‘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.

India

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

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

Ken Paxton and other Republican officials can access your prescription records without a warrant and use it to target you and your healthcare as he’s done with gender affirming care.

Rainbow Hospitality on Baroness Ludford: Open Letter to the Liberal Democrats: Demand for Public Apology and Retraction

Maine lawmakers deadlock over bills barring transgender athletes from girls’ sports

Transgender sex worker tells her story.

ACLU calls NIAA restrictions on transgender athletes unconstitutional, says it will sue

About 25 percent of corporate donors to New York Pride have canceled or scaled back their support, citing economic uncertainty and fear of retribution from the Trump administration.

UK: Do retailers need to provide single-sex toilets and changing rooms?

Downingtown is one step closer to electing Pennsylvania’s first openly transgender mayor
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House Democrats look to bolster trans military protections

Montana Judge Enjoins Bathroom Ban: “No Evidence” The Ban Prevents Violence

US Army to change transgender soldiers’ records to birth sex

Alliance Defending Freedom Sues Minnesota To Mandate Trans Discrimination

House Spending Bill Now Bans Medicaid For Transition Care For Adults

A new website encourages transgender Coloradans to report discrimination. A conservative activist says he started it as satire.

‘Keir Starmer’s cowardice has made Labour a party for no one’

London football club announces trans-inclusive tournament to protest FA ban

The One Big Beautiful Bill Is a Direct Threat to Trans Rights

US: Best Dating Apps for Trans People: The 2025 Safety Guide

Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan

A group of LGBTQ climbers and advocates hung a large transgender pride flag in the middle of Yosemite’s famous El Capitan rock formation on Tuesday.

Trans Is Natural, which describes itself as a coalition of transgender, queer and ally climbers, said in a statement that its members unfurled the flag “in an act of solidarity and resistance.” 

Trans flag hung in protest in Yosemite National Park: ‘Trans people are natural’

In the fight for youth transgender health care, Illinois remains at the forefront

An election looms in a Maine school district divided over transgender rights

Texas Investigating After Transgender Athlete’s Swimming Wins

Conservative parent groups sue Colorado over transgender rights law

Trans Teen’s Name Rejected by Escambia Virtual Academy

Sun Tzu Was Queer-Coded: A Trans Advocate’s Guide to War

T4T celebrates three years of transgender comedy, creating safe spaces at the Bell House

Conservative group, softball players sue over Minnesota’s trans athlete policy

‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ coming to Kennedy Center despite Trump’s drag ban

Supreme Court orders Maine House to restore vote of lawmaker punished for Facebook post on transgender athlete

MI Republicans Think It’s “Inappropriate” to Ask GOP Lawmaker to Prove Their Gender

Trump admin claims donating to LGBTQ+ rights group undermines national security

Responses to the UK EHRC Code of Practice Consultation

More Transgender Americans Are Arming Themselves Under Trump

Transgender Americans say they’re traveling less out of fear since the election, research shows

Family says daughter expelled over trans prom date at Christian school

Congress

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill to criminalize gender affirming care advances

Abandoning trans people ‘a mistake’ for Democrats, says Kamala Harris’ former running mate Tim Walz

Miss Trans Michigan urges trans allies to ‘step up’: ‘We cannot combat discrimination alone’

Labour set to cancel women’s conference over Supreme Court transgender ruling.

Labour to ban transgender women from all-female shortlists (link to transphobic site)
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The UK Labour Party’s decent into moral cowardice is truly a tragedy. It is hard to believe now, but under Theresa May even the Conservative Party was pro-transgender. That is no longer the case.

Now the Labour Party, who once was the progressive social democratic party of the left, has become the party of transphobic policies, all thanks to the activism of TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists/fascists) like JK Rowling.

What drives this moral collapse is not necessarily transphobia among the leading politicians (although that may also be the case). This is more about them making “pragmatic” decisions about not challenging the hate of their presumptive voters. That does not make this less morally reprehensible.

Houses of Parliament refuses to ban trans women from female lavatories (link to transphobic site)
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Unpacking Gender Roles, Social Pressure, and the Politics: Trans Woman and Trans Man in Conversation
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 The San Francisco transgender community rallied Sunday to reclaim the site of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in 1966.

Of course trans people exist

Gay and Trans Kids in French Canada Sound an Unexpected Global Alarm!
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Will You Regret Not Supporting Your Trans Child?
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Texas Judge Rules LGBTQ+ Protections Under Title VII Must Be Removed

Russian court fines Apple for violating ‘LGBT propaganda’ law
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Lorde announces new single ‘Man of the Year’ after addressing gender identity

“What if the president wakes up tomorrow and says, ‘I don’t want any Black people in the military?'”

Transgender service members say they face ‘heartbreaking’ decision amid Trump ban: Leave military or get kicked out

2018 murder of transgender Black woman in South Carolina remains unsolved: What we’ve learned

Freedom To Be: Trans Community Celebrates on the National Mall

Transgender person sexually assaulted by cellmates at Atlantic County Jail, lawsuit claims

Why I’m Done Arguing About Pronouns: Respect Isn’t Negotiable

The story of a little-known transgender pioneer has fully come to light. Dora Richter was the first known person to undergo gender confirmation surgery.
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Drag Race Star Valentina Comes Out as Transgender Woman

Texas judge strikes down protections for trans people in the workplace

‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ Review: A Chilean Drama About HIV and Transgender Romance

British transphobia

The British government is stumbling towards a policy every bit as radical as North Carolina’s infamous bathroom law. How did this happen, and why?

UK: EHRC faces judicial review, which could overturn its instruction to segregate trans people

Most people think Supreme Court gender ruling was right, survey finds. (The poll was paid for by a an anti-trans organization).

Transgender in Asia

Indian transgender people fight for job quotas.

India: Odisha govt constitutes State Transgender Welfare Board; know its members, major objectives

Transgender women denied access to drinking water in Odisha’s Paradeepgarh panchayat

Indonesia Moves to Expand Censorship of LGBT Content

India: Shining Stars: Girls lead, transgender kids triumph and CwSN shine in CBSE 2025 exams

A Teesside transgender woman says it has been an anxious time for many since the supreme court ruling on the definition of a woman.

“My fears, as a trans woman in prison”

Fans lead Wembley protest against FA’s transgender ban

The real scandal in Alabama’s transgender youth care ban

Photos of Northeast Ohio’s trans community aim to show ‘everyday people’ behind the politics

Top photo: Deagreez

Art installation on National Mall shares trans voices of hope, defiance
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Transgender students’ struggles shared during emotional protest at Lynden School Board

World Pride comes to Washington in the shadow of, and in defiance of, the Trump administration

New Republican House bill bans transgender troops & seeks to strip trans vets of security clearances

Transgender Coloradans receive new discrimination protections as Gov. Polis signs bill into law

Topless trans protest outside Holyrood a ‘public act of grief, resistance and solidarity’

What It Actually Looks Like When Trans People Follow Bathroom Bans

Transgender student speaks out after bathroom incident sparks federal investigation at WCU

Strength Training on HRT: Maintaining Muscle Without Bulking

Impact podcast: Ellen talks to Clive about their experience of being trans and their reactions to a changing in attitudes toward trans people in both the US and UK