"I'm the only African American trans woman delegate," said Sharron Cooks. "For me, it's an honor and it's a privilege." Cooks was attending the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where ...

Thanks to the groundbreaking work of Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox and cultural critic and author Janet Mock (both The Root 100 honorees), the stigma and ignorance surrounding both the exterior ...

A new appointee to the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women received overt death threats this weekend and has been subjected to a “vicious online attack,” according to a statement by the ...

The advocates described a community already under siege, with transgender people experiencing violence at four times the rate of non-transgender people. Robinson recounted meeting a transgender woman ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department is quietly considering a proposal that would strip transgender Americans of their constitutional right to bear arms — a move historians say would be a ...

Typically, municipal elections in mid-sized American cities don’t make the national news. But when Andrea Jenkins won her race for a seat on the Minneapolis City Council on November 7, she became the ...

I’m no fan of performative identity politics, and I think racial preferences are long past their expiration date. Yet I don’t think the New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani did anything ...

WASHINGTON - Leaders of major LGBTQ organizations on Wednesday accused the Trump administration of deliberately misrepresenting transgender Americans to energize its political base, warning that the ...