Transgender

The latest advert from Gillette features a trans man being taught how to shave for the first time by his dad. The advert, as part of the grooming company’s #MyBestSelf campaign, has already been viewed by over 400k viewers since it was uploaded on Thursday (May 23). The video sees Samson Bonkeabantu Brown, a young trans teen from Canada, repeat the advice his father has given him on shaving while he proudly looks on. “I’m glad I’m at the point where I’m able to shave,” he says in Gillette’s ‘First...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); A new trans-inclusive Gillette commercial captures the heartwarming moment a father teaches his transgender son how to shave for the first time. The new Pride-targeted ad, “First Shave,” is a part of the shaving supply company’s #MyBestSelf campaign. The ad features Samson Bonkeabantu Brown, a young Canadian trans man, and his father. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); “Whenever, wherever, however it happens—your first shave is special,” reads the ad’s tagline. “Growing up I was always trying to figure out what kind of man I wanted...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); A new proposal from the Trump administration would roll back Obama-era health care protections for transgender people by scraping gender identity from the discrimination definition, reports NBC News. The proposed regulation, announced Friday by The Health and Human Services Department, rescinds ObamaCare’s definition of “sex discrimination” to remove protections for people’s “gender identity.” The rule can be finalized after a 60-day public comment period. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); “When Congress prohibited sex discrimination, it did so according to the plain meaning of the term,...

President Donald Trump, through his Dept. of Health and Human Services, is once again targeting transgender people, this time by proposing a new rule that would rescind Obama-era healthcare protections. The proposed rule would let doctors and other medical professionals, and health care organizations discriminate against transgender people by allowing them to deny care to someone on the basis of gender identity. “Predicated on little more than prejudice, this proposal will abandon 2 million Americans who already face significant barriers to accessing adequate and life-saving health care,” Mara Keisling, Executive...

On Tuesday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson sat before Congress and told them he had no plans to alter an Obama-era rule mandating equal access protections for LGBTQ people to federally-funded homeless shelters. “I’m not currently anticipating changing the rule,” Sec. Carson told Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA). He also said it is his responsibility is to “make sure everybody is treated fairly,” as The Washington Post and ThinkProgress report. On Wednesday Carson’s Dept. of Housing and Urban Development published proposed changes to the rule that would strip those protections,...