American trans refugees in Europe and other transgender news

‘No other option’: inside the refugee camp for trans Americans fleeing Trump

Last year, 76 Americans claimed asylum in the Netherlands, according to the Dutch asylum and immigration ministry, up from nine in 2024.
Photograph: Judith Jockel/The Guardian

Understanding Transmisogyny, Part Six: Epistemic Vandalism. How science grades trans people.
By Talia Bhatt.

“It is epistemic vandalism. It is the refusal to consider any knowledge base or testimony or advocacy or opinion that is insufficiently transphobic as valid at all. It is the active and malicious exclusion of even the credible and authoritative if their judgment of us is deemed to be insufficiently harmful. It is the mandating and requirement that only that which actively denies, displaces, and dismisses us is acceptable as knowledge, and everything else is ‘opinion’ or ‘activism’ or, bluntly, hysteria. It is, in short, the collective global and societal gaslighting of an entire category of person, because to consider us as anything less than a tumor to excise or a blight to cure is in and of itself disqualifying. It is a reversal of reality, an inversion of who victim and oppressor are to justify a level of violence and stigmatization and exclusion as to be tantamount to genocide.”

Speedball Mike Bailey: the first non-binary person to win an AEW championship

Congress: McBride, other US lawmakers travel to Denmark

How the ACLU is using fashion to fight for trans kids