helly-watermelonsmellinfellon:

refinery29:

Avery Jackson, whose sweetly touching video about what it’s like to be a trans girl, is the groundbreaking cover of this month’s National Geographic

Several trans, non-binary, bigender, and androgynous people posed for another cover, which will be on newsstands on December 27. The issue will also be published online on Monday, December 19. Perhaps the best part is the life-affirming quote from Avery that the magazine put on its cover with her portrait.

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I teared up.

micdotcom:

Viral star Brendan Jordan comes out as a member of the trans community

The first time you saw Brendan Jordan, he struck poses and fierce dance moves on local TV. The video was viewed more than 4 million times. In an inspiring speech at the HRC Foundation’s Time to Thrive Conference Sunday, he came out as a member of the transgender community. Jordan was also there to introduce another big transgender role model.

chandra75:

I just want to make sure for myself as well that since her mother is planning on removing this post from her Tumblr that we make as many posts as possible documenting this so that this selfish woman does not get to erase everything that her daughter was

Never allow her to be forgotten. 

She was real. She lived. And we lost her. 

Never again, never to another child.