Month: September 2026 (Page 1 of 3)

The Liberal Democrats have become the first major Westminster party to formally reject the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) guidance on the implementation of the Supreme Court’s ruling on sex and gender, after members overwhelmingly backed a motion describing the code as “discriminatory and unworkable”.

Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people

Lib Dems: Restoring Trans Rights

The “Trans Kid Surgery” Myth. The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts.

100 groups warn ‘biological sex’ push would strip protections from trans and intersex Australians

Craig and Charlie Reid, who make up the Scottish rock duo The Proclaimers, best known for their 1988 hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” denounced trans rights while promoting their new album

Black trans woman Sophie Lee remembered after fatal shooting in Baltimore

Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan in Narnia is ‘blasphemous’, say angry pseudo-Christians

US Politics

Basic Rights Oregon Condemns Federal Ruling on Trans Women Prisoners

Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.

Dem mocks opponent for focus on trans folks amid rising costs: “That’s what they’re talking about?”

“Stop telling trans people they have to vote for anti-trans Democrats. Stop telling them they’ll be responsible for the fall of democracy unless they do.”

Anti-trans messaging isn’t the path to re-election that Rep. Marcy Kaptur thinks it is

A federal appeals court has refused to allow the Bureau of Prisons to immediately reinstate sweeping restrictions on gender-affirming medical care for incarcerated transgender people

Even Fox News is boycotting, but an LGBTQ+ outlet is still covering the White House pool

Two More Hospitals Strike DOJ Deals to End Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

Court rules trans women can be housed in men’s prisons & calls them men “who claim to be female”

Transgender News September 21

September 21, 2026 / Jack Molay

100 organisations unite to defend Australia’s anti-discrimination laws

“we are entering a phase of not being explicitly vocally trans in the public sphere. This is not a workable … especially as emancipation always comes from the radical deconstruction of oppressive systems”

She spouted anti-trans lies to oppose a rainbow crosswalk. Now she’s facing consequences.

Thai-American transgender woman Lo Colby has been crowned Miss International Queen 2026 in Pattaya, Thailand

Rising fashion model Kai Schreiber, the 17-year-old daughter of actors Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, has celebrated being the first trans girl to win a coveted Breakthrough Model of the Year award during New York Fashion Week.

Trans women are not a threat to women’s spaces. But cis men are.

A queer Torah study group is showing LGBTQ+ people they have always belonged in Judaism

From recruitment tactics to purity rules and apocalyptic warnings, it’s anti-trans rhetoric that mirrors cult-like behavior.

“When I began my journey of discovery along the transgender highway, I got stuck several times, because I wanted a simple answer. “

Trans Sports Dominate Culture Wars. But What Do Scientists Think?

Queer / کوئیر: The Power of the Umbrella

Unlike medicalized or hyper-specific terms, منفرد captures the essence of standing outside traditional societal templates with dignity. It allows individuals to honor their authentic selves without needing to justify the specifics of their attraction or gender to a conservative society.

US Politics

Trump’s catchphrase ‘transgender for everybody’ becomes an LGBTQ rallying cry

The Thomas More Society is threatening to sue the Wake County Public School System unless it allows a group of parents to remove their children from a required music class taught by a transgender teacher

For trans youth in the Hudson Valley, care is getting harder to find

WNBA star says transphobes are just exploiting women athletes: “They don’t care about the WNBA”

“We can’t act like we don’t know better – we know the effects of targeting trans youth for discrimination.”

Limiting access to medical professionals drives youth toward underground care networks, creating greater physical and psychological risks.

Transgender News September 19

September 19, 2026 / Jack Molay

Scottish Labour councillor failed to declare role in ‘gender critical’ group, breaching Council rules amid trade union legal action

Pedro Pascal says non-binary Bella Ramsey will ‘slay’ on The Celebrity Traitors

South Africa: Former Big Brother Mzansi contestant Ilano Sky has finally received an identity document reflecting her correct gender marker after waiting five years for the process to be completed.

‘Humiliated’: Trans man wins discrimination case after workplace outed him as trans against his will

No, This Graphic Doesn’t Prove Trans Women Are Dangerous

“According to the image, the sexual-offending rate for women is 3 per million, the rate for men is 395 per million, and the rate for transgender women is an astonishing 1,916 per million.”

But this is not what the numbers say.

Who is Kali Reis, the two-spirit, sexually fluid actress in Resident Evil?

US Politics

Anti-transgender legislation can cause psychological distress even in states with trans-friendly laws

Republican Congressman Gives WNBA (Meaningless) Deadline to Define “Women”

NYU Langone strikes deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors

Judge’s anti-trans language ‘harmful,’ even for winning lawyers in Oregon case
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As Trump loses ground and lashes out, some remain willing to capitulate when it comes to anti-trans hate

‘Pure discrimination’: Texas Pride organisers hit out after permit rejection

Right-wing group admits anti-trans ads won’t save the GOP

American Principles Project Warns Republicans That Targeting Trans People “May Not Be Sufficient” To Win 2026

UPMC University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to pay DOJ nearly $1M, agrees to 10-year moratorium on gender-affirming care for trans youth

Campaign Finance Complaint: Anti-Trans Initiative Backers Failed to Report Payments for Petitions

Trump deported trans woman Daniela Fuentes to Central African Republic; she says she has to hide who she is

Notorious anti-trans activist melts down at school board meeting: “This is insane!”

EEOC agrees to let Christian employers misgender trans employees

Federal Court Rules Oregon Can Place Trans Women in Men’s Prisons

As Massachusetts hospitals bow to Trump, these organizers are fighting to protect trans futures

GOP candidate booted from forum for misgendering Sarah McBride to her face

Democrat Rep. Marcy Kaptur Shows She’s Just As Anti-Trans As Her Opponent

Transgender News September 18

September 18, 2026 / Jack Molay

‘Changing Gender’ in a Time of Backlash. Talking to Susan Stryker about what this moment means for trans people and self-definition.

Chelsea Manning, onetime Army intelligence analyst, WikiLeaks whistleblower and transgender woman is still adjusting to freedom after enduring seven years in prison for exposing classified military records

‘Everything shut down’: India’s transgender law leaves patients in limbo over hormone therapy

Trans kids are vulnerable to eating disorders. This therapist knows what they’re going through.

Trans Cricketer Anaya Bangar Just Wants A Chance To Play

Indian transgender patients left in limbo following legal amendments

Archer & pole dance influencer goes viral for explaining how transphobia hurts everyone

Divina de Campo to star in new musical exploring one trans woman’s journey to gender-affirming surgery

Trans rights activists protest Haringey debate on single-sex spaces petition

Dwyane Wade recalls challenging locker-room culture before daughter Zaya came out as trans

When a Trans Person Commits a Crime, We’re All Put on Trial

How the Supreme Court tipped Anna over the edge

Finding Authenticity Within Gender Dynamics

“The natural mosaic which is humanity allows for the development of beings which are the product of a combination of many factors. “

US Politics

Dem. Ohio Candidate Marcy Kaptur Releases Ad: “I Voted With Republicans To Keep Transgender Ideology Out Of Schools”

Republicans are using transphobia to try to win Spanish-speaking voters in Texas

GOP governor’s “wildly offensive” ad brutally mocks trans girls: “What a transphobic disgrace”

Oregon doesn’t have to hold trans women inmates in women’s prisons, federal appeals court rules

A conservative law firm is demanding that the Wake County school system let Middle Creek Elementary School students opt out of a transgender music teacher’s class or face legal action.

Republicans claim to be fierce defenders of free speech until that speech supports LGBTQ+ people

Journalist Evan Urquhart argues that swing-state Democratic candidates are going too far in distancing them from transgender rights.

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Chris Cook says he moved his family from Kansas to Colorado because he thought the state would be a safe place to raise his 11-year-old daughter, who is transgender. But a pair of ballot measures could threaten that safe haven.

North Dakota Supreme Court upholds ban on transgender healthcare for minors

New Round Of Anti-Trans Attack Ads Blankets The Airwaves This Week

A Southborough family has stepped into the national spotlight with claims that their local school seeded — and the state of Massachusetts is facilitating — their child’s gender transition. But court records paint a different picture.

Needle’s article about there being “an attempt to weaponize the Census to make a list of every trans person in the US” is as false as it is dangerous, Aleksandra Vaca argues.
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Transgender News September 17

September 17, 2026 / Jack Molay

Canberra: Forcing transgender people to reveal past names and “out” themselves when applying for jobs amounts to discrimination, a tribunal has found.

Australia: The Federal Government has announced that it will apologise to LGBTIQA+ military veterans who faced discrimination because of who they were

EU announces plan to ban and restrict social media access for under 15s

J.K. Rowling’s Agent Insists She’s Not Funding Trans Genocide (She is)

US Politcs

Judge says Chino Valley Unified can disclose a student’s gender identity to parents when they ask

An inside look at 1 Maine school district’s push to embrace Trump’s stance on transgender students

Vice President JD Vance reached for satanic panic Monday while campaigning in Kansas, falsely describing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as devil worshipers and mangling the group’s name in the process.

Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger stops previous Republican-led anti-trans policies

Sarah McBride sails toward reelection after advancing unopposed in Delaware Democratic primary

Chicago: Lawsuit against trans-inclusive D109 policies dismissed: ‘An expression of transphobia, nothing more’

Trump Administration Proposes Forced Outing of all Transgender Americans on 2030 Census

The Data Center Guy Wants This Election to be About Trans People

Democratic candidates’ transphobia spells disaster for trans people

Anti-trans bathroom bill forces cis women to wait in long lines at Kansas State Fair

JD Vance, Who Has Literally Done Drag, Tries to Slam James Talarico for Having a Favorite Drag Queen

President Trump remains determined to install warning signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to alert the public that the institution, in his view, does not accurately present U.S. history.
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//For example, the letter said the signs should “ensure parents bringing young children to the museum are equipped to protect the well-being of their children” regarding exhibits that “present ideological viewpoints inconsistent with biology, including ideologies that sex is not binary, that biological men can be women and that biological men should be permitted to compete in women’s sports.”//