U.S. Space Force Colonel Bree Fram, who was forced into retirement simply for being transgender, has announced she is running for Congress in Northern Virginia. She also has two kids, and has spoken of how she is motivated by the need to make a better world for all children.
The Trump administration has proposed two new rules that would effectively ban gender-affirming care for all transgender youth, even in states where such care is legal. Here’s what you can do to try and stop them.
Today marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we honor the lives of those who died because of anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. I wish all of my transgender friends and readers love and support on this day of mourning.
Out just in time for Trans Awareness Week, but bound to be a long-treasured resource, is an insightful, powerful, and necessary anthology that brings together essays, interviews, and roundtable discussions by and with 18 trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive birthing people, who share their experiences with conception, pregnancy, fertility treatment, birth, loss, early parenthood, and more.
Rebecca Heineman, the first U.S. national video game champion, a pioneering game developer and entrepreneur, a transgender woman, and a mother and grandmother, died from cancer Monday at the age of 62.
Representation matters—so for the start of Transgender Awareness Week (and all year long), check out these terrific new picture and middle grade books from 2025 with trans protagonists. They include realistic fiction, biographies, and stories with a touch of magic—one of which is a finalist for the prestigious National Book Award!
Today is Transgender Parent Day, so here’s to the trans parents of today and tomorrow—and of the past, on whose shoulders they stand. Please enjoy this profile of Billy Tipton (1914-1989), a jazz bandleader, father of three sons, and a trans man.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender youth. It’s an awful outcome that reveals the hypocrisy of conservatives’ talk about “parental rights”—but trans rights advocates are vowing to keep fighting.
U.S. Space Force Colonel Bree Fram, a decorated officer with more than 20 years of service, is being kicked out of the military simply for being trans. She’s also a parent, and has spoken about the negative impact of the administration’s anti-trans policy on her family.
I’m delighted to have interviewed GLAAD Media Award-winning journalist Erin Reed for a piece at LGBTQ Nation. Reed, who has a 9-year-old son, spoke with me about motherhood, parenting with spouse and Montana State Rep. Zooey Zephyr, being a trans parent, finding community, building bridges, and more.
