Blythe del Kuzio

Teachers are fighting back in the wake of new draft guidance recently released by England’s Department for Education (DfE) that says they can freely misgender trans students and are required to out them to their parents. Upon the release of the guidance – which must still undergo a 12-week public consultation before it is finalized – actress and trans ally Georgia Tennant posted screenshots from the flood of messages teachers have sent her promising they will continue affirming their trans students. Related: Bullied trans teen blasts UK’s “inexcusable” new guidance on how schools should treat trans kids Newton Carey was bullied so badly that he dropped out of school. He says new guidance requiring teachers to out trans students would be disastrous. “I will always address a pupil under their chosen pronoun and put their well-being first!” one teacher wrote. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our daily newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and ins...

The Walt Disney Company has a complex relationship and history with the LGBTQ+ community, from flip-flopping on Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill to hosting Gay Days at the parks to censoring queer stories from Pixar films . But the queer Easter eggs in the movies are another story. These tidbits are the facts that you might not have known about the queer history of the House of Mouse. Related: Rumor has it Disney cut a scene from “The Marvels” pointing to a lesbian romance Fans have been begging for a romance between Captain Marvel and Valkyrie for years. 1. The infamous villains and musclemen of the cartoon classics were animated by a gay man Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our daily newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Promotions (occasional) * Week in Good News (one on the Weekend) * Week in Review (one on the Weekend) * Daily Brief (one each weekday) * Sign Up The Polish-born Disney animato...

The end of the year is an opportunity to look back at everything that happened over the past 12 months, and what better way to do that than to look at what you all found most interesting on this site? We thought we’d offer a chance for the fans of LGBTQ Nation to get a look behind the curtain and see what’s popular. Here are the 12 articles that got the most traffic on LGBTQ Nation in 2023. 12. GOP congressman tries to attack Pete Buttigieg with “private flights” lie & immediately regrets it Screenshot Secretary Pete Buttigieg Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our daily newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Promotions (occasional) * Week in Good News (one on the Weekend) * Week in Review (one on the Weekend) * Daily Brief (one each weekday) * Sign Up This past year, it seemed like the right was willing to attack Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for anything. Flight got delayed? Must be Pe...

A British anti-transgender activist is selling a viciously transphobic 2024 calendar featuring images of notable trans women. It’s title: “He’s a Man!!” Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, also known as Posie Parker, is the founder of the anti-trans group Standing for Women. She’s credited with popularizing the slogan “adult human female” to define womanhood after she used her Posie Parker pseudonym to create an anti-trans billboard featuring the phrase in Liverpool in 2018. She also runs the Adult Human Female online store, where she sells apparel, accessories, homeware, and even Christmas merchandise featuring anti-trans slogans. Related: TERFS outraged over anti-woman sticker that it turns out they made themselves “The call is coming from inside the house.” The site is currently selling the “He’s a Man” calendar. The version available in the U.S. features photos of swimmer Lia Thomas and other high-profile trans women on the cover. Hilariously, it also includes the words “365...

A transgender woman who has been incarcerated in a men’s prison in Georgia has filed a lawsuit against the state’s Department of Corrections (GDC) along with two of its for-profit medical contractors for denying her gender-affirming care. The complaint , filed on December 6 and identifying the woman as “Jane Doe,” alleges that the GDC has refused to treat “her severe and overwhelming gender dysphoria.” Citing the department’s “blanket ban” on gender-affirming surgery, the complaint says the lack of access to this care led Doe to continue to “suffer catastrophic gender dysphoria symptoms.” Related: Judge threatens to punish men’s prison for “humiliating” cavity search of trans female inmate “We are not sending people into prison to be further abused,” the judge said. “Does somebody have any common sense?” According to the lawsuit, the 55-year-old Doe has identified as a woman since early childhood and began living publicly as a woman around 1988. Incarcerated in 1992, s...

G’day, mate! My husband Brent and I are currently living Down Under in Sydney, Australia. This is Brent’s first trip to the sunburnt country, but I’ve lived here twice, once in my twenties and once  as a high school exchange student . Related: My mom’s gay best friend was a boisterous, chain-smoking alcoholic. He taught me so much. There are almost eight billion people on the planet — and there are exactly that many different ways to live. Before we start, I reckon we oughta have a chinwag about lingo, because while Aussie’s technically jibber jabber in English, it’s defo not the same language that flaming galahs like you and me use. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our daily newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Promotions (occasional) * Week in Good News (one on the Weekend) * Week in Review (one on the Weekend) * Daily Brief (one each weekday) * Sign Up Don’t worry if you have no idea w...

Each time I hear someone from the past couple of generations blame or simply dismiss (with deep conviction) members of my generation, the so-called “boomers,” for causing the evils and great divides separating people by race, socioeconomic class, gender, sexuality, and other social identities, I want to shout for them to please read and truly understand history. From where did the driving force and passion come within the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, the American Indian movement, the Congress of Racial Equality, second-wave feminists, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the Farmworkers Movement, the Free Speech movement, the Peace Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, the Gay Liberation and Gay Activists Alliance, Trans Liberation, Radical Lesbians, the Disability Rights Movement, AIDS Activists, the Patients’ Rights Movement, the Environmental Movement and the organizers of Earth Day, the Anti-Nuke and Anti-Fossil Fuel Movements, and so many others? T...