Earlier this year, I put a call out for help preparing my farm for spring. More than 20 people showed up to help build chicken tractors, put up fencing, flip beds and even sift worm castings. Across ...

I had my first T4T crush (trans for trans, a term that originated on Craigslist in the early 2000s) when I was 11 years old, at a sleep-away camp for trans and nonbinary kids. At the same camp the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Trump promised retribution in his second term. For our March+April issue, we spoke ...

As Mayela got off the bus, she saw Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers raiding the pupusería she worked at in Los Angeles. The undocumented transgender Salvadoran woman watched from behind a ...

If you teach college students for a long time (I’ve been at it for more than 40 years at more than one institution), you get to see young people go through powerful changes. After all, most are ...

If you’ve never done a handstand, let me paint a picture of what it can feel like at the beginning: There’s panic (or at least there was for me, someone who grew out of gymnastic potential in the ...

Sandy Ernest Allen Sandy Ernest Allen is an author, essayist and journalist whose work focuses on mental health and gender from a human rights perspective. Back when I lived in cities during my ...

I watch Drag Race. I wear floral prints. My husband and I have been married for a decade. I am, by most measures, a fairly typical effeminate gay man. Though I happen to be trans. Masculinity is ...

Stories of anti-trans vitriol dominate the media, which makes it easy to forget just how many folks out there give endless love and support to the trans people in their lives. Every day, hundreds of ...

The Washington Blade on April 4 spoke with Lee Blinder, founder and executive director of Trans Maryland. Trans Maryland, formerly Trans Healthcare MD, is what the organization’s mission statement ...

Since the beginning of 2023, 49 U.S. state legislatures have introduced over 500 anti-trans bills. While mainstream media increasingly cover violence and legislative attacks against trans people, many ...

Welcome to Love Transcends, a special project by Cosmopolitan that celebrates the resilience, wisdom, hope, and joy of the trans community as its members navigate romantic love. Through in-depth ...