Transgender News March 29

By leading every story with “trans ban,” coverage is taking a situation that affects other women and jamming it into a culture-war frame that doesn’t really fit.

When three transgender women attended Perth Magistrate’s Court on Thursday 26 March court security allegedly told them they should not use the women’s bathroom.

“Groups that formed around shared outrage slowly turned that energy inward. The gatekeeping crept in. The purity tests started. People who did not use the right words or did not share the exact same lived experience were pushed out.”

Inner West Sydney Launches Trans Solidarity Footpath

“This Will Harm All Women”: LGBTQ+ and Rights Groups Slam IOC’s Olympic Games Trans Ban

India: Opposition MPs demand select committee review of Transgender Persons Bill 2026

India: ‘Ignorant of science’: How India’s Transgender Persons Act punishes a community

“Trans folks, like Jesus, have been put on trial, our existence a threat to the gender binary, and in turn a threat to the systemic powers of our time.”

What India’s new transgender bill refuses to see, its monuments remember

In Delhi’s Mehrauli Archaeological Park sits Bagh-e-Nazir, an 18th-century Mughal garden built by a trans woman named Roz Afzun. Afzun held the title of Nawab Bahadur under Emperor Muhammad Shah Rangila. They had their own military insignia. When they entered the Red Fort, their palanquin was showered with flower petals. Their name was announced in the royal court. There’s no plaque at the site mentioning any of this.