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Transgender Women

  1. controversies
    Laverne Cox Responds to Adichie’s Comments About Trans Women and Male Privilege“There’s no universal experience of gender, of womanhood.”
  2. Two Transgender Women Win Major-Party PrimariesThey won their respective primary races in Colorado and Utah.
  3. cut cover story
    When Brother and Sister Became Sister and BrotherJeena Bloom wasn’t surprised when her brother Felix came out as a trans man. But when Jeena came out as a trans woman, their relationship took on a new dimension.
  4. Trans Woman Says She Was Raped at Stonewall InnAssault at a gay-rights landmark.
  5. call me caitlyn
    Caitlyn Jenner’s First Makeup Collaboration Is HereSurprise! The rumors about a M.A.C partnership were true. 
  6. reasons to love new york
    I Grew Up Hasidic and Trans. Here’s How I Found a New Community.“It’s like being an immigrant in your own country. You don’t know the language, the culture, anything.”
  7. new faces of things
    Transgender Model Lea T on Beauty and Acceptance“People accept you easily if you look beautiful or if you have money.”
  8. college
    Transgender Women Will Be Admitted to Barnard Starting in Fall 2016Applicants who “consistently live and identify as women, regardless of the gender assigned to them at birth” will be considered.
  9. beauty standards
    Read Laverne Cox’s Essay About Caitlyn Jenner and Trans Beauty Standards “Most trans folks don’t have the privileges Caitlyn and I now have.”
  10. trans rights
    Smith College Will Now Admit Trans WomenA historic policy change for the women’s college.
  11. rikers
    Rikers Opens New Housing for Transgender WomenTo keep them safe.
  12. real talk
    Transparent Launches ‘Trans-Affirmative Action’Jenji Kohan and Jill Soloway disagreed about a few things at a Saturday New Yorker Festival panel. 
  13. historical moments
    Laverne Cox Is on the Cover of TimeShe’s transgender, black, and on the cover of Time magazine.
  14. gender studies
    Meet William T. Vollmann’s Female Alter EgoShe’s named Dolores, and he dresses up as her to learn “what a woman feels.”