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In June of last year, Nashville drag queen Veronika Electronika arrived at a studio space for what she was told was an interview on her views regarding the struggles faced by children in the trans community, and how the lives and mental health of LGBTQ+ people were being affected by the recent slew of bans and restrictions on gender-affirming medical and drag performances. Elektronika did not recognize her first interviewer, a woman she chatted with for several minutes before a man she did know entered the room.…

Doctor Who viewers are willing to accept a lot of things—fascist pepperpots, farting skinsuit aliens, children-kidnapping goblins with Christmas number 1 ambitions, the existence of travel in time and space in general. But some of them just couldn’t deal with a singular trans character appearing in recent episodes. To which, the BBC says: tough, you’ve gotta deal with it anyway.Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox ControllerIt was reported last month that the broadcaster received 144 complaints about the first of the three Doctor…

In a political landscape already fraught for the transgender community, right-wing media organizations have found a new way to bypass platform guidelines prohibiting hate speech, by producing documentaries advocacy groups are calling “propaganda” and promoting them with carefully edited trailers.  Last week, many users who logged onto X (formerly Twitter) were served a large advertisement for Detrans, a documentary created by the Prager University Foundation that claims to explore the “dangers of gender-affirming…

Three people who were interviewed in the anti-trans film What Is a Woman? say the filmmakers used deceptive recruiting tactics that contradicted the doc’s promise to be a “fearless” examination of the modern gender debate. The participants told NBC News that they felt they’d been “tricked” by producers who hid behind the facade of flattering and vague language. Dr. Marci Bowers, a California surgeon whose patients include trans women, provided the outlet with what she referred to as a “completely deceptive” email…

It shouldn’t be surprising that Elon Musk has weighed in on the social media spat between Megan Fox and Robby Starbuck over the conservative provocateur’s disputed allegations that the “Transformers” actor committed “child abuse” by forcing her three sons with Brian Austin Green to wear girl’s clothes. Musk has spent Pride Month promoting and “liking” various anti-LGBTQ messages, according to Insider, Them and TMZ. even though he has a transgender daughter who publicly disavowed her relationship with him last year. Among…

For a few precious hours last week, I almost believed that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — fresh off a glitchy presidential campaign announcement that made him the laughingstock of the Twittersphere — might have to slither away from the national political stage and head back to some swamp in his home state.But alas, that was never going to happen. As odious as DeSantis is, it has become increasingly clear that his culture-war antics, especially his anti-trans, anti-Black crusade to ban books, which recently ensnared Amanda…

A moral panic is sweeping though state legislatures in the U.S., an irrational feeling that harmless groups pose a threat to society and need to be stopped. The outbreak rides on an emotional and political package of rhetoric and laws that label some people as worthy of social and political support, and others—trans kids and adults—as deviants. There’s no hiding from the panic: so far this year, state lawmakers have introduced 543 bills in 49 states identified as anti-transgender legislation; another 32 bills aim to stop…

Castmembers from RuPaul’s Drag Race: All-Stars spoke out against legislation aimed at the LGBTQ community and responded to “threats against drag performers” in their acceptance speech for best competition series at the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards. “At this time it’s so important to hear queer and trans stories from queer and trans people, to meet the artists behind the artistry and see the human beings there, so we can have empathy for one another and halt these blatantly bigoted anti-queer,…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, April 7. I’m Kenya Romero, the audience engagement fellow writing from East Los Angeles. Bills that would restrict the rights of transgender people have moved through state houses across the country. These are part of the more than 450 bills restricting rights for members of the LGBTQ community just this legislative session, according to the ACLU.Last month, Georgia and Tennessee joined 11 other states in putting laws on the books that prevent…

Kid Rock posted a video of himself on Monday shooting up a stack of Bud Light cases amid backlash over the beer brand’s partnership with actor and transgender rights activist Dylan Mulvaney. Mulvaney, a comedian and musical theater actor based in Hollywood, has been sharing her gender-transition journey over the last year via the episodic TikTok series “Days of Girlhood.” To celebrate her 365th day of the series, Bud Light sent Mulvaney a can with her face on it. When Mulvaney shared a video on Saturday announcing the…