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Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm pulling for…The Weekly Static! Welcome back, everybody…glad you could join me again! But before we get ready to trip the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York… here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKpB_w8t0U0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Marlena – Devil 2004 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKpB_w8t0U0) So once more with feeling – here's[...]

Violence committed upon members of the trans community, and quite often portrayed as transgender sex workers, is a common trope in all media, not just comics And sadly, transphobic remarks from creators isn't unheard of But to have two significant cases in the same medium in such a short amount of time, and at such[...]

Aa quick shout-out to Laura Sitter for alerting us to the latest updates this morning as both Buzzfeed and InfoWars have confirmed that the transgender team we wrote about yesterday have now been confirmed to be fake Buzzfeed was the first to originally run the story, which InfoWars investigated deeper and learned that the members[...]

Buzzfeed broke the news last week that tournament organizer Munich Finest Gaming rejected several transgender players from the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive "5on5 Female Open Summer 2017" event that was hosted by ESL The original action was taken because the players could be potentially penalized for "faking their gender" and that their applications were rejected based off photographs[...]

"The scanner picked up an 'anomaly' in my crotch area." "I said, 'I'm transgender That's my penis,'" Petosky recalled "The TSA officer then said something like, 'If you are a man, then go back in the machine and we'll run you as a man.'" Told by the agent that she needed to be run as a man[...]

We broke the story back in 2013, that Ales Kot was working on a new graphic novella about an Islamic transgender pop star, called Anti-Star. We later learned that it would be with Christian Ward. Well, it's just hit Amazon Dropping the hyphen, from Image Comics and scheduled for January Available for order here in the US and here[...]

JM DeMatteis promised some kind of clarification of language in Justice League 3001, regarding Guy Gardner now living in a female body after a couple of

One particular minefield has been representation of transgender characters since there is so much confusion and ignorance with a few writes landing themselves in hot water in the past month. The issue of representation has reminded me of a manga that ran from 1996 to 2000 by Tsukasa Hojo, creator of Cat's Eye, the female cat[...]

The trans experience is neither caused or predicated on sexuality. Edwards also discussed a new project exploring gender identities through sci-fi, through the means of an agender society, though was keen to point out it was not an íssues' book. The group discussed topics concerning common tropes involved in when trans characters are introduced in media, and[...]

Instead he talked to the media organisation and pressure group GLAAD to work through the issues being addressed, and released this statement. I thought long and hard before writing this response, with the time it's taken me to do so I fear having been misinterpreted as indifference on my part to the ire this sequence has caused[...]

But this is the week that has been and gone… what did you all read? (UPDATE – this got pushed out by yesterday's Marvel coverage and does not take those posts into account) Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week 1. Making Quake An Inhuman And Changing Her Name To Skye, In The Comics 2. 60 Confirmed, Expected, Rumoured And Assumed Marvel[...]

Transgender folks' bodies are frequently 'gender-checked' by 2/3 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015 ignorant cis people deeming 'parts' the determining factor in gender, declaring ownership of that person's body and identity in doing so 3/4 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015 ignorant cis people deeming 'parts' the determining factor in gender, declaring ownership of that[...]

From Justice League 3001 #1 out today as part of the DC You mini-relaunch. A comic book in which the Guy Gardner clone character discovers that he is now

Madeline Ricchiuto wrote for Bleeding Cool from Special Edition: NYC last weekend, where she attended the Secret Identities: Transgender Themes In Comics panel: The panelists for this edition of Secret Identities were Charles Battersby, Marjorie Liu, Kristen Enos, and Marguerite Bennett, discussing transgender themes in comics as well as gender change with characters who are not[...]

Superior Iron Man has given us a new character, Jamie Carlson, Teen Abomination, the previously unknown son of the late Happy Hogan, a teenager trapped in a body that they doesn't recognise as theirs, and getting rather cross about it all. And in this week's issue of Superior Iron Man, giving us this one scene. "I really didn't now if[...]

And in doing so, became the became the first transgender character in a Marvel or DC superhero comic who hadn't used magic, wasn't an alien, or used science fiction to facilitate that in some way She just was While there had been strides in the LGBT representation in comics, that T was somewhat lacking, and when present was[...]

Much revolved around traditional tropes of transexuals or transgendered being the bad guy, how Batgirl had make great strides in presenting the transgendered as just another aspect of life and that this destroyed much of their progress As a result of commentary, the creative team (but not DC Comics) issued an apology. Bleeding Cool commentator and[...]

In recent years, Gail Simone writing Batgirl presented a transgender character, Alysia Yeoh, as Batgirl/Barbara Gordon's flatmate, her backstory emerging over time It was a considered, underhyped portrayal of a transgender individual as a very normal person in Batgirl's life. In this week's Batgirl, (SPOILERS) we meet someone who is running around Burnside dressed up as[...]

Liz Hey reports from San Diego Comic Con 2014 Amidst the exclusive movie trailers and big announcements this past weekend, history was made in an entirely