Transgender

As a 14-year-old female to male, or FTM, transgender teen, gender has taken on a necessary role in my everyday self-expression and identity.

Should transgender people feel the need to keep changes to themselves, sacrificing their comfort so others don't have to struggle in transition with them?

Inclusive sex education across the country must prioritize comprehension over shame, understanding over ignorance, love over hate.

It is complicated to navigate familial relationships with people who have political and social ideas so incompatible with your own. 

On Monday, UC Berkeley students banded together on Sproul Plaza in support of the city’s inaugural United Against Hate Week.

Last week, the Berkeley Unified School District board unanimously approved a policy that would require all girls’ and gender-neutral bathrooms to have free menstrual products — a mark of progress on the district’s part. But what’s alarming is that the world’s “No. 1 public university” has yet to follow suit in providing this basic necessity to community members.

Since 1997, the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, or SFTFF, has shined as a beacon of light from within the various locations that have hosted it. Its more than two decades of history are a source of pride for its organizers, filmmakers and patrons.

What’s the best space opera about an intergalactic war fought by weird alien species? (It’s not “Star Wars.”) What’s the most emotionally investing fantasy series since “The Lord of the Rings”? (It’s not “Game of Thrones.”) And what’s one of the best comic books of the last decade? (It’s not a superhero comic.)

I feared for my sister’s experience at a school so appalled by trans people that they weren’t allowed to show themselves to students or speak about their experiences because of some fear of it spreading or denial that they even exist.