Trans creators face a specific set of challenges online: algorithmic systems that flag or suppress gender-diverse content, content moderation…
Being trans is not a footnote to your life. Pride does not require you to have reached a particular stage, passed any threshold, or earned the right…
Trans joy is real, ordinary, and worth celebrating. World Laughter Day is a chance to share the funny, tender, human stories from trans lives and…
Women's safety, dignity and privacy matter. So do the safety, dignity and rights of trans people. The answer is to look at each setting honestly,…
When I say these words hurt, I am not talking about someone feeling offended. The surveys document measurable patterns: people hiding who they are at…
Sex Matters brought a judicial review challenging police guidance that allowed trans detainees to consent to being strip-searched by an officer…
Trans men are largely invisible in public life because they were socialised to stay quiet, and because successful transitions mean they are rarely…
Discomfort about trans people in single-sex spaces is a genuine feeling worth taking seriously, but it is not the same as evidence of harm. Trans…
Misgendering means using the wrong pronouns or gender for someone, and deadnaming means using the name they were given at birth after they have asked…
She hadn't slept the night before, convinced that walking into a restaurant would give her away. Then the waitress asked what she could get the…
A trans woman travels alone for the first time on a new passport and discovers that the planning was the point all along.
Koa had no crisis to report on a Saturday morning, just coffee, a friend who said their name right, and a body that finally felt like their own.
A trans person navigates the quiet dread of leisure-centre changing rooms, develops their strategies, and reaches the ordinary Tuesday when it stops…
A young wheelchair user and their carer find that gender services and disability services each act as if the other does not exist, until one small…
A trans person orders a coffee, hears one word from a stranger, and finds the world has quietly rearranged itself around who they really are.
A trans woman learns to navigate the daily calculation of which door to push open, and discovers that the law and lived reality rarely feel the same.
Amara dreaded her first school run as herself, until a stranger's offhand compliment about her coat changed everything about the morning.
Rachel had rehearsed the conversation for months, at three in the morning, alone. What she could not have rehearsed was how ordinary it would turn…
Dani stood at her front door for eleven minutes before she finally stepped outside as herself, and what she found on the other side was sunshine, a…
Marco had avoided swimming for a decade until top surgery gave him back something he hadn't dared name as lost.
The local figure everyone knew by sight transitions in a small town with no place to hide, weathers the gossip, and finds the community stretches…
Rosa spent her eighties being called the wrong name by carers who did not know her story, until her daughter taped a photo and a note to the door so…
Kwame dreaded going back to the town that knew him before he transitioned, but found that some of the people he feared most simply met him as himself.
Diego had rehearsed the disclosure conversation a hundred times before he finally had it, and the answer he got changed how he thought about dating…
A trans woman notices her skin is different, her scent has shifted, and the mirror is finally, tentatively, starting to show her the person she has…
Mei spent months relearning her voice in secret, until one Tuesday phone call made her realise the smallest reclamations land the hardest.
Vancouver punk band Rougaroux cancelled their Charlottetown show at the Sportsman's Club after a bartender put up a handwritten 'ladies only' sign in…
Mercury Stardust, known online as The Trans Handy Ma'am, is a TikTok star, New York Times best-selling author, and former maintenance technician who…
Kai Schreiber, 17-year-old transgender model and daughter of Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, walked the Thom Browne spring/summer 2027 show at New…
Olympus Spa in Washington State has petitioned the US Supreme Court to allow it to exclude transgender women who have not had surgery from its…
Aurora Alvarez-Granados Ramírez is a transgender tour guide leading LGBTQIA+-aware journeys across Central America for Intrepid and independently.…
At a moment when trans people are being framed as a threat to public life, Erica Deuso is simply running public life. Downingtown's mayor,…
San Francisco's Transgender District, the world's only officially recognised community of its kind, has unveiled its first exterior mural on the 64…
Qween Jean, costume designer for Cats: The Jellicle Ball, became the first openly transgender person to win a Tony Award in the ceremony's 79-year…
Hampstead Heath's bathing ponds will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation backed the existing policy. The City of London Corporation…
When you ask the people who use a space what they want, you often get very different answers than the ones being argued about in headlines.
Beyond the headlines, the true story of 2025 was people living authentically and bravely in their everyday lives.
Exploring why changing room concerns dominate trans inclusion debates and what the evidence actually shows.
Cyclone is a Hong Kong independent film directed by Philip Yung, co-written with trans activist Annabelle Lee Ka-yee, that follows Chiu Fung, a trans…
Oxford City Council voted on 5 October to protect the rights, dignity and privacy of trans and non-binary residents to the maximum extent permitted…
Conservative protesters gathered outside The Sports Bra, a women's sports bar in Portland, after staff asked customers displaying anti-trans…
The 2010s brought a genuine shift in how trans people appeared on screen and in public life, but that progress has gone sharply into reverse. Trans…
Siobhan Kirchstein, a transgender custodian at the University of Kansas, received a formal warning after someone reported her for using the women's…
A Manhattan court has ruled that New York City must face a lawsuit brought by a transgender woman who alleges she was repeatedly placed in men's…
Idaho's House Bill 752 criminalises trans people using bathrooms that match their gender, but enforcement is deeply unclear. Police chiefs testified…
Every year in Koovagam, a village in Tamil Nadu, thousands of transgender women gather for one of the world's largest transgender festivals. For two…
Comedian Dee Allum is bringing her new Edinburgh Fringe hour Raumdeuter to Pleasance Courtyard, weaving together the World Cup and transgender…
Gender transition belongs to the person living it, and there is no single right way to do it. Lynne Young began hers on the cusp of her 70s and says…
AB Hernandez, a transgender high school athlete from Jurupa Valley, California, won the high jump and triple jump at the CIF State Track and Field…
In a news cycle full of courtrooms and bans, Briel and Adam Adams-Wheatley threw a backyard wedding in Utah to mark five years of marriage and…
A federal judge blocked most of Idaho's House Bill 752 days before it was due to take effect, finding it likely unconstitutional because its…
The Good Law Project is building a coordinated series of legal challenges to protect trans rights in the UK, covering workplace toilets, gym access,…
Protesters gathered in Worcester on 14 June 2025 outside the Guildhall to oppose the EHRC's draft guidance on single-sex spaces, which follows the…
Trans people and allies gathered on College Green in Bristol to protest EHRC guidance that excludes trans men and women from single-sex spaces. The…
The City of London Corporation has voted to keep the Hampstead Heath ponds trans-inclusive following a public consultation of 38,000 people, 86 per…
The City of London Corporation has voted to keep the Hampstead Heath bathing ponds trans-inclusive, after more than 38,000 people responded to a…
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