SF News Protests Planned as Anti-Trans Women's Conference Comes to SF Hilton A group of TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) is having their second annual conference in San Francisco for some reason, and local trans activists are planning to protest at the host hotel.
SF News North Beach Restaurant American Bites Facing Backlash After Hosting Virulent Anti-Trans Event A Soleil Ho opinion piece in the Chronicle brought attention to an anti-trans dinner party at a North Beach restaurant, but now the restaurant itself is getting a barrage of bad press and one-star Yelp reviews for hosting the event.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's Own 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider Invited to White House for Transgender Day of Visibility Amy Schneider, the openly trans Oakland resident who made history earlier this year with her 40-game winning streak on Jeopardy!, made an appearance Thursday in the White House Press Briefing Room to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility.
SF News Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Man Denied Surgery by Catholic Hospital The Supreme Court upheld the claim of a trans man who was once a legislative aide to Assemblymember Phil Ting that he was unfairly denied surgery for being transgender.
SF News California May Become First State To Allow People To Identify As Non-Binary On State IDs California may make headlines again as Governor Jerry Brown is set to make a decision on a law that would allow Californians to change the gender on their state-issued identification to "X," meaning
SF News Chelsea Manning Addresses Crowd In Berkeley At The 'March Against White Supremacy' In further evidence that Chelsea Manning is now a resident of the Bay Area, she showed up as a surprise speaker at a Berkeley rally Saturday to address crowds of anti-fascist marchers and
SF News Harvard Rescinds 'Visiting Fellow' Honor For Chelsea Manning After CIA Protest Earlier this week, the Harvard Institute of Politics announced a list of Visiting Fellows who had been invited to the campus to speak during the 2017-2018 academic year, and among them were ousted
SF News Scenes From The Castro March Against Trump's Plans For Trans People In The Military Protesters turned out in droves in the Castro Wednesday evening to express resistance to President Trump's Twitter declaration that transgender people would no longer be able to serve in the US armed forces
SF News 'Emergency Protest' Planned In Castro Following Trump's Ban On Trans People In The Military Following this morning's tweet-announcement by the president of a ban on trans people serving in the military something that could effect over 2,000 active-duty troops an "emergency protest" has been announced in
SF News Chelsea Manning, Nancy Pelosi And Others React To Proposed Trans Military Ban President Trump's announcement via Twitter Wednesday morning that he planned to ban trans people from military service is already sending waves of anger through the LGBT community and has hopefully, finally, made Caitlyn
SF News Video: Chelsea Manning Gives First Post-Prison Interview We have yet to see Private Chelsea Manning speak publicly full-on as Chelsea Manning, in post-transition persona with her current voice since she was charged with aiding the enemy and imprisoned for most
SF News UC Berkeley Plans To Build All-Gender Locker Room The University of California had already become the first university system in the US to add gender-neutral restrooms to its campuses back in 2014. But Berkeley being Berkeley, the school is moving the
SF News Chelsea Manning Will Remain On Active Duty When She's Released From Prison Private Chelsea Elizabeth Manning will be released from Leavenworth Prison in Kansas on Wednesday, May 17. When she's finally free, the transgender soldier and leaker of national security secrets will remain an active
SF News Suspect In Berkeley Homicide Prefers The Pronoun 'They,' Spurring Debate In early January, 22-year-old Pablo Gomez Jr., a senior at UC Berkeley, is suspected of brutally stabbing 27-year-old Emile Inman at the home she shared with several roommates on the 2400 block of
Arts & Entertainment Caitlyn Jenner To Make Book Tour Stop At Castro Theatre In May Remember Caitlyn Jenner? The Trump-supporting trans woman who used to be an Olympic athlete and reality TV star and recently decided maybe Trump isn't such a hero because of his administration's decision to
SF News Apple, Uber, Google Speak Out Against Trump's Trans Rights Rollback; Facebook, Twitter So Far Silent Some big tech companies came out in support of trans rights and in opposition to the Trump Administration's latest attack on them, the directive issued Wednesday by the Departments of Justice and Education
SF News Pelosi, Newsom Respond To Trump Directive Reversing School Policy On Bathroom Use For Trans Students In an effort to pander to religious conservatives who desperately want to make America straight and cisgender again, President Trump's administration issued a directive late Wednesday, as they had been expected to do,
SF News First State-Funded Inmate Sex Reassignment Surgery Takes Place In San Francisco Thursday marked the first court-mandated sex reassignment surgery for an incarcerated person in the United States, and the procedure took place in San Francisco. As KRON 4 reports, 57-year-old convicted murderer Shiloh Heavenly
SF News Chelsea Manning To Get Gender Reassignment Surgery: 'I Hope This Sets A Precedent' After a battle with the US Army dating back to her 2013 imprisonment on espionage charges, Chelsea Manning (born Bradley Manning) has finally won permission to receive gender reassignment surgery. As CNN reports,
Arts & Entertainment Documentary Celebrates The 50th Anniversary Of The Compton's Cafeteria Riot 50 years ago next month, a group of pissed off trans women and hustlers who frequented Gene Compton's Cafeteria at the corner of Turk and Taylor Streets in the Tenderloin revolted against police
Arts & Entertainment Video: American Flag Burned At Trans March, Breitbart Predictably Freaks A couple of participants in Friday's Trans March in San Francisco chose to express their political defiance, and/or their disgust with the U.S. government, by burning an American flag and videotaping
Arts & Entertainment Video: Politicians Booed As Trans March (Un)Officially Kicks Off SF's Pride Weekend Start saying “Happy Pride”, people! The 2016 Trans March, a not-officially-part-of-SF Pride event that has been the unauthorized kickoff of Pride Weekend for a 13th consecutive year, stayed true to its defiant roots
Arts & Entertainment Living Trans In Mississippi Since the 1970s: A Firsthand Account Trans people have never had it easy. But they had it way less easy in rural Mississippi in the 1970s. Meet Jheri Jones, who transitioned to female in 1976, and is the subject
SF News Oregon Court Rules 'Nonbinary' A Legal Gender In Case Of Retired Army Vet In a ruling that is believed to be the first of its kind within the United States, PBS reports that an Oregon judge ruled on Friday that an individual can legally change their
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: The SF LGBT Center's Benefit Soiree This Saturday, April 9, the SF LGBT Center will be hosting its 14th annual Soiree fundraiser, this year with the theme The Imaginarium, and organized by drag queen hostess Juanita More. The event