transgender Bank card makes it easier for trans and non-binary people to display their true names Thom Dunn

books It Feels Good to Be Yourself: a sweet, simple picture book about gender identity Cory Doctorow

gender Great new site highlights people with non-binary gender identities Andrea James

Kids Documentary on Swedish kids growing up without rigid gender roles Andrea James

music New biography of electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos David Pescovitz

health Fast-tracked South Dakota bill will felonize doctors who offer gender-confirmation therapy to trans kids Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Coming soon to a city near you: HUMP, Dan Savage's amateur smut fest, banned from Facebook! Cory Doctorow

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alt-right That time far-right trolls pretended to be black feminists online Rob Beschizza

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Kids Karen Pence teaches at school that bans LGBTQ kids and staff: Report Xeni Jardin

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