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Trans teen Milo posts beautiful coming out story on Tumblr
In the wake of Leelah Alcorn’s tragic suicide at the end of 2014, the trans community has banded together to show its youngest members that they are not alone. Now, one of these teens is sharing his own story in order to help further this positive message.
Milo is 15 years old, and his Tumblr post has been shared thousands of times so far on social media. The pictures document Milo’s coming out story, as told through his family’s tradition of marking each birthday with delicious numeral-shaped pancakes.
“For every kid feeling like I was, please just wait, just wait cause one day you’ll realize just how worth it the wait was,” he wrote. “I know everyone says it, but it’s true, it will get better, just please stick around so you can see it come true.”
His advice for parents of trans kids that everyone should read
6 women are massacred every day in Mexico — so why doesn’t anyone care?
Violence against women is a pandemic known as “feminicidio,” or femicide, in Mexico. Women are increasingly bearing the brunt of rampant corruption, fueled by the power of drug cartels. A recent statistic by the National Citizen Femicide Observatory reveals that six women are killed every day in Mexico.
The response from the world, however, has been bizarrely muted. In September, the gruesome murder of 43 student protesters gained national attention when, upon the direction of local politicians, they were rounded up by police and handed over to a drug gang to kill and then burn. Yet the systematic killing of women barely gets reported, let alone investigated. As noted by Al Jazeera, only 24% of the roughly 4,000 femicides reported in 2012 and 2013 were investigated. Of those, only 1.6% ended in sentencing.
It’s no wonder Mexico is consistently rated as one of the worst countries in the world for women. “The violence affects men and women, but often women disproportionately,” explains Minky Worden, director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch, who connects the violence against women to Mexico’s “culture of male chauvinism.” “Mexico is a place where law enforcement remains a challenge, and the government has an obligation to protect women, but often fails in that obligation, as it does to protect men.”
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen says income inequality is un-American.
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