgender in season three of the Netflix series. Page announced the news on Twitter alongside a snapshot of himself in costume.Netflix retweeted his post, writing: “Welcome to the family, Viktor — we’re so happy you’re here!”“Umbrella Academy” is based on the Dark Horse comic book by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerald Way.The series follows a family of adopted siblings who moonlight as superheroes who reunite to figure out who killed their father while on the brink of an apocalypse. Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H.

came out as transgender in a statement on Twitter.“I’m trans. Or to be more accurate, I want to be,” wrote Wallis. “I’ve been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and I’ve felt this way since I was a very young child.

Brittney Griner in Russia over fears she would become a “political pawn.”Leslie, a four-time Olympic gold medalist who played for the Los Angeles Sparks, made the comments in a recent episode of the I Am Athlete podcast.“What we were told was to not make a big fuss about it so that they could not use her as a pawn, so to speak, in this situation and war,” Leslie said in the episode that aired Monday.Griner is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and plays for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury. She was arrested in February at a Moscow airport.

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In the upcoming third season of The Umbrella Academy, Elliot Page’s character will come out as transgender.Page tweeted the news, saying, “Meet Viktor Hargreeves.”Meet Viktor Hargreeves ☂️@UmbrellaAcad pic.twitter.com/ZraQNBhfTb— Elliot Page (@TheElliotPage) March 29, 2022Netflix tweeted in response, “Welcome to the family, Viktor — we’re so happy you’re here.” Welcome to the family, Viktor — we’re so happy you’re here ❤️ https://t.co/hQwD4Vvlkd— Netflix (@netflix) March 29, 2022Soon after, The Umbrella Academy’s official account tweeted, “WE LOVE YOU VIKTOR.”

To mark Transgender Visibility Day this March 31, all libraries in Cork County are setting up a phone line to help Transgender and gender diverse individuals register their preferred names and pronouns on their membership. Anyone who is waiting to receive or has already received a Gender Recognition Certificate will be able to access the […]

Elliot Page has announced that his character on the beloved television series, The Umbrella Academy will also come out as Transgender.  Meet Viktor Hargreeves ☂️@UmbrellaAcad pic.twitter.com/ZraQNBhfTb — Elliot Page (@TheElliotPage) March 29, 2022   Viktor Hargreeves will make his debut this summer when season three releases on Netflix on June 22.  The Umbrella Academy is […]

10,300 hate crimes in the U.S. involve a firearm.

A 19-year-old transgender woman has been found murdered at her home alongside her father in Cherokee County, Georgia.

Elliot Page has confirmed that his character on The Umbrella Academy will come out as transgender during its third season.

Gay and transgender rights are going backwards in parts of the world, Britain’s first special envoy on LGBTQ+ Rights has warned, as Hungary implements an anti-gay law and equality reforms in Singapore and Bermuda are blocked.

Conservative MP Jamie Wallis has come out as transgender and shared their experiences of rape and blackmail.

Trafford’s annual Pride celebration of LGBTQ+ arts and culture is coming back for a third year this May. Pride in Trafford will return to Waterside Arts Theatre in Sale for a five-day festival from May 17-21.

Newsweek he expects the program to be similar to other guaranteed income pilot programs launched in other U.S. cities.

tweeted a new image from “The Umbrella Academy” Season 3 on Tuesday introducing fans to Viktor Hargreeves, with Netflix’s Twitter following up with the message, “Welcome to the family Viktor, we’re so happy you’re here.”Page’s character will come out as transgender in Season 3 of the series and will henceforth be known as Viktor Hargreeves using he/him/his pronouns, reflecting the actor’s transition in real life.Page, who publicly came out as transgender in 2020, is releasing a memoir titled “Pageboy” in 2023.Viktor is a central character in the hit Netflix series, which follows a group of children with supernatural powers who were mentored by an eccentric billionaire named Reginald Hargreeves.After a detour to 1963 in Season 2, the “Umbrella Academy” kids return back to their own timeline in Season 3 only to realize the timeline had been altered and they must square off against the Sparrow Academy.Smart, stylish and about as warm as a sea of icebergs, the Sparrows immediately clash with the Umbrellas in a violent face-off that turns out to be the least of everyone’s concerns. Navigating challenges, losses and surprises of their own – and dealing with an unidentified destructive entity wreaking havoc in the Universe (something they may have caused) —  now all they need to do is convince Dad’s new and possibly better family to help them put right what their arrival made wrong.

Season three of “The Umbrella Academy” is nearly here and Elliot Page’s character has a meaningful storyline.

the vacancy left by retiring Judge Benjamin Davidian, reports The Press Democrat. She follows in the path of Alameda Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski, who became the first openly transgender judge in the state after she was elected to her current position in 2010. Kolakowski later praised Murdyk’s appointment on Twitter.“Andi Mudryk is a great appointment and will be a wonderful judge,” Kolakowski tweeted.

Ahead of the 2022 International Transgender Day of Visibility, Thursday, March 31, we spoke with Olivia Hunt of the National Center for Transgender Equality, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group.Hunt, who joined the organization last April and became its policy director in February, helped to clarify, for those who may be unaware, what “TDOV” is, and what the LGBTQ community and its allies can do to celebrate the day and lift up the transgender community during these times of, as she calls it, “unprecedented attack.”Excerpts from the interview, edited for clarity, follow. METRO WEEKLY: What is Transgender Day of Visibility?OLIVIA HUNT: Trans people’s lives are usually portrayed in a series of negatives.

Elliot Page’s character Vanya Hargreeves will come out as transgender in the upcoming third season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, and will be known as Viktor Hargreeves, Page revealed Tuesday on Twitter.

There’s a huge update about Elliot Page‘s character!

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterElliot Page’s “The Umbrella Academy” character will come out as transgender in Season 3 of the Netflix series, the actor said Tuesday.Previously the female-presenting Vanya Hargreeves in Seasons 1 and 2, Page’s character will transition in the upcoming third season — which launches June 22 — and from now on be known as Viktor Hargreeves and use he/him/his pronouns.Page announced the news himself, tweeting a first-look photo of Viktor Tuesday along with the caption: “Meet Viktor Hargreeves.”Netflix shared the tweet, adding: “Welcome to the family, Viktor — we’re so happy you’re here.”Earlier this month, Netflix revealed a teaser for “The Umbrella Academy” Season 3, with Page’s character still being referred to as Vanya at the time. Per Netflix, after going back in time to 1963 and saving the world at the end of “The Umbrella Academy” Season 2, the new season will pick up where the Hargreeves siblings left off.

From left: Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Chad West, Councilman Adam Bazaldua, Resource Center CEO Cece Cox and Councilman Omar Narvaez (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)

What Lingers Long before her diagnosis, my reliably cheerful friend turned sour. Even our most mundane conversations became contentious. Pessimism and frustration darkened her world.

Fox News host Sean Hannity let out what appeared to be a Freudian slip during his Monday evening broadcast, introducing Kellyanne Conway as “Kellyanne Trump.”The gaffe might have gone unnoticed had it not been for the fact that just minutes earlier, Hannity and his guest, former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, were spreading unfounded rumors that President Biden is “cognitively challenged.”“I don’t even think he knows that today’s Monday,” Hannity said, using an unscripted moment from Biden’s Poland speech denouncing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing siege of Ukraine as evidence. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden said.

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Oscar-nominated film career to coming out as transgender whilst in the public eye.Flatiron Books announced on 17 February that ‘Pageboy’ will be published next year."The memoir will delve into Page's relationship with his body, his experiences as one of the most famous trans people in the world, and will cover mental health, assault, love, relationships, sex, and the cesspool that Hollywood can be,”according to Flatiron.The 34-year-old Page is known for such films as ‘Juno’ and ‘Inception.’ He currently stars in the Netflix series ‘The Umbrella Academy.’A post shared by @elliotpagePage enjoyed a successful career prior to his transition, receiving an Oscar nomination for his turn as the eponymous pregnant teen in cult film ‘Juno’.Coming out as transgender in 2020 the actor wrote on his Twitter and Instagram accounts, “Hi friends, I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot.“I feel lucky to be writing this. To be here.

Greg Abbott claims to care about the safety and well-being of transgender minors, but his recent policy of classifying gender-affirming care as "child abuse" only causes more suffering to some of Texas' most vulnerable children. This policy is not only harmful, but is based in ignorance and disregards medical standards.

Angela Rayner said “debate” over transgender rights needs to be taken “away from commentators” as it “debases the serious issues” at hand.

Tim Gabriel is joining The CW’s superhero series Stargirl as the Green Lantern’s son Todd Rice who identifies as gay in the comics.

WAGA she was uninjured.“A native of Illinois, Kathryn was most recently living with her family in Canton, Georgia. Kathryn was a Minecraft and UberSpire enthusiast, an advocate for trans rights, had a bright smile, enjoyed changing up her hairstyles, and attentive to world events,” Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents reported.“She enjoyed hiking and sightseeing.

2021 ceremony which left us snoozing, this year had plenty of excitement, glamour, and gayness to keep us interested. Those moments also extend far beyond a now-infamous slap between two of Hollywood’s biggest stars. In case you missed it, have a look at a recap of Oscar 2022’s gayest moments to fill us with joy, pride, or that made us just laugh out loud… all told in convenient GIF form.DeBose became the first out-queer woman of color to pick up the Best Supporting Actress award.

press release from a group of school board candidates opposed to the training called it yet another example of schools disregarding parental rights by instructing teachers to withhold information from parents about “major developments” in their children’s school life.“By indicating that information about your child is ‘knowledge that must be earned,’ [the school district] is setting a dangerous precedent. If identity questions for your child can be hidden from you, is diet, curriculum, healthcare, inappropriate relationships, mental health concerns, etc.

LOS ANGELES — As Anaelia Ovalle stood outside a restaurant here deciding whether to go in, the host extended a friendly greeting: “Hello, sir.” But the phrase didn’t feel all that welcoming to Ovalle, 27, who identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronouns “they” and “them.” Ovalle has an androgynous appearance. And as they asked for a menu, they could see the wheels turning in the host’s head, registering the pitch of their voice and noticing details like their eyeliner and painted nails.

Phil Collins performed his farewell show at London's O2 Arena on Saturday (March 26) with a hoard of celebrities and fans packed into the large venue.One of those looking on in awe, was his daughter, Emily In Paris star Lily Collins who was supporting her father as well as her brother, Nic, who plays the drums for the rock band.Nic joined the group after Phil's health condition left being unable to hold a drum stick after undergoing surgery on a dislocated vertebrae in his neck.Now aged 71, the Chiswick-born star has bowed out of the music business after he was left unable to walk following a back operation, resulting in him having to use a chair during performances.Reflecting on the concert, Lily took to social media sharing a string of behind-the-scenes snaps taken from the side of the stage, as well as her VIP seat.She said: "Tonight marks the end of an era. To have witnessed this last show was truly the memory of a lifetime and an event I shall hold in my heart forever."Endlessly grateful doesn’t begin to do it justice.