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Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) is an American actress and LGBT advocate. [3] [4] [5] She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, [6] [7] and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. [8]
Portrayals of transgender people in mass media reflect societal attitudes about transgender identity, and have varied and evolved with public perception and understanding. Media representation, culture industry, and social marginalization all hint at popular culture standards and the applicability and significance to mass culture, even though ...
Transgender encompasses a wide variety of identities including, but not limited to, transsexual, genderqueer, bi-gender, third gender, cross-dresser, and drag king / queen." ^ GLAAD n.d. "An adjective to describe people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth" (¶ "Transgender").
A Utah resident’s “coming out as trans” video — with a heartwarming voiceover from her great-grandmother — has surpassed 1 million views.
1264139440. Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality is a 2021 nonfiction book by journalist and gender critical activist Helen Joyce that criticizes the transgender rights movement and transgender activism. It is published by Oneworld Publications, their fifth book in the Sunday Times bestseller list. [1][2] Reviews of the book ranged from positive ...
Theo Hendrie (editor) Essays and poetry from nonbinary people for nonbinary people. ISBN 1-0809680-3-2. [4] Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. 2011. Dean Spade. Nominated for a 2011 Lambda Literary Award. ISBN 0-89608-796-4.
The following is a timeline of transgender history.Transgender history dates back to the first recorded instances of transgender individuals in ancient civilizations. . However, the word transgenderism did not exist until 1965 when coined by psychiatrist John F. Oliven of Columbia University in his 1965 reference work Sexual Hygiene and Pathology; [1] the timeline includes events and ...
This article addresses the history of transgender people in the United States from prior to Western contact until the present. There are a few historical accounts of transgender people that have been present in the land now known as the United States at least since the early 1600s. Before Western contact, some Native American tribes had third ...