transgender rights

NEW YORK — “My love for makeup started when I was a kid — I’m always amazed when I watch my mom do her make up.” Ally Castillo never thought her love for makeup would take...

NEW YORK — Gretchen Custodio Diez, a transgender Pinay from the Philippines, only wanted to use the restroom that she that corresponds to the gender she identifies with: the women’s restroom. But at the farmer’s mall in...

The Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that would roll back protections for transgender patients under Obamacare, the second rule this month the agency has put forward to allow health care providers to...

Just two weeks before a part of it would go into effect, the House of Representatives has voted to condemn President Donald Trump’s proposal to ban transgender men and women from serving in the military. The...

A Filipina U.S. Navy corpsman joined other service members for the biggest battles of their career this time in Capitol Hill. Cebu-born, San Diego based Akira Wyatt testified to the Congress in a historic hearing over...

Transgender actress and nurse Angel Qinan shares her story in a new documentary film, “Act Like a Woman.”...Read More

LOS ANGELES — Hours after reports surfaced that the Trump administration is considering changing protection for transgender people, which includes removing the definition of transgender, hundreds rallied outside of Los Angeles City Hall with the message that...

SAN FRANCISCO — This was the scene at the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot– hailed as the beginning of transgender activism in San Francisco.   Today, it’s also the subject of an interactive theater piece commemorating the lives...

The four-time Emmy-winning singing competition ‘The Voice’ is back for its 14th season with something new: American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson is joining judges Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, and Alicia Keys. Also new and first on the show...

What would happen if you put together a production team of award-winning Filipinos and a few Hollywood stars in one movie? It becomes the most-awaited high-profile Pinoy independent movie of 2018. Tony-winning Broadway producer Jhett Tolentino, Oscar-winning...