Category: Trans News (Page 5 of 25)

Where The Fight For Transgender Rights Stands in a time of Flooding the Zone.

Two transgender athletes navigate teen life on front lines of raging national debate

Wrapped in Pride: Inside the Tragic Loss of a Trans Veteran

Trump’s Education Department Ends Transgender Support Policies

A Guide to the Fight Over Transgender Rights Under Trump

Trump targets transgender care: What does it mean for Worcester families, providers?

Love After an Ostomy: How Surgery Affects Dating, Sex and Self-Perception

Aging Gracefully: Skincare Secrets for Trans Women Over 40

A vegan rationalist transgender death cult? Please no!

NYT editorial on anti-trans policies: “…what shouldn’t be debated is whether the government should target a group of Americans to be stripped of their freedom and dignity to move through the world as they choose. “
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NYT: “This is a campaign in which cruelty and humiliation seem to be the fundamental point”” But we have to ask: Why on earth did the New York Times allow so many transphobes to publish their toxic stew in the newspaper?

NYT Hypocrisy: Outlet Criticizes Trump’s Attacks On Trans People That They Helped Usher In

Today’s video: The state of Trans Rights in Trump’s America

“The state of Trans Rights in Trump’s America” video by Council of Geeks explores the impact of President Donald Trump’s policies on transgender individuals. The video delves into the rollback of protections and rights that were previously granted to transgender people under previous administrations.

The video discusses the executive orders signed by Trump, which ban transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports at federally funded schools and redefine sex strictly as male or female at birth. These policies have led to increased discrimination and stigmatization of transgender individuals, making it difficult for them to access necessary services and support.

The current Trump policies are clearly aiming at erasing trans people from existence, making it impossible for civil servants, teachers and researchers to even refer to them with meaningful terms.

Council of Geeks emphasizes the importance of resilience and solidarity within the transgender community. The video concludes by urging viewers to support transgender rights organizations and to stay informed about the ongoing struggles faced by the transgender community.

Trans Youth Are Rattled by Efforts to Ban Gender Care. So Are Hospitals.
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So How Many Transgender People Are There?

A group of trans people in the U.S are suing the Trump administration for removing the ‘X’ gender marker on their passports.

Passport Lawsuit: Seven Trans Americans Challenge Trump Order

Why Trans Education Matters: Fighting Fear with Facts

Let us make Europe a safe haven for American transgender refugees (and we need your help)

A Dutch LGBTQ ally and activist hopes to turn the Netherlands into a haven for transgender refugees from the US. He asks people to provide stories he can use to pressure Dutch and European politicians. He is also looking for ideas about how to make it easier for trans Americans to get access to European countries.

S.F. transgender landmark quietly inducted into National Register of Historic Places
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Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington Sue Trump To End Under 19 Trans Care Ban

Trump order on transgender athletes clashes with international norms

American troops describe their fear, anxiety, and whiplash following Trump’s transgender military ban

Army museum covers display honoring transgender soldiers

The Myth of Siproites, the man who was transformed into a woman | Transgender ancient mythology (Video by Sophie)

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Taiwan’s Sports Administration has stressed that Olympic gold medalist Lin Yu-ting (林郁婷) is a woman in response to false claims by U.S. President Donald Trump about her sex and eligibility to compete.

Oregon, Washington and Minnesota sue over Trump order targeting gender-affirming care

‘Clearly Motivated by Animus that Serves Zero Public Interest’: Trans Americans Sue Over Passports

Washington state has sued the Trump administration over its executive order targeting medical practices for transgender youth.

Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies harm queer and transgender Ugandans

Caitlyn Jenner dragged on social media after saying she supports Trump’s trans athlete ban. (She is basically saying that she is a man. 🤦)

How Trans People Can Survive, and Thrive: A Playbook to Meet Trump’s ‘Shock and Awe’

Canadian LGBTQ group cancels WorldPride participation over Trump policies

Reagan-Era AIDS Activists Call for New ACT UP-Style Movement for Trans Liberation

“The Lords believed that if they made lesbianism illegal, they would simply create more lesbians, as feeble-minded women caught on to what, understandably, seemed like a great idea.“

“If you’re not following Dr. Jonathan Paul Higgins, you’re missing out on one of the sharpest, wittiest, and most unapologetically Black, queer, and femme voices in media today.”

V-coding is when prison management put trans women in the same cell as a violent male offender to calm the man down.

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Ruthless Republican addresses transgender congresswoman Sarah McBride as ‘the gentleman’ in awkward floor session

Missing children’s org removes LGBTQIA+ materials per Trump DOJ demand
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How a Trans Lawmaker Fired Back After Being Misgendered by a Trump Ally on House Floor

U.S Department of Education ends support for trans students

‘Erasing everything that you are.’ In Trump’s policies, a denial of trans existence.
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The Trump administration is gearing up to investigate schools for potential Title IX violations for allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports, including San Jose State.

With ‘Clean Slate,’ Laverne Cox adds a new title to her résumé: Star and co-creator of her own show

 The eight-episode series follows Desiree Slate, played by Cox, as she returns home to Mobile, Alabama, 23 years after she moved to New York as a teenager. She goes back to reconnect with her father, an old-school car wash owner named Harry — who, upon receiving an email from his estranged child, is shocked to discover that the son he expected to find on his doorstep is now a transgender woman.

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Illinois attorney general vows to protect gender-affirming care, after Trump order threatens to cut funding

Transgender KC residents fear attacks from both sides of state line: ‘Where do we go now?’

Ontario Action Alert: Hon. Pierre Poilievre, stop targeting transgender youth!

What does the science say about transgender women in sports?

There are great variations among cisgender athletes, he noted — differences in height, weight, training, and more — but no one seems to worry about those. “It is expected that about 2.3% of a normally distributed population is likely to fall above two standard deviations from a population mean,” he explained. “These exceptional individuals may be those who are gifted and excel at some sport or athletic performance.”

That means that in the general population there are bound to be people who are better at some sport because of physical ability — both natural and training-affected.

“In contrast only 0.5%–0.6% of the population identify as trans,” Oberlin continued. “There is no concern for restricting individuals who are exceptionally large or small, those who are genetically gifted, or those with differing hormone concentrations or muscle mass, so long as their gender and biologic sex align.”

Heightened Scrutiny is a somber reminder of why we fight for trans rights

NCAA changes transgender policy to limit women’s competition to athletes assigned female at birth

In January of last year, Sandie Peggie was suspended from her work as a nurse at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy for bullying her colleague, Dr. Beth Upton, a transgender doctor.

Americans aren’t happy with the country’s treatment of queer folks, says new survey

Protesters call for Children’s Hospital L.A. to reverse restrictions on transgender care

I Spent 32 Years Believing I Was Male. Then A Shocking Phone Call Exploded Everything I Knew.

More Toxic Trump Dump

JK Rowling celebrates Trump’s trans sports ban with swipe at LGBTQ+ activists and allies

Trump administration plans to pressure IOC to devise a uniform trans athlete ban

Rep. Nancy Mace Shouts Anti-Trans Slur 3 Times In A Row At Hearing And Goes Unpunished

The news release from the Dept of Education announcing an investigation into San Jose State for allowing a transgender player on its women’s volleyball team promoted a false narrative about the injury risk her participation meant for other players.

Trump Signs Order Barring Transgender Student-Athletes From Women’s Sports
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Trump’s ban on transgender sports may be difficult to enforce

Ban on trans athletes seeks to demonize, not protect. Sorting out trans participation in women’s sports should start with empathy. The latest executive order is presented with cruelty.
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Trump’s new ban on athletes is latest attack on transgender policies
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GLAAD says Trump’s anti-trans sport order has ‘zero credibility protecting women and girls’

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More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general doubled-down on their support of gender-affirming care for transgender youth in a joint statement released Wednesday.  

Argentina’s president bans gender-affirming care for people under age 18

Where Justice Falls Short: Montana Fails to Protect Trans Lives

Judge blocks Trump’s order to send trans women to men’s prisons
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Viewers say Texas station cut Lady Gaga’s viral Grammys speech.
“Trans people are not invisible,” said the pop superstar in her speech.

California AG warns L.A. hospital: Withholding transgender care could violate state law

Google will end a core DEI program and evaluate others, company says
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On 3 February, Scottish nurse Sandie Peggie began her testimony in a high-profile case against NHS Fife, after she was suspended after complaining about sharing a changing room with a trans woman, Dr Beth Upton.

Cynthia Nixon has stood up in support of trans people with a touching and powerful speech that’s already going viral.

In August 2024, students at Sweet Briar learned that the college had quietly updated its admissions policy. Effective fall 2025, transgender and nonbinary applicants would no longer be eligible for admission.
US judge asks for assurances for transgender service members who sued over Trump order

Stopping Trump’s anti-trans policies: There are things individuals can do today, things state and local officials could enact immediately, and things that will require a Democrat to win in 2028 to have any chance at the national level.

Man agrees to plead no contest to charge of assaulting person he believed to be trans

From Nancy Mace to Trump: How Bigotry Fuels the Republican Right

Protests Erupt Across US At Hospitals Complying With Trumps Unlawful Under-19 Trans Ban EO

Were There Transgender Vikings? The Laxdæla Saga Says So.

There is actually ample proof of there being transgender Vikings. One such source is the Icelandic Laxdæla Saga, an exciting drama full of powerful women, social intrigue and accusations of crossdressing.

Photo: Lorado

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Families, LGBTQ advocates sue to block Trump order on care for transgender youth
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Puberty Blockers, Trans Healthcare and a Story About “The Burning Ship”.

How a Michigan Trans Rights Rally Ignited Nationwide Solidarity — See Photo Gallery

Judge blocks federal prison system from moving three transgender women to men’s prisons

Opinions: My existence as an intersex American was finally acknowledged, then erased four days later

No, the US Agency for International Development didn’t fund a transgender opera in Colombia

Trump set to ban trans women from female sports with new executive order

Families and doctors sue over Trump’s order to halt funding for gender-affirming care

Will Ferrell issues brilliant response to Oscars snubbing trans film Will & Harper

r/transgender_surgeries has been banned, removing a vital resource for trans people (allegedly because it was unmoderated)

Cross-Party Statement on Wes Streeting’s Engagement with Anti-Trans Groups

“Health Secretary Wes Streeting met with and expressed sympathy for members of a parents’ group that promotes conversion therapy and has been found to engage in child abuse against trans children, QueerAF can reveal.”

Children’s Hospital L.A. stops initiating hormonal therapy for transgender patients under 19

Trans health, research programs ordered to stop by Trump administration
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LA clinics lose funding for transgender health care as Trump executive orders take hold

Seattle Children’s Postpones Trans Teen’s Surgery Indefinitely

State Department Travel Safety Website Changes “LGBTQI+ Travelers” to “LGB Travelers”

Not only have transgender people been removed from the website title, but the changes extend far beyond aesthetics. In individual country sections, vital information specific to transgender travelers has also been erased. Russia’s page no longer mentions laws that explicitly target transgender individuals, and Qatar’s page has been stripped of language regarding X gender markers.

Yesterday’s News

‘Life is good when you’re not being tortured by your own demons’: How a trans woman found peace outside the LDS Church
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Disabled U of M student speaks out after anti-trans commentators blast his video

Trans peoples’ basic right to exist in the world is under assault. Bathrooms are at the heart of that fight.

Benedict Cumberbatch Regrets His Non-Binary ‘Zoolander 2’ Role: “I’ve had to apologize for that quite a lot”

N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care
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NY-Presbyterian Removes Transgender Youth Care From Website After Trump Order

Hundreds march in New York against Trump’s trans policy

New York attorney general tells hospitals to continue transgender care after Trump’s executive order

Pedro Pascal re-posts powerful message of support for trans people: ‘Progress is inevitable’

New comedy series starring Laverne Cox offers a much-needed dose of trans joy this February

JT talks ‘Alter Ego,’ Arca collabs, and loving the trans community

Russian Fake News – ‘Transgender Blackhawk Pilot Caused Washington Crash’

The board of the affinity group Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA) announced “extraordinary measures,” including a spate of resignations, on Friday to keep in compliance with President Trump’s “Defending Women” executive order.

FBI paints over wall listing core values including ‘diversity’ following Trump’s DEI crackdown

Chappell Roan shares empowering message to trans community at Grammys: ‘I would not be here without you’

“It’s brutal right now, but trans people have always existed, and they will forever exist, and they will never no matter what happens take trans joy away, and that has to be protected more than anything”

Lady Gaga at Grammys: “Trans people deserve love.”

The Hollywood Reporter: “Lady Gaga issued perhaps the strongest call out to Trump’s anti-trans executive orders, including a first-day proclamation that the U.S. would only recognize two genders (male and female) and that those “are not changeable.” Accepting the Grammy for best pop duo or group performance for her “Die With a Smile” duet with Bruno Mars, Gaga declared, “Trans people are not invisible. Trans people deserve love. The queer community deserves to be lifted up. Music is love.”

Transgender sports ban advances out of Georgia Senate committee; gender-affirming care under fire

LGBTQ+ youth flee hateful states: 266,000 young people have moved to more inclusive states

Social Security “immediately” stopped making sex identification changes on Friday

She lives in the U.S.’ trans ‘sanctuary.’ This S.F. woman left it to escape Trump

N.Y. Hospital Stops Treating 2 Children After Trump’s Trans Care Order
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A small handful of hospitals nationwide have put fear of President Trump over the needs of their transgender patients, and are withdrawing trans youth from care due to a recent executive order.

A coalition of Colorado Springs activists held a rally to march for transgender rights.

Actor Alan Cumming has condemned the “heinous” policies President Trump has introduced since taking office targeting transgender Americans.

It’s no longer a culture war. It’s persecution of citizens by a sitting government.

CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

In the order, CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms: “Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female,” according to an email sent to CDC employees (see below).”

Disappearing websites, data among the chaos as Trump’s anti-trans censorship begins

CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material.
Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.
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CDC Orders Mass Retraction of Research Over ‘Forbidden Terms’ Affirming Transgender People

Legendary trans music producer Boss in Drama dead at 37

Erasing Trans Lives: Inside Trump’s Federal Website Purge

Illustration: Getty

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“We cannot stop being trans. Gender affirming care saved my life and it has saved the lives of millions of other trans people. Becoming myself after years of struggle and repression has changed virtually every facet of my life for the better. “

New laws and executive orders are rolling back the rights of queer kids in the U.S. But how often do we hear them? Uncloseted passed the mic to six out and proud LGBTQ kids.

Protestors condemn UVA Health after suspension of gender-affirming care for transgender youth

On the distinction between genuine allyship and superficial advocacy in a climate that actively challenges trans rights.

Why Trump’s latest trans military ban is so much worse than in 2016

Trans people flood Pelosi’s office with passport issues as Trump order causes travel chaos

California: Attorney General Bonta Issues Statement on President Trump’s Executive Order Seeking to End Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care

“In California, we seek to promote access to healthcare, not restrict it. California families seeking gender affirming care, and the doctors and staff who provide it, are protected under state laws like the Transgender, Gender Diverse, and Intersex (TGI) Inclusive Care Act. The President’s order does not change that. My office and I will continue to defend California law and stand up for the rights of all who seek this critical, lifesaving care and the people who support them.

‘Enigma’ Review: A Fascinating Portrait of Two Trailblazing Transgender Legends

With “Enigma,” director Zackary Drucker (“The Stroll”) makes another intriguing film about trans history. From the sidewalks of New York, this time she takes the audience to glamourous Parisian nightclubs and the fringes of British aristocracy to tell the story of Amanda Lear and April Ashley.

Yesterday’s News

Transgender Unity Rally in Frankfort held amid federal and state actions targeting LGBTQ people

The Trans Agenda: Cass continues to crumble as the media ignore the truth

Opinion: The GOP’s Transphobia Is As Much of A “Distraction” As Hitler’s Anti-Semitism Was. Will Democrats Learn From History?

Who is Jo Ellis? Trans Black Hawk Pilot Wrongly Named in DC Crash

North Dakota’s ban on transgender care for minors is life-threatening, doctor testifies

Trans Americans accuse Trump of ‘travel ban’: ‘They will not give me any passport with any name’

Federal agencies have already changed their websites. “Diversity” has been deleted. “Climate resilience” is now a substitute for “climate change.” And “pregnant people” has been replaced by “pregnant women.”
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A documentary about librarians fighting against book bans arrived at the Sundance Film Festival just as students in the state were barred from bringing their own copies of newly banned books to campus.
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UK: Streeting met with and expressed sympathy for pro-conversion therapy parents group Bayswater

School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order

Trans women: Abuse in Colombia, rejection in U.S.

Some hospitals pause gender-affirming care to evaluate Trump’s executive order

‘I’m not waiting until they come to round us up’: Transgender Jews and their families search for safety as Trump takes aim at their rights

Social Security “immediately” stopped making sex identification changes on Friday

How Michigan’s Transgender Unity Coalition is spurring a Transgender Freedom Movement

Broken spectrums and the occasional complexity of pinning down non-binary sexuality (with INFOGRAPHIC!)

“My trans* and queer beloveds, none of us are okay right now. The world is collapsing around our ears. But we can get through this, so long as we do it together.”

Protecting Your Mental Health Amid Anti-Trans Media Storms

India: Expelling a trans student for an Instagram post is a breach of their rights and a blatant example of institutional overreach

Denver Health suspends gender-affirming surgeries for minors following Trump executive order

A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men’s facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care

Some hospitals pause gender-affirming care to evaluate Trump’s executive order

Almost 40 per cent of LGBTQ+ people in the UK are still in the closet at work for “fear of discrimination”, a new report by Stonewall has found.

Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón apologizes for X posts about Muslims, George Floyd

More than 40 authors contributed to “A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States,” which took its expert editors more than a decade to compile.

Navy Already Rejecting Transgender Recruits After Trump Order

Minnesota Rep. Leigh Finke speaks out amid rollback of transgender protections (video)

More on Toxic Trump Dumps

All of Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders so far and what they could mean for you

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Pledges to Cancel Transgender Protections

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would support reversing the previous Democratic administration’s efforts to expand transgender care, particularly for minors, if approved to lead the nation’s largest health agency.

The Texan plan to eradicate transgender citizens from public life

CT LGBTQ advocates blast executive order banning federal aid for transgender care for minors
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EEOC Chair Announces Transgender Bathroom Ban in Private Businesses “A Priority”

Trump officials to probe Denver school for installing all-gender bathroom
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Trump presents plan for using K-12 schools for racist and transphobic propaganda

Trump signs executive order targeting transgender students, their teachers, and their schools

Trump is calling any world view that goes against his “propaganda” and “radical indoctrination”, while at the same time building a racist and transphobic state that is promoting “patriotic education”. This is pure fascism.

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White House orders federal ‘gender’ programs shut down, workers put on leave 
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A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump’s Youth Care Ban Executive Order

The National Assembly Building of Brazil has been Illuminated with Transgender Colors

‘People are afraid’: Trump’s actions targeting trans rights lead to confusion, fear 
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Transgender Navy commander reacts to Trump’s ban on trans service members

Transgender soldiers date to the Civil War

Trump is looking to boot transgender troops from the military. Here’s why that’s complicated

In court testimony, transgender teen says gender-affirming care saved her life

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on stupidity

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident, on stupidity:

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease.

Against stupidity we are defenseless.

Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.

For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.”

Transphobia is, in many ways, the end result of stupidity fueled by the ill will of evil.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order attempting to end federal support for gender transition care for people under the age of 19
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Trump continues attack on trans people, going after trans kids, teens in new order

Those who were insistently “just asking questions” and unceasingly pushing the needle further right — in addition to those who encouraged and then exploited that for their explicitly discriminatory or hateful aims — all bear a measure of responsibility for this, for making trans teens — and, with them, trans adults — fear for their lives tonight.

Trump signs executive order to curtail gender transition for people under 19

“It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures,” reads the president’s executive order.

The Guardian points out that studies show that allowing trans teens access to hormone replacement therapy medications lead to lower rates of depression and a lower risk for suicide. Additionally, a 2022 study by the Stanford University School of Medicine found that positive mental health outcomes were higher for transgender people who were able to access hormone replacement therapy medications as teenagers, versus those who accessed it as adults.

Erin Reed: With the latest trans military executive order, the administration has given up all pretense of “evidence-based care,” and has moved to the kind of dehumanization meant to justify atrocity.

GLAAD says Trump’s ‘obsession’ with anti-trans executive orders ‘comes at a cost for every American’

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Biologists Rip Trump’s ‘Non-Sensical’ Executive Order Declaring Only 2 Sexes

‘In its strangely constructed definitions of “female” and “male,” the order states that a person’s gender is defined by the size of a “reproductive cell” at the moment of conception, a stage when all embryos are phenotypically female.’

Embryos are “neither male nor female” by Trump’s definition, Dr. Francisco Diaz said, since there are no germ cells present at conception.

What’s wrong with the Cass Review? A round-up of commentary and evidence

‘Heightened Scrutiny’ Review: A Transgender Attorney Heads to the Supreme Court in an Emotional and Informative Doc

‘A reminder that we can resist’: hard-hitting documentary takes aim at anti-trans rhetoric

Heightened Scrutiny, directed by Sam Feder, argues that the fear-based ideology underlying bans on hormone therapy or puberty blockers for minors has been pushed not only by conservative activists but center-left publications such as the New York Times, the Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal, whose articles have fixated on surgery, potential regret or risks. As the film notes, such therapies, with the same side effects and risks, are prescribed for other conditions and only raise alarms when applied to trans youths, and the rate of “detransitioning” is less than 1%.

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Transgender service members challenge Trump’s military ban

‘So tired of being scared’: Utah’s only openly LGBTQ lawmaker tearfully argues against transgender dorm bill

Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas struggles to reconcile his past statements supporting transgender Americans’ participation in military service with his current support for the anti-trans policy.

Karla Sofía Gascón — the breakout star of Emilia Pérez and recent Out100 honoree — has taken to social media to fight against the dangerous anti-trans rhetoric shared by conservatives.

Fortnite brings trans character Dreamer back to item shop