Portal:Transgender

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 media depictions represent only a minuscule spectrum of the transgender group, which essentially conveys that those that are shown are the only interpretations and ideas society has of them. However, in 2014, the United States reached a "transgender tipping point", according to Time. At this time, the media visibility of transgender people reached a level higher than seen before. Since then, the number of transgender portrayals across TV platforms has stayed elevated. Research has found that viewing multiple transgender TV characters and stories improves viewers' attitudes toward transgender people and related policies.

Norrie, also known by the pseudonym Norrie May-Welby, is a Scottish-Australian transgender person who pursued the legal status of being neither a man nor a woman, between 2010 and 2014. The High Court of Australia ruled in April 2014 that it was in the power of the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages to record in the register that the sex of Norrie was 'non-specific'.

• ... that the 1974 conference Transvestism and Transsexualism in Modern Society in Leeds became an early platform for the emergence of terms such as "gender alignment" and "trans.people"?
• ... that The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes discusses the history of transgender man Ewan Forbes and his 1968 legal case to inherit his family's baronetcy that was silenced from public records?
• ... that, among migrants, transgender asylum seekers are more likely to be subjected to physical and mental abuse?
• ... that when Sarah Jane Baker was released after 30 years, she was the United Kingdom's longest serving transgender prisoner?
• ... that Northwest High School required transgender staff members of the student newspaper to use deadnames in bylines?
• ... that Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, said that Ukrainians care less about her being transgender than Americans do?

• 2 – Dee Palmer (1937), English musician
• 2 – Sylvia Rivera (1951–2002), American transgender rights activist
• 9 – Rebecca Sugar (1987), American non-binary director, animator, musician and screenwriter
• 10 – Angel Haze (1991), American rapper and singer
• 12 – Hailie Sahar (1988), American actress
• 13 – Carla Antonelli (1959), Canarian-Spanish actress and legislator
• 20 – Andreas Krieger (1966), German athlete
• 28 – Alexis Arquette (1969), American actress

• ... that on June 15th, 2020, the United States Supreme Court decided in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity?
• ... that Tessa Ganserer is the first openly transgender person to serve in a German parliament?
• ... that after law school, Chase Strangio, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a trans man, worked as a public defender for Dean Spade, the first openly trans law professor in the US?

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.