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Calexico (United States) (AFP) - Thousands of people voted to elect Raul Urena to Calexico council, hoping the young politician would bring a fresh approach to the California border city's long-standing problems with unemployment, crime and deprivation. But when Urena started pushing ideas popular with progressives across the United States, some voters changed their minds. The fact that Urena also took to wearing a dress and high heels to council meetings left some of them feeling duped. Urena, who uses she/her pronouns, sees transphobia in an effort to recall her in a referendum on Tuesday. B...
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Washington (AFP) - "Unethical," "scary" and "maddening" -- human rights groups have reacted with fury to a Texas order that a state agency should investigate cases of transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care as child abuse. Earlier this week, Republican Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, directing it to probe "any reported instances of Texas children being subjected to abusive gender-transitioning procedures". The order -- which has been condemned by US President Joe Biden's Democratic administration -- followed a l...
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Cambridge (United States) (AFP) - Transgender US swimmer Lia Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle race at the 2022 Ivy League women's championships Thursday, defying critics who have called for her to be barred from competing. Thomas has dominated US collegiate women's swimming recently as a student athlete at Penn State, where just a few years ago she competed as a man. Her case has divided opinion, with some arguing she has an unfair physiological advantage while others say she should be allowed to compete freely as a woman. This month the governing body of swimming in the United States, USA Sw...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Protestors gathered outside Netflix in Los Angeles on Wednesday, angry over a new Dave Chappelle comedy special that has sparked accusations the streamer is trampling transgender rights and profiting from hate speech. A few dozen staff walked off the job and were joined by a similar number of trans activists and their supporters for a demonstration calling for better representation at the Hollywood giant. "I think that trans and non-binary employees aren't safe as long as their employer is putting out content in the world that could harm them," said Netflix Animation employ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Netflix bosses braced for an employee walkout and rally in Los Angeles on Wednesday as anger swelled over a new Dave Chappelle comedy special that activists say is harmful to the transgender community. The streaming giant has found itself embroiled in an intense and highly public controversy over Chappelle's "The Closer," in which the stand-up star insists "gender is a fact" and accuses LGBTQ people of being "too sensitive." "We respect the decision of any employee who chooses to walk out, and recognize we have much more work to do both within Netflix and in our content," ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Netflix has been plunged into America's culture wars by a Dave Chappelle comedy special that raises concerns about free speech and censorship but has been slammed by its own employees as transphobic. In "The Closer," boundary-pushing mega-star Chappelle responds to critics who have accused him of mocking transgender people in the past by asserting that "gender is a fact" and accusing LGBTQ people of being "too sensitive." "In our country you can shoot and kill" a Black man, "but you'd better not hurt a gay person's feelings," says the stand-up comic, who is Black. While the...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Transgender Netflix employees are planning a walkout to protest a Dave Chappelle comedy special they say is transphobic as the streamer's content chief again defended the controversial episode, US media reported Thursday. In "The Closer," stand-up star Chappelle asserts "gender is a fact" and criticizes what he says is the thin skin of the trans community. The episode has been condemned by multiple LGBTQ groups. An internal message among trans employees this week accuses Netflix of "repeatedly releasing content that harms the Trans community and continually failing to creat...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Netflix has defended its decision to screen a Dave Chappelle special criticized as transphobic, as it suspended employees who crashed a virtual meeting in protest at the comedian's show, media reported Monday. The stand-up star has courted controversy with "The Closer" in which he asserts "gender is a fact," and criticises what he says is the thin skin of the trans community. LGBTQ activists have lashed out over the comments, with the National Black Justice Coalition calling on streaming service Netflix to remove the program, and "Dear White People" producer Jaclyn Moore vo...
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Fairmount Heights (United States) (AFP) - Even though it was two years ago, Iya Dammons remembers what she said to Ashanti Carmon just before the 27-year-old was shot dead. That night, the two Black transgender sex workers were among several working the poor area between the US capital and Maryland. "We were laughing and talking on the corner, and she was like, 'Girl, I'll be right back'," Dammons, the founder and executive director of Baltimore Safe Haven, a housing and social services nonprofit helping transgender people, told AFP. "And she got into a vehicle. It turned down a side street a...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Senate took the historic step Wednesday of confirming pediatrician Rachel Levine as President Joe Biden's assistant secretary of health, making her the highest-ranking transgender official to serve in the federal government. Levine was leading the Pennsylvania Department of Health when Biden tapped her for the national post in January, in a notable first for the LGBTQ community. The pick was also a contrast to policies of previous president Donald Trump that were seen as discriminatory. The confirmation vote was 52 to 48, with two Republicans joining all Democrats in...
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