Transgender Report

Meet the Mastermind Behind Trump’s Definition of “Woman”

I a new article Mother Jones presents May Mailman (photo), a senior Trump policy strategist portrayed as a chief architect of the administration’s campaign to redefine sex in federal policy and “eradicate” what it calls “gender ideology.” It is a fascinating and sad story about what happens if you give a reactionary fanatic access to power.

The Cowardice Of American Medicine On Trans Youth Care

Major medical orgs partially U-turn on trans surgeries – here’s what they said

Blanket rule on trans women in men’s prisons would deny their identity, says Scottish government

Australia: Advocates Celebrate As Legislation To Protect Intersex Children Passes VIC Lower House

How Sports Science Gets Weaponized Against Trans Athletes

No, trans women don’t have inherent advantage over cis women in sports: new study

Suicide risk if trans prisoners are put in jails based on sex at birth, court told

The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is non-binary AF

Kelantan: transgender woman arrested for gender reassignment. “It is against Sharia law”

How Many Transgender Athletes Are There – Numbers for 2026

In the only system where a senior official has provided a public estimate, the NCAA reported fewer than 10 known transgender athletes among approximately 510,000 college athletes in December 2024.

A Clippings Scrapbook: The Service of Albert Cashier and the Incivility of the United States

Brutal Killing of Queer Teen Shana Mzobe Shocks KwaZulu-Natal Community

US Politics

Inside the Battle Over Trans Care at Rady Children’s Hospital

Republican Senator Attacks Netflix Over “Trans Ideology” In Hearing

Convicted felon facing hate crime trial for attack on transgender woman

Texas A&M fired a professor for teaching about gender identity. Now, she’s suing

US Senate confirms former Thomas clerk, transgender sports opponent to judgeships

Transgender Rights in the Courts: A Year of Landmark Decisions and Pending Questions

Utah House passes bill to fully ban transgender treatments for minors

A top official at the Minnesota State High School League reiterated Thursday that the nonprofit will not change its policy that allows transgender athletes to compete in girls high school sports.
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Two medical associations update their recommendations on gender-affirming care for trans youth

“We already know that trans women’s lives are being made hell by current political and media narratives. But far less attention is paid to the growing number of cisgender women now being targeted simply for failing to conform to a narrow, outdated standard of femininity.”

New research from Diversity Council Australia (DCA) paints a sobering picture: 46% of LGBTQI+ workers say they experienced discrimination and/or harassment at work in the past year.

Alex Greenwich has called on the NSW Government to fund a dedicated LGBTQ+ legal service to protect the community following “violent and visceral threats.”

US politics

Children’s Minnesota to pause some pediatric gender health services

Parents of trans kids ask: Does California really protect our rights?

Human Rights Watch sharply criticizes US in annual report

The fight over transgender health care services was front and center at the New York State Capitol on Tuesday.

Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.

California AG Bonta Files Groundbreaking Lawsuit Against Rady Children’s Hospital for Dropping Trans Youth GAC

New Equality Caucus vice chair endorses Equality Act, federal trans bill of rights

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution reaffirming the city’s commitment to trans health care.

Fired after gender identity lesson, professor sues Texas A&M, arguing her free speech rights were violated

“First, Public Figure A smears trans people. The culture doesn’t care. Then comes the racism or antisemitism. But transphobia is a gateway drug.”

Trump administration’s denial of gender-affirming care to federal employees is unlawful, says LGBTQ+ group

Nicki Minaj attacks trans kids—again

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If Someone You Love Comes Out as Trans, Watch This

How I came out as trans to my Mexican Latino family & being better prepared

QueerAF needs your help.

Newly Released Epstein Doc Has ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Furious With JK Rowling

JK Rowling Called Out After Inviting Jeffrey Epstein To A Children’s Play — Years After His Child Sex Conviction

Fresh backlash after newly unsealed U.S. Department of Justice records appeared to show convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was granted VIP access to a private Broadway event linked to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in April 2018, years after his 2008 conviction

Scottish Labour commits to banning transgender women from female prisons if Anas Sarwar becomes first minister

Renowned transgender medicine surgeon defends appearing in Epstein files disclosures

Vivian Wilson seems to corroborate Epstein-Musk emails

Faster, Higher, Stronger – Transphobic

Can transgender athletes compete at the Milano Cortina Winter Games?

What counseling for trans kids is really like | The therapist is in

The guitarist of iconic South Australian band The Mark of Cain has come out as a trans woman, telling fans she has decided to “embrace, rather than endure, who I am”.
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Mark of Cain singer comes out as trans ‘to finally live as myself’

Russia has declared this photo of Queen is LGBT propaganda

Q News reports that a 22‑year‑old man in Moscow, David Gevondyan, was convicted of spreading “LGBT propaganda” after he posted a famous photo of the rock band Queen on the Russian social media site VK.

US politics

Kansas Bill Will Strip Driver’s Licenses from Every Trans Resident Who Changed Gender

A Jury Found Doctors Liable in a Gender Surgery Case. Here’s What Actually Happened

My City Is Under Occupation: A Trans Reporter’s Dispatch From Minneapolis

Policy on trans students’ pronouns didn’t violate teacher’s rights, federal appeals court says
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‘Almost media silence’: National, local news ignores trans Americans amid 2025’s anti-trans attacks

This transgender Space Force veteran’s service didn’t end when Trump’s military pushed her out

Utah lawmakers look to allow landlords to restrict housing for transgender renters

Court rules trans-inclusive policy does not violate Christian teacher’s rights

Meet the only out trans athlete competing at the Winter Olympics

Elis Lundholm will be the first athlete to compete at a Winter Olympics while being publicly out as trans. He competes in skiing.

This year’s event will also be the first Winter Olympics to feature an out trans athlete, Swedish freestyle skier Elis Lundholm.

John Lithgow says he finds JK Rowling’s stance on trans rights ‘ironic and inexplicable’

Offensive or all for laughs? Proud trans woman Michelle Sheppard watched Pauline Hanson’s A Super Progressive Movie so you don’t have to.

India: Odisha govt urged to add third gender option in OPSC exam form

Detransitioners

Clarifying the Less than 1%: The False Alarm of Transition Regret, Discontinuation, and Detransition

Detransitioner wins $2 million in medical malpractice trial

How Anti-Trans Groups Will Weaponize the Detransitioner Verdict

US

7 pediatric bioethicists: Proposed ban on Medicaid funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care for minors is deeply unethical

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

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Is The ‘Transgender Trend’ Over?

The Persistent Myth That Transgender Identity Is Just a Phase

Hilarious trans terminology mix-up goes viral on TikTok: ‘I woke up to the most confused message’

Upper Extremity Surgical Outcomes: “Despite significantly higher psychiatric comorbidity, transgender patients undergoing upper extremity surgery demonstrated equivalent postoperative outcomes when compared to their cisgender peers.”

Australia: Euphoria Month takes over Metro Social every Wednesday in February, delivering four free shows spotlighting trans and non-binary artists across pop, indie, metal, punk and dance music.

US

6 LGBTQ Minnesotans Speak Out Amid ICE Crackdowns

‘America’s Most Powerful Transphobe’: How One Man Quietly Shaped Anti-Trans Legislation Nationwide

How a trans woman’s removal from a restroom tore the world of competitive pinball apart

Kansas Legislature Passes Trans Bathroom Bounty, Drivers License Revocations

Epstein

Jess Ting, a plastic surgeon who is renowned for his work of performing vaginoplasties on trans patients, used his clinic to give plastic surgery to women and girls that Jeffrey Epstein or his team referred to as his “girls”

EPSTEIN FILES: Trans Teen Accused Epstein in 2007, Villified & Stalked, Silenced With a $28,000 Settlement

Musk’s Estranged Daughter Shares Haunting Holiday Memory Following Revelations He Planned Epstein Island Visit

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2 Years On HRT | Transgender MTF
“I know that I am a woman.”

The Rise of Transphobia in This Country… and Nobody Wants to Talk About It

Year Of The Dolls is a fly-on-the-wall documentary about trans life, shot across a single day in 2025, during the photoshoot of a charity calendar by the same name.

The Trans Community Needs A Backbone

“I Don’t Deserve to Transition” – Where This Belief Comes From | For Trans Adults 30+

Supporting your non-trans partner

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.

From Bluesky

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

Council of Europe votes for ban on conversion practices

The Council of Europe is a pan-European international organization (founded in 1949) whose main job is to promote human rights, democracy and rule of law.

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

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

US

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

US

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’

US

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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US

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.