On 16 April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on their biological sex assigned ...

Women have long been told to smile, make nice, be good and not be difficult. Instead, photographer Suzanne Phoenix encourages her subjects to be fierce ...

Roland Loomis reinvented himself as Fakir Musafar, a mysterious master of extreme bodily modification and pain tolerance. From his teenage years, he took ...

Questioning is part of who we are, and I think that’s what Somos represents.” At a ball co-hosted by the festival and Fetiche ...

The National Book Award finalist recommends some of the memoirs and novels he read in preparation for writing 'The Complex,' a domestic drama mixed with a story of immigration and Indian political ...

Of the nearly 41 million people living with HIV on the planet, more than half (53 percent) are women and girls, according to UNAIDS. In 2024, women and girls accounted for 45 percent of all new HIV ...

I get approached by boys not looking to fulfill hermaphrodite fantasies but to date and “settle down.” I may be wombless, but I still seem to have potential.

The differences between me and other boys became clear to me only at age 12, when I enrolled in seventh grade at a public ...

In a new book, sociologist Brandon Andrew Robinson calls for abolishing sexual identities. Robinson, an associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at UC Riverside, knows it’s a provocative ...

Cal Calamia is a transgender marathoner and activist helping to make the world's races more equitable and inclusive.