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Know Your Rights: LGBTQ+ Rights in Response to Federal Attacks
Rights that exist only in theory, that people cannot access because they do not know they have them, are not much use. The ACLU of Southern California,…
A sports columnist walked out. What did his editors refuse to print?
Matt Calkins resigned as a sports columnist for The Seattle Times after his editors declined to publish a column he wrote in support of trans athletes. The…
When trans kids become political fodder in a Democratic primary
Seth Moulton faced intense scrutiny during his final Senate debate against Ed Markey after using trans athletes as a political talking point in a 2024 New York…
Siobhan Kirchstein was reported for cleaning a bathroom. Her community responded.
Siobhan Kirchstein, a transgender custodian at the University of Kansas, received a formal warning after someone reported her for using the women's restroom…
Iowa music teacher says school board denied him a job because he is transgender
Ace Rios, a transgender music teacher in Iowa, accepted a job offer at Fremont-Mills High School in Tabor, only to have the school board vote to block his…
Hindu man weds Muslim trans woman in Dhaka temple. Bangladesh can't pick what to fume over
On 10 July, actor Tasnuva Anan Shishir married her Hindu groom at Dhakeshwari temple in Dhaka, in what has been reported as the first transgender marriage in…
Trump invents 'reverse surgery' – and the lie costs real people real care
Donald Trump claimed at a rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina that hospitals are performing 'reverse surgery' on trans patients 'at his order'. No such…
Breanna Stewart wants the WNBA to feel safe again
When Breanna Stewart says she wants her arena to be a safe space, she is not making a political statement. She is describing what the WNBA has always been, and…
Not all trans people are the same
Trans people are as varied as any other group of human beings: different politics, different aesthetics, different life goals, different cultures, different…
US transgender population twice previous estimates, study finds
The Human Rights Campaign estimates that 2.34% of US adults are transgender or non-binary, double previous estimates, putting the total LGBTQ+ adult population…
In New York, rallygoers met the trans athlete culture wars with celebration
Outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, hundreds of people gathered to celebrate trans inclusion in sport before a New York Liberty game. With bubbles,…
The fight to protect a trans landmark from ICE's biggest contractor
Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighbourhood was the site of one of the earliest documented acts of LGBTQ+ resistance, when trans people and…