Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) serves as a powerful tool for gender exploration and self-discovery for transgender individuals. Through character creation and role-playing, players can experiment with gender identities and expressions in a safe and supportive environment. 

https://www.transvitae.com/gender-identity-through-dungeons-and-dragons

In filmmaker Levan Akin’s “Crossing,” a retired Georgian schoolteacher tries to track down her transgender niece in Istanbul. It’s what gives this compassionate, cautiously hopeful movie’s open-eyed naturalism a wonderful, pulsating humanity.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-07-19/crossing-review-georgia-istanbul-levan-akin

Despite Its Story of Cis Family, ‘Crossing’ Lets Trans Performers Take Center Stage

https://www.autostraddle.com/crossing-trans-review/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fgender

Jessie Earl Gender discusses the path that led to her new short film ‘Identiteaze’

https://medium.com/@TransgenderSoapbox/jessie-gender-finds-trans-joy-in-independent-filmmaking-interview-f71039b85d9b

A New Play Called TERF Will Dramatize J.K. Rowling’s Relationship With Harry Potter Stars

https://www.them.us/story/jk-rowling-edinburgh-play-controversy-harry-potter-costars?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fgaycommunity

New Hampshire Enacts Stringent Laws Limiting Transgender Rights

https://www.transvitae.com/new-hampshire-anti-transgender-rights

“I’m tired of young, transgender Utahns like me being used as political pawns”

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2024/07/19/opinion-im-tired-young-transgender/
Archive: https://archive.is/5BtnT#selection-249.9-249.85

Iowa: Transgender woman filing suit after state refused Medicaid coverage for reassignment surgery.

https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/state/gender-affirming-care-sondra-wilson-ames-kim-reynolds-iowa-supreme-court-lgbtq-transgender/524-fdd26ed8-4052-41fa-9edd-e7dcbee2374e
Archive: https://archive.is/o0CV0#selection-1293.0-1293.92

Rooted in collective care and sustainability, Kaleido Collective is a creative sanctuary where activists, organizers, and community stakeholders can recharge and support one another.

https://www.advocate.com/voices/kaleido-collective?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fgaycommunity

GOP lawmakers have been stealthily adding amendments to government appropriations bills, which are key to funding major government departments, to ban any federal money being used for gender transition procedures.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/republican-transgender-healthcare-tax-funding-b2582465.html

Trans Olympian Luca Kumahara headed to Paris, this time as a broadcaster

https://www.outsports.com/2024/7/19/24097896/brazil-table-tennis-luca-kumahara-trans-broadcaster-globo-sportv/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Ftransgender

On Thursday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s “Adult Entertainment Act” (AEA), which prohibits drag in public spaces and any venue where minors might be present.

Tennessee’s Drag Ban Gets Green Light from Appeals Court