Spanish actress Jedet has always been a fan of Cristina Ortiz. Also known as “La Veneno,” or “poison” in Spanish, Ortiz was a transgender woman who shot to fame in 1996 after a journalist interviewed ...

BARCELONA, July 18 (Reuters) - Ana Valenzuela and her 12-year-old trans daughter, like some other families with transgender children, fear that if Spain's conservative People's Party (PP) and ...

Aug 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Spain's first openly transgender senator said she will strive to protect hard-won progress on LGBTQ+ rights, including the country's ambitious trans self-ID law, ...

When The Danish Girl, the film in which Eddie Redmayne stars as transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, was released in 2015, the backlash was immediate and fierce. It was, according to those complaining, ...

Spanish-speaking communities are being targeted with anti-LGBTQ and anti-transgender messages ahead of the midterm elections. A double-sided postcard is being sent to homes in predominantly Latino ...

Karla Sofia Gascon, who jointly won best actress at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for her performance as a Mexican drug baron who becomes a woman, is a Spanish actor who started out life as a ...

Ever since right-wing influencers orchestrated a boycott of Anheuser-Busch products last year for collaborating with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, they have been foaming at the mouth for a new ...

Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard says it was a simple decision for him to cast a trans woman in the title role of his award-winning film. Audiard, whose film picked up a Best Actress award shared ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A conservative nonprofit led by former Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller is targeting Spanish-speaking Coloradans with mailed advertisements that ...

This article by Leonardo Oliva was originally published in CONNECTAS and is republished in Global Voices under a media agreement. The scene has gone viral on social media: Selena Gomez confusingly ...

Carla Antonelli makes history as first trans senator Says fighting misinformation key amid right-wing pressure Defends Spain's recent move to allow trans self-ID Aug 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ...