Trans people, their families, researchers, and advocates are leaving the UK in growing numbers, driven by a combination of legal restrictions, a…
Labour has pursued a systematic set of anti-trans policies since taking office, including school guidance restricting trans young people's social…
JK Rowling has made repeated public statements opposing trans rights, including the legal recognition of trans adults. Genuine allyship requires more…
The claim that trans-inclusive policy represents ideological capture or a civilisational threat substitutes alarm for evidence. Trans-inclusive…
The Democratic Party is retreating on trans rights, with figures like Amy Acton publicly referring to trans girls as boys. This is not a fringe…
Anti-trans hostile debate online frequently uses NHS safety claims, detransition stories, and activist pile-on campaigns as tools of bad-faith…
Anti-trans hostile campaigns often adopt the structure of antisemitic conspiracy theory: an invisible, powerful, and malevolent group is said to be…
JK Rowling has directed substantial Harry Potter-derived wealth towards legal action against NHS gender services and anti-trans influence campaigns.…
The Labour government has pursued a systematic package of anti-trans policies: draft school guidance that restricts how trans children can be…
A coordinated campaign has sought to frame NHS inclusion of trans patients as ideological, using attacks on WPATH, selective readings of EHRC…
Trans youth healthcare in the US is facing simultaneous pressure from state-level bans, federal DOJ investigations, congressional subpoenas, and a…
Mainstream media consistently fails trans people by covering their lives, healthcare, and rights without meaningfully including trans voices. Outlets…
Trans activism and solidarity take many forms: street-level protests and Pride marches, online petitions and letter-writing campaigns, fundraisers…
Anti-trans disinformation typically arrives in a handful of recurring shapes: safety rhetoric that frames trans inclusion as a threat, false balance…
Labour has maintained high visibility at Pride events while overseeing policies that have stripped rights from trans people: a continuation and…
Glamour UK's Women of the Year cover featuring nine trans women won Cover of the Year at the Professional Publishing Association Awards in June 2026.…
Hostile, debate-framing videos about trans identity and gender-affirming care consistently outperform affirming content on YouTube and major social…
Paul Mescal publicly declared his support for the trans community ahead of London Trans+ Pride this July, stating: "I'm incredibly proud to stand in…
Trans women's murders are routinely undercounted in official crime statistics because most countries record homicide victims by sex assigned at birth…
The claim that cis women need protection from trans women is not supported by evidence. Trans women and girls are statistically far more likely to be…
Online hate targeting trans people is not acceptable, full stop. The same standards we apply to racist or homophobic abuse must apply to transphobic…
D. Smith is a public detransitioner whose account has been amplified far beyond personal testimony to serve as a political argument against…
Social media cannot make someone trans. Gender identity is not shaped by what you watch, who you follow, or which groups you join. What social media…
Hospitals and clinics across Texas have been withdrawing from trans-affirming care under sustained political pressure, accelerated by Governor Greg…
Hurtful speech directed at trans people is not a harmless expression of opinion. It contributes directly to the mental health crisis affecting the…
Senior UN human rights experts have warned that the UK's revised Equality Code of Practice, in force as of 5 August, may place transgender and…
The 'Wolves in White Coats' report was commissioned by the Trump-era HHS and is a political document, not independent research. Its central fraud…
Pornography does not cause people to be transgender. The claim that media exposure drives transition is not supported by the research. Gender…
Free speech protects the right to disagree with me. It does not mean that targeted harassment, threats or discrimination have to be ignored. The…
Abortion care and gender-affirming care are not the same thing. They are separate areas of medicine with different evidence bases, different patient…
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In a toss-up congressional race in Montana's 1st District, Democratic candidate Sam Forstag refused to take an anti-trans stance when pressed in a…
Dr Annie Andrews, the Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina, released an ad distancing herself from trans rights after Republican attacks…
Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews is under sustained attack in South Carolina for her record supporting gender-affirming care for trans…
The BBC edited out the 'Protect the Dolls' trans rights slogan from a T-shirt worn by actor Bethany Antonia during Strictly Come Dancing rehearsal…
Big Brother UK aired a conversation about trans rights, pronouns, and bathrooms that drew widespread criticism after housemates made comments widely…
An attack ad against US Senate candidate Sherrod Brown features a woman claiming she had gender-affirming surgery as a minor in Ohio. Court records…
The Christopher Street Project, founded by Tyler Hack, is the only political action group in the United States dedicated solely to electing pro-trans…
Missouri Republicans placed a new Amendment 3 on the November ballot that would repeal the constitutional abortion rights voters approved in 2024,…
In his 'State of the Force' address, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a slur against trans people while celebrating the firing of generals who…
With elections approaching and Republican poll numbers sliding, Alabama senators Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt relaunched coordinated attacks on…
When Democratic candidates in purple states publicly oppose trans girls in sports, they are not triangulating cleverly: they are telling trans people…
Around 200 trans activists gathered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for the TGEU European and Central Asian Trans Council, held from 11 to 13 September 2026.…
Donald Trump admitted at the Republican Party's national midterm convention in Dallas that he deliberately times attacks on trans people to land…
Helen looks honestly at what it costs to vote for a Democrat who will harm you in order to stop a Republican who will harm you more, and why that…
Elon Musk's America PAC has begun running anti-LGBTQ+ political ads in US Senate races in Alaska, Ohio, Texas, and Iowa. The Human Rights Campaign…
The evidence is in, and it points one way. When Democrats defend trans people, they win. When they triangulate and lend legitimacy to anti-trans…
Ed Markey's landslide victory over Seth Moulton in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary is one of the clearest electoral signals yet that…
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…
Abandoning trans people does not make the attacks stop. Sarah Trone Garriott, Democratic candidate for Iowa's third congressional district, ran…
The Trump administration's HHS study claiming that support for trans people predicts political violence is not credible research. Experts across…
The Trump administration's Department of Health and Human Services has published a study, conducted by two conservative think tanks with known…
The Good Law Project is defending the Green Party of England and Wales after a gender critical group, Green Women's Declaration, threatened legal…
Donald Trump said in an interview that transgender people will 'end' if Republicans keep control of Congress after the 2026 midterms. Helen takes the…
When a Democrat like Iowa gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand says 'girls' sports are for girls,' that is not a principled sporting position. It is a…
Trans people are not a messaging challenge for Democrats to solve or a culture-war weapon for Republicans to deploy. They are people whose…
Indiana's 2022 transgender sports ban has become a flashpoint in the state's secretary of state race, despite that office having nothing to do with…
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…
Seth Moulton faced intense scrutiny during his final Senate debate against Ed Markey after using trans athletes as a political talking point in a…
Donald Trump claimed at a rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina that hospitals are performing 'reverse surgery' on trans patients 'at his order'. No…
At a Scottish Labour leadership hustings, a gay member stood up and asked the candidates 'How can I stay in this party?' It was the most honest…
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