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Pantene’s New Super Bowl Ads Remind Us That Dads Play a Key Role in Their Daughters’ Development
The first of 2016’s Super Bowl ads have begun to roll out a few days ahead of the big game on Sunday – including a set of Pantene ads featuring NFL stars DeAngelo Williams, Benjamin Watson and Jason Witten styling their young daughters’ hair.
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A Trans Woman Shares The Hardest Thing About Her Sex Life
PHOTO: COURTESY OF MELINA VARELA. Television personality, model, actress, wife, and trans woman: Carmen Carrera is juggling many roles, and she’s doing it in the spotlight. Carrera first captured national attention on VH1 reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race, which she joined when she identified and presented as a man; she then became the first openly trans person to compete on the show. She’s since covered the magazine Candy with Janet Mock and Laverne Cox, appeared alongside Meryl Streep in Ricki a
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This Fairy Tale With A Transgender Princess Is Utterly Charming
IMAGES: COURTESY OF GREG MCGOON. In the expanding conversation around transgender issues, kids are sometimes left out — a fact that children’s author Greg McGoon seeks to help change with his groundbreaking new book, The Royal Heart. It’s the first in a series of fairy tales that will celebrate LGBT characters, as well as the first classically styled fairy tale about a trans kid. Related: 30 Photos Of Unretouched Butts, In Case You Forgot What They Really Look Like “I don’t want this book to be
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Illinois School District Must Give Locker Room Access to Transgender Student, U.S. Says
“All students deserve the opportunity to participate equally in school programs and activities — this is a basic civil right.” The U.S. Department of Education is threatening sanctions against an Illinois school district that it says violated anti-discrimination laws when it refused to allow a female transgender student to use the girls’ locker room. Officials say there was a "a preponderance of evidence” that Township High School District 211, which is based in Palatine, Illinois, failed to c
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Lawsuit Seeks 3rd Option Besides Male, Female on US Passport
Lambda Legal announced the lawsuit Monday on behalf of Dana Zzyym (pronounced Zimm) of Fort Collins, Colorado, who was born with ambiguous sex characteristics — referred to as intersex. It names Secretary of State John Kerry as a defendant and claims that requiring people to check a box marked either “M” or “F” is discriminatory and asks people like Zzyym to lie. Countries including Australia, New Zealand and Nepal allow people to have their gender marked as “X” or “other” rather than male or
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Jennifer Lawrence and the Psychological Dilemma of the Gender Wage Gap
Women are socially conditioned to skimp on their wage negotiations for fear of seeming ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled,’ a dilemma which Jennifer Lawrence summed up well in an widely-circulated article for Lena Dunham’s newsletter, “Lenny.” Psychologists dish on how to deal with this. Five-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence, Academy Award-winner and arguably the most bankable young actress in Hollywood, both earned just 7 percent. The star-studded cast of American Hustle.
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Students Protest Transgender Teen’s Use of Girls’ Locker Room: What Are Her Rights?
Caitlyn Jenner and other transgender celebrities like Laverne Cox, Candis Cayne, and Chaz Bono have received a large show of public support. But Lila Perry’s situation is not uncommon for transgender people who aren’t in the spotlight. (Photo: AP/Robert Cohen) A transgender teen in Missouri is at the center of a heated debate about her right to change in her high school’s girls’ locker room. Nearly 200 students walked out of Hillsboro High School on Monday in a protest that lasted two hours.
