The Latest Transgender News

Month: August 2024 (Page 2 of 4)

Aug 21 24: The latest transgender news

How a cross-country road trip brought Will Ferrell closer to his trans bestie Harper Steele.

The complexities of Hormone Replacement Therapy. This guide offers transgender individuals a compassionate and practical approach to explaining HRT to loved ones, dispelling myths and fostering understanding.

A Greenville County Library System committee voted to remove books recommended for ages 13 to 17 with transgender characters or themes to the adult section.

‘We knew we had to get out’: This family fled N.H. over legislation that would restrict their transgender daughter

Ms. Billie Cooper, longtime San Francisco transgender activist looks back on the Tenderloin’s history.

Before traveling to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention as an honored guest of the National LGBTQ+ Task Force Action Fund, trans activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy talked to the Washington Blade.

“As a trans woman who has dated pretty much since the moment she came out I can assure you that while dating can be problematic, the reality is that coming out is not the death knell of intimacy, passion, and fulfilling relationships.”

Missouri residents now must provide proof of gender-affirmation surgery or a court order to update their gender on driver’s licenses following a Revenue Department policy change.

State College is now a trans sanctuary city. Here’s what that means for the LGBTQ community

Though most of her posts about Khelif appear untouched, the social media tracker Social Blade noted that JK Rowling has deleted at least 28 posts since August 11, 2024. Khelif’s attorney filed her legal complaint on August 9.

‘History often happens one step at a time’: Delaware Sen. Sarah McBride is witnessing history — while making it herself

Closing the legal gaps: Advancing transgender justice in Pakistan

Williams: In Chesterfield, transgender fearmongering is the real threat to students

Aug 20 24: Today’s handpicked transgender news headlines

A federal judge says a Virginia school district can’t block a transgender student from playing on a girls’ middle school tennis team while her lawsuit against the Hanover County school board proceeds.

“The following seven resources are what I’m calling “Trans-Torials”—visually delightful guides to some of the very, very most basic and common questions and misconceptions that people have about being trans right now.”

Article offers crucial guidance for parents on how to advocate for their transgender child’s rights within the school system.

Trans social media star Dylan Mulvaney has reacted to “reverse transvestigators” who have convinced themselves she was born a cis woman.

Elliot Page and Dominic Savage hope new trans drama can ‘change hearts and minds’

Did the Supreme Court just overrule one of its most important LGBTQ rights decisions?

Trans indie singer-songwriter Freddie Lewis has dropped the music video for his new single “Sundays”, and fans are already calling it incredible.

“In the broadest sense, Kirchick argues that the gay-rights movement has achieved its goals and now the organizations behind it should be dissolved. “

Sigourney Weaver is hugely supportive of her non-binary child Shar. Shar Simpson is currently an adjunct assistant professor at the Digital Storytelling Lab at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Ron DeSantis gave Ashley Brundage, a trans Democrat, an award. Now she’s challenging GOP power.

The Sound of Silence? J.K. Rowling Has Not Tweeted in 12 Blissful Days

This Mom Is Speaking Out About A New Law That’s Forcing Her To Take Her Kid Out Of State For Medical Care.

Updates to the handbook used by lay leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints features new guidance on the participation of transgender individuals, including instructions around restroom use.

Federal Judge Rules Trans Teen Can Play Soccer Just In Time For Her To Attend First Practice

A historic anti-discrimination ruling in favor of a transgender sheriff’s deputy has been voided by one of the most conservative federal courts in the nation.

Aug 19 24: Harris vs. Trump on LGBTQ (and other queer news)

As the 2024 election heats up, LGBTQ+ rights are front and center, and the differences between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris couldn’t be more striking.

Article explores the profound realization of male privilege through the eyes of a transgender woman.

Blake Lively called out again for repeatedly using ‘problematic’ transgender slur in resurfaced interviews: “I hope to have a few girls one day. If not girls, they better be trannies. Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated.”

Kansas settles a high-profile discrimination lawsuit, paying $50,000 to a former Highway Patrol employee who claims she was fired for coming out as transgender.

Judge to decide whether transgender N.H. teen can play on her school’s soccer team

Victoria Police participates in illegal discrimination against transgender people.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev did not veto the new anti-LGBTI law banning any kind of educational programmes on ‘non-traditional sexual orientation’ in Bulgarian schools, ignoring calls from the Council of Europe and civil society activists to veto it.

“In a bombshell leak from @PinkNewsStaff on X, Pink News’ CEO Benjamin Cohen has been recorded signalling his intent to abandon the trans community to instead focus on being an “entertainment powerhouse”.”

Decades before Stonewall, Fire Island was an oasis of queer culture, offering seaside escape for artists, writers, performers, and stars from the everyday grind of New York life.

Aug 18 24: Gender variant male flamingos hatch a chick together (+ other LGBTQ news)

Curtis and Arthur, two male Chilean flamingos at Paignton Zoo in Devon, are the zoo’s first same-sex pair to “successfully hatch and raise a chick together,” the organization announced Monday.

More transgender and LGBTQ news:

US: Attorneys for state senate candidates Hill and Lee spar over attack ads on transgender issues

This article explores how to recognize, prevent, and overcome loneliness, offering practical advice and heartfelt insights from a transgender woman who’s navigated this difficult terrain.

US: The Supreme Court’s recent ruling has halted critical protections for transgender students, leaving many vulnerable to discrimination.

Colorado GOP sends email attacking transgender candidate

Tentative deal could allow transgender girls to keep playing on girls’ sports teams in N.H.

Rainbow Railroad, a group that provides services worldwide including travel, financial grants and information support to LBGTQ+ people, fielded its highest number of requests for help from LGBTQ+ people living in the U.S in 2023.

“Since the early 2010s, ‘sexuality is a spectrum’ has become a common phrase in the zeitgeist — this hasn’t included trans people. Many assume that all trans women are attracted to cis men while trans men are attracted to cis women.”

Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page has revealed that a scene in which he was misgendered in new film Close To You was a “slip of the tongue” by actress Wendy Crewson.

A reporter for PinkNews covered an 8 month old PolitiFact entry about an Instagram video reacting to a lie about transgender people in Palm Springs, California, receiving 900 dollars a month in Universal Basic Income.

Trump again decries two gold medalist Olympic athletes, falsely labeling the female boxers as men

Aug 17 24: Americans believe LGBTQ people should live their lives without fear (+ more trans news)

The GLAAD 2024 Accelerating Acceptance Study reveals sustained supermajority support for LGBTQ Americans, although there is a slight decline in overall support compared to the previous year.

More transgender news

The families of two transgender teens in New Hampshire filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a new state law that bans them from playing on girls’ sports teams at their public high schools.

Navigating political anxiety: A psychotherapist’s perspective.

An article in City Journal claimed that the American Society for Plastic Surgery became the first to “challenge consensus” on transgender care. A fuller statement shows this is not the case.

British endurance racing car driver Charlie Martin has backed trans inclusion in sports during an appearance on a BBC radio programme alongside outspoken “gender critic” Sharron Davies.

History-making trans actress and Transparent star Alexandra Billings has given her answer to the question of whether trans actors should be turning down transgender roles, as Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer has started doing.

Florida college dumps hundreds of books, many on sexuality, race and feminism

The ‘demure’ trend went so viral, the TikToker behind the audio can now pay for her transition

A collection of positive transgender related stories here:

Aug 16 24: ‘I’ve had to become my own doctor’: young trans people on life after the Cass review (+other trans news)

With puberty blockers now banned in much of the UK, those hoping for gender treatment say they have been forced into difficult decisions

After the landmark Cass review into the care of young people questioning their gender this year, puberty blockers have in effect been banned in England, Wales and Scotland for the treatment of under-18s with gender dysphoria.

More on the Cass review here.

In other transgender news:

Article explores the impact of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on bone health in transgender individuals, examining key studies and debunking common myths.

St. Louis rec center to add locker room for transgender users. But funding is stuck at City Hall.

Elon Musk and JK Rowling could be handed five-year prison sentences and fined up to £214,000 if Olympic boxer Imane Khelif wins criminal cyberbullying case.

‘My child has lost some of her human rights’: Tough choices as New Hampshire enacts laws affecting transgender youth

Federal appeals court to rehear transgender deputy’s discrimination lawsuit against Houston County

Doctors and advocates say efforts to ban gender-affirming care and the often inaccurate language lawmakers use to do it exploits most Americans’ relative unfamiliarity with transgender people to push a political agenda.

Data on 3,000 GoFundMe campaigns show how transgender people are crowdfunding gender-affirming care

Kansas will pay $50,000 to settle a federal anti-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former state Highway Patrol employee who claimed to have been fired for coming out as transgender.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton returned to court on Thursday to press his case against the Biden administration’s workforce protections for transgender employees.

UK: The NHS has set out plans for a review into the safety of adult gender services, in response to detailed concerns raised by the Cass report on gender care for children and young people.

Longlegs director Oz Perkins has choice words for any transphobes

The eggs are asking: do you have to be trans to wear a binder?

Fact Check: JD Vance Falsely Claims Tim Walz Signed Bill To Let State “Kidnap Kids” And “Trans Them”

Eurovision’s first nonbinary winner is ready to be a global force: ‘It’s bigger than me’

https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/nemo-eurovision-interview

US offers the most expensive gender-affirming care in the world. Turkey and Brazil offer the cheapest.

Aug 15 24 Transvestigation: The conspiracy theory that labels celebrities as trans (+more trans news)

How “Transvestigation” Crawled Out of the Worst Corners of the Internet Into the Mainstream

Them:

“Transvestigators — lurking in comment sections, Facebook groups, and other dark corners of the internet — make factually baseless conclusions to “uncover” celebrities and public figures they believe are secretly trans, a.k.a. a “transvestigation.” Transvestigators often utilize racist, anti-semitic, and white standards of beauty to out “inverts,” or the celebrities they falsely believe are trans…

“Victims of transvestigation are typically scrutinized for having features that transvestigators deem outside the bounds of a person’s biological sex, like “broad shoulders” and “large noses” on women.”

Transvestigating (video with Matt Bernstein and Contrapoints)

More transgender news

Making Sense of Debates About Gender-Affirming Care and Trans Youth: a Virtual Talk and Resource Page

“What is less critiqued is that gender critical discourse is built off the back of Catholic second wave feminist beliefs, which in turn were fermented in the wake of Vatican 2.”

The Unexpected Peace of Gender-Affirming Surgery

‘You Threw Me To The Wolves’: Elon Musk’s Trans Daughter Slams Author Of Her Father’s Bio For ‘Most Humiliating Experience Of Her Life’

The queer comedian, actor, and activist Ilana Glazer said that “being pregnant on paper was the most female thing I could ever do, but it actually highlighted both the masculine and feminine inside of me.”

Ugandan LGBTQ activist meets with Pope Francis

Trans woman Dylan Gurley, 20, was found unconscious with multiple stab wounds by police on 23 July in Denton, Texas.

More than 1,000 people attend Trans Folks for Harris Zoom call.

Trans people are explaining why they left the trans community and the reasons are surprising

Actors Elliot Page and Hillary Baack discuss their new film “Close To You,” which is Page’s first feature film since publicly coming out as transgender.

The Cass Review Into Gender Identity Services for Children

J.K. Rowling Goes Silent as Imane Khelif Files Harassment Lawsuit Against Her (& Others)

Aug 14 24: J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk Named in lawsuit filed by Imane Khelif (+more trans news)

J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk Named in Cyberbullying Lawsuit Filed by Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif After Olympic Win.

The lawsuit was filed against X, which under French law means that it was filed against unknown persons. The complaint nevertheless mentions famously controversial figures, including J. K. Rowling and Elon Musk.  Donald Trump would be part of the investigation. 

Parents of transgender kids may struggle with grief, loss as their children transition

Navigating Nightclub Fashion as a Trans Woman: Finding Your Authentic Style

The internet is obsessed with being demure & it’s all thanks to TikTok’s trans trendsetters

A trans influencer has reclaimed ‘demure,’ and people can’t get enough.

US Trans Survey: Despite experiencing additional challenges in accessing the public square that most take for granted, trans people are a powerful part of the electorate.

Francis Howell board to again take up transgender bathroom, locker room policy

Cruel Britannia: After Frankenstein is the debut solo play by transgender playwright and performer Smyth.

Drag Superstar Sasha Velour on ‘Learning to Fly’ in Her New Autobiographical Stage Show and Why She Thinks ‘Troll’ J.K. Rowling Is a ‘Very Dangerous Presence’

The LezVolley tournament, a beloved LGBTQ+ event in Cherry Grove, was abruptly canceled after controversy erupted over the exclusion of a transgender man.

The average life expectancy of trans women in Latin America is no more than 35 years of age, the OAS reports. Three LGBTQ+ immigrants detail their harrowing experiences.

Judge says Maine can forbid discrimination by religious schools that take state tuition money

Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization established in 2022 to combat what it calls ”wokeism” in medicine, has quickly emerged as a formidable force in the anti-transgender movement.

Donald Trump took to the stage this week in Montana for his first rally since Kamala Harris selected Tim Walz to be her running mate. Transgender people were one of his most common targets.

Two adorable same-sex flamingos have hatched an egg at a UK zoo, staff have revealed.

Don Lemon sits down with Sofia Nelson, former transgender classmate and friend of JD Vance, for an emotional interview examining Vance’s moral shift in recent years.

“How I — a trans man — went undercover on a TERF dating site”

“I think most dudes at some point in their lives have played around with costumes that are gender bender,” the former congressman George Santos told TMZ.

I Saw the TV Glow is one of the defining movies of 2024, and has made a huge impact on trans people in particular.

Aug 13 24: Elon Musk’s trans daughter slams his biography as ‘genuinely defamatory’

Elon Musk’s trans daughter Vivian Wilson slams his biography as ‘genuinely defamatory’

Vivian Wilson gives her side of the story over at threads.

This article explores the profound benefits of dance for transgender individuals undergoing medical transition.

This article explores the critical role of sleep in the well-being of transgender individuals undergoing medical transition.

Fact check: Will Tim Walz allow trans kids across America to get gender-affirming surgery?

A transgender woman was found killed in a West Baltimore alley, prompting demands for answers and justice

The 19th spoke with six autistic trans people to learn what brings them joy, how they find community, and how their lives have changed through exploring gender and being autistic.

Whereas 73 percent of the general U.S. population who are eligible to vote are registered to vote, 82 percent of eligible trans people are registered to vote.

Transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse youth face challenges and harms in foster care, the justice system, and homeless services, says a new report released Monday for International Youth Day.

Fire Island’s beloved LezVolley tournament, a volleyball tournament for queer women and nonbinary people, was abruptly canceled on Saturday when a transgender player wanted to participate.

The whole point of pronouns is an act of hospitality between two people, to invite the other person into your identity on your own terms, not theirs.

Valentina Petrillo is set to become the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Paralympic Games, having been selected to represent Italy in Para-athletics in Paris.

First trans athlete at Paralympic Games says her participation ‘is an important symbol of inclusion’

Catholics use AI image of four men praying over a meal in what seems to be a mall food court. They are drinking trans sodas.

Hunter Schafer doesn’t want to be called a trans activist: ‘I’m just a tr***y who’s famous’

American Nikki Hiltz became the first out nonbinary athlete to compete in an Olympic individual final event. Their efforts nabbed a seventh-place finish in Saturday’s 1500-meter final.

Democrat politician and LGBTQ+ rights activist Kim Coco Iwamoto has made history by becoming Hawaii’s first transgender House representative.

An Ohio Republican father of a transgender son is arguing against his own party’s laws that impact the LGBTQ+ community.

Aug 12 24: On how transgender people might win the culture war

Today’s anti-trans activism is about so much more than transgender people.

On how the good people might win the culture war.

SIDEBAR on the connection between fascism and transphobia

J.D. Vance in drag

    Matt Bernstein claims to have a photo of J.D. Vance in drag, and it looks genuine. A spokesperson for the Republican vice presidential pick did not deny the photo’s authenticity when approached by the Daily Beast.

    If this photo is what it seems to be, it does reveal the hypocrisy of the MAGA movement. But ridiculing Vance for dressing up in drag as a student will only reinforce the idea that drag/cosplaying as the opposite gender is bad.

    Daily Beast writes: “The source who surfaced the alleged photo, Travis Whitfill, says the picture was taken by a fellow Yale classmate in 2012, when Vance was attending law school at the university, and sent to him by another friend. Whitfill then sent it to podcast host Matt Bernstein, who posted it to X.

    “It’s from a group chat of Vance’s fellow classmates and is from a friend of a friend,” he told the Daily Beast. “I believe it was grabbed from Facebook and was taken at a Halloween party.”

    Other news

    Lin Yu-ting captured featherweight gold on Saturday, defeating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta and shaking off more than a week of specious allegations that she shouldn’t be fighting women.

    The trans community experiences a surge of hope within deep election anxiety, report finds

    What are straightwashing and ciswashing? The worrying trends undermining LGBTQ+ progress

    India: Over 3,000 transgender people have used composite healthcare services under the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), according to government data.

    Interview with Riki Wilchins. Wilchins’s work has been instrumental in bringing transgender rights into the mainstream LGBT movement, and has helped bring awareness of the impact of gender norms to a wider audience.

    Tim Walz’s Policy for Transgender Minors Explained

    A new poll by Folx reveals a mix of hope and anxiety among transgender Americans following President Biden’s decision to exit the 2024 presidential race.

    Nigerian transgender TikToker found dead

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