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Leelah Alcorn Alcorn in 2014 Born (1997-11-15) November 15, 1997 Kings Mills, Ohio, U.S. Died December 28, 2014 (2014-12-28) (aged 17) Warren County, Ohio, U.S. Cause of death Suicide by vehicular impact Leelah Alcorn (November 15, 1997 – December 28, 2014) was an American transgender girl whose suicide attracted international attention; she had posted a suicide note to her Tumblr blog about ...
Transgender women (often shorterned to trans women) are women who were assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity and may experience gender dysphoria (distress brought upon by the discrepancy between a person's gender identity and their sex assigned at birth). [1] Gender dysphoria may be treated with gender-affirming care ...
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]
e. TERF (/ tɜːrf /) is an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist. First recorded in 2008, the term TERF was originally used to distinguish transgender -inclusive feminists from a group of radical feminists who reject the position that trans women are women, reject the inclusion of trans women in women's spaces, and oppose transgender ...
Janet Mock (born March 10, 1983) [3] is an American writer, television producer, and transgender rights activist. Her debut book, the memoir Redefining Realness, became a New York Times bestseller. She is a contributing editor for Marie Claire and a former staff editor of People magazine's website. [4][5][6][7]
Makoto Ariga. Wandering Son. January 20, 2011. Makoto, known as Mako for short, was assigned male at birth like Shuichi, expressing a desire to be a straight trans woman primarily due to her love of men and crossdressing like Shuichi. [7][8] She dreams of entering into a relationship with a cool adult man.
When she was only 12, her blog was noticed by former Tumblr CEO David Karp and she spoke at Tumblr's headquarters about her blog and living with cerebral palsy. In 2015, when Philip was 14, she came out as gender-fluid , and had identified as gender nonconforming / non-binary for several years.
Gigi Loren Lazzarato Getty, [ 1 ] known professionally as Gigi Gorgeous Getty, [ 2 ] is a Canadian YouTuber, socialite, actress, and model. In 2008, Lazzarato began uploading video blogs onto streaming platform YouTube. [ 3 ] Her videos achieved popularity and established an online following. During the following years, Lazzarato uploaded ...