Today’s post is a potpourri of news articles…
Memphis-based My Sistah's House is one of several trans-run groups working to create long-term housing solutions for Black trans people in the South.NBC NewsBy Julie ComptonJuly 12, 2020Ever since Perriviia “Black Butterfly” Brown moved into her Memphis, Tennessee, apartment in 2015, she has been afraid to sit on her front porch. A Black transgender woman who is partially blind, Brown said she doesn’t feel safe in her neighborhood. She said she often deals with transphobic abuse when she ventures to the nearby grocery store.“I just stay in the house and mind my business,” Brown, 46, told NBC News. “If I have someone come over, they just have to come over on the inside. I would love to entertain on the outside, but it’s … so violent out here, and you don’t know who likes you and who don’t like you, and you don’t know if they got a hatred against trans women.”[…]But thanks to a recent campaign that has raised over $250,000 to build a small neighborhood of 20 “tiny homes” for Black trans women and nonbinary people in the Memphis area, Brown may soon own her own home — one with a porch where she can sit outside unafraid.“Tiny homes” are a rising trend made popular with reality TV shows like HGTV’s “Tiny House Hunters.” Seen by some as a path to affordable, minimalist living, tiny homes are pre-made studio structures, sometimes converted from sheds, that cost a fraction of the price of a traditional home.
I would like to see something like that here but notice that they raised $250,000! And they will probably need to get that much money every year something that I think will be impossible here in Connecticut.
The Brazilian model, who is in the magazine’s swimsuit issue, was also the first transgender woman to work for Victoria’s Secret and grace the cover of Vogue magazine.New York TimesBy Derrick Bryson TaylorJuly 11, 2020Valentina Sampaio made history on Friday, becoming the first transgender woman to be featured in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the magazine said.In a personal essay on the magazine’s website, Ms. Sampaio, a 23-year-old Brazilian model, said she was honored to be in the publication.“The team at SI has created yet another groundbreaking issue by bringing together a diverse set of multitalented, beautiful women in a creative and dignified way,” she wrote.While Ms. Sampaio’s inclusion in this year’s swimsuit edition has earned headlines, it’s hardly a first for her: Last year, she became Victoria Secret’s first openly transgender model and was hired for catalog work for VS Pink, the company’s athletic line. In 2017, Ms. Sampaio was also the first transgender model to grace the cover of a Vogue edition.[…]MJ Day, the editor of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, said in a statement that Ms. Sampaio had been on her radar for some time and that she had noticed her passion for activism, calling the Sports Illustrated rookie a “true pioneer for the LGBT+ community.”
Do you think that we’ll see Ms. Sampaio on the big screen?
It think so. She has already but on one television show.
Next up is an article about the trans ban in the military.
Military TimesBy Harm VenhuizenJuly 9, 2020More than 100 House Democrats are calling for an end to the military’s ban on open transgender service.In a letter sent Wednesday to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Attorney General William Barr, 116 lawmakers urged the DoD to update its policies, removing the ban in light of the Supreme Court ruling on Bostock v. Clayton County protecting LGBTQ people from workplace discrimination.[…]“This policy is an attack on transgender service members who are risking their lives to serve our country and it should be reversed immediately,” the letter stated.Rep. Adam Smith, chairman of the House Armed Services committee, said last year that he hoped to revisit legislation regarding transgender military service in 2020.The DoD says while it has some numbers on transgender service member, it doesn’t track transgender status of service members.[…]A workplace and gender relations survey conducted in 2016 showed just under 9,000 service members consider themselves transgender individuals, according to a DoD statement on transgender service members issued back when the policy was changed last year.[…]A workplace and gender relations survey conducted in 2016 showed just under 9,000 service members consider themselves transgender individuals, according to a DoD statement on transgender service members issued back when the policy was changed last year.
I think that it would be a very cold day in hell before Trump reconsiders the ban.
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