Transgender students are more likely to seek help from teachers and not from their parents, new study finds

• https://www.medindia.net/news/transgender-kids-often-seek-support-from-their-school-teachers-216988-1.htm

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A comprehensive list of articles and videos on the transphobic pseudoscience of “autogynephilia.”

All you need to know about the “autogynephilia” theory (Resources)

Orange CountyOrange County Program Trains Businesses to Welcome Transgender Workers

• https://www.losangelesblade.com/2024/08/28/cultural-competency-training-program-organge-county/

Article explores how solo day trips can help transgender individuals overcome loneliness and reconnect with their passions.

• https://www.transvitae.com/finding-joy-alone-day-trips-for-transgender-self-discovery

Gender Liberation March organizer Raquel Willis emphasizes the importance of bodily autonomy and self-determination.

The Gender Revolutionary Principles of Raquel Willis

India: Ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir polls, members of the transgender community demand reservation for them in the legislative assembly.

• https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/transgender-community-rallies-in-jammu-demands-assembly-seat-reservation-124083100724_1.html

Let us fix that headline: First transgender manager ignites row by signing transgender goalkeeper for women’s team

• https://sports.yahoo.com/first-transgender-manager-ignites-controversy-161339258.html?guccounter=1

Remembering the 1960s Bar That Became a Refuge for Honolulu’s Māhū Community

• https://www.them.us/story/the-glade-honolulu-drag-cabaret-mahu-trans-history

What Isn’t a Woman? (Sports & Sex). Video by Caelan Conrad.

Black trans singer, actress, songwriter, and activist Mila Jam just revealed on Instagram that she voiced and gave her likeness to the first Black trans woman play a character in a Triple-A video game.

• https://www.intomore.com/entertainment/gaming/black-trans-artist-mila-jam-just-made-playstation-history

Another transgender athlete in N.H. allowed back on girls’ team, as school board defies new law

• https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/30/metro/maelle-jacques-kearsarge-school-defies-transgender-sports/
• Archive: https://archive.is/lBsEj#selection-1723.0-1723.95

Netflix’s new series Kaos features a trans-masculine romance storyline which the actor behind it hopes will provide vital representation for transgender viewers.

• https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/30/netflix-kaos-trans-romance

Top 5 shows featuring transgender leads you should watch

Women’s college in Virginia bars transgender students based on founder’s will from 1900

• https://apnews.com/article/sweet-briar-college-transgender-students-694398c5cf910212924e9bb71b38787e

On September 14 the streets of Washington, D.C. will be flooded with protestors turning out for the Gender Liberation March.

• https://www.advocate.com/election/gender-liberation-march-dc

USA Paralympic volleyball star Monique Matthews a champion for trans visibility

• https://www.outsports.com/2024/8/30/24100796/paralympics-volleyball-monique-matthews-usa-team-lgbtq

Right wing fanatics continue their attacks against trans people in the US

A Charleston transgender man and families across South Carolina are suing the state to overturn a new law restricting gender-affirming healthcare.

• https://www.transvitae.com/south-carolina-transgender-man-leads-lawsuit-against-harmful-health-ban

A School District’s allowing students to keep their gender identity private does not violate parents’ constitutional rights, New Hampshire Supreme Court says

• https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-08-30/nh-supreme-court-upholds-manchester-school-policy-on-transgender-students

Valley advocates react to transgender Texans being blocked from changing their sex on their driver’s license

• https://www.krgv.com/news/valley-advocates-react-to-transgender-texans-being-blocked-from-changing-their-sex-on-their-driver-s-license

Transgender South Carolinians file federal lawsuit against H.4624

• https://eu.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2024/08/29/transgender-south-carolinians-file-federal-lawsuit-against-h-4624/75002659007/

Anti-trans laws may complicate access to the ballot for trans voters

• https://19thnews.org/2024/08/ballot-access-barriers-trans-voters-states-id-laws/

Georgia Senate Republicans push to further restrict trans women in sports

• https://apnews.com/article/georgia-transgender-women-sports-swimming-0de61f750d82925bd12b3bfe95a8bb99

PoliticsTrump recycles anti-trans right-wing talking points at Moms for Liberty Summit

• https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/08/30/trump-recycles-anti-trans-right-wing-talking-points-at-moms-for-liberty-summit/

Queer students look for alternatives after Texas A&M ends transgender health care services

• https://www.hppr.org/hppr-news/2024-08-30/queer-students-look-for-alternatives-after-texas-a-m-ends-transgender-health-care-services

Instead of Ignoring Trans Rights at DNC, Dems Should’ve Vowed to Protect Them

• https://truthout.org/articles/instead-of-ignoring-trans-rights-at-dnc-dems-shouldve-vowed-to-protect-them/

US: Department of Health and Human Services Appeals Nationwide Pause on Trans Health Protection Rule

• https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/hhs-appeals-nationwide-pause-on-trans-health-protection-rule

Enough of the oppression olympics, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard argues, who also unmasks LGBT people who betray trans people. (video)

Moving to another city as a transgender individual: This guide offers practical advice on navigating LGBTQ+ spaces, finding trans-specific communities, and making meaningful connections.

• https://www.transvitae.com/making-friends-in-a-new-city-a-trans-persons-guide-to-expanding-social-circles

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Fear, frustration linger on anniversary of Missouri laws targeting transgender youths

• https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2024/08/28/missouri-anti-transgender-laws-went-into-effect-1-year-ago/74957817007

Karla Sofía Gascón plays a drug kingpin who undergoes gender-affirming surgery in a performance that wowed Cannes. Is the academy next?

• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/movies/karla-sofia-gascon-emilia-perez-oscar.html

• Archive: https://archive.ph/31OJk

In Close To You, Elliot Page plays Sam, a transgender man living in Toronto making the journey to the small town where he grew up for his father’s birthday.

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/elliot-page-proves-he-is-a-force-in-first-film-since-transitioning/ar-AA1pDDD6

Suzy Izzard stars in Jeff Goldblum’s Netflix series Kaos.

• https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/30/kaos-netflix-reviews

Coroner recommends increasing funding immediately for Victorian Transgender Health & Training Australian GP’s in GAHT

• https://lucyfromnaarm.com/p/victorian-coroner-recommends-increasing

New Hampshire’s legislature, called the General Court, has passed a flurry of anti-trans bills last month, some of which have been signed into law.

• https://thepetershep.substack.com/p/the-transphobic-assault-on-new-hampshire

Three days at a safe place for LGBTQ kids in Texas: ‘I want to exist’

• https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/texas-lgbtq-camp-19608004.php

Alabama: U.S. Circuit Judge claimed the decision means parents only have the right to get medical treatments for their children that were “in existence as of 1868.”

• https://www.al.com/politics/2024/08/wrong-and-dangerous-dissenting-judges-slam-ruling-on-alabamas-transgender-minors-law.html

Australia: Six Labor MPs including assistant minister Ged Kearney want their government to change its decision not to include gender identity and sexuality in the census.

• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-29/labor-faces-lgbtq-census-backlash/104288430

‘Normalising’ surgeries still conducted on intersex kids despite human rights concerns

• https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/normalising-surgeries-still-being-conducted-on-intersex-children-despite-human-rights-concerns

Barack Obama’s post about Kamala Harris has trans folks wondering something

• https://www.intomore.com/the-internet/memes/barack-obamas-post-about-kamala-harris-has-trans-folks-wondering-something

Trans folks are asking: Is it a bad idea to move to the USA as a trans person?

Trans rights in America are far from perfect, with a record number of more than 600 anti-trans bills in consideration so far in 2024 — 45 of which have already been passed. Still, is living in the United States better for trans people than, say, living in the United Kingdom?

• https://www.intomore.com/culture/identity/trans-folks-are-asking-is-it-a-bad-idea-to-move-to-the-usa-as-a-trans-person

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The LDS Church’s latest policy updates have introduced stringent restrictions on transgender members, barring them from key roles and activities.

• https://www.transvitae.com/lds-churchs-new-anti-trans-rules-spark-outrage-and-fear

Today’s battles over issues like gender nonconformity and reproductive rights have antecedents that have been lost or suppressed.

• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/02/fierce-desires-a-new-history-of-sex-and-sexuality-in-america-rebecca-l-davis-book-review

• Archive: https://archive.is/x8i1d

Ashley Brundage could become the first openly transgender person to hold elected office in Florida.

• https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/politics/state-house-district-transgender-ashley-brundage-karen-gonzalez-pittman/67-535c242f-25fa-4446-98d8-b4b0ecb2ccf4

• Archive: https://archive.is/hbyBS#selection-1901.14-1901.174

Not very demure: TikTok creator faces a legal battle over her own catchphrase

• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/27/demure-mindful-tiktok-lawsuit
• https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/28/very-demure-trademark-update/

Greenville library relocates all books with transgender themes to adult section

• https://eu.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2024/08/26/greenville-library-will-relocate-ya-books-with-transgender-themes/74951869007

Jack Daniel’s have cut their commitments to diversity, after conservative influencer Robby Starbuck threatened to make the company his next target.

• https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/08/jack-daniels-caves-to-conservative-influencer-cuts-diversity-initiatives

Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum on the very popular 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning.

• https://www.out.com/film/channing-tatum-zoe-kravitz-paris-is-burning-praise-criterion-video-watch

Republican offensive risks backfiring with transgender friends, family

Republican offensive risks backfiring with transgender friends, family

While other countries have become increasingly hostile toward LGBTQ+ people, Tonga’s laws stand in contrast to a long tradition of fakaleiti.

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/26/tonga-trans-pageant-lgbt-rights

• Archive: https://archive.is/YJeCx

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Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson was one of 332 players who played at the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) pre-qualifying last week.

• https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/26/transgender-golfer-hailey-davidson

Transgender students more likely than cisgender peers to seek support from school staff, study finds

• https://phys.org/news/2024-08-transgender-students-cisgender-peers-school.html

Alex Consani, a 21-year-old trailblazing model, has made history as the first out trans woman to be nominated for Model of the Year at the 2024 BFC Fashion Awards

• https://www.transvitae.com/alex-consani-trans-woman-nominated-for-bfc-model-of-the-year

How anti-trans policies in Project 2025 could impact all families

• https://19thnews.org/2024/08/project-2025-anti-trans-policies-impact-families

Duke University faculty must stop advocating for anti-gay and anti-transgender laws

• https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/08/082624-taylor-coleman-trans-rights

Blue and red states were putting period products in schools — then came the anti-trans backlash

• https://19thnews.org/2024/08/period-products-schools-anti-trans-backlash

The BBC has recently hired a reporter with explicit anti-transgender bias to cover Gender & Identity issues.

• https://lucyfromnaarm.com/p/bbc-hires-gender-and-identity-correspondent

Florida is allowed to restrict transgender health care, appeals court rules

• https://www.advocate.com/health/florida-anti-trans-law-upheld

Trump Judge Rules Deadnaming Trans Students Teaches “Tolerance” In Bizarre Opinion

• https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/judge-rules-teacher-deadnaming-trans

UK Trans Youth Department for Education Protest enters 5th day

• https://lucyfromnaarm.com/p/uk-trans-youth-department-of-education

Australia’s 2026 Census will once again overlook LGBTQ+ people

• https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/27/australian-census-lgbt

Trans folks are asking: Why are people so mad when femboys come out as trans?

• https://www.intomore.com/culture/identity/trans-folks-are-asking-why-are-people-so-mad-when-femboys-come-out-as-trans

From the Democratic National Convention to gaming— this trans artist is making history.

Mila Jam’s discography is a celebration of identity, love, and empowerment, themes deeply rooted in her personal experiences. “For me, it starts with some of the cliche topics,” she explains. “How [Black trans women] fit in the world, dating, and self-image.”

• https://www.advocate.com/voices/mila-jam-democratic-national-convention

‘You have no idea how important it is to feel that someone cares about you’: Inside a pioneering school for transgender students

• https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/asequals/mocha-celis-argentina-transgender-students-as-equals-intl-cmd

This article delves into the emotional and financial burdens that transgender women face in meeting societal beauty standards.

• https://www.transvitae.com/cost-of-beauty-financial-pressure-and-online-influencers-impact-trans-womens-grooming

The Australian Federal Court called into question the expertise of UK-based TERF activist Helen Joyce in a significant judgment handed down on Friday.

• https://lucyfromnaarm.com/p/uk-terf-dr-helen-joyce-discredited

Trans youth from ‘Trans Kids Deserve Better’ scaled the NHS England building in SE London to demand “access to gender-affirming healthcare for trans children and young people, protection from discrimination and disrespect..

• https://transwrites.world/trans-kids-deserve-better/

Dora Richter – the first person to undergo gender reassignment surgery survived the Nazi era.

• Google translation: https://www-rbb24-de.translate.goog/panorama/beitrag/2024/06/dora-richter-transgeschlechtlichkeit-drittes-reich-berlin-trans-magnus-hirschfeld.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
• German: https://www-rbb24-de/panorama/beitrag/2024/06/dora-richter-transgeschlechtlichkeit-drittes-reich-berlin-trans-magnus-hirschfeld.html

Transgender woman reaches final of Miss Universe Mauritius pageant

• https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/08/24/transgender-woman-reaches-final-of-miss-universe-mauritius-pageant/

Nepal’s LGBTQ+ Community Celebrates Pride and Honors Queer and Trans People Who Have Died

• https://www.them.us/story/nepal-gai-jatra-lgbtq-pride-commemorate-deaths

Nepal Supreme Court Rules Trans Woman Is a Woman

• https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/07/31/nepal-supreme-court-rules-trans-woman-woman

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Innovation, Strength, and Love: A Glimpse into the 2024 Translife Awards

A temporary ban on the sale or supply of puberty blockers has been extended to cover Northern Ireland.

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy3l8pnld9o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Ftransgender

Trans Kids Deserve Better responds to the ban on puberty blockers by UK government 

Trans men’s existence and accomplishments are often erased from history. Here are just 6 of the many notable trans men in history!

• https://www.instagram.com/p/C-2cna1vbad/?utm_source=ig_embed

As a trans woman who loves motorcycles, Holden has required gender-affirming care and treatments for an accident in recent years, and received a spate of insurance denials.

• https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/23/holden-karau-fight-health-insurance-appeal-claims-denials

Colorado group helps other transgender people escape hostile states, unsafe conditions

• https://www.kxan.com/lgbtq/colorado-group-helps-other-transgender-people-escape-hostile-states-unsafe-conditions

Trans people and issues appeared to be directly mentioned by just two speakers during the Democratic National Convention’s main programming slate.

• https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/dnc-2024-missed-trans-rights-implications-election-rcna167990

How Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff, uses art to support trans people of color

• https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/08/how-kamala-harris-stepdaughter-ella-emhoff-uses-art-to-support-trans-people-of-color

Anti-LGBTQ+ laws in schools are seemingly “negatively impacting the mental health of LGBTQ+ students,” a new survey from the Trevor Project has found.

• https://www.advocate.com/news/anti-lgbtq-laws-schools-depression-suicide

Remembering Marsha P. Johnson and the importance of protecting Black trans women

• https://www.queerty.com/remembering-marsha-p-johnson-and-the-importance-of-protecting-black-trans-women-20240823

Vanity Williams, a 34-Year-Old Black Trans Woman and Nursing Student, Killed in Texas

• https://www.them.us/story/vanity-williams-black-trans-woman-veteran-nursing-student-texas

Curtis and Arthur, two male Chilean flamingos at Paignton Zoo in Devon, are the zoo’s first same-sex pair to “successfully hatch and raise a chick together,” the organization announced Monday.

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/flamingo-dads-hatch-chick-together_n_66c0babae4b00547468b4b2e
• Archive: https://archive.is/GE6r3#selection-1475.0-1475.56
• See also: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/paignton-zoo-amazed-same-sex-124023928.html

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US: Attorneys for state senate candidates Hill and Lee spar over attack ads on transgender issues

• https://www.whqr.org/local/2024-08-17/attorneys-for-state-senate-candidates-hill-and-lee-spar-over-attack-ads-on-transgender-issues

This article explores how to recognize, prevent, and overcome loneliness, offering practical advice and heartfelt insights from a transgender woman who’s navigated this difficult terrain.

• https://www.transvitae.com/overcoming-loneliness-a-guide-for-the-transgender-community

US: The Supreme Court’s recent ruling has halted critical protections for transgender students, leaving many vulnerable to discrimination.

• https://www.transvitae.com/supreme-court-blocks-biden-administrations-new-protections-for-transgender-students

Colorado GOP sends email attacking transgender candidate

• https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/colorado-republican-party-transphobic-email-gop-cleave-simpson-vivian-smotherman/73-138bf37a-ad1e-4eac-b6ae-3f0e52a2e75c

Tentative deal could allow transgender girls to keep playing on girls’ sports teams in N.H.

• https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/17/metro/transgender-trans-girls-student-athletes-sports-nh-lawsuit-state-law

Rainbow Railroad, a group that provides services worldwide including travel, financial grants and information support to LBGTQ+ people, fielded its highest number of requests for help from LGBTQ+ people living in the U.S in 2023.

• https://www.newsweek.com/lgbtq-gay-rights-america-us-1938496

“Since the early 2010s, ‘sexuality is a spectrum’ has become a common phrase in the zeitgeist — this hasn’t included trans people. Many assume that all trans women are attracted to cis men while trans men are attracted to cis women.”

• https://www.autostraddle.com/trans-lesbians-on-their-journeys

Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page has revealed that a scene in which he was misgendered in new film Close To You was a “slip of the tongue” by actress Wendy Crewson.

• https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/16/elliot-page-misgendered-on-set-of-new-film-close-to-you-umbrellla-academy

A reporter for PinkNews covered an 8 month old PolitiFact entry about an Instagram video reacting to a lie about transgender people in Palm Springs, California, receiving 900 dollars a month in Universal Basic Income.

• https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/no-ubi-for-trans-people

Trump again decries two gold medalist Olympic athletes, falsely labeling the female boxers as men

• https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-imane-khelif-li-yuting-57afb62e90968c06277118135e47e759

The GLAAD 2024 Accelerating Acceptance Study reveals sustained supermajority support for LGBTQ Americans, although there is a slight decline in overall support compared to the previous year.

• https://trans-express.lgbt/post/759048292338384896/lgbtq-acceptance-remains-very-high-in-us
• https://glaad.org/accelerating-acceptance-2024-report-findings/

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The families of two transgender teens in New Hampshire filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a new state law that bans them from playing on girls’ sports teams at their public high schools.

• https://apnews.com/article/transgender-teens-lawsuit-new-hampshire-girls-sports-8412707bbb308e2f6770c720768d8e02

Navigating political anxiety: A psychotherapist’s perspective.

• https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/08/16/navigating-political-anxiety/

An article in City Journal claimed that the American Society for Plastic Surgery became the first to “challenge consensus” on transgender care. A fuller statement shows this is not the case.

• https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check-asps-did-not-break-consensus

British endurance racing car driver Charlie Martin has backed trans inclusion in sports during an appearance on a BBC radio programme alongside outspoken “gender critic” Sharron Davies.

• https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/16/racing-driver-charlie-martin-says-trans-athletes-are-not-a-threat-in-face-off-with-sharron-davies

History-making trans actress and Transparent star Alexandra Billings has given her answer to the question of whether trans actors should be turning down transgender roles, as Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer has started doing.

• https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/16/alexandra-billings-perfect-response-hunter-schafer-trans-roles

Florida college dumps hundreds of books, many on sexuality, race and feminism

• https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/florida-new-college-books-removed-lgbtq-race-women-rcna166912

Supreme Court blocks temporary enforcement of expanded protections for transgender students

The ‘demure’ trend went so viral, the TikToker behind the audio can now pay for her transition

• https://www.out.com/celebs/tiktoker-jools-lebron-demure-trend-funding-transition

A collection of positive transgender related stories here:

• https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/crossdreamlife/good-transgender-news-t4919-s350.html

Idaho transgender youth gender care travel fund, assistance program launches