Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

Transitioning can be a long and difficult process, with judgment from family and society and decisions about surgery and hormone therapy complicating everything, but it’s all worth it when you can ...

Two transwomen – a 30-year-old graphic designer and a 25-year-old makeup artist – became the first patients to undergo voice ...

For the first time in Australia, an independent committee is considering whether Medicare should fund gender-affirming surgery for trans adults (those aged 18 and over). Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Imagine that feeling you get when you hear a recording of your own voice – that icky, cringy, heebie-jeebie sensation that makes your entire body clench. It might feel unbearable. You might cover your ...