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Transgender News September 30

“Farewell to Britain’s standing on LGBTQ+ rights”: Trans rights groups bring message to Labour conference ahead of PM Andy Burnham’s speech

Transgender New York Times executive fatally shot by elderly in-laws, police say

Riley Gaines’ Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds “No Evidence” Of Funding Claims

Dozens attend Fairview school board meeting in support of transgender homecoming queen

A transgender student at Charles R. Drew High School will not be allowed to run for homecoming queen.

NC appeals court hears arguments in case of patient who regrets transgender healthcare procedures

TransLucent is Proud to announce that Alan Cumming has become its latest Patron.

529 openly LGBTQ candidates running in Brazilian election

Galop urges action for trans abuse victims after Bridget Phillipson says she would not allow trans access to women’s refuges

Groundbreaking LGBTQ+ nature documentary narrated by Elliot Page to be screened during Banned Books Week

Wil Wheaton; The Stand by Me and Star Trek star gets candid with The Advocate about his gay fans, standing up for trans rights, childhood pain, and finding his people.

US Politics

James Talarico Tells Supporter He’ll ‘Always’ ‘Fight for Trans Kids’ in New Video

KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”

Why Republicans Calling Trans People “Mentally Ill” Is More Than Just Rhetoric

Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.

California to fund gender-affirming care for trans youth on Medi-Cal
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Voters care about everything else more than they care about trans issues, new poll finds

Trans people, anguished by Kansas driver’s license law, go to court
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Cheek Swabs? Genital Checks? Anti-Trans Sports Ban Proponents Don’t Know How It Would Be Enforced

Gretchen Whitmer, ‘a Midwest lesbian’s mom,’ has a message for Democrats waffling on LGBTQ+ rights

Anti-trans activists are addicted to misinformation as their latest “report” shows

Teachers in red states are terrified to stand up for LGBTQ+ students

“God was speaking to her”: Christian wins right to adopt kids & reject their LGBTQ+ identity

Transgender News September 29

The Democrat turn on trans rights should be a warning to Canadian progressives

LGBTQ+ advocates were in Ottawa on Monday asking the federal government to call an inquiry into provincial laws they say have escalated harassment, bullying and mental health harms for transgender people.

For transgender Muslims in Kelantan, quiet family acceptance at home contrasts with growing fear of sharia crackdowns

Fears for LGBTQ+ rights in Colombia after government withdraws from Equal Rights Coalition

Transphobic White House claims Donald Trump has protected trans people from crime over past two years

US Politics

U.S. Supreme Court: Trump asks Supreme Court to allow restrictions on gender-affirming care in prisons

DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison

Trump administration repeals Title IX protections for LGBTQ students

NY-21 Dem Congressional Candidate Blake Gendebien Releases Ad Decrying “Boys In Girls Sports”

In Democratic-led Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh hospital caves to Trump. Trans kids lose care for a decade

Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads: insiders

Oregon promises safe homes for LGBTQ+ foster kids, but just dropped a requirement to support their identities

Transgender advocates protest UPMC’s decision to halt pediatric gender-affirming care
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UPMC’s new agreements with the Trump administration’s Department of Justice require the healthcare system to stop providing gender-affirming care to minors for 10 years, but courts or politics could shorten that timeline.

Trump strips Biden-era LGBTQ+ language from Title IX rules. Advocates warn of far-reaching damage

Fox pundits enraged that Obama praised women leaders without being transphobic

Federal court rules against voluntary “X” gender markers because they could out nonbinary people

“Hero” librarian sues after being fired for refusing to hide LGBTQ+ books from children

Transgender News September 28

Naomi Watts supports trans daughter Kai Schreiber at Milan Fashion Week

Ellie Goulding shuts down anti-trans fan: ‘We don’t tolerate any anti LGBTQ+ in the fandom’

A transgender woman and her partner were pepper-sprayed and physically attacked while walking to work in Miami-Dade.

“Legislation anxiety” is plaguing trans people nationwide

US Politics

Newsom signs bills aimed at protecting LGBTQ people, citing Trump administration attacks

Facing a barrage of Republican anti-trans ads, some Democrats are changing how they respond

Transgender kids are being used as political props
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Washington voters to decide whether transgender athletes can continue to compete in K-12 girls sports in I-638

Sarah McBride’s opponent kept misgendering her. He was removed from the debate.

Gretchen Whitmer to Democrats questioning their support for trans rights: ‘I’ve never wavered’

The GOP wants to talk about crime, immigration and trans issues. Voters don’t

If Joanna Whaley wins the race for state representative in District 2 in the Nov. 3 election, she will be the first transgender woman in the Michigan House.
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Transgender News September 26

NHS Wales apologises for withdrawal of trans healthcare, admits “urgent review” still hasn’t begun

Tasmanian Liberal MPs will be allowed a conscience vote on a bill to ban conversion practices that attempt to suppress or convert a person’s gender or sexual identity.

The right’s “last-ditch effort to assert itself”: Historian says we are winning the culture war

Trans priest, who believes God is trans, responds to transphobic backlash with message of love

Author John Green has said it’s “heartbreaking” for trans Harry Potter fans who he said have been “betrayed” by writer JK Rowling.

Nikki Glaser apologized to Briel Adams-Wheatley, a transgender influencer who was born without limbs, after making her the subject of a “dumb” joke at a comedy show.

Tamil LGBTQ+ Movies: Tamil Films That Explore Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Queer Stories

From margins to mainstream: Meet India’s first transgender disaster rescue squad

First Council of Europe Strategy for equal rights of LGBTI people adopted, new report on anti-LGBTI hate speech released

Tans activist Roxxy Astaiza killed in Colombia after fighting transfemicide

What our oceans can teach us about natural gender and sex variations

US Politics

‘They don’t want trans people to exist’ – Lynx’s Cheryl Reeve speaks her mind

Texas Dem. Senate Candidate Talarico Clarifies He Still Opposes Statewide Ban On Trans Athletes

Minnesota students sue after school board bans rainbow & Pride symbols

1st Circuit Declares States Protect Non-Binary People’s ‘Privacy Rights’ By Not Recognizing Their Identities in Horrific Ruling

Judge questions Trump policy forcing HIV providers to disregard transgender patients

The hard choice Democrats face on Republicans’ anti-trans attacks
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Ketanji Brown Jackson warns the Supreme Court puts eligible voters at risk in pro-Trump ruling

Texas says transgender prisoners can keep their hormones — unless they’re under 18

Far-right legal group lodges federal complaint against North and South Kingstown’s transgender student policies

A federal judge has dismissed claims from three parent advocacy groups seeking to block a Colorado transgender antidiscrimination law — though similar claims from Christian organizations have survived for now.

“Disappointed and ashamed”: LGBTQ+ & ally groups slam Dem Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s anti-trans ads

Carrie Coon calls out high school for canceling LGBTQ+ play that students were rehearsing

Why do trans and gender-nonconforming people keep showing up suspiciously close to gods, prophecy and ancient religion?

Transgender News September 25

Mayor of Brighton & Hove visits Trans Pride Centre

Japan: Transgender man seeks recognition as father of biological child

“I’m fat. My partner is trans. I’ve never felt so understood”

For trans New Brunswickers, healthcare access remains spotty

TransLucent Applies to the High Court to Intervene in the Hampstead Heath Ponds Case.

Wales Green Party leader says surgery ordeal helped him understand impact of “ill-thought-out and callous” trans healthcare delays

Yes, Trans Homicides Are Down. Now Read the Fine Print

The National Wrestling Alliance: Shaw, the first out trans femme champion in NWA history, signed an exclusive contract with the company over the weekend.

US Politics

The Ohio Democratic Party Is Silencing Its Pride Caucus Over Criticism Of Kaptur’s “Transgender Ideology” Ad

NYC Ditches Federal Homeless Veterans Program, Citing Concern for Transgender Vets

Pete Hegseth faces questions over unpaid transgender troops. Seven lawmakers are demanding answers after reports that service members pushed out under Trump’s ban have waited months for promised pay.

“Trans people must now live out another election cycle knowing our friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors are being flooded with agitprop designed to dehumanize us.”

Republican Alabama Lawmaker Takes to the Senate Floor for Bizarre Attack on Trans People

Gay Dutch prime minister & Zohran Mamdani visit LGBTQ+ archive — and hear from young New Yorkers it serves

Politicians continue campaign of dehumanizing trans people as affordability crisis crushes families

Transgender Executive Order Continues to Drive Litigation

Hundreds rally against NYC’s NYU Langone Hospital’s capitulation to Trump on trans healthcare

Ohio Democrats’ trans panic, explained

“Transgender Americans understand what’s at stake when Republicans campaign against our rights. But understanding those stakes doesn’t mean giving Democrats a free pass when they borrow anti-trans rhetoric to win elections. “

TWIBS: Princess Gonzo Terrifies Brendan Carr

“Deeply alarming”: Anti-trans FDA nominee refuses to say Trump’s untrue medical claims are wrong

JD Vance implies James Talarico is a pedophile because he supports trans kids

Pro-LGBTQ+ Democrat accused of calling staffers “fa***t” in angry outbursts

“Dodge, discredit, deflect”: Democrat called out for refusing to talk about trans rights positions

On Tuesday, protesters gathered in front of NYU Langone to express their outrage at the hospital’s settlement with the DoJ, in which the hospital officially agreed to pay $8.5 million and permanently end all gender-affirming care for trans youth.

Alyssa Edwards Responds to Ken Paxton’s Anti-Drag Attack Ad: “Texas Is Big Enough for All of Us”

Transgender News September 24

Karnataka State Law University’s (KSLU) decides to provide 1% horizontal reservation for transgender persons

Violence against women and trans people is worse than you thought

Florida trans woman and her partner attacked while walking to work by women in a car

Your Body Is Changing Again: Understanding the HRT Plateau

The Delhi government has approved a new electric-auto initiative aimed at creating self-employment opportunities for cis and trans women while expanding last-mile transport options in the national capital.

US Politics

Equality PAC, Political Arm Of Congressional LGBTQ Caucus, Endorses Marcy Kaptur Days After Her Anti-Trans Ad

Trump Justice Department’s latest bid to sideline 17 transgender troops’ revoked retirement lawsuit fails

US: At least six hospitals have chosen to close programs and take penalties rather than uphold gender-affirming care for minors.

A Denver judge Tuesday night sided with Children’s Hospital Colorado after attorneys for young transgender patients had sought to hold the hospital in contempt of court.

‘Honor your oath’: Hundreds confront NYU Langone hospital over caving to Trump on trans healthcare

“To enforce excluding trans girls from sports, I-638 would require all girls to submit to sex inspections before being allowed to play any sport in elementary, middle, and high school.”

Centrists Won’t Tell You Where “Moderating” on Trans Rights Ends Up

Documentary filmmakers go behind the scenes of a Florida college’s anti-DEI takeover

Washington Blade responds to concerns over White House pool duties

Senator says “furry” pilots are taking over airlines because of trans people: “We’re sitting ducks!”

New Proposal Would Protect Trans People’s Info in Denver

Texas inmates with an intersex condition or a gender dysphoria diagnosis should still have access to hormone medications, or HRT, according to a recently reviewed policy provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Videos

Why Germany’s Anti-LGBTQ Party AfD Is Led By a Lesbian Living with a Swiss woman of Sri Lankan decent. On the hypocrisy of Alice Elisabeth Weidel.

Transgender News September 23

Meta had to be shamed into restoring queer club pages on Facebook and Instagram

Why are queer L.A. nightclubs disappearing from Facebook and Instagram?

A transgender radio DJ quit on air, alleging a hostile work environment at their Virginia radio station and claiming that they were censored from speaking on political issues.

“We’re Not Going Away”: Texas Town’s Pride Festival Vows To Fight After Council Attempts To Block It

Australia: Can your employer legally ask for your deadname?

United Nations human rights chief sounds alarm over ‘comprehensive onslaught’ against LGBTQ rights

US Politics

Gavin Newsom explains the surprising reason he just vetoed a pro-trans bill

Prop 318 would restrict transgender athletes in Arizona schools

Few trans students play school sports in Colorado. A 2026 ballot measure would ban them.

Inside the fight to stop a MAGA millionaire from using anti-trans ballot measures to get a tax break

The lie dominating Musk’s 2026 political ads

Local Democratic groups are calling on U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) to take down campaign ads that reference “transgender ideology.”
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The Boise School District will pay $34,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former cisgender student who said she twice encountered a transgender classmate in the girls’ restroom

Democrats hit back on GOP transgender attack ads

Texas PAC has bought $64 million in attack ads against Democrat James Talarico and it features menacingly edited segments of an otherwise innocuous Human Rights Campaign video.

UK: Lib Dems defend trans people (+ more trans news)

Lib Dems become first major party to reject EHRC trans guidance

The Liberal Democrats have become the first major Westminster party to formally reject the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) guidance on the implementation of the Supreme Court’s ruling on sex and gender, after members overwhelmingly backed a motion describing the code as “discriminatory and unworkable”.

Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people

Lib Dems: Restoring Trans Rights

The “Trans Kid Surgery” Myth. The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts.

100 groups warn ‘biological sex’ push would strip protections from trans and intersex Australians

Craig and Charlie Reid, who make up the Scottish rock duo The Proclaimers, best known for their 1988 hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” denounced trans rights while promoting their new album

Black trans woman Sophie Lee remembered after fatal shooting in Baltimore

Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan in Narnia is ‘blasphemous’, say angry pseudo-Christians

US Politics

Basic Rights Oregon Condemns Federal Ruling on Trans Women Prisoners

Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.

Dem mocks opponent for focus on trans folks amid rising costs: “That’s what they’re talking about?”

“Stop telling trans people they have to vote for anti-trans Democrats. Stop telling them they’ll be responsible for the fall of democracy unless they do.”

Anti-trans messaging isn’t the path to re-election that Rep. Marcy Kaptur thinks it is

A federal appeals court has refused to allow the Bureau of Prisons to immediately reinstate sweeping restrictions on gender-affirming medical care for incarcerated transgender people

Even Fox News is boycotting, but an LGBTQ+ outlet is still covering the White House pool

Two More Hospitals Strike DOJ Deals to End Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

Court rules trans women can be housed in men’s prisons & calls them men “who claim to be female”

Transgender News September 21

100 organisations unite to defend Australia’s anti-discrimination laws

“we are entering a phase of not being explicitly vocally trans in the public sphere. This is not a workable … especially as emancipation always comes from the radical deconstruction of oppressive systems”

She spouted anti-trans lies to oppose a rainbow crosswalk. Now she’s facing consequences.

Thai-American transgender woman Lo Colby has been crowned Miss International Queen 2026 in Pattaya, Thailand

Rising fashion model Kai Schreiber, the 17-year-old daughter of actors Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, has celebrated being the first trans girl to win a coveted Breakthrough Model of the Year award during New York Fashion Week.

Trans women are not a threat to women’s spaces. But cis men are.

A queer Torah study group is showing LGBTQ+ people they have always belonged in Judaism

From recruitment tactics to purity rules and apocalyptic warnings, it’s anti-trans rhetoric that mirrors cult-like behavior.

“When I began my journey of discovery along the transgender highway, I got stuck several times, because I wanted a simple answer. “

Trans Sports Dominate Culture Wars. But What Do Scientists Think?

Queer / کوئیر: The Power of the Umbrella

Unlike medicalized or hyper-specific terms, منفرد captures the essence of standing outside traditional societal templates with dignity. It allows individuals to honor their authentic selves without needing to justify the specifics of their attraction or gender to a conservative society.

US Politics

Trump’s catchphrase ‘transgender for everybody’ becomes an LGBTQ rallying cry

The Thomas More Society is threatening to sue the Wake County Public School System unless it allows a group of parents to remove their children from a required music class taught by a transgender teacher

For trans youth in the Hudson Valley, care is getting harder to find

WNBA star says transphobes are just exploiting women athletes: “They don’t care about the WNBA”

“We can’t act like we don’t know better – we know the effects of targeting trans youth for discrimination.”

Limiting access to medical professionals drives youth toward underground care networks, creating greater physical and psychological risks.

Transgender News September 19

Scottish Labour councillor failed to declare role in ‘gender critical’ group, breaching Council rules amid trade union legal action

Pedro Pascal says non-binary Bella Ramsey will ‘slay’ on The Celebrity Traitors

South Africa: Former Big Brother Mzansi contestant Ilano Sky has finally received an identity document reflecting her correct gender marker after waiting five years for the process to be completed.

‘Humiliated’: Trans man wins discrimination case after workplace outed him as trans against his will

No, This Graphic Doesn’t Prove Trans Women Are Dangerous

“According to the image, the sexual-offending rate for women is 3 per million, the rate for men is 395 per million, and the rate for transgender women is an astonishing 1,916 per million.”

But this is not what the numbers say.

Who is Kali Reis, the two-spirit, sexually fluid actress in Resident Evil?

US Politics

Anti-transgender legislation can cause psychological distress even in states with trans-friendly laws

Republican Congressman Gives WNBA (Meaningless) Deadline to Define “Women”

NYU Langone strikes deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors

Judge’s anti-trans language ‘harmful,’ even for winning lawyers in Oregon case
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As Trump loses ground and lashes out, some remain willing to capitulate when it comes to anti-trans hate

‘Pure discrimination’: Texas Pride organisers hit out after permit rejection

Right-wing group admits anti-trans ads won’t save the GOP

American Principles Project Warns Republicans That Targeting Trans People “May Not Be Sufficient” To Win 2026

UPMC University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to pay DOJ nearly $1M, agrees to 10-year moratorium on gender-affirming care for trans youth

Campaign Finance Complaint: Anti-Trans Initiative Backers Failed to Report Payments for Petitions

Trump deported trans woman Daniela Fuentes to Central African Republic; she says she has to hide who she is

Notorious anti-trans activist melts down at school board meeting: “This is insane!”

EEOC agrees to let Christian employers misgender trans employees

Federal Court Rules Oregon Can Place Trans Women in Men’s Prisons

As Massachusetts hospitals bow to Trump, these organizers are fighting to protect trans futures

GOP candidate booted from forum for misgendering Sarah McBride to her face

Democrat Rep. Marcy Kaptur Shows She’s Just As Anti-Trans As Her Opponent

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