Major Study Finds Better Mental Health After Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy

Journal Club: A Genuine Broad Study of the Effects of HRT

Mental healthcare use tended to rise around the point when people began hormone therapy, a finding the authors say likely reflects the assessments, support, and clinical engagement often required at that stage. 

But after initiation, use of mental health services fell substantially over time. Five years later, both groups were using fewer mental health services than before, with particularly clear reductions among those taking testosterone-based treatment. 

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Australia: ABC is cutting funding to LGBTQIA+ program amid neutrality push

Meta’s censorship of marginalised communities is spreading, have you noticed?

Eswatini’s King Mswati III Says LGBTQ People Will ‘Never’ Be Welcome in Easter Message

A group of nuns who operate a nursing facility in New York are suing the state over a law that requires them to provide care for transgender patients
That is not in the spirit of Jesus, is it?

Transgender Student Reflects on Ongoing Threats of Violence

US Politics

New digital hall passes track bathroom breaks, gather data in NYC schools

White House ends protections for trans students in multiple school districts

A New Law Voids IDs of Transgender Kansans. It Also Threatens Their Voting Access.

Iowa can enforce previously blocked ‘don’t say gay’ law, appeals court rules

Attacks on abortion and gender-affirming care are inextricably linked

‘I am deeply sorry’: BU president pauses Pride flag removals following backlash
Archive

For trans San Diegans, lack of public restroom access is causing lasting medical harm

Opinion | Government is choosing which children deserve care

“Why me and my friends went tits out in front of Trump Tower”

Public comment open on wording of Maine transgender sports referendum question

Transitics’ Comprehensive Anti-Trans Policy and Litigation Map 2.0

Videos

3 Major Signs You’re in Gender Denial (And What It Does Long-Term)

“Send this video to a transphobe who needs to know they’re being played like a fiddle”

Dawn Staley supporting trans athletes still resonates a year after her Final Four stand

The right-wing’s ‘Gender Exploratory Therapy’ game

How the Olympic Ban on Transgender Women Could Affect All Women Athletes

Beyond visibility: How trans advocacy is evolving

Activists warn new transgender laws my trigger harassment, surveillance of community

WNBA Legend Sue Bird Criticizes IOC’s New Policy on Transgender Athletes

Chittajit Mitra on why the new Indian transgender law is regressive

TRANSformation at Brown University pushes back against attacks on trans rights globally

Alejandra Caraballo: SEGM member Riittakerttu Kaltiala (the abusive head of a clinic in Finland) is getting picked up as proof that gender-affirming care doesn’t work. The data shows something very different.
Original Bluesky thread

US Politics

Running from trans rights could cost Democrats

‘Kansas was going to be the first domino that fell’: Red states are making lists of trans people as surveillance ramps up

Chicago Trans Day of Visibility Rally Demands Change

Videos

The Moment I Knew I Had to Transition… At 60! (Daisy: From Cross Dressing to HRT)

“I don’t trust this trans “study”. You shouldn’t either” (Video)
More on the transphobic AYAGDOS study run by Dr. Lisa Littman, Dr. Kenneth Zucker, and Dr. J. Michael Bailey.

Anti-Trans Amendment Struck DOWN!

The House Divided: Internal Conflict and Stigma Within Pakistan’s LGBTQI+ Community

What Pakistan’s LGBTQ community can teach us about destructive trans separatism

Some horrid passages from the Service specification: NHS Children and Young Peoples Gender Service.
Original Bluesky thread

Lawyer Sued By Wyoming Transgender Sorority Member Settles Lawsuit

Trans Community Cuts Ties With Pink News

Artist Aaron Allen Marner reflects on abuse, housing instability, and political upheaval while continuing to create work rooted in identity, protest, and survival.

Transgender Woman Alleges Gender-Affirming Healthcare Mistreatment at Free State Hospital

Why India’s New Transgender Bill is Facing a Backlash

Transforming lives: A professor’s shift from academia to transgender rights advocacy

A Transgender Woman On The Internet, Crying: A Sincere & Gloriously Queer Hyperpop Riot

Theater: Iconic Eddie Izzard takes on 23 characters in ‘Hamlet’

US Politics

Moms for Liberty wanted a seat on the school board. Trump gave them a voice in the White House

Maryland lawmakers advance broad school protections, including for trans students

NYC’s most powerful transgender official is fighting intensifying anti-LGBTQ+ federal pressure

“Animorphs Returns: Our Favourite Trans Positive Teen Series Is Getting A Reboot”
Disney making a trans-positive series in this day and age? We can always hope.

“As it deals with the actual destruction of human memory, acts of memoricide concentrate on the destruction of physical property that holds great significance to the impacted groups of people and wider communities.”

Ethel Cain’s bold nude photos cause a stir with both fans and transphobes

What is the trans gaze? It’s relief and recognition between strangers on a train

“Rowling has fashioned herself into a very powerful enemy of transness. Her intellectual properties, particularly the ones under her control that she directly profits from, are thus, in a very literal sense, tools of the enemy.”

Belarusian lawmakers approve bill to crackdown on LGBTQ rights

Kenyan advocacy groups launch LGBTQ voter mobilization campaign

A British Drama Is Reportedly Looking to Cast a Trans Woman as Queen Elizabeth I

Understanding Breast Forms: A Guide for Transgender Women

Jessie Ware Talks Queer Fantasy of ‘Superbloom,’ LGBTQ+ Fans and the Joy of Wigs

US Politics

Mayday Health is taking a new approach to advocate for transgender Kansans, with the hopes of reaching 1.2 million people.

Vanderbilt Medical Center’s Halt to Gender-Affirming Surgeries ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ for Trans Tennesseans

Demonstrators Arrested After Sit-In In Idaho Protesting Extreme Felony Trans Bathroom Ban

Fired for refusing to remove LGBTQ+ books, Tennessee librarian says she’d do it again

Over her short tenure as Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi terrorized LGBTQ+ Americans

Wave after wave of anti-LGBT bills swept through Georgia this legislative cycle, but according to one state civil rights organization, every single one of them failed.

We have a new batch of GOOD transgender news for you here!

The hypocrisy! Wes Streeting, a man who is responsible for Britain’s anti-trans policies, writes in an article packed with lies that trans kids “deserve care, dignity and understanding.”
And Pink News publishes it without comment.

US-based hate group behind rise of anti-trans science and standards worldwide

Seen But Not Heard: The Cost of Trans Hypervisibility

“Three funerals, three transgender people, one week”: An urgent call to protect trans lives

Outrage at Stonewall after Supreme Court voids Colorado’s conversion therapy ban

Transmasc apologies for male privilege: do we need them?

Don’t sleep on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’s trans icon

We’ve asked the EHRC to investigate Sex Matters

Opinion: A 1986 case involving two murders shows how the “trans panic” defense shaped unequal justice—and why it still matters today.

Now more than ever: the importance of LGBTQ activism

Trans People Shouldn’t Have to be Perfect to be Visible

Movies:Trans-driven ‘Serpent’s Skin’ delivers campy sapphic horror

Three trans athletes realized they each had a strength in one of the triathlon disciplines, so they teamed up for an Ironman and won a medal.

US Politics

Kentucky Trans Teacher Ban Fails After Intense Backlash in Massive Win for Trans Kentuckians

Kansas Gov Apologized to Trans Activist Practicing Civil Disobedience in Capitol Bathroom

A Last-Ditch Republican Attempt to Ban Trans Teachers Failed in Kentucky

Transgender Woman Challenges ‘What Is A Woman Act’ In Wyoming Supreme Court

The American Psychiatric Association has expressed deep concern over a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that could allow LGBTQ+ children to undergo conversion therapy in states where it is banned.

Maryland Advances Bill That Would Protect Trans Students In “Any Program Or Activity”

Maine: Judge orders access to school athletic rosters but does not require list of transgender athletes

NYU Langone still silent on NY Attorney General’s call to resume transgender care

Ousted Pam Bondi sues Minnesota for letting trans athletes play in school sports

Videos

Joe Rogan Talks At Steve-O About Trans People
Pro-trans podcast. Contains transphobic language!

The Attack On Trans People Is Ramping Up

Kelly Clarkson Celebrates Trans Day Of Visibility With Gigi Gorgeous

The Queer Rebrand Pipeline (JoJo Siwa Isn’t the Only One)
The “queer rebrand pipeline” isn’t about individuals changing – it’s about a system that rewards the safest, most marketable version of queerness. Visibility is celebrated only when it’s convenient.

New Poll Finds Broad U.S. Support for Trans Rights

New Data Shows Vast Majority of Americans Support Trans Rights

A new national survey commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and conducted by SSRS shows strong support for transgender equality in the United States, despite the intensity of recent political attacks. 85% of Americans say transgender people should have the same rights and protections as everyone else

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‘You saved my life’: How one Bronx social worker helps transgender patients recover with dignity

Our Journalist Spoke with Eight Trans Women in Prison. Here’s What She Found

Conversion Therapy: The Dangerous and Discredited Practice Targeting LGBTQ+ Individuals

Calls for India’s President to block anti-transgender bill

Senegal Moves Backwards: President Signs Sweeping Anti-LGBTQ+ Law

This Kansas-born transgender doctor made a lifesaving tuberculosis breakthrough

“Giving money to J.K.Rowling is the same as giving money to eradicate transgender people. I’m sorry, but it’s true.”

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US Politics

Trump’s DOJ Sues Minnesota to Force Anti-Trans School Bathroom And Sports Ban

The Idaho legislature isn’t governing. It’s hunting transgender people

Doctors’ group says American Medical Association didn’t retreat on gender-affirming care for minors

‘We are on pins and needles’: S.F. trans orgs face funding uncertainty

The United States Is Conducting a Campaign of Social Murder Against Transgender People

Idaho governor signs law making transgender bathroom use a felony

Idaho’s bathroom bill isn’t just about bathrooms. It never was

The Conversion Therapy Buck Does Not Stop With the Supreme Court

Videos

A TERF Tried To Sue Me (Video)

Olympics Committee Punishes Trans & Cis Women

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Supreme Court Rules Against Conversion Therapy Bans On Transgender Day Of Visibility

«On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a sweeping ruling in favor of conversion therapy, finding that bans on the practice likely violate free speech and remanding the case to lower courts in a way that virtually guarantees such bans will no longer survive legal challenge.»

Supreme Court rules against Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ youths

Kids can be subjected to harmful ‘conversion therapy,’ U.S. Supreme Court rules

Kentucky governor condemns Supreme Court conversion therapy ruling

Judge Benitez Still Hates Trans Kids

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Transgender military community gathers to honor its own as Trump’s ban grinds forward

Why Trans Pride Feels Different To Mainstream Pride

These 29 trans athletes have won state, national or international titles in women’s sports

Come out before you kiss: How Trans+ panic snuck its way into UK law books

Romanian Court Forces State To Recognize Trans Man’s Identity In Historic Ruling

«If being visibly trans is a radical act it is because gender critics have made it so.»

At 11, My Identical Twin Started to Transition. It Changed My Life.

Meta continues using transphobic company language despite its Oversight Board’s warning

Artist Cosimo Cavallaro explains why his latest work reimagines Christ through a trans lens at a moment of political urgency.

Tennessee board fires library director who refused to comply with LGBTQ+ book purge

US Politics

New Republican bill to further restrict trans Ohioans’ lived experience, from bathrooms to changing birth and death certificates

As gender-affirming care gets harder to access under Trump, trans people turn to GoFundMe

Attacks on Transgender Women Are Part of a Larger MAGA Agenda

LGBTQ+ youth are building their own support systems — because schools won’t

Gov. Evers: Keeps promise to protect LGBTQ youth, again vetoes several anti-LGBTQ bills targeting trans and gender nonconforming kids 

Wisconsin Governor Evers Vetoes 5 Anti-Trans Bills On Trans Day Of Visibility

Transgender woman defies new Kansas law in using Statehouse bathroom

Idaho governor signs law making transgender bathroom use a felony

The Transgender Day of Visibility celebrates the lives, achievements, and resilience of transgender people. Founded in 2009, the day was created to offer a positive counterpoint to narratives focused only on violence and marginalization. The day is about being seen: affirming that transgender people exist, belong, and deserve respect in every part of life.

Unfortunately the news we can share with you today are not all of the positive type. Quite the opposite actually. This is why it is so important to remember all the love we get in the community as well as from all the cis people who understand what being human really is about.

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Why transgender visibility matters in a time of erasure

Love and acceptance: helping trans children live happy lives

Transgender Quebecers face surgery delays, out-of-province patients get faster care

A Ukrainian refugee says Manitoba’s rejection of her requests to help her remove her deadname from official documents leaves her exposed to transphobia and infringes on her right to express her gender.

Anti-Trans Activist Riley Gaines Just Tried To Claim That Trans People ‘Silenced’ Her—And People Are LOLing Hard

« Peter Thiel wants technology to turn us into immortal machines. My hopes and dreams as a transgender Christian could not be more different.»

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Olympics

Olympic ban on transgender women stems from fear and feelings, not facts | Opinion

Under New Olympic Sex Testing Policy, A Cis Woman Who Gives Birth Could Be Considered Male

Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth

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The New York mayor Mamdami writes over at Bluesky:

«Today is Trans Day of Visibility.

Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people have always been here — from the hijra of India to the Diné nádleehí to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA+ movement here in New York.

Your existence is not up for debate. Your lives are not a political issue.

We’re fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.»

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US Politics

Ohio Supreme Court hears case on health care ban for transgender youth

Transgender activists rally in D.C. as nationwide protests bring out millions

Tennessee library board meets to weigh firing librarian who refused LGBTQ+ book purge

What to know about Montana’s new sex definition bill

Lawsuit claims Maine transgender sports referendum signatures are not valid

Trump administration sues Minnesota over transgender athletes in girls sports

Olympic champion Caster Semenya disappointed with Kirsty Coventry after IOC’s transgender decision

Olympian Caster Semenya criticizes IOC’s transgender, intersex athlete ban for LA Games
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“For you as a woman, why will you be tested to prove that you fit? It’s like now we need to prove that we are worthy as women to take part in sports. That is disrespect for women,” Semenya said at the news conference. “ … Why will you allow women to take part in sports if you’re going to question them?”

UK: Girlguiding facing mass exodus after setting deadline for trans girls to quit

“While many advocates want to change the world, sometimes it is about helping one person to change their own world.”

Billy Porter says work is drying up for Black & queer artists in Trump’s America

Duluth celebrates International Transgender Day of Visibility at The Depot

A Transgender Day of Visibility event in Eugene focused on building community, fostering inclusivity, and providing safe spaces for queer and trans individuals amid ongoing challenges and increased targeting.
Archive

India

Queer groups march in Lucknow against Transgender Amendment Bill

India: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor criticised the Transgender Persons Amendment Bill, 2026, describing it as a “deeply regressive” proposal that threatens to reverse established rights for the transgender community.

Swati Maliwal, MP in the Rajya Sabha, addressed the house to draw attention to significant legal disparities in the recently enacted Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill.

US Politics

Transgender Days of Invisibility

America Needs Saving from Republicans, not Transgender People

Transgender Idahoan says bathroom bill could cause many to leave state

Protesters decry Idaho’s transgender ‘bathroom bill’ at No Kings rally

Cities unite for Transgender Day: Flags raised in solidarity across Lehigh Valley and Berks

Videos

The Billion Dollar War on Trans People (With Alejandra Caraballo) (Video)

Will 6 Trans Men Agree With Each Other? | Them