Transgender Report

The Threats Facing Transgender News and Analysis (and what we can do about it)

The whole Internet media landscape is changing dramatically, and that has repercussions for media coverage of trans issues as well as transgender content providers. Trans journalists and activists have to adapt to these changes, if they are to serve the LGBTQ community and contribute to the coverage of trans issues.

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When Did Feminism Become So Interested in Other Women’s Genitals?

Australia: NSW Liberal Leader Kellie Sloane is angry about gender-neutral breastfeeding language…

Canadians deserve a prime minister with the political courage to defend 2SLGBTQ+ rights – and the conviction to turn his words into real action.

Los Angeles Reports Rise in Anti-Trans and Homophobic Hate Crimes. Many More May Be Going Unreported

When their trans wife came out, they sought support from others in their shoes. They didn’t find it.

Hunter Schafer calls UK trans bathroom guidance ‘stupid’

“Oscar winner and famously gender-bending performer Tilda Swinton is set to reprise her role as a cross-dressing character named Ella/Max in an off-Broadway production of Manfred Karge’s Man to Man at New York City’s Lucille Lortel Theatre in February 2027.”

US Politics

Girls’ cross-country team protests trans teammate as state braces for anti-trans ballot measure

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s ‘dangerous’ push to cut off medical care for transgender prisoners

Republicans Launch $100M Ads Misrepresenting Gender-Transition Care

‘Invasive and extreme’: doctors fight anti-trans measure requiring genital exams for student athletes

‘This Would Be the Opposite of Protecting Girls Sports’: Colorado Residents Concerned as Ballot Measure Leaves Sex Verification Up to Schools

“The fun wasn’t there anymore”: Teen runners say media circus over trans teammate ruined the season

Trans woman denied accurate license despite birth certificate saying she’s female. She’s suing.

The Republican Fixation on Trans Kids Makes All Kids Less Safe

We have a new batch of GOOD transgender news for you here!

International Pronouns Day: the importance of respecting pronouns

Pronouns Aren’t Complicated. Respect Apparently Is.

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New Zealand: High Court overturns Government’s puberty blocker restrictions

New Zealand High Court rules puberty blocker ban unlawful

Court Denies Woman Bail Because She Owned a ‘Go Bag’; Sticks Her In Men’s Prison

Kim Petras Wants Everyone to Stop Being “Weird” and “Gross” About Hunter Schafer’s Bottom Surgery

Let’s Not Watch the New Harry Potter Together

LGBTQ+ Religious Archives Network celebrates 25th anniversary

New study reveals surprisingly encouraging shift among trans youth over the past two years

‘Fun, Without Optimism’: A Symposium on Trans Negativity

BBC to launch ‘gender-fluid’ dating show after axing Drag Race UK

Trans Women’s Bodies Are Not Yours to Control or Criticize

The BMA has responded to the NHS Guidance on single-sex services and facilities

How being a drag king influenced the director of queer comedy ‘Trophy Boys’

T. Kaori Kitao, Swarthmore professor emerita of art history and pioneering transgender scholar, has died at 93

US Politics

“Let’s Make Sure You’re Really A Girl”: Dem PAC’s Latest Ad Eviscerates The GOP’s Bathroom Obsession

Supreme Court won’t allow Trump administration restrictions on transgender inmates

The Supreme Court is about to decide whether to ban trans women from women’s sports

Why Calling Anti-Trans Hate a “Distraction” Is So Troubling

Who’s targeting LGBTQ+ rights in Ohio? GLAAD lays out the records

Texas trans rights group says text message impersonation campaign sparked hate

A week after mysterious texts about a “transgender student guide” sparked angry calls and threats to an advocacy group that didn’t send the messages, a wave of equally mysterious mailers arrived at Texas homes.

Transgender woman sues Tennessee for refusing to update driver’s license to match birth certificate

Trio Of Polls Spell Disaster For GOP Over Anti-Trans Ads

Pennsylvania school board bans trans athletes despite having none. But who can actually play?

“In fact, individuals with the most negative views of women and gender equality are the most likely to support these bans.”

Iowa Democrat’s new ad takes on anti-trans attacks without throwing transgender people under the bus

Democrats seek answers on EEOC settlement affecting LGBTQ+ workers

How Republicans Manufactured Anti-Trans Backlash to James Talarico

A Republican in your bathroom? New ad highlights GOP’s anti-trans obsession

NHS England policy for trans people could have ‘a number of adverse impacts’, report finds

Police raid queer center in Germany
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Hungary: We asked five people involved: Article 33 is a cross for transgender people, it’s time to remove it
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During Hispanic Heritage Month, leaders in the trans community are working to lift up a part of the community they say has long been in the shadows.

“Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and Hannah Arendt outlined how it was to live under a regime which framed your body as a problem which needed extreme solutions.”

Students, Teachers and Superintendent rally in Support of Trans Homecoming Queen

Ciiara Baker, a singer who won over all four coaches on The Voice UK, has said music helped her make sense of the “complex” feelings she experienced growing up as a transgender woman.

Transphobia at the British Arc Conference

Queer media faces an uncertain future but history shows how it can endure

Why Queer People Have Always Had a Thing for Monsters

What are the best sources of transgender news and analysis, given that traditional media so often fails in its coverage of transgender issues?

Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh lead the dark new world of Blade Runner 2099

US Politics

The right is pushing its anti-trans fury on the WNBA. Players and fans are loudly pushing back

Michigan school district bans transgender athletes from girls sports

The Nebraska Supreme Court said the Fairness for Girls initiative that seeks to write sex-separate school sports participation rules into the state constitution will appear on the general election ballot.

US: How public opinion on transgender bathroom access shifted between 2016 and 2022

Alabama GOP Chair: Trans Candidates Have “Mental Disorders”

Sex-Rejecting Procedures: A Political Label, Not a Diagnosis

Ted Cruz Goes Off On ‘Left-Wing Transgender’ Witches In Bizarre Midterm Campaign Rant

Tasmanian healthcare providers support conversion therapy ban

An image of a transgender Green Party councillor in Britain has been ​edited to give her more masculine features.

‘It may lead to deaths’ – NHS England criticised for guidance placing Trans people on wards based on ‘biological sex’

How a campaign funded by J. K. Rowling helped reshape British equality law — and how transgender people came to find themselves on the wrong side of a hospital door.

A time capsule of drag excellence: Inside the 90s zine that celebrated drag artists around the world

LGBT People Hunted, Tested and Driven into Hiding in Senegal, HRW Warns

Pro-trans rights activists crash Harry Potter West End red carpet: ‘Boycott J.K. Rowling!’

BBC faces backlash for recent removal of LGBTQ+ content

Good Law Project: EHRC guidance: We’re heading to the Court of Appeal

Supportive Christian father shares how his trans daughter taught him “unconditional love”

What I learned about my trans daughter changed how I vote | Opinion

US Politics

WilCo GOP chair to ask SCOTUS if bathroom photos of transgender people are protected speech

Where’s the Evidence That Trans Patients Are a Hospital Threat?

Alabama Democrats hit back at GOP on affordability: ‘Did transgender people do that?’

Three years after Oregon lawmakers passed a law requiring insurers to cover transgender medical services, state regulators have quietly delayed their efforts to ensure the law is making a difference

Mismatched IDs aren’t stopping trans Kansans from voting

IA-01 Dem Candidate Christina Bohannan Answers Anti-Trans Ad Without Throwing Trans People Under The Bus

‘We are all from Two-Spirit families’: Native community leaders reject Washington’s anti-2SLGBTQIA+ ballot measures

TWIBS: Please Make Pete Hegseth Give a Deposition

Shakespeare’s company, as was the custom, hired apprentice boys to play their female parts.

Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England says

NHS England has introduced new guidance requiring transgender patients to be accommodated on hospital wards according to their sex registered at birth rather than their gender identity.

The policy reverses previous guidance allowing trans people to be placed in wards corresponding to their gender identity. Trans women may therefore be assigned to men’s wards, and trans men to women’s wards. The restrictions also extend to staff toilets and changing facilities.

Trans groups warn NHS ‘single-sex’ wards guidance puts “politics before patient care”

In yet another development in the continuing British War On Trans, the NHS in England has issued guidelines that severely restrict accommodation and spaces for trans patients and trans members of staff #BWOT

Interim Statement: NHS England Single Sex Guidance.

NHS England Restricts Transgender Patients’ Access to Hospital Wards, Sparking Outrage

BBC Sparks Backlash After Announcing New JK Rowling Documentary

History-making trans actress Ana Lupez dies at 82 after blazing trails for queer performers

Florida drag queen sells bricks from removed rainbow crosswalk to help save Pride celebrations

UK: Religious charities could continue promoting homophobia under new watchdog powers, campaigners warn

US Politics

Texas School Kills ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’ After Girl Cast As Seymour, Citing Anti-LGBTQ+ Law

A Washington State Ballot Measure Would Make Every Girl on a Girls’ School Team Get Her Sex Medically Verified – and It Doesn’t Say Who Pays.

Trump admin demands medical organizations explain why they support for trans care

How a Union Is Fighting for Trans Rights at University of Washington

Colorado ballot measure could leave schools to verify students’ sex, raising fears of forced genital exams

BRO PAC Rescinds Endorsement of Julia Brim-Edwards for Multnomah County Chair (Oregon)

James Talarico hasn’t said he’s opposed to the Equality Act.

Republicans attacked James Talarico over ‘God is nonbinary.’ He says Charlie Kirk made the same point

Appeals court revives Virginia school boards’ suits against Trump administration over transgender policy threats

Trans advocates, GOP rep want answers after Texans get texts impersonating group

Republican challenges his party’s obsession with trans people: “It’s just not resonating”

RFK Jr Demands Medical Orgs Capitulate on Youth Trans Care

“Lost his goddamn mind”: Trump claims Minnesota is kidnapping kids & forcing them to transition

“Adult Human Female” is not in the dictionary

UN experts call for Turkey to put an end to escalating LGBTQIA+ attacks

‘Governments that attack LGBTQ+ rights learn from each other’

Hungary votes to scrap key Orbán-era anti-LGBTQ+ measures

Warwickshire Pride accuses Reform UK of ‘censorship’ over library LGBTQ+ restrictions

In “Weimar Germany,” Victor Sebestyen focuses on the populist culture wars that brought an end to popular rule in the fledgling republic.
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Chicago: Authorities say that a transgender woman who claimed she was taunted about her gender pulled out a knife and stabbed a man 13 times near a South Side gas station last week

Transgender scholars launch new books, reflect on transgender rights in Ottawa

LGBTQ+ people still avoiding sport over discrimination fears, Stonewall finds

J.K. Rowling’s Fame and “Bitter Online Exchanges” Will Be Focus of New BBC Documentary

Hispanic trans men are mostly invisible in media. Models like Laith Ashley are changing that.

US Politics

This summer’s WNBA trans debate was pushed on social media users for money, report suggests

“Keep Politics The Heck Out Of It”: In Toss-Up MT-01 Race, Dem Sam Forstag Refuses To Throw Trans People Under The Bus

Trump objectifies anti-trans WNBA player Sophie Cunningham while insulting her athletic ability

“Nothing prohibits Virginia from using our own dollars to continue gender-affirming care for Medicaid and CHIP recipients”

Wyoming Supreme Court Hears Trans People’s Argument To Change Sex On Birth Certificates

Colorado and Michigan Become the Latest Blue States to Quietly End Medicaid Support for Trans Youth as 12 Others Pledge Continued Coverage

Transgender prisoners ask U.S. Supreme Court to stop Trump from taking their medical care

Trump’s new trans care Medicaid cuts leave poor families asking blue-state governors: Where’s the plan?

Florida Democratic stronghold rejects Stonewall Museum’s funding request

Federal appeals court says trans Arizonans can amend birth certificates without surgery

Two news directors were fired for wanting to cover “both sides” of Pride. They just won $4 million.

Kari Lake turns James Talarico’s flu recovery into a ridiculous ‘bottom surgery’ conspiracy theory

The Only People Talking to Missouri Voters About Trans Kids are Conservatives… and these LGBTQ+ Canvassers

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Elon Musk’s ex-wife says he cut off his trans daughter’s health insurance the day after she came out

Equality Tasmania is calling on Tasmanians who support a ban on conversion practices to write to their MPs and sign a petition, as misinformation and scare campaigns about the legislation grow.

Senegal’s LGBTQIA+ crackdown raises questions ahead of youth Olympics

Thousands sign petition urging Sadiq Khan to scrap Harry Potter Christmas lights over ‘transphobia’

Report: LGBTQ exclusion costs Japanese economy billions a year

Two trans organizations resign from working group to develop Ireland’s new gender healthcare model

Beyond the Scroll: Why queer print still plays a crucial role

New research finds 70% of transgender and gender-expansive adults feel political pressure to be less open about their identities.

This project has honored over 650 LGBTQ+ icons over the past 20 years. It’s just getting started.

Ukraine Struck Yandex Data Centers, Russian Bots Went Silent.
Online hate and trolling way down.

A reminder that the person who harasses you online may be a Russian bot.

Support from CIS women in toilets (UK)

US Politics

Head Of Alabama Republican Party Calls Two Trans State Legislature Candidates “Men Who Have Mental Disorders“

The Trump administration’s use of an anti-trans slur is a warning of what comes next

Oregon retreats from enforcing landmark trans health care coverage mandate

A Monroe high school volleyball player and her father have filed a federal lawsuit against Monroe schools,alleging the district concealed that a transgender girl was on an Ann Arbor team they were playing against.

“AI slop”: GOP ad uses fake footage of opponent saying he supports men beating girls in sports

Who is ‘obsessed with men playing in women’s sports’? JD Vance says Democrats, but Ohio Republicans can’t get enough.

Trump’s new press secretary spread anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theories about “revolting, rabid” leftists

The long, bumpy road to transgender healthcare protections in Trenton

Trump claims Democrat wants to force kids to call their moms “gestating” in bizarre anti-trans rant

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