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Understanding the Implications of the UK Supreme Court’s Ruling Defining ‘Sex’ in the Equality Act

NH: Supporters of the legislature’s attempt to prohibit transgender medical care to minors called it conversion therapy and opponents called it government overreach into private and sensitive medical care.

Minnesota Goes on the Offense, Sues Trump to Protect Trans Kids

NY: Advocates Call on City to Protect Transgender People Behind Bars in the Trump Era

Hundreds of pro-trans protesters moved through the city after earlier gathering near Melbourne’s Parliament House to play drums and chant while the Women Will Speak event occurred on the steps outside Victoria’s parliament.

Kennedy Center’s events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration canceled, organizers say

 A proposal aimed at ensuring kids have transgender rights is making it’s way through Colorado’s capitol.

The anti-trans reactions to the Peppa Pig gender reveal show how truly unhinged the UK is right now

We asked Labour’s 59 LGBTQ+ MPs if they think trans women are women – just four replied saying yes

Lush loudly says ‘trans rights’ in bold new campaign following Supreme Court ruling

Meta’s Oversight Board has ruled that anti-trans posts are allowed on Meta platforms whilst also notifying the social media company it should remove anti-transgender rhetoric from its updated hate speech policy.

Lambda Legal Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Passport Policy

‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ gets a bracing new revival
. The genderqueer rock musical returns to Signature Theatre.
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Trump’s attacks trans people and the way Kennedy goes after autistic people reflect the idea that diversity is a disease that needs to be eradicated. Some people seek safety in conformity. «If everyone is like me, I have nothing to fear.»
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American female soldiers serving in combat-related roles must meet the same physical standards as their male counterparts in events such as the two-mile run and deadlifting. It was never about fairness, only the desire to exclude women
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University suspends nine gender, disability and ethnicity majors under new Ohio law

President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow enforcement of a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed.

DOJ will investigate doctors who provide trans care to minors, attorney general says
(Note that doctors do not perform genital surgery on minors, unless they are intersex – which the Trump administration approves of.)

“Infected an Entire Generation”: AG Bondi Targets Trans-Affirming Health Care in Leaked Memo

Right-wing media generating hysteria over trans women running non-competitively in London Marathon

UK: Political parties that use all-women shortlists are expected to be told transgender women cannot be included, following the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of “sex”.

UK: Green Party co-leader refuses to say whether he believes trans women are women

Trans cyclist Emily Bridges believes the UK Supreme Court has painted “a target” on the back of trans people’s, after ruling on the legal definition of the “women” and “sex”.

Kenya Red Cross-owned hotel to host anti-LGBTQ conference

CBS News reported that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the creation of a makeup studio at the Pentagon. It is hard to be a manly man in the age of Trump.

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Lloyds Bank has pledged to support its transgender staff following the Supreme Court’s ruling that trans women are not legally women. 

Andrew Walton, Lloyds’s chief corporate affairs director, responded to the ruling just hours after it was announced, saying the company would ‘listen and support’ any employees who may be affected. 

In a message seen by the Telegraph to Lloyds’s Rainbow network, which is the bank’s internal group for LGBTQ+ people, offering them ‘a note of support…on what I know will be an unsettling day following the UK Supreme Court decision’. 

He added: ‘Please know that we cherish and celebrate you and we remain committed to inclusivity. If you’re a line manager, please be mindful of the potential impact on members of your team and be available to them. We are here to listen and support.’ 

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee has announced it will not implement a specific policy on the eligibility of transgender athletes for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

Trans inclusive protesters have taken to the streets of the UK this weekend showing that overwhelming the UK public is in no mood of gender critical beliefs.

Books: ‘Pronoun Trouble’ reminds us that punctuation matters.
‘They’ has been a shape-shifter for more than 700 years

Theater‘: Bad Books’ a timely look at censorship in local library.
Influencer vs. conservative parent in Round House production.

Thousands of protesters took to London to rally against the Supreme Court’s trans ruling after an “emergency” protest was called by organisers.

The Illinois High School Association has defied President Donald Trump’s order to ban transgender athletes from competing in female sports.

Judges pauses Trump policy restricting transgender passport choices, finding it’s rooted in ‘irrational prejudice’

Despite full parental support, Mississippi’s highest court has ruled that a transgender teen cannot legally change his name.

UK Ruling Sparks Nationwide Protest for Trans Equality

Threat of Arrest: Politics Against Existence

How Ayushman Bharat fails India’s transgender population

UK petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards

‘Cancer gave me courage to admit I am transgender’

LGBTQ people find confidence and community in self-defense classes

How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart
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The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether public schools can refuse to give parents the right to pull kids from lessons involving LGBTQ-themed books.
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Operation Caged Bird exposes Naval Academy students to titles by Maya Angelou and other authors targeted under Trump administration directives to wipe out references to race and equity in federal agencies.
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Anti-Trans Activist Hadley Freeman Thinks UK Court Win Means People Have To Be Her Friend

Maine banned transgender discrimination 20 years ago. Few noticed — until now.
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…Maine is one of 22 states that explicitly prohibits discrimination based on gender identity and one of 23 states that has laws or policies allowing transgender athletes to participate in sports consistent with their gender identities, according to MAP.

“Rather than the closet being an anachronistic concept I am increasingly feeling that it may be the only safe space left for trans people should the current trajectory continue.”

Transgender women near Rome pray for Pope Francis, celebrate his outreach

Meet MassResistance, the Group Taking Credit for the New Push to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage

Transgender Troops Prepare for Military Ban

Column: Trump’s latest cruel attempt to ban transgender troops won’t survive without a fight

Trump challenge to Maine’s transgender policy hinges on new read of anti-discrimination law

Iowa just passed one of the most chilling bills ever written. Lets talk about it.

DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity

The SAVE Act’s Hidden Consequences for Transgender Americans

Trans Women & Dating: The Deadly Price of the “Deception” Myth

Transgender people like my child just want to live their lives | Letters

Transgender people in North Carolina no longer required to provide proof of surgery to correct birth certificates

Transgender US service members to be removed from military, Pentagon memo shows

Philly schools will continue to allow transgender athletes to participate in sports that match their gender identity

How Project 2025 Tries to Demonize LGBTQI+ People—and Why It’ll Fail

Brianna Titone, Colorado’s first transgender lawmaker, joins Democratic primary for state treasurer

The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin

Letter to Donald Trump from members of congress about life-saving care for transgender young people

New Zealand: One in five trans and non-binary people threatened with physical violence

Groups Helping LGBTQ Victims of Violence Could Face a Catastrophic Loss of Federal Funding

Canada: Civil society organizations are urging the federal government to immediately pause the Safe Third Country Agreement. The agreement allows Canada to return asylum seekers to the United States,, assuming that the U.S. is also a safe destination for refugees.

A trans woman in Kent, UK is celebrated as a female leader in a mural artwork.

«I can tell you why I am trans, just as any other trans person will do the same.»

LGBTQ Identification has Nearly Tripled in 12 Years. Why?

A Silent Epidemic: The Deadly Struggle of Trans Women of Color

U.S. Military Ordered to Identify and Discharge Trans Troops

Zaya Wade is the latest cover girl of Seventeen magazine, and the 2024 Out100 honoree winner opened up about the obsession she and her dad have in common: the hit LGBTQ+ Netflix series Heartstopper!

Dylan Mulvaney says she’s ‘living proof’ that far-right, anti-trans beliefs aren’t true

The trans Americans turning to guns for protection
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Amid growing fears and increasing violence against the transgender community, many transgender Americans are turning to firearms for protection. A Washington Post article highlights the experiences of several transgender individuals who have chosen to arm themselves in response to the rising transphobia and anti-trans legislation, particularly during and after the Trump administration.

May Alejandro Rodriguez, a 21-year-old trans woman, illustrates this shift in mindset. Initially a supporter of gun control, Rodriguez bought her first gun after witnessing the rollback of transgender rights and the surge in hate crimes. She and others in the community are learning firearm safety and self-defense as a means to feel secure.

Indy transgender veterans prepare to lose gender-affirming care

New Zealand: A letter warning of potential legal action against health professionals offering gender affirming care has been sent to more than 20 practices

Nancy Pelosi’s fervent message to the transgender community: We are with you and you’re not alone

Several Nonprofits Overcomply With Trump EOs, Erase Trans People From Websites

How Vera Drew defied Warner Bros and turned the Batman universe trans

A group of 30 state and national organizations has condemned elected officials for posts about a Greely High School student that eventually led to the showdown between Gov. Janet Mills and President Donald Trump.

Marco Rubio May Have Just Banned Trans Foreigners Seeking Visas From US Entry

US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers

Politics, Not Biology, Is Driving Legal Efforts to Classify Sex. Sex is not one single, simple, uniform biological reality, so biology cannot be invoked as a basis for “immutable” legal classifications.

Transgender Youth Have Better Emotional Health after Taking Hormones, New Study Finds

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer process transgender identity data in order to comply with President Trump’s executive order, agency representative Melissa Dibble told STAT on Tuesday.

So there are drag queens in Trump’s Mar-a-Gaza “heaven”?

We suspect this is an anti-Trump video, but that Trump had not been able to detect the irony, and that he therefore reposted it after falling in love with the golden statue and Elon Musk’s money.

“If she wins, the flood of reverse discrimination claims will be like nothing we’ve ever seen,” said Johnny C. Taylor Jr.,…SHRM. “Straight, White people everywhere could be filing.”
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Military Schools Ban “Gender Ideology” Material, Enact Book Bans And Don’t Say Gay Policies

Several Nonprofits Overcomply With Trump EOs, Erase Trans People From Websites

Maine lawmaker censured for posting photos of student she identified as transgender

District of Columbia Trans community removed from National Park Service’s Dupont Circle website

LGBTQ+ Organizations Sue to Stop Trump’s Anti-Trans Orders

Three reasons why Australia is unlikely to follow Trump’s anti-trans campaign

Trans woman battles in court to avoid deportation from U.S.: ‘I’d rather die than go back’

Trump’s passport policy leaves trans, intersex Americans in the lurch

Conservatives Push to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage: ‘Just a Matter of When’

The City of Worcester Is the Latest To Defy Trump by Becoming a Transgender Sanctuary City
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Keto Diet for Transgender Wellness: Benefits, Risks, and Tips

Let’s talk about trans passing privilege

A prominent transgender woman debates Mark Patinkin about trans athletes. What she said

That Alabama anti-transgender law is even worse than you think

Milwaukee Trans Woman Fatally Shot—Loved Ones Demand Justice

The agency overseeing school sports in New Jersey is refusing to change its policy on trans athletes, despite executive orders from President Donald Trump

Texas sues NCAA to demand ‘sex screening’ of student athletes

Gay actor Jonathan Bailey and pop star Jessie Ware are urging parents to be LGBTQ+ allies, as part of a charity drive aimed at combatting the rise in anti-queer rhetoric.

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“Intellectually and Morally Indefensible”: Montana Court Blocks Trans-Exclusionary Law Defining Sex

A Montana court has struck down Senate Bill 458, a law that sought to define sex and gender in a strictly binary and immutable manner based on perceived chromosomal makeup at birth. The bill was challenged by a group of trans, intersex, and Two Spirit Montanans who argued that it violated their civil rights in various aspects of public life, including housing, employment, and healthcare. The court ruled that substituting licensed medical professionals’ opinions with legislators’ beliefs was unconstitutional and that even minority groups deserve protection under the law.

Transgender lawmakers Rep. SJ Howell (photo) and Rep. Zooey Zephyr have argued that the bill would legally misdefine them and effectively write them out of state law.

‘Biologically inaccurate’: Judge blasts Trump policy to ban transgender people from the military

On the Trump-administration’s absurd and unscientific definitions of sex and gender

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Citing ‘Biological Truth,’ Kennedy Issues Guidance Recognizing Only Two Sexes
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RFK Jr. targets transgender protections in one of first moves at HHS
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More Hospitals Resume Trans Care After Trump’s EO Temporarily Blocked In Court [AZ, VA]

‘Manufactured distraction’: House passes transgender sports bill. Most Democrats vote no

Students Establish The National Transgender Leadership Conference Committee to Develop Trans Leadership Across the US.

Civil and human rights groups sue over Trump diversity, transgender orders

Top US health agency updates definitions of female and male in line with Trump order

Second court knocks down Donald Trump’s “cruel” gender-affirming care ban

Almost a month after Target said it was ending some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, the company is facing backlash from customers, the heirs to one of its founders and civil rights activists.

Utah lawmaker moves to restrict transgender adults’ access to gender-affirming care
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Transgender people face more harassment in bathrooms that match their sex assigned at birth: study

Manun Wongmasoh, known as “Noon”, is a 26-year-old Muslim Thai transgender woman and an LGBTI activist. Raised in a religious family in Nakhon Nayok province, central Thailand, Noon was inspired to become a human rights activist to address certain interpretations of Islamic principles that she believed had been misused to discriminate against LGBTI individuals in Thailand. 

The Project 2025 Tracker is tracking how far Trump has come in following up the Project 2025 plan.

Thousands of Webpages Documenting LGBTQ+ History, Healthcare, and Safety Have Been Censored

LGBTQ+ history webpages, mental health hotlines, and resources for the victims of CSAM and hate crimes are among the thousands of censored webpages identified.

Musk & Co are now actively using ridicule and aggressve bullying to silence those who defend civility and democracy. The mob is taking over the US.
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Confronting Trans Erasure: The Fight for Our Survival

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NY: Killing of Transgender Man Is Not Ruled a Hate Crime, Investigators Say
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FIFA Under Fire: Trump’s Transgender Ban Sparks Dilemma

European Civil Society condemns the European Commission’s announcement to withdraw the proposed Directive on anti-discrimination as a betrayal of fundamental rights at a critical moment for democracy and equality in the EU.

On 12 February, the Commission publicly announced its intention to withdraw the proposal for the Equal Treatment Directive. This legislative measure aims to close legal gaps in EU anti-discrimination law. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and EU Treaties prohibit discrimination based on gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, and sexual orientation. However, existing EU anti-discrimination legislation results in a hierarchy of protection where some forms of discrimination are more comprehensively addressed than others. The Equal Treatment Directive sought to harmonise these protections, ensuring a horizontal approach to equality.

Transgender quislings — dealing with people who actively seek to harm

We all have hormones — why are they being weaponized against trans athletes?

“…when she came out as transgender in 2021…she had a realization: ‘I’m a minority now, in a world that is pretty hostile to that minority.’ In 2022, Ms. Kolanowski bought a Glock 43X handgun…”

America has truly lost its soul, Kai McKenzie argues. Trans people find themselves under siege.

Interview with Mia F. Yamamoto, a proud transgender woman who has dedicated her life to uplifting marginalized communities.

Gender critical beliefs propagate terrorism

That anti-transgender law is even worse than you think.
The Alabama Legislature might have opened the door to sex segregation.

Why Protests Always Matter: For Trans People, Instilling Belief Leads to Change

Elon Musk’s father spreads baseless conspiracy theory that Michelle Obama is transgender