Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a "tip line" urging residents to report to state authorities people they believe are transgender for using restrooms that do not align with their sex assigned at birth -- a violation of Texas’ bathroom ban.
In a statement announcing the tip line on his office’s website, Paxton said the bathroom ban -- known as the "Texas Women's Privacy Act" -- is intended to protect women and girls from "mentally ill men wanting to violate their basic right to privacy" in restrooms, locker rooms, and other changing facilities.
Col. Bree Fram, a former Space Force officer forced to retire under the Trump administration's ban on transgender service members, has launched a campaign to represent Virginia in Congress, raising more than $102,000 in her first 24 hours as an official candidate.
An engineer by trade, Fram served 23 years in the military, including deployments to Iraq and Qatar with the U.S. Air Force during the Iraq War. She later became an officer in the U.S. Space Force and, in 2024, became the first transgender service member promoted to the rank of colonel. She was also named to Out magazine’s "Out 100" list of influential LGBTQ people that year.
"Are you asking the kinkiest thing we've done?" came the typically bold response from Nymphia Wind.
That wasn't precisely the question I had posed to her and sister international drag superstar Plastique Tiara as we discussed the duo's upcoming performance at Mid-Atlantic Leather's main event party, Kinetic Presents KINK: Double Trouble. But since Nymphia brought it up, do tell.
"Well, when in London, you explore," Nymphia said, coyly referencing her time on the city's nightlife scene as a baby queen, years before becoming Season 16 winner of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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