5 Transgender Myths...Busted

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        5 Transgender Myths...Busted
      In the wake of Trump repealing transgender protections, scientist Dana Bevan is here to bust your misconceptions.
 
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 Allison Tate 
          
          Feb 24, 2017
          
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Allison Tate is the Director of Editorial Video at Pride Media, and creates videos for The Advocate, OUT and PRIDE. She is a filmmaker, swing dancer, and enthusiastic Carol fan who works to amplify marginalized voices in media. 
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Dana Bevan holds a PhD from Princeton University in physiological psychology. She is the author of Being Transgender, The Biopsychology of Transgenderism and Transsexualism and The Transsexual Scientist. You can read more from Dana on her blog.
 
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5 Transgender Myths...Busted

In the wake of Trump repealing transgender protections, scientist Dana Bevan is here to bust your misconceptions.

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An out lesbian on TikTok is conducting what she calls "social experiments" by cold-calling churches to ask if they would allow a registered child sex offender to attend their Sunday family services, and posting videos of their responses.

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White House communications director Steven Cheung reaches for a juvenile, 40-year-old sex fiction to criticize an actor’s defense of USAID, writes John Casey.

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The stories about the late Republican senator's sexuality may multiply after his death. None of them changes who he chose to be, writes John Casey

The mayor’s office in Spokane had initially defended the hateful sign as protected speech under the First Amendment.

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Opinion: Many men held up as role models to boys are being exposed as dangerous charlatans, writes Josh Ackley.

The president reminded us who really embodies the bully, writes John Casey.

The Louisiana Republican's Obama and Colbert antigay smear campaign surely earned Trump’s undying love.