Gender-based violence has claimed the life of another young person of color. Ruby Ordenana, also know as Ruby Rodriguez, a 27-year-old Latina transgender woman was found strangled with knife-like cuts and scars on her arms in the early morning hours of March 16 in San Francisco's Mission District.

The transgender community is becoming more and more visible as the "T" in LGBT. It seems like many female-to-male transsexuals are coming out of the lesbian community. Many FTMs identify as lesbian before they are able to fully come out as male.

An African-American transwoman shares her thoughts about being Black and transgender. - There are a lot of words you can use to describe me. Daughter, aunt, friend, woman, sister, native Texan, Houstonian, African-American, deejay, Christian, transplanted Louisvillian, transplanted Kentuckian, activist, writer, sports fan, columnist, Kentucky Colonel, American.

Wally Bacon, a popular professor at Nebraska for 29 years, returns from summer vacation as a woman. On the first day of classes this fall, W. Meredith Bacon walked carefully down the aisle of a large lecture hall at the University of Nebraska here, carrying copies of the course syllabus in her tan briefcase.

Transgender people are often disrespectfully addressed by the wrong gender pronouns. It should come as no surprise that historical figures are wrongly assigned to their birth sex, their gender indenty ignorantly or deliberately disregarded.

Imani Henry, Female To Male Trans activist, writer and performer originally from Massachusetts. A graduate of Emerson College’s school of performing arts in 1992. 

His theater credits include acting and stage management with Theater Offensive, and the Boston Women’s Playwrights Festival. Bursting onto the Boston slam poetry scene in 1992, Imani was a regular at the legendary Cantab Café in Cambridge, MA. In 1996, He placed 2nd at the Outwrite 
National LGBT Writers Slam Championship, being beaten by 1 point, by "poetry diva" Letta Neely. He is currently, the 2001 Glam Slam Champion hosted annually in NYC by the House of (Emanuel) Xavier. In NYC Imani hasperformed in four theatre productions of cult-heroine & butch playwright, Susana Cook. As a solo performer he has been featured nationally at a wide array of venues - from the Creating Change LGBT Conference to The Apollo Theater to national anti-war rallies. 

His short stories and poems have appeared in noted anthologies and publications as Virgin Territory 2(Masquerade Books 1997), The Evergreen Chronicles, and the lambda award winning Does Your Mama Know (Red Bone Press 1996). His new work will be published in the forthcoming Queer Slam poets' anthology, Butterflies & Bullets as well as in the new Other Countries' anthology.

by Jose Antonio Vargas, Washington Post Staff Writer

Here she is again, strolling K Street, her black skirt very short, her black top very tight. It's Wednesday, 11:35 p.m. "Too early to be out here," Tanekea says. Still, she stands on a corner of Third and K streets NW, just as she did Monday night, hoping to turn a trick: maybe $40 or $50 for oral sex, she says, and "more" for "something more."