Month: November 2026

“Body composition and physical fitness in transgender versus cisgender individuals: a systematic review with meta-analysis“

A scientific review published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine debunks the belief that transgender women have a physical advantage over cisgender women in sports.

“While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.”

New research debunks myths about transgender women’s athletic advantages

Photo by Jonathan Chng on Unsplash

LGB Alliance Co-Founder Unleashed An Islamaphobic Hate Storm Online

Kathleen Stock, British lesbian philosopher and TERF, is now defending the right of parents to scare their kids from coming out. Yeah, that also include gay and lesbian kids.
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Lesbian gender-critical activist Kathleen Stock criticised after suggesting parents could warn gay children of a ‘miserable life’

Brisbane’s ‘Out Radio’ accused of transphobia: what you need to know

Op-ed: Türkiye’s LGBTQ+ crackdown casts a shadow over the UN climate summit’s promise to leave no one behind

Mia Moore, Indie Film, and Trans Media; Again and Again

Police Brutality Against Trans + People In Nottingham

Good Law Project: WIN: We’ve reached a settlement for a trans woman left in pain by the NHS

The struggles of accessing healthcare for trans people moving to Ireland

Gender Equality Campaigner Hints At Kneecap Members Issuing SLAPP Orders.

US Politics

Maryland: The fight over trans students’ pronouns is about much more than names

Have We Just Witnessed the High Water Mark of the Anti Trans Movement?

On Day One Of Blue Texas, A Bill To Repeal The Abortion Ban And The Trans Youth Care Care Ban Filed

Lauren Boebert vanquished: Colorado voters oust one of Congress’s loudest bigots

Why blue WA voted to ban trans athletes from girls sports

Anti-trans ballot wins pose challenge for Democrats ahead of 2028

The Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors is poised to vote Monday on whether to authorize “legal action” regarding Initiative 638, which requires girls to prove their “biological sex” to play girls’ sports.

Space Force veteran Sabrina Bruce is poised to become Herndon’s vice mayor and is the first out trans person elected to office in Fairfax County, the state’s most populous county.

“The Supreme Court on Nov. 9 threw out a lower court’s ruling in favor of a transgender woman suing over her treatment at a county jail, directing a new analysis of the case based on the justices’ recent rulings on transgender issues.”

Transgender Texans cautiously optimistic about incoming Democratic elected officials

Anti-trans ballot measures passed, even as trans candidates won in Tuesday’s blue tsunami

Trans issues are likely to divide Democrats heading into the presidential primaries

Sarah McBride has one word for folks asking if she really used this brutal insult for Stephen Miller

To all the people texting me asking if this is a real quote:

Yep. https://t.co/86ljFmDulp

— Sarah McBride (@SarahEMcBride) November 8, 2026

Pro-trans Tennessee Democrat ousted an eight-term congressman with less than $100K

“Trans rights are human rights. That’s not a radical thought. People deserve to live freely in this country,” Broderick said. “And if we’re not going to protect those amongst us that are the most vulnerable, that’s unacceptable to me.”

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British Columbia: LifeLabs in B.C. ordered to pay $32K for misgendering transgender, non-binary patients: Human Rights Tribunal

On Houston’s transgender baseball team, nobody questions if I belong

TERF “Psychologist” Badgers Women’s Charity Into Banning Trans Women

The Truth About Breast Growth After Three Years of HRT

Six Australian Newspapers Censured Over Trans Shooter Coverage

What do you buy the feminist who has everything, including a pathological interest in other people’s genitals? A roll of wallpaper, apparently.

From Westminster to Sydney and Wellington, an international network of Free Speech Unions has emerged, campaigning against censorship, government interference and what its supporters call woke authoritarianism.

Archive of Our Own (AO3), the fanfiction archive responsible for an extraordinary amount of queer yearning, alternate universes and relationships that never quite made it into the original script, has gone offline.

Chappell Roan raises $2 million for trans youth at “gloriously gay” festival

In the ‘room of one’ that AI chats create, trans misinformation can’t be challenged

US Politics

Voter-approved girls’ sports initiative likely to face court battles

Historic U.S Midterms show anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric is losing it’s pull

We can only restore DEI & social justice if we throw out “the master’s tools”

‘The blue wave isn’t applicable to trans people’: advocates in Washington state prepare to fight ban

Denver: Protesters call on lawmakers to repeal two voter-approved transgender measures

Anti-trans ballot measures passed, even as trans candidates won in Tuesday’s blue tsunami

From the military to healthcare, Trump systematically dismantled Obama-era protections for transgender rights

While Democratic Party Wins, Trans Rights Suffer From U.S. Midterms

Federal employees seek restoration of gender-affirming care coverage

The Path Forward for Trans Rights After the Midterm

How did Allison Montgomery become Alabama’s first trans lawmaker? By running on the issues, she says

Washington State Democratic Party Chair Shasti Conrad: “To every trans girl participating in school sports, please know that we support your right to play.”

Katherine Clark Could Be the House Majority Leader.
Ms. Clark has been a vocal advocate of rights for transgender people, often invoking her support for her trans daughter.
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Transgender Texans cautiously optimistic about incoming Democratic elected officials

A trans girl will race for a state title days after voters approved a ban. Adults must protect her.

Seattleites rally in support of trans girls after state voters approve sports ban

These Four States Could Overturn Their Youth Gender Affirming Care Bans Post-Election

The Unmaking of Kris Kobach and His Anti-Trans Crusade

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Trans-Rights Supporters Protest J.K. Rowling at London Harry Potter Shop Opening

Outrage after transgender women attacked in Buenos Aires

The Gender Critical like to see themselves as the puritan defenders of women’s rights. The reality is they, unlike the majority of women are agressive and hostile.

Three in four trans women feel less accepted than a decade ago, new UK survey finds

“…the pornography distributor has been joined in the dock of public opinion by drag queens, transgender people, queer artists and anybody whose appearance or behaviour troubles the delicate sensibilities of the self-appointed guardians of civilisation.”

Former police sergeant barred after making transphobic slur at staff social

US Politics

Voters swept Democrats into power in a blue wave. They also banned trans girls from sports.

All that anti-trans money, and Republicans still got shellacked in Texas & everywhere else

Chucky Creator Don Mancini Dunks on Franchise Fan Nicki Minaj After Blue Tsunami

Record number of LGBTQ lawmakers elected to Congress in midterms

A Blue Tsunami and a Rainbow Wave: How the Midterm Results Will Impact LGBTQ People

Jaelynn Scott will be nation’s first out Black trans state lawmaker after winning Washington race

“Kind of thing you see when a dictator is overthrown”: Celebrations erupt across Texas

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Blames Anti-Trans Ads For Republican Losses In 2026 Midterms

Trans Democrat Allison Montgomery Flips Alabama House Seat Republicans Won By 16 In 2022

A New Dawn For Trans Texans: Most Texas Anti-Trans Laws Poised to Fall After Shock Democratic Victories

Midterms show voters don’t hate & fear trans people like the GOP wants, MS NOW host says

The blue wave delivered mixed results for anti-trans ballot initiatives

In Ron DeSantis’s Florida, voters just elected the state’s first out transgender woman

Anti-trans Democrats didn’t win because they sold us out. They won despite it.

Appellate judge strikes down Nassau County’s controversial transgender athlete ban

Human Rights Campaign president celebrates blue wave, but demands Dems deliver: ‘Now it’s time to govern’

Most Democratic ad buys on trans issues pushed back against Republicans, analysis finds

Joanna Whaley ran to be state’s first trans legislator. Then, the bullying began

These trans and nonbinary candidates just made history

On the same ballots that swept Democrats into power, voters in Arizona and Nebraska pushed trans kids out of school sports and bathrooms.

Vermonters overwhelmingly approved an equal protection of law amendment. It prohibits the denial of rights based on race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or national origin.

New York appeals court strikes down Nassau County’s anti-trans sports ban

Melodramatic Conservatives Mourn “Death” of America Following Republican Bloodbath (video)

The GOP’s Anti-Trans Fear Mongering Came Back to Bite Them on Tuesday’s Election (Video)

The Republican spent millions of dollars to scapegoat trans people. The voters did not care. The Republican party lost both chambers of Congress. Texas, run by transphic MAGA haters, has elected a Democratic senator and a Democratic governor.

The Republican defeat represents a huge victory for trans people in the US.

A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics: Republicans Spent $200 Million Attacking Trans People And Lost Everything

Delaware voters send trailblazing transgender Congresswoman Sarah McBride back to the U.S. Congress

Transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr wins reelection unopposed in Montana

The Texas Senate race broke spending records thanks to the GOP’s anti-trans ads

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey wins reelection after strengthening protections for trans health care

Minnesota reelects Leigh Finke, the trans lawmaker who helped protect gender-affirming care

Democrats flipped Republican seats. LGBTQ+ candidates helped deliver the decisive blow

Op-ed: A decade of hate. A night of reckoning. MAGA is over

James Talarico Wins Texas Senate Seat in Race Focused on Masculinity and Anti-Trans Attacks

Alabama Elects Its First Transgender State Lawmaker

Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan race without throwing transgender people under the bus

The Blue Wave Has Drowned Out Transphobic Fearmongering

Bentley Hudgins wins Georgia Assembly seat as first out trans and nonbinary state lawmaker

Trans allegories in popular music

St. Louis police investigate transgender woman’s death as homicide after initially calling it suicide

US Politics

Transgender clinic whistleblower sues WashU, says St. Louis school pushed her to resign

Missourians reject ballot proposal that would have re-imposed an abortion ban and added gender affirming treatment ban

Arizona rejects constitutional amendment targeting DEI