Month: July 2026 (Page 1 of 4)

Study Reveals How Avocados Reverse Sexes Throughout the Day

All avocado trees are hermaphrodites, but at any given time their flowers function either as male by releasing pollen, or as female by receiving pollen.

Sex only matters in the same way race only matters to racists

Country singer praises audience for walking out during his trans-inclusive US anthem

The Right Is Manufacturing Fake Restroom Confrontations Against Trans People

Trans actor Hunter Schafer leads Amazon Prime’s new Blade Runner 2099 series

Meta Glasses Could Be the Gateway Into a Queer Dystopian Nightmare

What is Driving Trans People to Stockpile their Medications?

Grindr Attack on Trans Woman Ends in Federal Hate Crime Guilty Plea

A number of powerful Labour unions have pledged to boycott the party’s upcoming Women’s Conference over its exclusion of trans women.

A Trans Woman’s View of Dominican Republic. Is It Really Paradise?

Lecturer loses appeal after calling trans student a ‘troublesome trans kid’ and using homophobic slur

Anti-trans organisation withdraws legal challenge against Belfast festival that cancelled their event

Fury as UK’s only all-female chess team promoted – then told they must recruit a man

TJ Billard, an expert in media and transgender politics, on Anti-Trans Disinformation and Media

“One of the really interesting early insights that’s come out of this process is that a lot of anti-trans misinformation is really hard to nail down. A lot of it is vaguely conspiratorial question-raising, with a lot of plausible deniability baked in.”

WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Co-Owner Five Games for Confronting Anti-Trans Activists Courtside

WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Minority Owner For Being Rude To Transphobic Shitheads

A Black trans teen was shot and killed in Florida. Almost no one reported it. Police misgendered Jayla McGee, local media overlooked her homicide, and her community was left to make sure she was not erased.

US Politics

Michigan Civil Rights Commission rules Traverse City salon owner discriminated against transgender clients

The Trump administration’s latest target: gender-neutral paper dolls Minnesota schools aren’t using

Judge weighs sanctions after Trump administration violates court order protecting trans prisoners

Dem. Ohio Gov Candidate Amy Acton Scheduled a Meeting With LGBTQ+ Advocates, Didn’t Show Up, And Kicked Out Trans People Who Did

MAGA hate pastor says women’s sports ‘inevitably lead to transgenderism’

US Education Department Opens Parental Rights Case Against Ann Arbor Schools Over Transgender Policy

School district sues Trump admin over pressure to discriminate against trans kids: “Not an option”

Ken Paxton is an anti-LGBTQ foe who wants to take his hate to the US Senate

Trump administration is threatening schools’ funding for not outing kids to their parents

Videos

Is It a Fetish or Gender Identity? The Real Psychological Experience of Not Knowing

The Internet’s Biggest Lies About Trans People | Doctor Debunks

Keir Starmer Eviscerated Trans Rights… and it Destroyed Him

A dispute over Twitter’s response to deliberate misgendering became part of Musk’s takeover mythology — and a preview of what X would become.

Australia: National guidelines on puberty blockers coming as fraught debate continues

Sophie Cunningham’s podcast co-host West Wilson disses anti-trans rants as ‘dumb’

Sophie Cunningham Denies “Hating Trans.” So, Uh, Why Is there a Transphobic Rally At Her Next Game?

Rightwing think tank blames Simone de Beauvoir for girls playing competitive sports. They’re wrong.

Running from Russia, running from hate: A trans girl’s flight to survival

Rachel Saunders: “…I am not able to post anything outside a small bubble that is not being weaponised against me.”

Workers accuse Advocates for Trans Equality leaders of mismanagement after the organization warned that staff positions could be eliminated.

An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price.

Same-sex couple sues anti-LGBTQ+ clerk Kim Davis for allegedly hiding big money she owes them

Right wing freaks over “woke” exhibit claiming one of the Care Bears is trans: “It’s nuts!”

The Right are losing their minds over “upsetting” MyGender Dolls. Here’s what they really are.

How the Science of Sex is Weaponized Against Us

Trans Swimmer Lev Goldberg Continues Quest to Traverse Every Great Lake

US Politics

Washington DC: LGBTQ+ advocates are building a political pipeline, one D.C. neighborhood at a time

Gender-Affirming Care: What Health Care Providers Need to Know About Federal Enforcement – Thought Leaders in Health Law

Kaitlan Collins on how Trump’s Dylan Mulvaney WHCD bit bombed: ‘It was so quiet in the room’

The Costly Cruelty of the Kansas Anti-Trans Driver’s License Law

After Supreme Court ruling, advocates warn trans athlete bans can be harmful for kids

How the Trump administration’s rhetoric promotes anti‑transgender views

Critics slam Tim Hortons Harry Potter promotion as un-Canadian, anti-trans

The American Transgender Refugee Crisis.
If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.

“In the seven months after the 2024 election, 9% of transgender adults reported moving to a different state—against 5% of LGBTQ people overall, and 2% of Americans generally,”

South Dakota Will Become the 11th State to Ban Gender Changes on Driver’s Licenses ‘Soon’; Trans Residents May Only Have Days to Update their Licenses

NC GOP lawmaker says she’ll propose law to restrict attire for trans teachers

Advocates for trans students urge Md. to fight White House threats

Trans woman alleges NBC boss made sexual advance before cutting her hours

A Texas Femboy Says the DMV Revoked His “I <3 Yaoi” License Plate

Patchwork of Trans Lives and Art Unveiled in London

Society’s treatment of castrati – a parallel to contemporary trans women?

“Skuse looks at the cultural meaning of castrati: men castrated in childhood to preserve a high singing voice. She argues that early modern writers rarely treated castrati as full human subjects. Instead, they described them as “instrumental” bodies: surgically altered for elite entertainment, aesthetic pleasure, sexual fantasy, and profit.”

11 transmasc docs, dramas, and comedies you shouldn’t overlook

US Politics

How Washington state’s sports ballot measure will impact all girls

Trump’s Dylan Mulvaney Jokes Are Almost as Tired as He Is

S.F. nonprofit for transgender immigrants faces closure
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Trump’s education secretary claims schools are secretly transitioning children. They aren’t

Dylan Mulvaney says Trump’s criticism of her is ‘the greatest compliment of all’

Renée Richards defeated a tennis trans ban in the 1970s. Now she supports it. Renée Richards was the first openly transgender professional athlete in the U.S., suing to compete in the 1977 U.S. Open.

Four Republicans joined Democrats to defeat an effort to write Trump’s transgender military restrictions into federal law.

Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives Spread In Five States, As Some Opposition To Them Grows

A Texas member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and her supporters are calling on the national nonprofit organization to bar transgender women from its ranks.

Anti-Trans Campaigns Use 2026 Ballots to Bypass State Protections

Trump admin threatens school district after religious parents sue over trans-inclusive policies

White House threatens Anne Arundel schools over gender identity policy

Cops busted making anti-trans & racist comments after accidentally bugging their own office

Historic S.F. gay bar temporarily suspended from Instagram over ‘human trafficking’ claim
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Romanian Pride goes ahead despite fourth consecutive ban

Why are NHS gender clinic waiting times so long?

New petition urges Queensland Parliament to reinstate trans healthcare

West Wilson Breaks With Sophie Cunningham Over Trans Athlete Debate

‘Bullied, beaten up, killed’: Armenia’s drag queens risk it all for the stage

Berlin Pride Attack Killed One Woman and Injured 29 Before Police Killed the Suspect

Western Australia could potentially amend its controversial changes to the state’s gender laws, amid a looming legal showdown over a push by a transgender prisoner to relocate to a women’s prison.
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Indonesia: When a state turns its defense apparatus inward, its most vulnerable citizens like LGBT people pay the price—starting on the streets of Bogor.
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India: A total of 1,739 students, including the first two transgender women graduates in the college’s history, received their degrees at the convocation ceremony of the Government Law College in Tiruchy on Sunday.

“Ladies, gentlemen and gentlethem!” Elon Musk attacks Anne Hathaway after her 2018 equality speech resurfaces, ‘She has a little bird brain’

MAGA Melts Down at Hollywood Star Over 8-Year-Old Speech

US Politics

Ten Athletes, Thousands of Headlines, One Manufactured Crisis

Teacher-led initiative guides educators on protecting students amid anti-LGBTQ+ laws

Dylan Mulvaney Fires Back at Trump’s Kaitlan Collins Diss

Donald Trump has been widely slammed after his continued vendetta against a female reporter, Kaitlan Collins, continues with an AI-generated image intended to suggest she is transgender.

A Congress Rep Held up Faces of Drag Artists To Prove Danger to Children

Making gay jokes about Republicans is homophobic & counterproductive

150,000 march through London in world’s largest trans pride, organisers say

Saturday’s march through the baking heat started near the BBC’s central London headquarters, where placards read: “let people piss in peace”; “marching for all my trans siblings past and present”; and: “these meds save lives”.

“There is no singular transness through which to assess trans bodies across time and place.”

Where does U.K. prime minister Andy Burnham stand on trans rights?
The new Labour leader has long been a vocal ally. But he inherits a government that has introduced a slew of anti-trans policies in recent years

Binary CEO and anti-trans campaigner Kirralie Smith has lost an appeal against unlawful vilification of two trans women and must pay $95,000 in damages and issue a public apology.

Van rams into Berlin Pride crowd, killing one and injuring 16

‘Started as a Riot’: In Defense of an Uncivil Pride

No, Trans Care Is Not Mutilation. Here’s the Medical Truth

MyGender Dolls: A new play-based therapeutic approach for trans and gender diverse children — and the clinicians who support them.

Revealed: history of Spain’s fearless 1970s trans-rights political collective

New documentary highlights groundbreaking work of Santa Rosa transgender biologist, Dr. Joan Roughgarden

Video with Santa Rosa transgender biologist, Dr. Joan Roughgarden on her research on sex, gender and sexuality diversity in the animal kingdom.

US Politics

Judge Forces Hegseth to Explain Testosterone Double Standard in Trans Military Ban

Demoted and Doxed: What Happened When a Texas Librarian Fought to Keep LGBTQ Books on Her Shelves

US: The Country’s Most Famous Strip Club Hosted Its First Trans Night and We Were There

What does a Burnham premiership mean for LGBTQIA+ rights?

South African Psychologists Join Global Stand Against LGBTQ+ Conversion Practicies

Is Transition a Choice? The Question People Keep Asking

Trans women “face misogyny and transphobia simultaneously. The hatred of women plus the hatred of anyone who defies the boxes the patriarchy built. Double the oppression. Double the targeting.”

Country Singer Defends Song About the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot, Trans Rights and Immigration After Fans Walk Out of Concert

Brianna Turner defends trans community amid WNBA debate

UK: Lambeth Council has signalled it will resist new guidance on access to single-sex spaces, over fears that it risked “leaving trans people open to discrimination”.

Singer Ariana Grande has launched the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation to support causes like LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive health, and mental health
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Trans Lifeline, which runs a crisis hotline for transgender people, is one of the nonprofits Grande has supported. The group has received $125,000 total — $75,000 in emergency funding last June and $50,000 when the foundation formally launched in May.

A secret trans support group met above a brothel in 1890s Manhattan. It may have changed the world.

Black Trans Teen Jayla McGee’s Loved Ones Say She Was Shot and Killed. The Public Record Is Nearly Silent.

Family and friends say the 19-year-old Black trans teen was shot and killed in Belle Glade—leaving her community to document the life, identity, and violent death that public systems failed to name.

Shinjuku Boys is a documentary about the lives of transmasculine and gender-nonconforming individuals working as hosts in Japan. Co-director Kim Longinotto looks back on her behind-the-scenes joy shooting the film.

Zaya Wade: Hate against trans people is ‘the dumbest thing’

US Politics

Bossier Parish In Louisiana Advances Criminal Trans Bathroom Ban With Up To 6 Months In Jail

Transgender Rights Are Not a Purity Test for Democrats

Trump hijacks White House Correspondents’ Dinner redo with antigay jabs, anti-trans mockery & lies

Trump admin pushed LGBTQ+ “warning” labels idea. People hate it.

ESPN host praises athlete’s anti-trans views: “Right on the money”

At Alliance Defending Freedom’s summit, church and state are one

House GOP Adds Anti-LGBTQ Riders to Funding Bill. The six provisions target Pride flags, transgender rights, DEI programs, and LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections at the State Department.

Why Trans Candidate J. Aaron ‘Lola’ Bailey Isn’t Waiting for ‘Someone Else’ to Fix Her City

‘Truly disgusting’: Sophie Cunningham sparks outrage for anti-trans comments

A Women’s Rights Network Northern Ireland event set to take place as part of Féile an Phobail has been cancelled after organisers claimed it would “promote campaigns against rights for the Transgender community”.

Madre Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez was an abbess in 16th-century Spain who insisted that God changed her gender in the womb, transforming her from male to female.

(Trans, genderfluid, intersex or lesbian? Does it matter?)

Top 10 Myths About Trans People

Australia: A Gold Coast pole dancing studio transgender applicant is suing the owner for $30,000 in damages after being refused membership.
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Educator who displayed Matt Walsh’s anti-trans book & got fired loses appeal in free speech case

Please, We’re Begging You, Do Not “Drink Your Pee” to Avoid HRT

A Finnish hospital affiliated with a leading figure in far-right anti-trans political circles has been the focus of government reports that have cited neglectful and abusive practices in the mental health care of young people

US Politics

US: Five 2026 ballot measures address sex-based school sports eligibility and bans on certain medical procedures for transgender minors; another is pending signature verification

Clay County School District In Florida Considers Getting Rid Of Libraries In Response To LGBTQ+ Books

The CHIPS Act has nothing to do with trans people. Trans people have everything to do with chips.

Hunter Biden can’t stop talking about closeted gay Republicans

New York State Assembly candidates set to make non-binary history

Powerful Democratic think tank’s reset on transgender rights alarms advocates

Trans director at progressive think tank says Dems should adopt this party line on trans athletes

Right-wingers mock trans student tased by UCF police after demanding not to be misgendered

Nancy Mace rages about “Drag Race” queens in House hearing: They’ll make kids get raped!

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

Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive

Tennis is the first major women’s sports league to require genetic testing

Bulgaria’s Supreme Court Allows Legal Gender Changes for Four Transgender People

The Heritage Foundation Only Wanted to Protect Women’s Sports When It Was About Trans Athletes

Breaking News: LGB Alliance Survey Finds LGB Alliance Supporters Agree with LGB Alliance

Whoopi Goldberg slams haters of Elliot Page’s role in “The Odyssey”: “Don’t go see the d**n movie!”

Sex Matters are breaking charity law with transphobic hate – The Good Law Projects is taking action

Dutch review emphasizes “morally urgent” need for gender-affirming care for trans youth

“The single most reliable way to destroy a coalition is to convince it that it isn’t one.”

Balancing Affirmation and Authenticity on Social Media

“That’s the thing about being trans online. We’re expected to be educators, inspirations, cautionary tales, and proof of concept all at once. And in trying to protect ourselves or each other, we sometimes put on a little more armor than we need.”

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has intensified her opposition to transgender women in sports, expanding her comments beyond competition to locker rooms. 

Sophie Cunningham, Megan Rapinoe Show How Different Their Views Are

US Politics

Anti-trans AG Ken Paxton flees press conference when asked about his shady dealings

ACLU sues Penn State Health over canceled gender-affirming care procedure

Five Dems Crossed Party Lines To Strip Health Care From Trans Servicemembers And Their Families

Trump ends care network for LGBTQ+ veterans, internal email shows. Providers condemn ‘cruel erasure’

NYC Allegedly Put a Houseless Trans Woman in Men’s Shelters—Then Hid Behind Its Policy

The Center for American Progress, an influential Democratic policy group, urged Democrats to accept some restrictions on transgender athletes.

An influential liberal think tank is urging Democrats to stand firm on supporting transgender people serving in the military and gender-transition care for youths but also to accept some restrictions on transgender athletes.

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) has appointed a former Republican lawmaker with a long record of opposing transgender rights.

Frustrated by confusion over Ohio’s Parents’ Bill of Rights, educators are organizing to support LGBTQ+ students and defend public education.

Judge rejects Trump administration bid to dismiss transgender Air Force troops’ retirement lawsuit

House Republicans fail to turn Trump’s transgender military ban into law as two members defect

Republicans cross floor to stop Trump’s trans military ban from becoming law

Federal judge questions Hegseth’s “High-T” military plan in light of Trump’s anti-trans ban. Judge Ana Reyes wants to know “the Department’s basis for treating trans men and other service members differently.”

Videos

“Blaire White is a prominent transgender influencer who also happens to be Gender Critical and TERFy… she spews anti-trans rhetoric and makes content bullying other trans women for their appearance, while also being racist, conservative, MAGA..”

What It’s Like Returning After Transition

Why The Law Doesn’t Recognise Trans Rights | Barrister Explains
Why aren’t non-binary and intersex people legally recognised in the UK?

Trans People Are Scared (and Heartstopper knows it)

Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment

The Health Council of the Netherlands has reaffirmed the country’s gender-affirming healthcare for transgender adolescents, rejecting calls to dismantle or restrict it. This is a huge loss for local TERFs and other transphobes.

Following a two-year review commissioned by the Dutch health ministry, the independent advisory body concluded that puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones achieve their intended physical effects and are associated with better mental health.

Dutch Health Council Reaffirms Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth, Dismissing Transphobic Lies

Her story became fuel for online outrage. How this CT transgender athlete stayed positive and moved on.

Washington coffee shop removes astonishingly transphobic sign with ableist slur after public outcry

Outrage as trans women targeted in mob violence in Indonesia

Transgender Woman Never Learned How to Style Her Hair, Now Her Family Is Helping Her Experience the Girlhood She Missed 

UK: Trans people fear being outed over dead-naming and toilet plans in civil service

JK Rowling deadnamed and posted ‘upskirt’ photo of trans woman on X

Argentina: The Gender Identity Law is fully reinstated: the courts suspended Milei’s decree against transgender adolescents

US Politics

Donald Trump falsely claims only companies led by transgender executives can get CHIPS Act funding

Lawsuit challenges Texas Tech directives that altered teaching at El Paso medical school

Parents say Idaho’s Republican-led anti-trans laws isolated their daughter before her death

Nancy Mace Used Congress to Cast LGBTQ History as a Sexual Threat to Children

“A human rights crisis is unfolding in Puerto Rico — one that disproportionately affects LGBT+ people, particularly transgender and nonbinary Puerto Ricans”

Idaho’s Anti-Trans Laws Killed May Pollard

“Dangerously broad” federal book ban bill would bar kids from reading books about “transgenderism”