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A popular lesbian dating app has one message for users who don’t want transgender people on the platform: “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.” HER, a global dating and network platform for lesbians and other queer people looking for love and friendship, sent a mass notification to its users on Wednesday: “A Message for Transphobes: Time to delete HER,” it said, in part. “We have a very big thriving lesbian community on HER, and so we want to make that message really clear,” Robyn Exton, who founded the platform in 2015, told NBC News on Friday....

Dylan Mulvaney said in a new interview that she doesn’t want brands to hire her as a spokesperson just to “check a box” off because she’s transgender — instead, they should turn to her because “I’m Dylan.” The 26-year-old influencer — who rose to fame chronicling her gender transition, and incurred widespread wrath from far-right critics after her partnership with Bud Light — told Bustle that she doesn’t want a brand to hire her for the sake of diversity. “A lot of brands will ask, ‘Could you relate a little bit of your struggle growing up into this?’ Like, no!...

Transgender women keep their prostates even after gender-affirming surgery, but the extent to which they remain at risk of prostate cancer has been unclear. Now a first of its kind study led by UC San Francisco has estimated the risk at about 14 cases per 10,000 people. The study drew on 22 years of data from the Veterans Affairs Health System. Although the sample size was necessarily small, it is still the largest study of its kind. It publishes Saturday, April 29, 2023 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and is timed to the annual meeting of...