Trans advocates celebrate Bulgarian court’s ruling in favor of legal gender changes (+more trans news)

Trans advocates celebrate Bulgarian court’s ruling in favor of legal gender changes

After a legal battle that lasted nearly 10 years, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has ruled that transgender people have a legal right to change their name and gender markers on official ID documents.

A growing number of transgender people are crediting A.I. with helping them discover and explore their identities. But should tech mired in controversy be trusted with something so profound?

A new children’s book archive defies the right’s effort to erase LGBTQ+ identity

“Transgender people are not adult content, and young people do not stop being trans simply because adults decide the books that might help them understand themselves should be hidden away.”

A new adoption law in Ecuador contains discriminatory provisions targeting lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and threatens to strip many parents of transgender children of their parental rights

Test set to ban trans women from women’s Olympics lacks scientific backing: Experts

We’re seen as gods, but we don’t get jobs, says trans activist at Delhi film screening

JK Rowling keeps the name of her £112million superyacht under wraps amid fears it will attract pro-transgender activists
(Link to anti-trans site)

The Cost of Being Seen: Identity, Non-Passing Appearance, and Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender Women

Wisconsin cathedral welcomes Episcopal Church’s first transgender dean

Former Mumbai U-19 cricketer Anaya Bangar – daughter of ex-India all-rounder and coach Sanjay Bangar – has opened up about her long, emotionally grueling journey back to competitive sport after receiving formal clearance from Cricket Australia (CA).

On the Elliot Page interview. “Society’s biggest media outlets and social media algorithms spend a lot of time either ignoring or giving far less attention to the positives of being trans, gender-diverse or part of the LGBTQIA+ community.”

New book: J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic

//In J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic, Gina Gwenffrewi weaves her own experience as a trans woman living in Edinburgh, Scotland, with analysis of political and pop cultural discourses and artifacts to deliver a trenchant study of how fellow Edinburgh resident J. K. Rowling’s emergence as a major anti-trans campaigner and the years-long entrenchment of existing anti-trans forces have converged.//

‘Trans women can indeed play female roles’: Jinkx Monsoon on Oh, Mary!, sobriety and transitioning