A Letter From Father to Child
This letter is excerpted from Kevin Powell’s new book, “When We Free The World,” a collection of personal essays. I honestly do not know where...
Tag : Gender
Supreme Court Expansion of Transgender Rights Undercuts Trump Restrictions
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s socially conservative agenda has included a broad-based effort to eliminate transgender rights across the government, in education, housing, the military...
Stacey Milbern, a Warrior for Disability Justice, Dies at 33
A few years back, Stacey Park Milbern had a problem. She was trying to get someplace in her wheelchair, but there was a step four...
Overlooked No More: Roberta Cowell, Trans Trailblazer, Pilot and Auto Racer
Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. This month we’re adding the stories...
The Hardest Part of Having a Nonbinary Kid Is Other People
I stood in silence next to my kitchen sink, my hands dripping water on to the floor, as my mother berated me for what I...
Hungary Outlaws Changing Gender on Documents After Birth
Yet with migration fading as a potent issue, and with the world struggling to manage the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Orban’s government has shifted its focus...
Why Are Women-Led Nations Doing Better With Covid-19?
Monday was a day of triumph for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Thanks to the efforts of the entire nation, she said, New Zealand had been...
Leaders Are Crying on the Job. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
Charlie Baker, the Republican governor of Massachusetts, broke down while speaking about the death of his best friend’s mother. Mark Meadows, President Trump’s chief of...
To Beat the Virus, Colombia Tries Separating Men and Women
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — So many men. Men at the bakery, men on bikes, men in parks, men in the grocery aisles. “It’s weird,” said Adriana...
In Argentina, a Bid to Make Language Gender Neutral Gains Traction
BUENOS AIRES — Three days into Argentina’s coronavirus lockdown, the country’s president called on men and women, Argentinos and Argentinas, to cooperate with the effort....