Transphobia

D-list comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla has come under fire from LGBT advocates and GLAAD over a vulgar, anti-LGBT tirade in which he said, in reference to transgender people, “When did we start giving a shit about these people?”

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has struck down Wisconsin’s ban on hormone treatments for transgender prisoners.

As the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities find more acceptance in churches and in society, still left in the shadows and in the back corners hidden from our kind considerations are the transgender people. I am witnessing them become the next target of religious leaders.

Today, May 17, is International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, the seventh annual event to bring attention to LGBT issues in more than 50 countries.