When I turned 16, the age of my youngest child, my parents abandoned all attempts to teach me how to drive on the real streets of Long Island. Once, my mom forced me to pull over, yelling, “Stop the car!” She jumped out, the second the wheels stopped. She didn’t…

For “journalist turned lawyer turned journalist” Ashton Lattimore, serving the LGBTQ community is critical to fulfilling her newsroom’s mission. “Our mission is first and foremost to reflect the lived experience of the people most impacted by injustice,” said Lattimore, editor-in-chief at Prism, an independent, nonprofit news outlet led by women…

If you’ve read anything about out transgender college swimmer Lia Thomas published by Swimming World, The Federalist, The New York Post, NewsMax, Breitbart, The Daily Caller or Fox News, especially if it’s quoting an anonymous source, fuggedaboudit. Almost all of it is bullshit. Oh, they got her name right, and…

This shouldn’t be hard. Your choices are, from top left to right, the scene in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, as the largely peaceful rally in support of President Donald Trump outside the White House turned into a march along Pennsylvania Avenue; a Transgender Rights March in June 2020 that…

I was raised on this colloquial wisdom of my dad, an Irish cop and first-generation American: “You can always tell an Irishman, but you can’t tell him much!” My Jewish in-laws constantly prove the accuracy of the old saying, “Ask two Jews, get three opinions.” We transgender folks have favorite…

Cancer is stalking me It’s taken me all week to process this, and share this news. A few days ago, on my mother’s birthday, I got the results of a genetic test following my annual mammogram (#12) and I learned I inherited the BRCA1 gene, putting me at “high risk”…

UPDATE: Human Rights Campaign tonight issued a statement regarding the publication of transphobia by The Atlantic, at my request. I’ve also reached out to GLAAD and I’ve added tweets they posted in response to the article. The HRC statement appears below. — Dawn Ennis, Wednesday, June 20, 2018 It’s been…

How the Deaths of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade Impact Us by Dawn Ennis This article, which first appeared at Into, is expanded and revised from the original published version. It’s important to note that this report about suicide may in itself be a trigger for some readers. Help is available via the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1–800–273–8255 and Trans…

Just about 54 years ago, I was born in Astoria, Queens, on the Roman Catholic Feast of the Annunciation. Not long after, I was baptized into the Roman Catholic faith at St. Raphael’s, a little red brick church in Long Island City, that for decades has served as a landmark…