Being both trans and a person of color comes with a unique set of challenges. Collectively working toward overcoming these barriers is one way this community fights for survival.
A politics-focused streamer called Destiny has been indefinitely banned from Twitch. A screenshot Destiny shared to his subreddit indicates that the ban can only be lifted on appeal, and that it was applied for "Promoting, encouraging, or facilitating the discrimination or denigration of a group of people based on their protected characteristics."Twitch has not provided a definitive motivation for the ban beyond that, but one possibility is that it was related to this clip which survived his account's deletion. In it, Destiny muses about the gender affirmation surgery of a rival streamer, before mentioning the temptation of "41% jokes," a reference to the rate of suicide attempts reported by trans people in the United States in the 2012 National Transgender Discrimination Survey.These comments come in the context of high-profile legislation by the US states of Utah and Texas against trans youth, and an increasing climate of hostility towards
Trans young people flourish with support from family, friends, and the broader community. Future commentary about trans young people’s rights needs to take this into account.
Officials will not appeal a state ruling requiring Yellowstone County to pay damages to a transgender former employee who faced discrimination under the county s health insurance plan.