Transgender

Schuyler Bailar was a star recruit for the women's swimming team at Harvard University, a tough competitor with a shot at winning titles. But Bailar is opting to forgo such honors to join the men's team instead, competing as one of the first openly transgender swimmers in the NCAA.

"Growing Up Trans" explores the transgender phenomenon as younger people than ever (and their parents) now experience it: a frontier of possibilities and unknowns, and a minefield of high-stakes choices for these youngsters as they also navigate the changes adolescence brings.

"This family would make a great TV show!"

Rick Scotti was a very funny working comedian who grew up in Fairview, New Jersey and lived with being a woman trapped in a man’s body until he became Julia Scotti.

Millions of people tuned in Friday night to watch Diane Sawyer's interview with Bruce Jenner. While the majority of viewers probably knew that the interview was going to be a reveal for Jenner, Dennis and Judi discussed why this really isn't a big deal.

MOSCOW (AP) -- New Russian road safety regulations bar transsexuals, transvestites and others with sexual "disorders" from driving, ostensibly for medical reasons.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- President Barack Obama, who established his bona fides as a gay and lesbian rights champion when he endorsed same-sex marriage, has steadily extended his administration's advocacy to the smallest and least accepted band of the LGBT rainbow: transgender Americans.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Transgender people receiving Medicare may no longer be automatically denied coverage for sex reassignment surgeries, a U.S. Department of Health and Services review board ruled Friday in a groundbreaking decision that recognizes the procedures as a medically necessary and effective treatment for individuals who do not identify with their biological sex.

As if police don't have enough to deal with.  Now they are being sued by transgendered people they come in contact with.

A transgender woman in Northern California has sued the company behind the popular CrossFit workouts for refusing to let her compete in the female division of its annual fitness competitions.