A new women-only app uses biometric software to determine users’ genders. For trans people, it’s yet another pseudo-scientific method of gatekeeping

Here’s what to expect from Xtra Weekly, Mar. 6

Why activists and organizers in the state are wary of the VP’s handling of COVID-19 nationally

Ahead of Super Tuesday, we unpack the policies and plans of four candidates

In a relatively queer-friendly country, the province remains an outlier under Kenney’s power

Here’s what to expect from Xtra Weekly, Feb. 28

It may be a ubiquitous queer staple, but the sparkly stuff is slowly destroying our planet

After my mother’s death, I turned to my queer community to learn how to grieve

Medical students applying for residency are asking that the application include an optional field to self-identify as queer

Here’s what to expect from Xtra Weekly, Feb. 21

Here’s what to expect from Xtra Weekly, Feb. 14

Because it’s our girl friends, not just our girlfriends, who are the greatest loves of our lives

Can we live up to the rousing words of the French Revolution: Liberté, Egalité… Froeurorité?

Seeing the women of ‘Pose’ honoured shows how the shared humanity of Black queer and trans folk is finally being recognized

Here’s what to expect from Xtra Weekly, Feb. 7

Canada’s history of banning men who have sex with men and Haitians from donating blood goes back to its panic over HIV/AIDS and miscegenation

What the practice is, where it’s banned and what the government is doing about it

They’ll really get to know the queers whose votes they want!

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