Transgender Report

Prejudice and the Unmarked/Marked Mindset

Julia Serano’s essay introduces the Unmarked/Marked mindset, a cognitive bias she argues underlies most forms of prejudice. Unmarked traits – such as being cisgender, heterosexual, or part of a cultural majority – are treated as normal and invisible. Marked traits, by contrast, draw disproportionate attention, scrutiny, and assumptions.

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One in six children who died by suicide were LGBTQ+, new data shows

Council of Europe votes to pass trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy

Trans men face increased risk of acne after starting testosterone, study finds

“In order to make sure a guy doesn’t lose his “man card,” gender roles and gender presentation must be limited to two. If any lines are not clearly visible, a cis het man might accidentally cross one of them. And that must be avoided at all costs.”

Transgender sprinter Halba Diouf to appeal ruling in favor of the French Athletics Federation

Iranian forces kill Nima Abbasi, a transgender man, during protests in Isfahan

Why Trans Communities Are Urging Caution on AYAGDOS Research

This flag has nothing to do with the LGBTQ+ community, despite right-wing claims

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Attorney General Bonta Sues Rady Children’s Health for Illegally Ending Gender-Affirming Care

Former Division I soccer player Susie Cirilli has found a niche representing female transgender athletes in public accommodation lawsuits.

More than half of transgender youth live in states with restrictive laws or policies

University of Utah suddenly ends all remaining health care for transgender youth, pointing to expected bans
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Fox News Poll: Americans Prefer Democrats On Transgender Issues +22 Points

A transgender ice hockey player has slammed USA Hockey, the governing body for ice hockey in the United States, for quietly ‘banning transgender athletes’.

A Utah House committee has given the green light to limiting where transgender students can live in private, off-campus housing.

Disability groups are standing united for trans rights. That hasn’t always been the case.

Criminal Charges Pressed Against Budapest Mayor After Hundreds of Thousands Defy Pride Ban

Hampstead Heath ponds should stay trans-inclusive, say 86 per cent of swimmers

A legal challenge brought by a charity over transgender people’s access to single-sex facilities at swimming ponds in Hampstead Heath has failed at the high court.

A video game just removed gender options, and right-wingers are losing it

Uganda: Government Shuts Down Another Group That Defends LGBTQ+ Rights

Journal Club: The Myths Driving Anti-Trans Policy

The Problem With “Common Sense” in Transgender Debates

Barrister accused of transphobia threatens Jolyon Maugham for defamation

No, Sydney Sweeney hasn’t donated $1,000,000 to ‘cure’ the LGBTQ+ community

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Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital In WA Shuts Down Youth Gender Clinic Amidst Federal Funding Threat

Sorority sisters’ lawsuit over transgender member’s admission moves to Ohio

Members of the Missouri House’s Emerging Issues Committee voted to send two bills to the full chamber that would indefinitely extend the state’s restrictions on transgender people.

Trump is trying to end gender-affirming care for trans kids. Doctors and nurses are working hard to keep offering it.

Trump admin is trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they’d be killed, lawyers say

Tennessee state Rep. Monty Fritts (R), who is running for governor, has said he’d like a law to execute “those who commit an assault on the sanctity of life,” including those who assist children in securing gender-affirming medical care.

Arizona Senate chairman silences speaker after he calls anti-trans bill ‘genocidal’

Half of U.S. trans teens live in a state that restricts their rights: study

US states have already tabled over 360 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the first month of 2026

What would a trans genocide look like? A Tucson Holocaust educator says we’re already seeing it.

Lori Shepard (photo), executive director of the Tucson Jewish Museum and Holocaust Center, emphasizes that genocide is not limited to mass killing; it includes intentional policies that inflict serious harm, restrict basic rights, or create conditions that make life unlivable for a targeted group. She notes that hundreds of laws introduced in recent years to regulate trans people’s access to health care, public spaces, and self-determination align with early-stage warning signs such as classification, discrimination, dehumanization, and polarization.

What the Fight Over Transgender Athletes Is Really About

Pauline Hanson–Holly Valance transphobic song wiped from Apple Music

Kenya overturns blanket ban on LGBTQIA+ content in films

‘Trans women are no threat to cis women, so why is the public ready to believe they are?’

“Expel Them”: Eswatini Minister Sparks Alarm with Anti-LGBTQ School Rhetoric

TikTok’s Gender Identity Tracking Raises Red Flag for Trans Users

‘Conversion therapy did nothing to get rid of my transness,’ survivors say

Trans+ History Week launches 2026 workbook: ‘Always been here’

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Activists and organizers convened at the Creating Change conference at the Washington Hilton in D.C. to expand LGBTQ+ rights, build power, and increase representation in American society.

The Trump administration accused San José State University on Wednesday of violating federal anti-discrimination law by allowing a transgender athlete to play on the women’s volleyball team

The “Let Us Live” rally drew hundreds of Florida LGBTQIA+ residents, allies and others to the steps of the Florida Historic Capitol on Jan. 28.

Trump DOJ lied to D.C. federal appeals court about trans military ban, lawyers say in stunning filing

Kansas Advancing Anti-Trans Bill Allowing Bounty Hunters To Patrol Private Business Bathrooms

Transgender Girl Scouts have sold over 71,000 boxes of cookies with the help of journalist Erin Reed

Yet More Anti-Trans Bills Move Through FL Legislature

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Coming out as trans to a partner, being honest to your trans girlfriend, and what happens when your family might not accept your trans boyfriend?

Prison Tortures Trans Man to Death | Toni Asik

How were LGBTQI+ people of colour affected by the supreme court’s gender ruling?

In 2022 Jessica Kant started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record articles pushed to the Google News index based on search phrases, including “biological sex”.

The New Brunswick Transgender Health Network is calling on the regional health authorities and the provincial government to establish a provincial gender-affirming care clinic.

Even With The Decrease, Brazil Is The Country That Kills The Most Transgender People

Politicians Keep Stumbling Over One Simple Question. Sarah McBride Has an Answer.

Queer and trans students and staff in Catholic schools have shared their experiences in a Tasmanian parliamentary inquiry into discrimination and bullying in schools.

Mardi Gras moves to censure directors, misgenders trans board member in motion

UK: Charities don’t need to abandon trans-inclusive policies despite calls to do so, the Charity Commission has confirmed.

A human rights organisation in Uganda that supports members of the LGBTQ+ community was ordered to shut down by the government just days before the country’s election.

‘Gender-critical’ campaigner apologises for ‘crass’ comments to Good Law Project director
Warning: This article makes mention of sexual assault and child sexual abuse.

ILGA World, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, has been designated as an “undesirable” foreign organisation by Russia

Conversion therapy’s outcomes: shame, depression, suicidality, survivors say

Trans actor Scott Turner Schofield shares why he left the U.S. and what inspired new film
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Advocates and families blast Children’s Hospital of OC’s decision to close trans health care clinic

Trump admin targets Minnesota for allowing trans girls to participate in sports

With increased visibility comes increased danger as anti-LGBTQ+ incidents continue to rise throughout the United States.

Non-binary veteran Lindsay Church is fighting for democracy in Illinois: ‘If not us, then who?’

Kansas Republicans add bathroom ban to anti-trans proposal, shuffle bills to avoid public hearings

Utah lawmakers sweep their own study on care for trans kids under the rug as they push to ban it
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An LAPD officer’s killing of a transgender woman at a motel in Pacoima last year was found ‘out of policy’ Tuesday by the Department’s oversight panel.

Indiana Senate passes ‘most extreme anti-LGBTQ+ bill’ in more than a decade.

Father fights trans bathroom policy in Chicagoland schools at Seventh Circuit

In Huge Lawsuit, Six CHLA Families Successfully Prevented The Trump Admin From Obtaining Info Of 3,000 Trans Kids

For transgender people in custody, particularly transgender women housed in men’s facilities, V-coding has not functioned as protection. It has functioned as exposure.

Trump Pressures International Orgs To Disavow Trans Care, Social Transition Globally “At Any Age” With Funding Ban

Erin Reed reports that the Trump administration has published a proposed rule in the Federal Register that would attach major conditions to U.S. foreign assistance—potentially affecting more than $30 billion distributed through international organizations and partner networks.

Trump Admin Pushes International Orgs to Disavow Trans Care With Funding Ban

Trump’s new foreign aid ban expands his “cruel” agenda on the world

Queer organisations urge public to shape South Africa’s hate crimes regulations

Why Telehealth Is Not a Shortcut for Transgender Care

Major LGBTQ+ Pride organisation accused of silencing board members over trans rights

TikTok now specifically tracks immigration status and gender identity

EHRC trans guidance to be changed under ‘constructive’ review, sources claim

‘She narrowly escaped three bullets’: Pakistan’s trans community shaken by attacks and killings

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Advocacy groups to argue Alberta transgender legislation amounts to criminal prohibition
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Democrats Are Finally Fighting Back on Trans Issues

Advocacy groups outraged after UW Health pauses gender-affirmative care for minors

“A lot of people think it’s only Latino people who are being targeted, but that is not true. It is Black people, queer people, trans identified people who are being harassed, beaten up, physically assaulted.”

Minnesota high school transgender student-athlete battle advances to Trump’s Department of Justice

The Trojan Horse Before the Supreme Court A trans athlete’s case reveals a right-wing campaign that goes well beyond women’s sports.
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Over the Past Year, the Trump Administration Has Been Rewriting Many States’ Trans Policies

100+ LGBTQ+ celebs and allies who slammed ICE—Dems, take note

Slain Nurse Smeared by Anti-Trans Right, Ballot Test in Washington State, and a Court Victory

Star Wars actor Kelly Marie Tran says ‘trans rights are human rights’ in reference to Harry Potter

Stand-up pro Kemah Bob is on a mission to help women and trans folks take up more space in comedy

Drag artist Sexy Galexy brings Behind the Zip to the Victorian Pride Centre for Midsumma, exploring Australia’s drag king culture and history.

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Harrison Browne — an actor in Heated Rivalry and the first openly transgender professional hockey player — is speaking out against USA Hockey’s new Participant Eligibility Policy

Child Mocked by Pastor in Faith-Based Conversion Practice Video

LGBTQIA+ advocates recognised with Order of Australia

They Want Transgender People Invisible, Ashamed, or Gone

Few people understand what transgender means…

The New Zealand government axed the guiding principles for transgender inclusion in community sports in order to please NZ First, which held all the cards in terms of how it would be honoured.

Commentary: This isn’t the way to ‘save women’s sports’

A study of competitive athletes found that compared to their cisgender counterparts, transgender women actually performed worse on average in measures of ability related to endurance sports like track and field.

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What 14 Years of Testosterone Does To You

Do Parents Who Reject Trans Kids Come Around? What the Research Shows

How to deal with misgendering as a trans woman | slaybyfaye

Social media ban is “reactionary measure” that will harm LGBTQIA+ youth, campaigners warn

Don’t underestimate our grandparents’ generation in the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights

Mum fights for inquest into trans woman Marjorie Harwood’s death

Transgender Catholic: The road to Damascus runs both ways

Patagonia sues drag queen Pattie Gonia for trademark infringement 😳

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WA initiative to bar trans girls from school sports will likely go to voters

DOJ subpoenaed hospital to end gender-affirming care through ‘fear,’ judge says

Nebraska Bills on Trans Bathroom Bans and Health Care Restrictions Scheduled For Hearings

‘We’re not going anywhere.’ Rally at the Utah State Capitol protests anti-transgender bills

JD Vance rages about ‘radical gender ideology’ while white supremacists march along National Mall

California’s largest pediatric healthcare system to halt transgender care amid Trump administration threats

DOJ withdraws demand for Los Angeles hospital to turn over transgender minors’ records

Florida seeks to expand gender-affirming care ban; could criminalize pharmacists and counselors

Trans youth still have a safe haven in California — but that could change

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers does not plan to sign a bill that would prevent trans women from competing on women’s athletic teams in the University of Wisconsin system or at the state’s technical colleges.

Jadzia Axelrod Has Created the Trans Superhero We Always Needed

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Jessie Ware – I Could Get Used To This (Official Video)
Another gender expanding adventure from pro-LGBTQ activist Jessie.

Trans Girl Scouts On Cookie List Sell 71,000 Boxes Of Cookies And Growing

American Transgender Girl Scouts featured on a widely shared online cookie-buying list have sold more than 71,000 boxes this season, according to Erin Reed’s newsletter Erin In The Morning.

At the end of last semester, the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) eliminated all protections that transgender and nonbinary students had secured, under pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration.

Australia: Federal Government Delivers On Funding Promise to Australian LGBTQ+ News Outlets

Conservatives freak out over He-Man using pronouns

Ireland’s education department has rejected guidance which claimed schools must make “every effort” to use – and update systems to reflect – a trans pupil’s pronouns and name

The Cost of Anti-Trans Rhetoric Is Paid in Public Violence

LGBTQ Inclusive Education and Academic Performance: What You Need to Know

Stop Sex Matters infiltrating the Council of Europe

UK

The Reform Council in Worcestershire is trying to ban trans people from accessing services. We’re fighting back

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From Pharmacists to Therapists, Florida Could Prosecute “Aiding And Abetting” Trans Youth Care If New Bill Passes

A Senate committee advanced a bill Wednesday that would define “sex” and “gender” in state law based on certain biological characteristics at birth and add requirements for prison housing.

Skeptical judges grill Trump government lawyers on logic of ‘meaningless process’ in trans military ban

California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday joined 17 other attorneys general and one governor in filing an amicus brief opposing a federal subpoena seeking patient records tied to gender-affirming care at a Pennsylvania hospital.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Poised to Eliminate Harassment Guidance Protecting Transgender Employees
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Harper Steele To Exec Produce New Trans Masc Youth Documentary, ‘What Will I Become?’

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The Year Everything Stopped – A Trans Woman’s Story

People Are SO CONFUSED About What a “Social Construct” Is | Arden Hart & MamaMephistopheles

I Came Out as Trans After Marriage & Kids at 48, Sophie’s Story

Dating While Trans ft. Julia Serano | When Attraction Meets Stigma (video)