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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With puberty blockers now banned in much of the UK, those hoping for gender treatment say they have been forced into difficult decisions
After the landmark Cass review into the care of young people questioning their gender this year, puberty blockers have in effect been banned in England, Wales and Scotland for the treatment of under-18s with gender dysphoria.
Article explores the impact of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on bone health in transgender individuals, examining key studies and debunking common myths.
Elon Musk and JK Rowling could be handed five-year prison sentences and fined up to £214,000 if Olympic boxer Imane Khelif wins criminal cyberbullying case.
Doctors and advocates say efforts to ban gender-affirming care and the often inaccurate language lawmakers use to do it exploits most Americans’ relative unfamiliarity with transgender people to push a political agenda.
Kansas will pay $50,000 to settle a federal anti-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former state Highway Patrol employee who claimed to have been fired for coming out as transgender.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton returned to court on Thursday to press his case against the Biden administration’s workforce protections for transgender employees.
UK: The NHS has set out plans for a review into the safety of adult gender services, in response to detailed concerns raised by the Cass report on gender care for children and young people.
How “Transvestigation” Crawled Out of the Worst Corners of the Internet Into the Mainstream
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“Transvestigators — lurking in comment sections, Facebook groups, and other dark corners of the internet — make factually baseless conclusions to “uncover” celebrities and public figures they believe are secretly trans, a.k.a. a “transvestigation.” Transvestigators often utilize racist, anti-semitic, and white standards of beauty to out “inverts,” or the celebrities they falsely believe are trans…
“Victims of transvestigation are typically scrutinized for having features that transvestigators deem outside the bounds of a person’s biological sex, like “broad shoulders” and “large noses” on women.”
“What is less critiqued is that gender critical discourse is built off the back of Catholic second wave feminist beliefs, which in turn were fermented in the wake of Vatican 2.”
The queer comedian, actor, and activist Ilana Glazer said that “being pregnant on paper was the most female thing I could ever do, but it actually highlighted both the masculine and feminine inside of me.”
Actors Elliot Page and Hillary Baack discuss their new film “Close To You,” which is Page’s first feature film since publicly coming out as transgender.
J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk Named in Cyberbullying Lawsuit Filed by Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif After Olympic Win.
The lawsuit was filed against X, which under French law means that it was filed against unknown persons. The complaint nevertheless mentions famously controversial figures, including J. K. Rowling and Elon Musk. Donald Trump would be part of the investigation.
US Trans Survey: Despite experiencing additional challenges in accessing the public square that most take for granted, trans people are a powerful part of the electorate.
Drag Superstar Sasha Velour on ‘Learning to Fly’ in Her New Autobiographical Stage Show and Why She Thinks ‘Troll’ J.K. Rowling Is a ‘Very Dangerous Presence’
The LezVolley tournament, a beloved LGBTQ+ event in Cherry Grove, was abruptly canceled after controversy erupted over the exclusion of a transgender man.
The average life expectancy of trans women in Latin America is no more than 35 years of age, the OAS reports. Three LGBTQ+ immigrants detail their harrowing experiences.
Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization established in 2022 to combat what it calls ”wokeism” in medicine, has quickly emerged as a formidable force in the anti-transgender movement.
Donald Trump took to the stage this week in Montana for his first rally since Kamala Harris selected Tim Walz to be her running mate. Transgender people were one of his most common targets.
Don Lemon sits down with Sofia Nelson, former transgender classmate and friend of JD Vance, for an emotional interview examining Vance’s moral shift in recent years.
“How I — a trans man — went undercover on a TERF dating site”
“I think most dudes at some point in their lives have played around with costumes that are gender bender,” the former congressman George Santos told TMZ.
The 19th spoke with six autistic trans people to learn what brings them joy, how they find community, and how their lives have changed through exploring gender and being autistic.
Whereas 73 percent of the general U.S. population who are eligible to vote are registered to vote, 82 percent of eligible trans people are registered to vote.
Transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse youth face challenges and harms in foster care, the justice system, and homeless services, says a new report released Monday for International Youth Day.
Fire Island’s beloved LezVolley tournament, a volleyball tournament for queer women and nonbinary people, was abruptly canceled on Saturday when a transgender player wanted to participate.
Valentina Petrillo is set to become the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Paralympic Games, having been selected to represent Italy in Para-athletics in Paris.
American Nikki Hiltz became the first out nonbinary athlete to compete in an Olympic individual final event. Their efforts nabbed a seventh-place finish in Saturday’s 1500-meter final.
Two young girls sitting on stairs and having fun. One with rainbow flag on hand, other hoding smart phone. Both with casual clothes. Focus on foreground.
If this photo is what it seems to be, it does reveal the hypocrisy of the MAGA movement. But ridiculing Vance for dressing up in drag as a student will only reinforce the idea that drag/cosplaying as the opposite gender is bad.
Daily Beast writes: “The source who surfaced the alleged photo, Travis Whitfill, says the picture was taken by a fellow Yale classmate in 2012, when Vance was attending law school at the university, and sent to him by another friend. Whitfill then sent it to podcast host Matt Bernstein, who posted it to X.
“It’s from a group chat of Vance’s fellow classmates and is from a friend of a friend,” he told the Daily Beast. “I believe it was grabbed from Facebook and was taken at a Halloween party.”
Lin Yu-ting captured featherweight gold on Saturday, defeating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta and shaking off more than a week of specious allegations that she shouldn’t be fighting women.
India: Over 3,000 transgender people have used composite healthcare services under the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), according to government data.
Interview with Riki Wilchins. Wilchins’s work has been instrumental in bringing transgender rights into the mainstream LGBT movement, and has helped bring awareness of the impact of gender norms to a wider audience.
A new poll by Folx reveals a mix of hope and anxiety among transgender Americans following President Biden’s decision to exit the 2024 presidential race.
“It’s Okay” is a new short documentary from Oscar-nominated director David France about two brothers’ experience at a Drag Story Hour event in Charlotte, N.C.
Imane Khalif, the Algerian boxer and gold medalist at the Paris 2024 Olympics is moving forward with an official harassment complaint following the outcry over her gender.
She says: “All that is being said about me on social media is immoral. I want to change the minds of people around the world.”
In 2019, Harris spoke about denying trans care for inmates in California, saying that “there are, unfortunately, situations that occurred where my clients took positions that were contrary to my beliefs… The bottom line is the buck stops with me, and I take full responsibility for what my office did.”
A couple is suing the State of Colorado, the Department of Education, and the 27J School District. They say all three violated their constitutional rights by encouraging their daughter to transition without their knowledge.
Former colleagues of Dr Hilary Cass, the author of a controversial review into youth gender care, have alleged that she recommended a “gender-critical” book to them prior to writing her report. She denies this.
Online Transvestigators Are Convinced Andrew Tate is Secretly a Woman
“Monique Brooks, a beloved Black transgender activist and hair stylist, was tragically shot and killed in Orlando, Florida. Her death underscores the growing epidemic of violence against transgender women, particularly those of color.”
Dr Max Davie and Dr Lorna Hobbs (photos above) have written a thorough and critical review of the British Cass report on transgender health care for youth.
Dr. Hillary Cass, author of the Cass Review, reportedly recommended gender clinicians read “Irreversible Damage,” a book written by an anti-trans activist that compared transition to the holocaust.
