Transgender Report

Cisgender people have written defiant letters of love and solidarity to the trans community in a bid to combat rising transphobia in the UK.

The campaign, which began on Valentine’s Day and continues through late February, encourages supporters to write simple but heartfelt letters in support of transgender people’s dignity, worth, and right to exist. 

You can share your letter here!

Not In Our Name, a group of cisgender trans-allies which stands behind the project, also run another campaign in support of trans people. 84,384 have signed that letter at the moment of writing. The goal is 100,000 signatures. Women, cis or trans, can sign the campaign letter here!

The Victorian chapter of Lesbian Action Group (LAG), is appealing a Human Rights Commission ruling that prevents the group from excluding trans women from its public gatherings.

Pope Leo XIV dismisses chance of change in Vatican’s LGBTQ+ rights stance

Transgender People, Organized Religion, and Rejection

First baby born in the UK after womb transplant from deceased donor

BAFTA host Alan Cumming was warned ‘you’ll be deported’ from US after speech

Izzy Trazona Family in Philippines Transgender Clash
A public dispute involving former Filipino pop star Izzy Trazona, her husband Alvin Aragon, and their transgender daughter Sofia has sparked widespread backlash in the Philippines.

UK Politics

UK consultation on the proposed changes to the statutory guidance Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE) #BWOT

UK Parliament debate on cancelling the puberty blockers trial #BWOT

The Gender Liberation Movement’s Raquel Willis says trans youth “are our future” and that new HHS rules amount to a national ban on gender-affirming care for young people.

Hilary Cass Shocked to Find Youth Gender Medicine Debate Politicized and Ignoring Evidence

US Politics

Trans People Have Had Enough of Democrats’ Waffling on LGBTQ+ Issues

Vanderbilt To Drop Major Gender-Affirming Surgeries For Trans Adults

Will Lombardo-backed measure affecting trans athletes make it to ballot? Judge weighs suit

Trans candidates Aaron Baker and Robin McCoy run for Georgia General Assembly

How the SAVE America Act Republicans are touting will disenfranchise married & LGBTQ+ Americans

A National Park Service biologist who was fired for hanging a transgender pride flag on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park has sued the Interior Department for wrongful termination.

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons

Employee sues GM, alleges firing after reporting anti-transgender harassment

Arizona Republicans want voters to decide on trans bathroom ban after years of Hobbs vetoes

Gavin Newsom is the wrong choice—for trans people and for Democrats

These 21 states now limit transgender people’s bathroom use

Billionaire-Funded Anti-Trans Bathroom/Sports Ban Ballot Initiative Moves Forward In Maine

Censoring gender in higher education impacts more than just trans people

NHS Trial for Trans Youth Put on Indefinite Hold After Objection

India

Hyderabad: Justice Ujjal Bhuyan of the Supreme Court says that the judiciary must be an inclusive “rainbow institution” that reflected India’s diversity, moving beyond being a bastion of a single gender or dominant communities.
(It seems using the word “transgender” as a noun is common in India and not necessarily a sign of disrespect.)

India: The News Broadcasters and Digital Association (NBDSA) has fined Zee Telugu News 100,000 rupees for airing a programme in which it deemed the transgender identity of a group of arrested persons to be ‘fake’

The Delhi government is expected to notify rules within the next 15 days to bring transgender persons in the national capital under key welfare measures, including the SMILE scheme, shelter homes and health coverage.

Transgender Stats In India: Population & Demographics

8 times Elliot Page radiated trans joy as he turns 39

New book on trans athletes emphasizes human dignity

Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports
Ellie Roscher and Dr. Anna Baeth

“You grow so much being around queer people” It Man frontman Finn O’Brien on being a trans man in music

“Everyone has different reasons for coming out or not, but for me it feels like a coming of age thing.” He explains that when he was younger, he was terrified of people knowing he was trans, but as he’s gotten older and more comfortable in himself, he doesn’t care as much. 

US politics

We Spoke to 8 Trans Inmates. They Say the Bureau of Prisons Is Illegally Denying Them Care

Former top general calls military’s removal of trans troops a costly mistake

‘They better take away duct tape’: Trans men say they’ll keep binding despite FDA crackdown

UK clinical trial into puberty blockers on hold after medicines regulator steps in

Most Transgender People Have Been Victims Of Violence, Study Says

What UK Trans+ kids say about draft education guidance that could force schools to segregate them

Hometown Pride Meets National Stage as Two Trans Michiganders Head to Major Pageant

US Politics

How female genital mutilation victims got caught in the crossfire of Trump’s war on trans kids

An anti-LGBTQ+ organization submitted signatures to the Colorado secretary of state’s office Friday for two ballot measures that would restrict rights for transgender children in the state. 

What’s next, after Kansas Republican Legislature’s anti-trans bathroom bill? | Opinion

L.G.B.T.Q. Clubs in Some Texas Schools Can’t Be Banned, Judge Says

Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons

The United States Department of Justice has opened civil rights investigations into three Michigan school districts, examining whether students are being taught material referencing LGBTQ+ people

Vanderbilt University Medical Center to Cease Gender-Affirming Surgeries

Trans activists arrested outside HHS headquarters in D.C.

Digging Into Transgender Prison Care and the Eighth Amendment

TWIBS: Conservatives Fabricate Connection Between Trans People and Mass Shootings

Federal appeals court sides with Pentagon against science, reinstating U.S. military’s HIV enlistment ban

Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map: Feb 2026 (Erin Reed)

❤️🩵🤍❤️🩵🤍❤️🩵🤍❤️🩵🤍❤️🩵🤍❤️🩵🤍❤️🩵🤍❤️🩵🤍❤️🩵

A new batch of POSITIVE transgender news for you here!

UK: Seven Hills Women’s Institute to close amid fallout from transgender membership ban

Non-binary client wins discrimination case against Montreal-area hair salon

Black transgender woman Hannah Nokes captured headlines in 1930s

Why is violence pathologized for trans people but individualized for cis men?

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a former Chilliwack, B.C., school trustee to pay $750,000 to the local teachers association, finding his conduct during his tenure “poisoned” the workplaces of LGBTQ+ staff members.

Reward Offered in Los Angeles Transgender Hate Crime Case

“Why should I celebrate you?”: Coming out at 40 in an age of trans backlash

Players Score Dignity in India’s First Transgender Football League

Inside the Philanthropy of Jennifer Pritzker, the First Openly Transgender Billionaire

US Politics

‘You cannot let there be a vacuum’: On trans rights, Dems prepare for 2026
Archive

Its Time For Mayor Mamdani To Live Up To His Campaign Promises On Transgender Youth

Bill Allowing Broad Discrimination Against Married Same-Sex Couples Passes Tennessee House

Federal Prisons Bar Gender-Affirming Care for Trans People

Chuck Schumer drafts bill to protect Pride flags at national park sites like Stonewall memorial

Fox News host says trans people should not be allowed to own guns

Can Transgender People Be Barred From Gun Ownership?

Who is May Mailman? White House strategist behind Trump’s anti-trans agenda

US enforces anti-trans ‘bathroom bounty’ law despite governor’s veto

University of Utah Healthcare Abandons Trans Kids as Utah Legislature’s Bigotry Intensifies

Utah: After previously passing the House, the bill that would stop public employees’ insurance from covering transgender health care failed to make it out of committee on Thursday.

San Francisco struggling to support transgender community amid budget cuts

Their Transgender Child’s Health Care Had Ended. What Now?
Archive
NYT is not a trans-supportive newspaper, although this article is fairly balanced.

Harry Potter fans have NO EXCUSES left (Video)

The trans rights backlash is real

New research shows a decline in American support for trans people.

According to a US survey presented and analyzed by Lakshya Jain in The Argument, measures once widely opposed, such as bills requiring transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding to their sex assigned at birth, now has the support of a majority of voters, with about 52 % backing such legislation and only 33 % opposing it.

VERY Dangerous Conclusions are Being Drawn From a New Poll on Trans Rights

JAMA Investigation: 26% of Trans and Gender Diverse Youth Have Attempted Suicide

New Laws Protecting Intersex People From Unnecessary Medical Procedures Pass In Victoria

Anti-Trans Activist Wins eSafety Legal Battle After “Menacing” Post About VIC School Teacher

Ghana Lawmakers Push Forward Extreme Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill Once Again

Sarah McBride responds to actor James Woods’ attempt at trolling

Boy George calls out ’80s pop star for ‘siding with transphobes’

US Politics

Texas AG sues another Dallas doctor over ban on gender-affirming care for minors
Archive

Suspect identified in alleged beating of transgender woman in Westlake District

NYU Langone Health cited the “current regulatory environment” in its decision to discontinue its gender medicine program for minors.
Archive

Hillary Clinton and Sarah McBride expose how weaponizing ‘scarcity’ drives anti-trans political attacks

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans
Archive

Kansas Republicans are close to forcing transgender bathroom restrictions into law

Kansas Republicans Override Governor’s Veto, Pass First Ever Trans Bathroom Bounty, Trans ID Revocation Law

UH students lose several gender-neutral bathrooms, as university begins enforcing Texas bathroom bill

Markey says transgender rights fight is ‘next frontier’

Gay Treasury Secretary’s silence on LGBTQ issues shows he is scum

Washington DC: 25 arrested at protest against proposed ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth

Fed Intervenes in Allegations Against Trans Student Athlete

How “Exploratory Therapy” Becomes Conversion Therapy in Disguise

Rhode Island hockey mass shooting leaves family shattered and shooter’s identity in the spotlight

In 1843, St. Louis became the first city in the United States to forbid anyone appearing in public “in a dress not belonging to their sex.”

After Being Shot amid His Transition, He Continued His Journey of Gender-Affirming Plastic Surgery

This LGBTQ+ art exhibition is begging you to listen to trans youth

Balancing Science, Fairness, and Messaging: Online Debate on Trans Athletes
Forum discussion here.

The Professional Association for Transgender Health South Africa (PATHSA) has published an important response to discriminatory and harmful arguments that question the legitimacy of gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary youth.

LGBTQ+ and disability hate crimes to become aggravated offences in new UK law

Learning from our mistakes: Why I wrote ‘Brown/Trans/Les’

AI-Driven Misinformation Hurting Transgender People

UK’s largest trade union calls out EHRC over trans guidance

US Politics

“You Outlaw It”: Heritage Foundation President Announces Intent To Outlaw All Trans Adult Care

US totally split on whether LGBTQ+ discrimination is a problem

24 Parents And Activists Blockade HHS Headquarters In Protest Against New Trans Youth Care Ban, Arrested

Trump’s ‘SAVE America Act’ Could Make it Impossible for Some Trans People to Vote

I’m An Outsider Living Deep In MAGA Country. This Is What Most People Will Never Know About Life Here.

Pride Flag’s Removal From Stonewall Violated Federal Law, Suit Says
Archive

Group of trans women devastated as ‘bottom surgeries’ suddenly cancelled

Dr Hilary Cass faces formal complaint over BBC interview

Social media misleads young on gender transitioning, says England review leader
Link to transphobic newspaper

Dr Hilary Cass accused of ‘hypocrisy’ over social media ban comments

Killing trans people with “kindness”. Sasha Ayad presents transphobic conversion therapy as care.

Chromosome Testing Will Take Sports Back To The Dark Ages

“Grim decision”: High Court rejects challenge to EHRC interim guidance on single-sex spaces

Ireland: An eighteen-year wait for trans healthcare with more than 2,500 on waiting list

Harry Potter TV star Johnny Flynn has been slammed for his “spineless” attempt at addressing the controversy surrounding JK Rowling’s views on the transgender community. 

Dr Beth Upton, the trans doctor at the centre of a high-profile tribunal brought by a nurse who complained about sharing a women’s changing room with her, has since left the NHS.

European Parliament resolution backs ‘full recognition of trans women as women’

Fight over trans rights comes to Brussels. NGOs claim that anti-transgender activists are getting more speaking time at events in Brussels.

A sports team for everyone, that’s the message transgender girls and women in Edmonton are sending as a quadball event celebrates inclusion, confidence and a space to play.

US Politics

Idaho activists, officials decry anti-LGBTQ+ bills as House passes trans bathroom ban in businesses

Last month, Kansas passed a bathroom bounty bill that could target private businesses. Now, Idaho will hear a similar bill that is more explicit that private businesses are also impacted.

New legislation to keep Pride flag flying permanently at Stonewall Monument proposed

Trans Activists March in Downtown Boston, Bringing Trans Healthcare Fight To The State Legislature

Parents, patients in dark as UPMC closes gender-affirming care program

Transgender troops speak up as they’re forced out

Videos

Why Trans Elder tells her Story

The Trans Films That Changed Cinema

LGBTQ+ Identification Holds at 9% in U.S. 1.1% say they are transgender.

Gallup’s latest national polling finds that 9% of U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ+, a figure that has held steady since 2024 but remains more than double the rate recorded in 2012. 

More than half of LGBTQ+ adults identify as bisexual, representing about 5% of the entire U.S. adult population. Smaller shares identify as gay (17%), lesbian (16%), or transgender (12%), with an additional 6% choosing identities such as queer or pansexual.

Nearly 23% of adults under 30 identify as LGBTQ+, compared with 10% of those aged 30–49 and 3% or fewer among older groups. 

Illustration: Getty

James Alderton explores the next evolution of Australia’s drag culture, queer art that challenges boundaries and entertains. They grew up with Drag Race, and now they are growing out of it.

Trans people facing ‘workers’ rights crisis’ as court rules employers can ban trans women from using female toilets

Mardi Gras Spotlights The Power & Joy of Australia’s Trans Community

There Is A Trans Winter Olympian, And Nobody Cares

When Workplace Conflict Targets Trans Professionals

Pakistan: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has introduced a new policy aimed at protecting #transgender people from discrimination, violence, and harassment while improving their access to education, healthcare, jobs, and social welfare.

The Mark of Cain: sibling rockers reveal Josie Scott’s transgender secret

US Politics

The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked the government’s $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations.

Brown University Sold Out on Trans Rights To Restore Federal Funding

AZ transgender community pushes back on immigration enforcement

Kansas governor vetoes ‘bathroom bill’ aimed at transgender people

Himangi Sakhi of Mumbai was on Sunday anointed as the first transgender Shankaracharya of India amid chanting of Vedic hymns and recital of Sanatan shlokas at a grand ceremony held on the occasion of Mahashivratri in Bhopal.

More GOOD transgender news headlines for you to enjoy!❤️🩵🤍

Videos

The Transphobes in the Epstein Files

How Soon Your Sexuality May Change on Feminizing Hormones (And Why)

EU Parliament’s BIG Vote on Trans Rights!

Queensland To Create World’s Largest Trans Flag To Support Trans Youth

Children ‘weaponised’ by both sides of trans debate, Cass says
We don’t think Cass has the right to present “both sides” of the debate. She is definitely on the dark side.

Call for Europe-wide ban on conversion therapy passes

Transgender Rights and the Gap Between Law and Lived Experience

The European Social Survey: A Case Study In Gender Assignation

India

India: Sweety Milk Dairy Farm is no ordinary dairy farm; it is operated by a member of India’s transgender community, a group that has historically been marginalised.
Archive

India: Jamshedpur Women’s University Hosts ‘Joy of Giving’ Event Dedicated to Transgender Community

PESHAWAR: A colourful transgender sports gala was held at the Peshawar Sports Complex here on Saturday under the auspices of the Directorate General of Sports Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban

US Politics

Colorado: Judge denies request to force Children’s Hospital to resume gender-affirming care for transgender youth

Trump Falsely Links Trans People to Terrorism. Now, a Target Is on Their Back

MO House OKs permanent ban on puberty blockers for transgender youths

Iowa House advances bills targeting transgender protections and GOP lawmakers advance statewide school dress code bill

Illinois senator’s bill on transgender ‘mental illness’ sparks debate
Archive

Wyoming sorority members who harassed a trans sister are back in court, with a Trump ally’s help

Art

In this collection of one novel and three novellas, Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing.

Silence of the Lambs team apologizes to transgender community after 35 years