“This is not merely a technical legal clarification. It tells trans people that their presence in public may be treated as a problem to be managed. A trans woman entering a women’s changing room, or a trans man using a men’s facility, could now trigger suspicion, complaint or exclusion. The likely result is fear, self-censorship and withdrawal from public life.”
Gender Stories, a major exhibition about identity and self-expression, opens at Walker Art Gallery [in Liverpool] on 16 May 2026. The exhibition brings together artwork from Grayson Perry, David Hockney, James Tissot, and Antonia Showering, photography by Catherine Opie and Zanele Muholi, new film by Ebun Sodipo and Ree Bradley, and personal objects from a Suffragette teapot to a Liverpool LGBTQ+ football scarf.
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that Children’s Hospital Colorado must resume gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The case, Bella Boe v. Children’s Hospital Colorado, was brought after the hospital paused such care in response to threats from the Trump administration that providers could lose federal funding. Justice William Hood, writing for the majority, argued that Colorado’s protections against gender-identity discrimination cannot be overridden by a simple calculation that more people might be affected if a hospital lost funding.
Rather than try to work through their fear of trans people and trans acceptance, reactionaries instead choose to double down and lash out, hence the absurd emotional language we see from them whenever they try and argue against trans rights.
“As many as 3.3% of U.S. high school students openly acknowledged themselves as transgender, with a further 2.2% stating that they were questioning their gender.”
The new ministry is expected to work on protection, empowerment and social security for women, children, marginalised communities and LGBTIQ+ people. For activists, the inclusion of “Gender and Sexual Minorities” in the ministry’s official name is symbolically important: it signals state recognition of communities that have long fought for visibility, dignity and equal rights.
The Osaka High Court has ruled that Japan’s family registration system, known as koseki, violates the constitution by allowing only “male” and “female” gender categories. The case was brought by a 50-year-old nonbinary person from Kyoto Prefecture, who wanted their registry designation changed from “eldest daughter” to a gender-neutral term such as “eldest child.”
