Fact-checking JD Vance’s Attacks on Tim Walz Over a Transgender Sanctuary Law in Minnesota

New York Times: ” Since Mr. Walz was picked as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, conservative groups, including the Alliance Defending Freedom …have claimed that the Minnesota state authorities can terminate the parental rights of parents who prevent their children from receiving gender-affirming care…PolitiFact, citing legal experts and family law practitioners in Minnesota, concluded that the law ‘does not authorize the government to take custody of children whose parents don’t consent to them getting gender-affirming care.'”

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Transgender civil servants report alarming rise in bullying, harassment and discrimination

Trans folks are asking: What do you do if you waited ‘too long’ to transition?

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Idaho’s law banning hormone therapy for transgender inmates, allowing treatments to continue while a lawsuit proceeds.

LGBTQ advocacy group calls on Pueblo School District 60 to protect transgender students in new policy

Top Arizona Republicans can’t dodge transgender sports ban questions

Families Split Apart: Families Fleeing Anti-Trans Laws File Amicus In Supreme Court Case

A Vermont Christian school that is barred from participating in the state sports league after it withdrew its high school girls basketball team from a playoff game because a transgender student was playing on the opposing team has taken its case to a federal appeals court.

India Willoughby: “Here’s the facts under @UKLabour @wesstreeting if you are trans. This isn’t melodrama – how it now actually is in the UK”

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Transgender Policy Draft Being Revamped To Make It More Effective.

Wells Fargo launches Transgender Persons Hiring Program in India

Attack on Massachusetts transgender teen being investigated as possible hate crime

Pope Finds Fervent Fans Among Indonesia’s Transgender Community (Archive)

On how mindless transphobia can cause a young person’s death.

Red Hot presents TRANSA: a spiritual journey to celebrate trans people

Sade‘s first new song in more than six years will be released in November when her track “Young Lion” appears on the TRAИƧA benefit album from the Red Hot organization. Her song is about her transgender son Izaak (photo).

The collection’s first single, a cover of Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U” from Lauren Auder and former Prince & the Revolution members Wendy & Lisa, is out now.

A New ‘Red Hot’ Album Tackles a Hot Topic: Transgender Awareness (Archived)

The Rolling Stone has the album track list. (Archived)

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A Trans Woman in Taiwan Won Legal Recognition After Four Years in Court

A 16-year-old transgender boy, Jayden Tkaczyk, was brutally attacked by a group of teenagers in Gloucester, Massachusetts, leaving him with fractures and nerve damage.

Major Conservative Super Pac Releases First Anti-Trans Ads, Rehashing Failed Strategy

The Transgender Topless Dancer Who Went to War with Prison Authorities

Opinion: Take it from a nonbinary professor: Don’t make students state their pronouns on Day One

Transgender people in Idaho Department of Correction custody can get hormone therapy – for now

Federal Court Halts Idaho’s Ban on Transgender Inmate Treatments

Dozens of Republicans file amicus brief against Tennessee’s transgender care ban

NZ: New advice about when to prescribe “puberty blockers” has been kept sealed, months after health officials asked to release the updated best practice guidelines.

Former students share why Tim Walz being an ally to LGBTQ+ teens in the ’90s meant so much

Trump claimed that trans kids go to school for gender-affirming surgery—but that’s not true

Trans folks are asking: can a job force you to use your deadname?

Into the Woods with 150 Trans Men

From Fringe Hate Site to J K Rowling and Beyond: How Reduxx Launched a Harassment Campaign against 2 Olympic Athletes

This article sets out to document how writers at Reduxx helped drive the harassment campaign in the English-speaking world, highlighting how they were motivated as much by racism and Islamophobia as they were by interphobia and transphobia.

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Elliot Page and others support trans rights in Supreme Court challenge of Tennessee law

Democrats urge Supreme Court to strike down Tennessee gender-affirming care ban

Sarah McBride opens up about her historic candidacy, the Democratic Party, and Kamala Harris’s campaign

Family moves out of Ohio to New York because of anti-transgender legislation

JK Rowling attacks visually impaired trans Paralympic athlete: She’s a cheater!

The former president’s claim that public schools are providing sex-change operations is wrong—and dangerous.

Trump’s Claim That Transgender Kids Get Surgeries At School Should Disqualify Him From Office

Transgender Massachusetts teen says he was attacked during party, police open civil rights investigation

American Bar Association files brief supporting legal challenge to Tennessee’s transgender health care ban

Kaos star Misia Butler has opened up about the groundbreaking transgender representation in the new Netflix series and how one scene was so moving it made him and showrunner Charlie Covell cry

These are most popular names chosen by trans men and women, according to the UK Deed Poll Office

If JK Rowling knew this fact about trans regret rates it would ruin her day

The face of ‘Christian Girl Autumn’, otherwise known as lifestyle blogger Caitlin Covington, is also a trans ally

Dazed speaks to Dr Vassili Crispi (pohto), a doctor campaigning for an evidence-based critique of the Cass Review – a divisive report which has been used to justify a ban on puberty blockers, even as experts worldwide have called its findings into question.

Photo from Linkedin.

A field guide to effective entry-level trans activism

Qatrisha Zairyah, 33, has made history as the first-ever married transgender finalist in Miss Universe Singapore 2024.

Teacher got fired for reading an LGBTQ+ book. 16 States are now helping her case.

Lawsuit filed by ACLU aims to block law limiting transgender care in South Carolina (Archived version)

Italian transgender runner fails to reach 400m final at Paralympics

A teacher at the centre of a row over a transgender student has been sent to prison for a third time by a Dublin court.

Trump Falsely Claims Schools Are Giving Surgeries To Kids To Change Their Gender

Polish ultraconservative organization Ordo Iuris released a harmful guide for teachers, advising them to target transgender children and ignore psychologists

Hollywood’s slow transition: Transgender representation is slowly, slowly improving

The Trans Woman’s Guide to Styling and Choosing the Right Bag

Anti-trans hashtag trends on X as hate continues unabated – despite ban in Brazil

Women’s football match cancelled after trans goalkeeper cruelly targeted on social media

What are puberty blockers? What are the benefits and risks for transgender children?

“If adolescents take these medications during puberty, bodily changes associated with puberty are prevented. If these medications are stopped, these bodily changes resume.”

• https://theconversation.com/what-are-puberty-blockers-what-are-the-benefits-and-risks-for-transgender-children-226006

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Transphobia: “What changed around 2015 was a shift from pity and contempt to a loathing dredged up from the depths of conservative hell.”

• https://rejserin.medium.com/trans-people-are-not-weapons-of-mass-cultural-destruction-af06cbdcf573

After ousted from the Texas House for opposing gender-transitioning care for children, Dem. Rep. Shawn Thierry has a job in an international anti-trans policy group.

• https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/21/shawn-thierry-lgbtq-gender-transitioning-care-genspect

Texas Vital Statistics no longer accepts court orders to update birth certificate sex markers

• https://www.ktsm.com/news/texas-politics/texas-vital-statistics-no-longer-accepts-court-orders-to-update-birth-certificate-sex-markers

Empowering the Trans Community Through Inspiration and Support

• https://www.transvitae.com/empowering-the-trans-community-through-inspiration-and-support

‘Legislators don’t see me as human’: Missouri trans youth fight to survive anti-LGBTQ+ bills

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/24/missouri-trans-youth-anti-lgbtq-bills

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that the 2026 Australian census questions on sexuality and gender “weren’t appropriate”.

• https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/09/02/2026-australian-census-lgbtq-questions

Married Transgender Beauty Queen Among Finalists In Miss Universe Singapore 2024

• https://www.8days.sg/entertainment/local/married-transgender-beauty-queen-qatrisha-zairyah-miss-universe-singapore-2024-finalist-834931

Valentina Petrillo, the transgender sprinter at Paralympics – the rules, the science and the future

• https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5735859/2024/09/01/valentina-petrillo-transgender-sprinter-paralympics

• Archive: https://archive.is/bSe5i#selection-1881.0-1881.99

Paris Paralympic Games: The Unfair Criticism of Transgender Paralympian Valentina Petrillo

• https://aseannow.com/topic/1336987-paris-paralympic-games-the-unfair-criticism-of-transgender-paralympian-valentina-petrillo

Imane Khelif’s father did not call her transgender

Trans People and Biological Sex: What the Science Says, by Julia Serano

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.”

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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

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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

Anti-trans violence is coming for cisgender women of color, advocates say.

Imane Khelif’s treatment at the Paris Olympics brought gender policing to a global stage. It’s not the first instance — or the last.

“You’re policing now not only transgender people who transition, but you’re policing straight people,. So now we’re going to start policing masculine women and now we’re going to police feminine men? I mean, where are we going with this?” 

• https://19thnews.org/2024/08/cisgender-women-of-color-anti-trans-violence/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fgender

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“Transing the gay away” is a fear-mongering myth

Sinn Féin faces backlash for approving UK puberty blocker ban in Northern Ireland

• https://gcn.ie/sinn-fein-backlash-puberty-blocker-ban-northern-ireland/

After a court ruling from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed an anti-trans law in Florida targeting youth and adults go back into effect, many providers were forced to end care.

• https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/transgender-adults-being-cut-from

Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson takes one step closer to LPGA card as tour continues gender policy review

• https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2024/08/27/transgender-golfer-hailey-davidson-lpga-card-gender-policy-review/

At least 18 transgender people have been violently murdered this year so far, and trans people of color are disproportionately affected by violence.

• https://www.abcactionnews.com/life-for-black-transgender-women-in-florida

Ford Motor Company to scale back DEI policies amid right-wing pressure

• https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/08/28/ford-motor-company-to-scale-back-dei-policies-amid-right-wing-pressure/

Florida’s recent court ruling allows the enforcement of a controversial ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors and imposes new restrictions for adults.

• https://www.transvitae.com/trans-care-crisis-in-florida-the-latest-legal-ruling-explained

A Republican politician has agreed to pay two drag queens six-figure sums after he falsely accused them of having inappropriate relationships with children.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/27/david-love-200000-drag-queen-story-hour-defamation

Death threats, legal risk and backlogs weigh on clinicians treating trans minors

• https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/trans-minors-treatment-clinicians-laws-bans-rcna164515

The Colorado GOP Chair Who Called LGBTQ+ People “Godless Groomers” Just Lost His Job

• https://www.them.us/story/dave-williams-godless-groomers-colorado-republican-party-voted-out

Julia Serano: Transvestigation refers to the practice of scrutinizing people’s appearances for supposed tell-tale signs that they are transgender.

• https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/why-does-transvestigation-happen

Student charged with raping transgender roommate at Glenmont Job Corps

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