Michigan Senate Democrats won’t consider a trans athlete sports ban. Will Trump target the state?

The Trump administration is pushing therapy for transgender youth. What does that look like?
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These families say they’re leaving the U.S. because of its anti-transgender climate

Capturing the vibrant life of LGBT activist Marsha P. Johnson
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Vallejo Museum hosts exhibit for transgender history

How Ventura County Turned Hate into a Pride Celebration in 72 Hours

Far right weaponising LGBTQ+ rights in Europe to sow division, campaigners say

Pride Doodle vs. Pride Policy: Google’s Mixed Messaging

Transgender Athletes AB Hernandez and Verónica Garcia Win Big

LGBTQIA+ folk stories were deliberatly erased by Stith Thompson, an American Scholar and Folklorist who decided to filter out queer and Trans+ stories in the collection of folklore throughout all of human history.

Biology is Not Our Destiny: Trans-ing as a Way of Resisting Right-Wing Authoritarianism  – Udhriti Sarkar

The Dutch Protocol, Jazz Jennings, and the Art of Cherry-Picking

‘They’re trying to kill me’: Transgender woman in L.A. violently assaulted

These are the safest places in America for gay and transgender people

Lorde binds chest in powerful ‘Man of the Year’ video: ‘Beyond stunning’

Members of the Kansas City Symphony Performing Classical Works Composed by Transgender Musicians.

Kerala High Court Upholds Rights of Transgender Parents to Amend Child’s Birth Certificate

India: ‘Waiting for our child’s birth certificate’: Trans couple Ziya and Zahad react to Kerala HC’s landmark verdict.

The Kerala High Court on Monday allowed a transgender couple to be recognised as ‘parents” instead of ‘father’ and ‘mother’ in their child’s birth certificate.

Kesha slays Mighty Hoopla performance with Trans Voices Choir – and ‘Protect the Dolls’ tee
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Christianity Has Long Revered Saints Who Would be Called ‘Transgender’ Today

Here’s what Texas lawmakers did to restrict the lives of transgender people during the 2025 session

The terrifying reality Trump’s megabill creates for trans people

On reproductive and transgender care, Massachusetts urged not to rest on its laurels

PBS producer WNET quietly erased episodes containing a drag queen and a trans character from its platforms.

A federal judge considers if the president’s executive order barring hormone treatment in the Bureau of Prisons is cruel and unusual punishment.

Thousands of cis women sign petition rejecting transphobia: ‘We will speak for ourselves’

Petition: Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

Most LGBTQ+ adults feel Americans don’t accept transgender people, Pew poll finds

The Experiences of LGBTQ Americans Today (poll)

Bristol Aquarium’s queer fish bash dives into Pride Month

Clownfish are all male until one of them isn’t

Australia: Gender-diverse players removed from Victorian netball leagues

Trans Man Detained After Using Women’s Restroom in South Carolina

RFK tells healthcare providers to ignore the science on trans care & listen to the administration

Not even 50 per cent of Republicans back marriage equality in the US, 10 years on from the landmark Supreme Court ruling that made it legal.

The organizers of four of the largest Prides in the U.K. have banned political parties from their events.

Ask a Trans Lawyer: Trans Women in Sport

Texas will require state documents to reflect sex assigned at birth

Trump just handed Gavin Newsom a do-over on his stance on trans athletes

President Donald Trump escalated his political crusade against transgender student-athletes this week, targeting California with threats to cut off federal funding unless the state bars transgender girls from participating in school sports. 

As anti-trans laws get more extreme, here’s where state laws stand in 2025

Justice Department investigates California over allowing transgender athletes in girls’ sports

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and three Alberta doctors are filing a constitutional challenge to the bill, also known as the Health Statutes Amendment Act.

A group representing Canada’s doctors is challenging the constitutionality of Alberta’s legislation banning certain gender-affirming treatments for children under the age of 16, arguing it violates their Charter right to freedom of conscience.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent letters Wednesday to hospitals that provide transgender care services to children, demanding data on their quality standards and finances.

Attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group with a history of challenging Colorado’s LGBTQ protections, are suing the state on behalf of XX-XY Athletics, a sports apparel company, over the Kelly Loving Act.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said his agency will create “in-house” publications instead. By getting around rigorous peer review Trump & Co will present pseudo-science as real science.
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The Pitt star Supriya Ganesh comes out as queer, uses she/they pronouns

The US needs ‘less LGBTQ+ graduate majors from Harvard’, says White House press secretary

Dear Abby: Grandma frustrated by transgender pronouns

Transgender teens challenge Kansas law banning gender-affirming care for minors

More condemnations of the cass review! More of the UK government plugging their ears and screaming rather than listening!

Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and non-binary production of Shakespeare classic

Sir Ian McKellen will open a historic production of Twelfth Night, featuring an all-trans and non-binary cast.

The one-night-only rehearsed reading, staged by the theatre group Trans What You Will, will take place at The Space Theatre in London on July 25, 2025, and will be livestreamed globally. All profits will go to the UK-based trans charity Not A Phase.

Sir Ian McKellen will open Shakespeare play with trans and nonbinary cast

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Thai transgender YouTuber alleges sexist treatment at Chinese airport

Federal Court Temporarily Blocks Book Bans and “Don’t Say Gay”
In Iowa. Iowa’s SF 496, which allowed unconstitutional book bans, outed trans students, and curbed the promotion of GSAs, has been drastically reigned in—at least for the time being.

Trump threatens California funding over transgender high school athlete 

What Stops Late Bloomers from Knowing

Know Yourself, Know Your Enemy: Strategy for Trans Survival

Supreme Court rejects appeal of Massachusetts student who wanted to wear ‘only two genders’ T-shirt

Supreme Court Declines Case Over Anti-Trans School Shirt

CA School Sports Authority Panders to Trump, Offers Consolation Spots to Cis Girls

The state of California has changed its sporting rules after Trump threatened to withhold federal funding over one trans athlete.

Brooklyn man who supplied drugs that killed transgender activist Cecilia Gentili gets 19 years
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Harvard Medical School doctors sued after their work was censored for using words like “transgender” and “LGBTQ”. Now a federal judge has ordered that their work be restored.

EU countries ‘alarmed’ over Hungary’s worsening anti-LGBTQ crackdown

Hospital staff are urging trans and non-binary people to undergo regular mammograms, reminding the community that their “health matters”. 

Here are some more positive transgender news for you!
Note the number of good news stories from India. While the US and UK are failing, Indian policy-makers are doing a lot of good.

‘A real mess’: splits emerge in Labour over supreme court’s gender ruling

The UK Supreme Court’s recent ruling on gender recognition has sparked division within the Labour Party, despite leader Keir Starmer’s claim that it provides “clarity.” The ruling defines “woman” in the Equality Act as referring only to biological women, leading the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to advise that transgender people should not be allowed to use toilets corresponding to their gender identity. Labour MPs, human rights groups, and campaigners argue that this decision creates confusion rather than clarity, with concerns about its impact on trans constituents.

The great dogpiling by JK Rowling

“We Will Not Back Down”: Queer BIPOC Bar Reopens After Suspected Hate Crime In D.C.

Twitch: How Two Trans Creators were harassed by Right Wing Losers

House GOP Moves to Defund Transgender Animal Testing

FAQs: New Considerations for U.S. Passports, Immigration Forms, and Documents for Trans, Non-binary, and Intersex People

When a Trans Teen Dies, Twitter Turns Her into a Punchline

Ireland: High Court grants leave for doctors to bring action over State’s transgender care policy

Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill its backers say protects the privacy rights of incarcerated women but its critics believe is targeted at transgender people in Oklahoma prisons.

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Telangana to Expand Transgender Hiring After Traffic Police Success

India: Empowering the transgender community: Nee Thodu Society launches sustainable livelihood center

Thruster Games wanted to make a game featuring a trans character because they felt there is not enough representation.

Nicola Sturgeon says law must ‘change’ to support trans people after Supreme Court ruling

JK Rowling Women’s Fund should be a wake-up call for Harry Potter fans

Michigan Senate Vows To Not Take On Sports Ban After It Passes House

Jade Thirlwall officially made her solo performance debut at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend, and the singer’s outfit proudly nodded to the trans community. 

Nearly 50 MSPs and their staff have signed a letter to the governing body of the Scottish parliament expressing “deep concern” about its decision to ban trans people from using the toilets of their lived gender in the building.

As WorldPride DC Begins, A Look Back at the Eight Cities that Led the Way

D.C. queer bar vandalized in suspected hate crime during WorldPride

There is a new extremely anit-LGBTQ game on Steam, pre release, called Dogenstein.

Trans Rights in Jeopardy With Michigan Sports Bills

Trans Lives, Online Grief: The Power and Pain of Sad Posts

Trans trailblazer Ts Madison honoured by Washington DC with ‘Ts Madison Day’: ‘Still loud and proud’

From Prism & Pen over at Medium

Why Gatekeeping Trans Healthcare Fails Everyone but the System
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The Cruelty Is the Point With Anti-LGBT Bigots
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Am I Taken as Seriously at the Doctor’s as a Trans Man?
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Naked and Transgender: Who’s Afraid of a Few Topless Men?
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The Hypocrisy Behind Trans Erasure in the LGBTQ+ Movement
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‘Ace Ventura’ and ‘Silence of the Lambs’ Weren’t Offensive Just in Hindsight
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India: The State highlighted several pioneering initiatives spearheaded by the Tamil Nadu Transgender Welfare Board, first established in 2008 by the late Chief Minister M Karunanidhi

Promoting inclusivity: Tamil Nadu to induct 50 transgender people into home guard services

Kenya: Transgender refugees fear abuse

Jasmine Crockett mocks sports bans: ‘Find the little trans child that is ruining your life’

How do YOU relate to trans people?
On the anthropology of transphobia.

Women’s Fund or Wedge Issue? Rowling Fuels Legal Trans Panic

JK Rowling has once again entered the political spotlight, this time by publicly offering to bankroll lawsuits from women incarcerated in facilities that also house transgender women. The controversial author, whose advocacy against trans inclusion in women’s spaces has drawn criticism from LGBTQ+ communities worldwide, made the pledge as part of an emerging wave of potential legal actions against the Scottish Prison Service (SPS).

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The O in the logo of the Rowling fund is very similar to the Othala rune used by neo-nazis, nazi occultists and the SS.

(Variants of the Othala rune to the right. The winged one was used by the SS in nazi Germany).

So basically they have given the feminine Venus sign a square masculine shape. Is this deliberate? Probably not, but the fact that they like this kind of iconography says a lot about the psyche of the people running this fund.

I Was the First Transgender Player in Professional Hockey. Then I Had to Walk Away

Law groups challenging Minnesota’s transgender athlete policy have long taken on conservative causes

Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated constitutional rights by removing medical articles referencing transgender individuals from a government website. 

Biological Reality Isn’t Science It’s Just Nostalgia

Indian Supreme Court orders government to reconsider trans blood donor policy

Trans performer, juggler premiering one-woman show

LGBTQ refugees in the Gorom camp in South Sudan are threatened by forced eviction

LGBTQ refugees in the Gorom camp in South Sudan are facing forced eviction by the South Sudanese government, which wants them to relocate to Juba city. This move would leave them with less protection and limited support from the UN refugee agency UNHCR.

UNHCR has attempted to protect LGBTQ refugees in Gorom and Kakuma camp in Kenya, but resettlement quotas have dropped, leaving most refugees without immediate relocation prospects.

A UNHCR spokesperson has confirmed that hostility from local communities has increased, prompting the South Sudanese government to push for relocation. While UNHCR is advocating against forced evictions, it lacks funding for emergency responses, leaving refugees vulnerable to homophobia, transphobia, and displacement. The situation remains dire. Moving LGBTQ refugees into Juba without proper support could lead to disaster.

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What my trans brother’s coming-out taught me about being a better ally

Bellingham: City Council plans policy action to protect transgender community members

The truth about Colorado’s new transgender rights law. Backlash to needed protections is disproportionate, sinister and full of misinformation.

The Michigan House of Representatives on May 22 passed two bills that would ban transgender girls from playing girls sports in school

A transgender performer who came to the UK from Vietnam as a teenager has reached the semi-final of TV singing contest The Voice.

Don’t Panic–the Battle Over the Trans Medicaid Ban Is Far From Over. Here’s How To Fight Back.

US hate groups fuel anti-LGBTQ rights movement in Africa

UK Supreme Court trans ruling being ‘misinterpreted,’ warns its first female judge

Private hormones ban for under-18s would create a ‘lost generation’ of trans youth, expert warns

Trump administration must restore health articles scrubbed for transgender mentions, judge rules

In Thailand, a culture of compromise has boosted transgender rights

I am a transgender mother. Will the world ever see me as just a mother?

A major new report commissioned by Utah health officials finds that gender-affirming care for transgender youth , including puberty blockers and hormone therapy, is medically safe and effective and improves mental health outcomes

Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
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Utah lawmakers get their report on transgender youth and it is trans supportive

Trump’s ‘One, big, beautiful bill’ would ban care for transgender people on Medicaid and Obamacare

Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ banning federally funded gender-affirming care for trans people

 Decades before transgender became a household word and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” became a worldwide hit — before visibility brought rights and recognition — there was Bambi, the Parisian icon who danced for Hollywood.

Laverne Cox, Reneé Rapp, Deacon Maccubbin named WorldPride grand marshals

Emily started puberty blockers during a raging state and national debate

Trans women to be strip-searched by male police officers after UK court ruling

Heartstopper’s Bel Priestley on dating as a trans woman: ‘I don’t know if I’ll ever find someone’

A relatively new anti-trans activist group, Female Athletes United (FAU), is litigating against several people and organizations in Minnesota for allowing trans girls to compete in sports.

Transition Isn’t Cosmetic. It’s Lifesaving. Period

Naomi Watts and trans daughter Kai host LGBTQ+ fundraising event in New York