Pedro Redding was charged with murder, conspiracy and weapons charges in the killing of a transgender woman in Philadelphia, but police stopped short of calling it a hate crime.

Kiesha Jenkins, a Black transgender woman and college student, was fatally shot, making her the 21st transgender woman killed this year.

Breaking: Raffi Freedman-Gurspan the first out transgender White House official: http://t.co/oM7B3yP4nh Via @MicNews pic.twitter.com/agWT0guhsc — Chris Riotta (@chrisriotta) August 18, 2015 The Obama administration on…

Florida police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the death of a transgender woman who was fatally shot in a Tampa-area park,…

Arrested for Being Transgender: Meagan Taylor http://t.co/kPh7PfFk8E pic.twitter.com/3pT29PXynb — BTNOMB (@BTNOMB) July 21, 2015 A transgender woman from Lahokia, Illinois was arrested and held in a Polk County Jail for…

The U.S. Justice Department ruled trans students can use the appropriate bathroom for their gender. Listen to the audio player to hear how refusing to allow…

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By now, most readers have heard about Rachel Dolezal. If you haven’t, she’s the White president of the NAACP’s Spokane Washington branch who has been passing…

An incident involving a transgender woman getting pushed onto the subway tracks in New York City has now been labeled a hate crime. The incident occurred…

It’s evident that Caitlyn Jenner absolutely owned her Vanity Fair cover shoot, but actress and transgender activist Laverne Cox says we should focus on more than…

  In light of Bruce Jenner’s transition to becoming a woman, Jacque Reid talks to Jodie Patterson, a mother who is letting her seven-year-old daughter,  identify as…