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Transgender day camp to include 4-year-olds

"I'm okay being a man who has a uterus and who has the capacity and capability of carrying a baby,” Trystan Reese said.

From midnight until 3 a.m., volunteers distribute food, condoms and other resources to homeless and transgender-identifying people on Santa Monica Blvd.

Brooke Guinan called the opportunity "an amazing honor."

​Clair Farley, a prominent trans writer and activist, is the director of economic development at the San Francisco LGBT Center. Her experience transitioning into a woman was featured in the award-winning documentary film “Red Without Blue.” For most of the past decade, Farley has been focused on increasing economic opportunity for LGBTQ people, who often face barriers and discrimination in the job market and when attempting to access social services. Last year, she spearheaded the center’s Hire Trans Campaign, which featured people from across the gender spectrum, to increase trans visibility in the workplace.

Two service academy cadets will not become officers because of a wrinkle in the Pentagon’s transgender policy its chief author says he didn’t foresee.

Tomoya Hosoda, a councilman in a Tokyo suburb, ran for office to help younger generations accept gender fluidity in a country where obstacles to it persist.

For decades belonging to a religion and being anything but heterosexual was stigmatized in Communist-ruled, macho Cuba, making the Mass held by three transgender pastors in the western Cuban city of Matanzas all the more groundbreaking.

Rachel Clary, a human resource assistant at Oklahoma State University, first came out as transgender in September 2014.

Gabe López, a fourth grader in Arizona, worried about telling his mom he was transgender because he thought she liked him as a girl. But since he told her, the two still have fun as mother and son.

Owens: It's about time we gave proper respect to a segment of the community who have fought for us since the very beginning.

The musician opened up about her identity in a candid new interview.

I figured people like me were not supposed to be in love or marry. I started to hate love stories and weddings.

This artist is on a mission to capture individuals’ internal identities, and encourage dialogue and empathy along the way.

It is the first government agency in India to open its doors to transgenders since a landmark 2014 Supreme Court ruling that recognized the country’s two million transgenders as the third gender

SeniorAdvice.com, one of the nation's top senior housing referral services, released an article on the challenges and progress of the aging transgender community.  The company recognizes that the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) senior community is currently a very important part of the American population, and that the struggle for acceptance and safety among the transgender community has finally reached the national conversation.

Llyr grew up as a farmer's son in rural mid-Wales but is now living as a girl, aged 16.

Says Cooks, the first transgender person to chair a city commission in Philly, on her new role: It's “complicated, but good complicated.”

It’s a Thursday night on North Hutchinson Street, a few blocks from a Save-A-Lot and Kicks USA, where kids are laughing and fooling around outside on an unusually warm night. The neighborhood, a mix of shopping plazas and burnt out buildings, shows signs of decay along with promising new commerce. Two cats streak down the street, one dodges under a car and another climbs a fence. A few men sit on a nearby porch drinking from paper bags. A couple mingles close in the shadows of a streetlight, their faces obscured after dark.

As a man who was born female, he says more could be done at the local level simply by showing a willingness to understand the transgender community.

On Thursday, the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus announced it was re-launching the Transgender Equality Task Force to advance and push back against the erosion of transgender rights.