Month: August 2026 (Page 1 of 2)

Australia: Census asks about gender and sexual orientation for first time to help fill LGBTQ+ community data gaps

For the first time, Australians aged 16 and over are being asked optional questions about sexual orientation and gender, alongside a question on sex recorded at birth.

This matters because communities that are not counted are too easily ignored in health policy, housing, education, aged care and mental health services.

On the increasing use of morality to deny transgender people their place in normative society

A Rehoboth-area bar and its owner were found to have violated Delaware’s anti-discrimination law for a second time.

Harry Potter star tries to separate JK Rowling from the franchise and people are fuming

Bel Powley Says She “Strongly Disagrees” With J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia Despite Taking Role in Harry Potter Reboot

Australia: Help the intersex population be counted on the Census in the future

UK: Broadcast regulator Ofcom has launched investigations into anti-LGBTQ+ attacks on GB News following complaints by Good Law Project and 15,000 members of the public.

Mayor of Greater Manchester, Bev Craig, refuses to endorse ‘guidance’ restricting trans access to public facilities

UK: Police officer sacked and added to ‘barred list’ after making anti-trans comments

Trans pregnancy drama by Kolkata filmmaker to premiere at 2026 Toronto International Film Festival

Edinburgh Council condemns EHRC single-sex code in new report
Archive

Dylan Mulvaney surprises LGBTQ+ young adults at Provincetown fundraiser

Take Back the Flag: The Suffragettes Belong to All Women

US Politics

Trans woman says ‘hypocrite’ Lindsey Graham paid her for sex. She’s calling out his anti-trans legacy

Federal appeals court blocks ruling for housing trans women in Oregon prisons

Two ex-NBA players turn transgender identity into a stunt. The WNBA is responding

Trump administration abandons legal appeal for trans kids’ medical records

In a narrow bipartisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected an amendment that would have permanently written President Donald Trump’s transgender military ban into federal law.

Ken Paxton forced a children’s hospital to open a “detransition clinic.” Here’s what it will offer.

Humboldt County, California: Advocates Urge Open Door to Reinstate Youth Gender-Affirming Care After Health Center Cuts Key Treatment

The transgender refugees finding sanctuary in the North of England

Australia: NSW to establish first dedicated statewide LGBTQIA+ legal service

Why Hormones Change the Way Trans People Heal After Training

A veteran British police detective has been dismissed after a misconduct panel found that comments she made about transgender women and men violated professional standards

Ohio Mama Bears is the local chapter of the Real Mama Bears, an international network of “mama bears” looking to connect over raising queer children.

US: Cooper Implies Male Wards For Trans Women

If you think being trans is a choice, walk a mile in my shoes
Archive

Videos

Coming out as TRANS (in 2020s America): Chloe’s story

I Ranked Every Trans Stereotype (It Got Weird)

The Trans Experience In Bigoted Spaces

“There are so many ‘real men’ out there. Why can she not choose not to be one? Whom is she harming?”

Radio France (the French equivalent of BBC Radio) has a number of recent podcasts dedicated to transgender news and transgender people (in French).

State-sanctioned segregation in EHRC code “misstates the law”, says new court challenge

Parents of trans kids warned UK’s govt about new school policy. They were ignored.

A Trans Woman Exercised Her Legal Right To Defend Herself. So Why Is She Being Prosecuted?

Dutch PM: More needs to be done to defend trans rights

Intersectionality Isn’t the Enemy. Misunderstanding It Is.

Vivian Jenna Wilson praises ‘trans excellence’ of fellow trans models in candid new interview

US Politics

How a Hate Group Funded and Controlled Research from McMaster University

Michigan Might Elect A Trans Woman To The State Legislature For The First Time Ever

The Women’s National Basketball Players Association released a statement on Friday, emphasizing diversity and inclusion while saying the organization “will not be used as political pawns.”

Rudy Giuliani launches bizarre anti-trans rant over Zohran Mamdani’s child care plan

New York’s record-breaking LGBTQ+ lawmakers are about to become a political force. Now they want a caucus

HRC condemns DoE removal of LGBTQ bullying data from federal survey

The fight for trans athletes isn’t about fairness. It’s about who gets to belong

These LGBTQ+ Virginia kids found support and community in school. Then, bigoted adults took that away

Swarm of bots post astroturf campaign in support of ATF’s anti-trans gun rule

Videos

They Got Caught Faking Being Trans. They Never Stopped

The Odyssey Film: A Trans Historian’s Perspective

JK Rowling, Trans Rights, and why Influence is Power

What a Lifetime of Gender Identity Suppression Does to Your Mental Health

California AG Leads Pushback Against Trump Attack on Transgender Healthcare

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (photo) has joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general urging a federal court to dismiss the Trump administration’s lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), warning that the case threatens both transgender healthcare and medical freedom more broadly.

Attorney General Bonta Opposes Trump Administration’s Attempt to Suppress Healthcare Recommendations from Major Medical Organization

Amicus Brief

“Free speech, a quintessential issue of our times, a right so nebulous that those in favour of free speech absolutism are prepared to sell the rights of victims just so their own abstract freedom is not impinged.”

Canada is becoming less accepting of gender diversity, new Statistics Canada data shows

Who is Julie Tétart? The transgender star who wants to play in the WNBA amid the controversy: “I won’t say no”

A Virginia school board bent over backward to block an LGBTQ+ club. One mom explains why she’s suing

Washington parent pulls kid from school over a video about LGBTQ+ people simply existing

Miss North Carolina USA Stripped of Crown Due to “Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia”

LGB Alliance to lobby Parliament against proposed conversion practices ban

LGBTQ+ organisations across Europe unite in action to ‘Protect Pride. Protect Democracy’

Over the past year, marginalised communities, including LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities, have reported a growing wave of account suspensions, removals and restrictions from Meta’s moderation systems.

“My Very Personal Journey from Ignorance on Trans Rights.
How ‘The Danish Girl’ changed how I see trans stories”

India: The Bihar State Transgender Welfare Board proposes constructing a temple in Patna dedicated to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.😳
(There is so much that is wrong with this proposal. The Indian government has turned back the clock on transgender rights with the abolishment of self identification.)

Why Bother? The Message Young Neurodivergent People Are Hearing About Work

Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Trans comic book creator gains new superpowers in Ohio

US Politics

Connecticut Children’s Betrays Families Once Again with DOJ Settlement

An unprecedented settlement agreement has been reached in a case brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that requires Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston to pay $10 million to the state and create a “detransition clinic.”

Trump DOJ settlement extorts children’s hospital into ending trans youth care

JD Vance backs Sophie Cunningham in her stance of the transgender playing in women’s sports

Statement from State Senator Matt Lesser, D-Middletown, Senate Chair of the Human Services Committee, on the new CCMC agreement with the Trump Department of Justice

Gun-friendly Wyoming has a “stand your ground” statute that allows people to use force to defend themselves. So why is a trans woman being prosecuted after being shoved to the ground?

The Enemy Is in the House? When Democrats Target Trans Candidates

Gabby Williams voiced support for transgender athletes in women’s sports, adding a new perspective to the ongoing WNBA debate sparked by Sophie Cunningham’s comments.

Great Britain now bars trans people from many public bathrooms and changing rooms

UK: The Labour Party’s Day of Shame – 5.8.26

‘I will never be safe in a man’s toilet’: Trans woman fears impact of new EHRC guidance

Good Law Project backs legal challenge to government and EHRC over transphobic trans guidance

Good Law Project: We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice

UK guidance on single-sex spaces takes effect prompting legal challenge

Social media has jumped on Róisín Murphy after she appeared to accuse Madonna of failing to challenge what she described as the “TQ+ bandwagon”.

Solidarity with everyone in the trans community

Families angry that Baystate Health still not providing gender care, despite legal developments

UK: Opinion: Queen’s Park by-election is a reset for trans+ residents

South African Deputy Minister Mmapaseka Steve Letsike received global recognition at the second International Pride Awards, held during WorldPride Amsterdam on Wednesday.

Netherlands: Dutch prime minister opens World Pride Human Rights Conference

What Logan’s ‘Pride in the Plaza’ taught us about visibility

US Politics

Ohio Republican lawmaker proposes election bill that could protect transgender candidates

What’s missing from the renewed debate over trans athletes? The voices of trans people.

Fact Check: Is The Trump Administration Revoking Trans People’s Passports By Declaring Them ‘National Security Risks’?

Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony (R) is suing the Nevada Ethics Commission over its determination that Anthony violated state ethics law by using state resources to set up a task force aimed at keeping transgender athletes out of women’s sports.

Wake school board, community members defend transgender school teacher

A transgender woman born in Wisconsin and the American Civil Liberties Union have sued state officials over surgery requirements for transgender and intersex people to change their sex on their birth certificates.
Archived

Study examines how officers’ perceptions of an individual’s gender influence search and arrest outcomes during vehicle and pedestrian stops in California.

Connecticut Children’s hospital to end youth gender-affirming care in Trump administration settlement

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

Legislator says Democratic Socialist U.S. House candidate Heath Howard pressured her to drop out of House race because she’s trans. New Hampshire State Rep. Alice Wade (D) said it “felt like a profound betrayal.”

Joanna Whaley, who won the District 2 state Democratic primary on Aug. 4, may be on her way to becoming Michigan’s first-ever transgender state representative.

Transgender candidate Joanna Whaley victorious in Michigan Democratic primary

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

Transphobes Claim Puberty Blockers Ruin Bone Density Forever. A New Study Says Otherwise

New study dissects right-wingers’ claim that gender-affirming care harms kids’ bones

Research paper: “Bone Accrual During Puberty Suppression and Gender-Affirming Therapy in Transgender Adolescents. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis“

Photo: getty

The GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) are finalising a transgender policy that it is envisaged will be signed off in time for next year.

World’s No. 1 woman tennis player Aryna Sabalenka supports genetic sex testing as ‘fair’

A Michigan hospital has agreed to pay $410,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a physician assistant who said she was fired after refusing to comply, due to her faith convictions, with workplace policies related to transgender patients

A rural Virginia school board changed its rules to block an LGBTQ+ club. Students are suing in federal court

A Trans Teen Sought Therapy—His Therapist Is Accused of Sexual Assault

Trans top surgery patients aren’t getting enough info about breast cancer screening, study says

Things We Want Trans People To Know (Against the EHRC)

Trans rights group warns EHRC code will make trans lives ‘smaller and more precarious’

Trans Is Human: New exhibition opens at Queer Britain

Elliot Page says biology education is used ‘against queer and trans people’

Plans have been revealed for a life-size statue commemorating drag performer The Vivienne in Liverpool’s Pride Quarter.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Is the Second Box-Office Smash of the Year With a Trans Actor

Maikol Roque plays EJ, the son of a police detective, in the Spidey sequel.

Safety, freedom and no misgendering: inside the Texas summer camp for trans kids

US Politics

Seth Moulton’s anti-trans rhetoric comes back to haunt him in Senate debate with Ed Markey

James Talarico tells Rachel Maddow how bigoted, anti-trans politics distract from GOP corruption

WNBA Coach Cheryl Reeve Wore “Trans Kids Belong” While Beating Sophie Cunningham’s Team

Eleventh Circuit, on an 8-5 vote, holds that Florida’s anti-drag law is likely constitutional

Trans Troops Followed the Pentagon’s Medical Rules—Then Those Records Were Used to Force Them Out

Vivek Ramaswamy earns an ‘F’ in LGBTQ+ rights; here’s a look at his track record

Lindsey Graham Was Allegedly This Trans Sex Worker’s Client. Now, She’s Speaking Out

A New Study from Canada Again Finds Less Than 1 Percent of Trans Youth Detransition

Out of 445 patients, only a single youth who started hormone therapy later stopped treatment due to a change in their sense of their own gender.

New Canadian Study Confirms That Less Than 1% of Trans Youth Detransition

After losing his doctor, York County transgender teen finds hope

Michigan finds hair salon owner violated the law by directing trans people to pet groomers

The Transgender Woman and the Book of Imaginary Beings

Class and Privilege Create a Queer Divide in Pakistan

Now the Right Is Mad at Caitlin Clark for Not Publicly Agreeing With Sophie Cunningham

Hair salon forced into anti-discrimination training after horrific anti-LGBTQ+ Facebook rant

These neo-Nazis surrounded a Drag Story Hour while chanting slurs. Now they’ll pay the price.

Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings calls out anti-trans ‘bigots’ and ‘cowards’

US Politcs

Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools.
Archive

Decorated transgender troops endure closed-door hearings with foregone conclusions in Pentagon purge

Transgender federal workers sue Trump administration over insurance ban on their health care

Department of Education will no longer track the bullying of trans & non-binary kids

The State Department is likely asserting the power to deem U.S. citizens who they determine to be ideologically “far-left”, and who seem to be especially active in transgender advocacy, as “national security” risks.

U.S. Rep Haley Stevens (D) Faces Backlash Over Ad Featuring Anti-LGBTQ+ Pastor

WNBA coach stands for trans kids during game against anti-trans player: “She’s the one with class”

Pentagon caves to LGBTQ+ activist who sued for document on Scouting America’s alleged trans ban

High Court rules strip searches don’t have to be based on ‘biological sex’

Helen Joyce and her Totalitarian World: An Analysis of Ideological Totalitarianism, Biological Reductionism, and the Politics of Denial

James Talarico says he won’t “win by selling people out” when pressed on trans rights support

Video

Is this trans thought experiment just wrong? Dan McClellan, religion scholar, comes to the defense of trans people.

Geno Segers (photo) will no longer join the Broadway cast of Hadestown following several days of online backlash over videos he posted about transgender people and other social issues.

Fashion brand backs off of “Harry Potter” collab after strong online backlash

The EU’s Dangerous Deportation Pipeline: How Returning LGBTQI+ Pakistanis Leads to Direct Arrest and Persecution

Why Chronic Stress Hits Transgender People Differently

Right-Wing Protesters Forced a Trans Menstrual-Health Event to Move—Then Followed Attendees to the New Location

Oxfordshire councils reaffirm support for trans people

‘Renderings of stable, biological, binary sex don’t make sense under close scrutiny,’ professor writes

US Politics

A dress code for transgender teachers is probably illegal — and definitely wrong

“Conservatives once demanded sports stay apolitical. Now they’ve embraced a new culture-war politics, and Sophie Cunningham has become one of its most valuable stars”

Cunningham, the WNBA star who was branded as “MAGA Barbie” after sharing her thoughts on transgender athletes, faced deafening roars of boos throughout her matchup against the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday.
Archive

Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase expressed her support for trans women in sports amidst a political firestorm overtaking the WNBA.

Cheryl Reeve advocates for transgender athletes ahead of another Sophie Cunningham rally

Playing sports doesn’t qualify you to talk about trans people

‘You don’t really have critical-thinking skills’: Sophie Cunningham faces criticism from Katie Nolan

Sophie Cunningham says she’s unconcerned that the rallies against transgender participation in women’s sports that have accompanied the Indiana’s Fever’s recent games are a distraction for the WNBA team.

An interview with the trans liberationist non-violent direct action group BASH BACK.

Tasmanian victims of former gay and cross-dressing laws can now claim compensation

This secret guest house in the Catskills became a paradise for trans women in the ’50s & ’60s

Tim Hortons’ new Harry Potter-themed campaign is hurtful to 2SLGBTQIA+ Canadians. Tim Horton is a Canadian multinational coffeehouse and restaurant chain.

Anti-LGBTQ+ laws are on the rise across west Africa, campaigners warn

Amsterdam Pride Canal Parade draws hundreds of thousands

Dylan Mulvaney’s response to Trump.

Trump tried to put her down, but Dylan Mulvaney clapped back with true class

US Politics

After court order, Michigan to stop enforcing ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youth

U. Tampa English professor claims Trump’s words contribute to declining support for trans rights

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