The show stars Calpernia Addams, a 36-year-old transgender woman who was born male but transitioned to female -- surgery, hormone treatments and all -- in her early 20s. The Tennessee native ...

American actress and transgender activist Calpernia Addams is a woman of many talents who has fought for justice on many levels. Born male, she served as a specialist combat medic with the US Navy ...

My name is Calpernia Addams, and I've lived an amazing life, full of incredible adventures and experiences with many more to come. I'm excited to share my thoughts with you under the auspices of ...

“I’m tired of being a freak,” transgender nightclub performer Calpernia Addams says at one point in “Soldier’s Girl.” The freaks instead are two soldiers locked away in Ft. Leavenworth ...

The conversation would have made Calpernia Addams wince, if she hadn't already heard it a thousand times before. Walking down the street at Sundance Film Festival, the center of the hip filmmaking ...

Calpernia Addams had no intention of appearing on a reality show. But the transgender actress agreed to be the object of affection in “Transamerican Love Story” (tomorrow at 10 p.m. on Logo ...

In the first episode, which premiered on May 19th, Johnny sat down with “America’s Transgendered Sweetheart,” Calpernia Addams to talk about her work with Jared Leto in the Dallas Buyers ...

transgender nightclub performer named Calpernia Addams. During the three years it has taken to bring the film version of Winchell’s story to life (“Soldier’s Girl,” which airs Saturday ...

Calpernia Addams is a transgender musician, performer, actress, activist and legend whose work has elevated transgender visibility and created spaces for queer and trans-identified people in ...

The three main players, Addams, James and Molloy, and nearly every other trans woman involved, are white, and the debates have had virtually no input from trans people of color. It is an internal ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "Prostitutes, punchlines or psychos" — those are the "three Ps" of how transgender people are defined by the media, says activist ...