Category: Trans News (Page 16 of 24)

Being young and trans in Argentina. Navigating laws and genocide.

This comprehensive guide explains the anatomy of pelvic tilt, its causes in transgender women, and practical solutions to improve comfort and alignment.

Layshia Clarendon, the WNBA’s first openly transgender and nonbinary player, has retired after a 12-year career.

OPINION: Michigan’s trans kids are still protected. Moms for Liberty isn’t changing that.

Mark Robinson might want to keep trans women out of restrooms, but that hardly stops him from fetishizing them.

A Kenyan LGBTQ rights organization has adopted a virtual legal aid platform that allows its lawyers to offer free services to queer people remotely.

After their recent documentary Will & Harper, Will Ferrell and Harper Steele say that they regret having Ferrell do drag for a joke in Saturday Night Live

Digging INTO Politics: Conversion therapy, a Republican’s comment history, and Biden’s LGBTQ+ record. Republicans are continuing failed efforts to run on anti-trans platforms.

Unfightable, the new documentary from Fuse Media, follows McLaughlin’s personal and professional career—from growing up trans in South Carolina, finding community in Portland, enduring a military tour in Afghanistan, and finally stepping into the MMA ring.

Cal Maritime Academy has announced that the school will end its longtime affiliation with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the California Pacific Conference, given NAIA’s new Transgender Participation Policy.

UK: Pensioners can be trans even if they have lived their whole life in one gender, care homes have been told.

In a groundbreaking move for social welfare in India, the southern state of Telangana has announced a plan to recruit transgender people as volunteer traffic police

Preserving History at the Digital Transgender Archive with Portico

More than 1,000 participating publishers have looked to Portico to preserve their digital publications and to make such content available in the event that the publisher cannot do so. The Digital Transgender Archive, housed at Northeastern University in Boston, is among the institutions that have joined with Portico in this new initiative.

Digital Transgender Archive

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Discover how informed consent is transforming transgender healthcare through the personal journey of a 55-year-old transgender woman.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s private online behavior, including viewing transgender pornography, contradicts his harsh public stance against the LGBTQ+ community.

Liam Johns, trans activist who allowed the Observer to document pregnancy, dies at 35

“Nonbinary” is the most popular identity in the Gender Census 2024

A self-proclaimed “racist and fascist” teenager who brutally beat a transgender girl in a hate-crime attack in Swansea has been jailed.

Luxx Noir London’s new album is part of her plan to become ‘the ultimate’ drag star

Transgender lives and joy are the center of new ACLU campaign ‘Freedom to Be’

New Seychelles penal code to include LGBTQ-inclusive hate crimes provisions

Lawsuit seeking to block Missouri ban on gender-affirming care for minors heads to trial

After narrowly avoiding disqualification under the same Ohio name-change law used to target several transgender candidates earlier this year, Republican State Rep. Tex Fischer said he is interested in reforming the statute.

A New Hampshire high school on Thursday banned multiple parents from its campus for protesting a transgender student’s participation in a girls soccer game

To understand how the anti-trans agenda could reshape all of our lives, The 19th set out to examine how the laws and rhetoric behind it are impacting Americans.

Judge sides with Evansville transgender woman seeking gender-affirming surgery in prison

Paige Johnson to become the first openly transgender woman elected to Newcastle Council

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North Carolina Governor Race Jolted by Report That G.O.P. Nominee Called Himself a ‘Black Nazi’
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[Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina], a social conservative who has been a strident opponent of transgender rights, also posted about how he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, according to CNN, describing himself as a “perv” who liked “tranny on girl porn.”

‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum

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For transgender individuals, body hair can be a powerful symbol in the journey of self-discovery and acceptance.

Pioneering trans soul singer Jackie Shane honored with historical marker in Nashville

Congressional Republicans will spend millions on television ads this fall targeting Texas Democrats for supporting pro-LGBTQ+ legislation — a bet that issue will resonate more than the border or economy.

LGBTQ activists spam state agency over driver’s license policy affecting transgender Texans

2024 Emmys: Baby Reindeer’s Nava Mau Details Need for Transgender Representation in Tearful Interview

Veteran Nigerian entertainer Charly Boy has opened up about how living with gay and transgender people influenced his personal style and artistic expression.

Transgender model Kesaria Abramidze murdered after Georgia passes ‘anti-LGBTQ+’ law

How language restricts scientific thinking, and how we’re working to change it. And on its relevance to transgender identities.

Fox News Poll: Voters Trust Kamala Harris More Than Trump On Transgender Issues

Gender Census 2024: Worldwide Report

This year the independent online census broke the participation record by about 4,000 people. All in all there were 48,645 valid responses.

Participants were asked: Which of the following best describe(s) in English how you think of yourself? Here’s the top 10 words for the 30-and-unders compared to the 31-and-overs:

See also Transgender World.

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Article providing guidance on voice care and enhancement techniques for transgender individuals aiming to align their voice with their gender identity.

GLAAD’s Studio Responsibility Index Finds Decline in Overall LGBTQ Representation, but More Lead Roles and Racial Diversity

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction stopping Indiana’s ban on gender-affirming surgeries for inmates.

An artwork featuring the plaster face casts of hundreds of transgender people went on display Wednesday in London’s Trafalgar Square, where their features will be worn away by London’s wind and rain over the next 18 months.

Kentucky Gov. Beshear Bans Conversion Therapy, Defying Anti-Trans Campaign Ads Against Him

Governor bans use of ‘conversion therapy’ on LGBTQ+ minors in Kentucky

At least two Canada Post workers were suspended over their refusal to deliver a flyer calling for a “child sex-change ban” in New Brunswick, according to a local union representative.

Why are trans actresses celebrated for their breakout performances and then only shown scripts that place them into harmfully stereotypical roles? Well, in a word, transmisogny!

Biden-Harris administration sets record for number of confirmed LGBTQ judges

Lady Gaga never denied transgender rumours in her early career so trans kids ‘wouldn’t feel shame’

Fact Check: Are schools performing transition surgeries on students without parental consent?

“LGBTQ Nation reached out to the Trump campaign for comment but did not receive an answer. CNN asked the Trump campaign for any examples of of schools operating on students behind their parents’ backs and the campaign could not produce any.”

Donald Trump spewed anti-trans lies at Tucson rally for 7 minutes. Here are the claims debunked

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The Pressure to Pass: How HRT Expectations Impact Mental Health

A group of 164 lawmakers filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

Major companies abandon an LGBTQ+ rights report card after facing anti-diversity backlash

Harris holds 67-point lead over Trump among LGBTQ voters: Poll

18 countries legally recognize #non-binary or third gender identities. (Via CDL)

What does agender mean and how is different than nonbinary?

The Professional Association for Trans Health Ireland (PATHI) officially launched on Saturday, September 14, during the closing plenary of the TransCare conference at University College Cork (UCC).

“I don’t like what he [Elon Musk] be saying about his trans child, that made me mad,” Marlon Wayans said. “You don’t treat them babies like that. You don’t disown your baby. Love your child!”

Your Country Music Belongs to Me, a Trans Woman, It’s Mine Now

Meta has guidelines to protect against anti-trans content. GLAAD says the company is ignoring them

Breastfeeding org worker sued for calling trans mother’s breastfeeding a “dangerous fetish”

At the Emmys, Nava Mau rocked a custom dress by this iconic trans designer (Instagram)

Alibi, trans unity and making drag history: Sevdaliza in conversation with Pabllo Vittar.

“With their exploration and celebration of the “universal divine feminine energy” on ‘Alibi’, Sevdaliza and Pabllo Vittar have made herstory. This summer, their bullerengue, baile-funk banger – featuring additional vocals from French singer Yseult – became the number-one TikTok song globally and graced the Billboard Hot 100.”

Sevdaliza is an Iranian queer woman, who feels close to the drag and trans communities. She is not transgender herself, at least not in the sense of having been assigned male at birth.

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Based in Copenhagen, AlectraRothschild is known for her collections that luxuriate in “decadent glamor” and center queer and trans people.

District of ColumbiaGender Liberation March participants rally for bodily autonomy outside Supreme Court, Heritage Foundation

An Ohio appellate court heard testimony Sept. 6 in a lawsuit that will determine the constitutionality of the state’s ban on health care for transgender youth.

New Hampshire Supreme Court Upholds Law Protecting Trans Students

Clinics that offer hormonal replacement therapy are now adjusting their practices after Florida’s ban on transgender therapies was reinstated last month.

The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) &Co files a federal class action civil rights lawsuit against Aetna Life Insurance on behalf of 3 trans women denied coverage for medically necessary gender-affirming facial reconstruction procedures

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley rallied against Amendment 3 at an event earlier this month, falsely connecting the ballot question on abortion access to gender-affirming care for young people.

The Florida Department of Health announced a recommendation against the use of COVID vaccines, citing a lack of randomized controlled trials, a similar argument it used to attack trans care.

Why Abortion and Trans Rights Activists Have Found Common Cause

Ukraine: Kharkiv activists hold annual Pride event

Laverne Cox and Baby Reindeer Star Nava Mau Cried Together on the Emmys 2024 Red Carpet

Them reports: Nava Mau and Laverne Cox had a heartfelt exchange about their experiences as transgender actresses on the Emmys 2024 red carpet.

The Baby Reindeer star and the trailblazing Orange Is the New Black actress first shared a wordless, emotional hug before Cox expressed her love for Mau, saying “I’m so proud of you.”

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Indigenous singer who came out as trans reflects on her journey

A majority of British trans individuals do not choose a name beginning with the same first letter as their deadname.

Florida Was Their Home. Anti-Trans Laws Led Them to Flee (Archive)

Corporations that ditch queer consumers will lose big money, new study suggests

School board defies state law & lets trans girl play soccer. Her teammates are “very excited.”

Alan Cumming Wore a Trans Pride Pin While Accepting an Emmy for The Traitors

The summer that exposed the anti-trans movement

A new study out of Sweden appears to show a link between taking testosterone as part of gender-affirming care with changes in the immune systems of transgender men.

Lilly Wachowski Is Developing a Dystopian Monster Movie With Trans and Autistic Romantic Leads

Wachowski, who directed The Matrix and Bound alongside her sister Lana, will produce the animated film Hell Followed With Us (book cover above), a full-length animated movie based on the 2022 novel by Andrew Joseph White.

HELL FOLLOWED WITH US, my book about a trans boy, the autistic guy he has a crush on, & giant corpse monsters fighting Evangelical cultists is getting an ANIMATED MOVIE

with the help of Lilly Wachowski (THE MATRIX) and Powerhouse Studios (CASTLEVANIA) 🔥https://t.co/92VgPdHAlm

— Andrew Joseph White 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (@AJWhiteAuthor) September 11, 2024

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This anti-DEI activist is targeting an LGBTQ index. Major companies are listening.

Three transgender women have filed a federal class action civil rights lawsuit against health insurance giant Aetna after they were denied coverage for medically necessary gender-affirming facial reconstruction (GAFR).

Elon Musk’s daughter Vivian calls dad a ‘heinous incel’ after he offered to give Taylor Swift a child

The most offensive “prank” of the year? Probably.

In Ghana the myth of all “crossdressers” (referring to transfeminine people) being “gay” (i.e. attracted to women) seems to live on.

For people of the Trans community Boise Pride is important and this year the festival is having its first ever Trans Joy March organized by A Queer Chaplain. The theme is “out of the Shadows and Into the Light.”

“I came to realize I’m transgender — not through a sudden epiphany, but through gradual self-discovery”

Trans Actress Laverne Cox Embraces Her Villainous Side In Netflix’s Uglies

The vaginal microbiome of transgender men receiving gender-affirming hormonal therapy in comparison to that of cisgender women

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has decided to appoint transgender individuals as volunteers to regulate traffic in Hyderabad.

The Telangana government has announced India’s first-ever transgender-specific government recruitment and social welfare program, under which transgender persons will be trained and recruited for traffic management.

Ganeshotsav: Maharashtra’s First Transgender Dhol-Tasha Pathak, Shikhandi, Steals The Spotlight (Drummers’ festival)

India: Medical curriculum revision sparks outrage by activists over omission of disability, transgender rights

Delhi’s 1st transgender LS candidate on mission that goes beyond gender-neutral toilets. ‘This is kranti’ (a revolution)

Sarah McBride reflects on becoming the first trans member of Congress

Trans Lawmaker Sarah McBride on the Privilege—and Pressure—of Making Political History

“We’re a small state of neighbors,” Mcbride says. Delaware only has a population of about one million. “The power of proximity allows people to see one another as fully realized multidimensional human beings. This creates a foundation for politics that’s not only more rooted in kindness, but also politics that’s more diverse. This election here in Delaware is a prime example of that.”

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After Nex Benedict’s death, an OKC theater opens its 41st season with a comedy-drama that delves into the small-town bigotry and brutality encountered by a transgender teen

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling leaving Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors intact

Donald Trump says his transphobic lies always get biggest applause at his rallies

For transgender activist Naiymah Sanchez, being an Out100 honoree is a reminder that her work, while often grueling and thankless, is making a difference. 

Anti-LGBTQ+ insults don’t just hurt queer kids — Straight boys react worse to homophobia in sports

 A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part of a settlement reached with students and parents who sued over what was an unlawful decision to limit access to dozens of titles containing LGBTQ+ content.

Official figures estimating the number of transgender people in England and Wales have been voided after an investigation found that people may have misunderstood the question on gender identity in the 2021 census.

On Sunday, out trans wrestler Saraya Saber is set to challenge NWA World Women’s champion Kenzie Paige for her title at New South Pro Wrestling’s “Action Clash” event in Scottsboro, Ala.

He killed a trans woman because he “had to do it.” Now he’s going away for decades.

Gender Liberation March Will Take To The Streets To Protest A Second Trump Presidency

“Hi! My name is Leigh Finke, my pronouns are she/her/hers. I’m a parent, I’m a renter, I have a lovely girlfriend, and a strong community here in Minnesota, where I also serve in the House of Representatives. “

Leigh Finke says Tim Walz texted her during contentious trans bill hearing to show his support

Here’s what the limited research we have on transgender health tells us

“A comprehensive approach to transgender health research should consider the entire lifespan, from childhood through older adulthood. Journalists can help highlight the importance of long-term studies and the need for age-specific health interventions for transgender and gender-diverse people. “

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This article explores how hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may affect libido and sexual function in transgender individuals.

A 25-year-old Black transgender woman, Redd, was shot and killed in Chicago’s West Side, sparking calls for her murder to be investigated as a hate crime.

The Congressional Equality Caucus is calling out the “outrageous” bill going to vote in the House that would forcibly out transgender students to their guardians

California judge rules against school district’s ‘forced outing’ policy of transgender students

Amarillo area nonprofit sues City of Canyon after ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ event permit denial

Emmanuel Macron’s wife has been awarded €8,000 (£6,750) in damages after two women falsely accused her of being transgender.

A look at Trump’s ‘transgender operations on illegal aliens’ debate claim

Donald Trump gives Kamala Harris too much credit for supporting trans rights

LGBTQ issues hardly factor in Harris-Trump debate; here’s what to know about their records

Opinion: Harris isn’t talking LGBTQ+ issues, and that might actually be fine