Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.

Sustaining life outside of mainstream expectations can be incredibly empowering, but finding the support you deserve is not easy when you feel like you constantly are defending and explaining yourself ...

Activists in Boston mourning the deaths of Black transgender women Rita Hester and Chanelle Pickett in the 1990s launched an annual event that calls for an end to violence against transgender people.

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KPTV) – The arrest of a transgender asylum seeker by ICE at a Portland courtroom earlier this week has sparked controversy here at home. Protestors demanded answers in Vancouver and ...

A student walks toward the Vancouver Public Schools administrative services building. Vancouver is one of 18 school districts in the country being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education’s ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Dozens of people gathered in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday to protest the arrest of an asylum seeker in Portland. ICE agents detained the woman, who is from Mexico, after she left ...

OLYMPIA — If Vancouver-area voters elect her, Kaitlyn Beck would be the youngest member to ever serve in the Washington state Legislature — and likely the first transgender woman to hold office there.