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Colorado's surgical ban could disrupt all healthcare for trans youth
Colorado's Proposition 135 would ban surgeries on minors that alter biological sex characteristics and strip state and Medicaid funding from those procedures.…
NY Roller Derby League Moves to Jam Blakeman Transgender Ban
The Long Island Roller Rebels, a 37-member roller derby league, are suing Nassau County after executive Bruce Blakeman banned female sports teams from using…
Trade unions back trans workers. That is not a crisis.
The UnHerd framing treats trade unions advocating for trans workers as a threat to women's rights and a problem for the Labour government. That gets it…
India's transgender amendment leaves many in limbo
India's 2025 amendment to its transgender protection law has created serious uncertainty for trans people seeking gender-affirming care. Clinics stopped…
Trans NSW Health Worker Wins $35K in Discrimination Case
A New South Wales tribunal has awarded $35,000 to a trans man employed by the Northern NSW Local Health District after finding that an internal recruitment…
The New York Post says trans teen suicide risk is a lie. It isn't.
The distress trans young people experience is real, well-documented, and linked to rejection, blocked care, and hostility, not to being trans. A New York Post…
Anti-trans laws cause psychological harm across state lines, VCU finds
New research from Virginia Commonwealth University, published in APA PsycNet, found that anxiety about anti-transgender legislation drives psychological…
The Fascists Want Trans People to Leave. I Left. But Should We All?
There is no single right answer, and that is exactly what makes this question so painful. Leaving can mean survival. Staying can mean resistance, community,…
Trans people are not a messaging problem to be solved
When Democratic candidates in purple states publicly oppose trans girls in sports, they are not triangulating cleverly: they are telling trans people that…
UC blocked from enforcing its misgendering policy in First Amendment case
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring the University of California from enforcing parts of its anti-harassment policy against members of…
When the system itself is the barrier to care
A study by the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation found that trans and gender-diverse people in South Africa face severe structural barriers to gender-affirming…
Newsom vetoes bill protecting trans care providers from extradition
Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed California's AB 2164, a bill that would have stopped him and future governors from extraditing healthcare providers who offer…