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…
Trans rights are advancing through courts and legislatures around the world, even as political resistance intensifies in some places. Bulgaria's…
Some councils are pushing back on government trans policy guidance because they believe it conflicts with their legal equalities duties and with the…
The claim that enshrining gender identity in law is 'almost guaranteed' to end up in court is true of virtually every significant piece of rights…
Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 prohibited UK local authorities from intentionally promoting homosexuality or publishing material with…
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…
Trans-inclusive workplace policies do not come at the expense of women, lesbians, or gay men. The Equality Act 2010 protects gender reassignment,…
Conversion therapy bans are not a solution in search of a problem. The evidence base is substantial and consistent: the NHS, the British…
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,…
Abortion care and gender-affirming care are not the same thing. They are separate areas of medicine with different evidence bases, different patient…
Sex Matters brought a judicial review challenging police guidance that allowed trans detainees to consent to being strip-searched by an officer…
The For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling said that for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, 'sex' refers to biological sex. It did not remove…
Trans people working in or receiving care from NHS and healthcare settings are protected under the Equality Act 2010's characteristic of gender…
Many women's organisations in the UK are standing in solidarity with trans people against the EHRC's draft statutory code and the Cass Review's…
Labour's conversion practices bill targets deliberate, coercive attempts to suppress or change a person's gender identity or sexual orientation. It…
Trans rights in the US vary dramatically by state. Hostile states have banned gender-affirming care for minors, restricted legal gender recognition,…
A Gender Recognition Certificate legally changes a person's sex for most purposes under UK law, including admission to gender-matching NHS wards. NHS…
Conversion therapy bills in the UK have explicitly excluded trans people from protection. Practices designed to change or suppress a person's gender…
Trans patients in NHS hospitals are protected from discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 through the protected characteristic of gender…
The government's draft guidance on single-sex spaces contains a direct contradiction: it states that members of the public do not have the right to…
Trans people in prison have legal rights to dignity, safety, and protection from discrimination. The Equality Act 2010 protects them through the…
Without a Gender Recognition Certificate, a death certificate in England and Wales will generally record the gender on the birth certificate rather…
Trans people have always existed, across cultures and throughout recorded history. The only question each generation faces is how they are treated.…
Trans women's murders are routinely undercounted in official crime statistics because most countries record homicide victims by sex assigned at birth…
Trans people, their families, researchers, and advocates are leaving the UK in growing numbers, driven by a combination of legal restrictions, a…
Forced detransition happens when a trans person is compelled to reverse or abandon their transition not by their own choice but by external pressure:…
Labour has pursued a systematic set of anti-trans policies since taking office, including school guidance restricting trans young people's social…
Sophie Cunningham's public comments about a trans WNBA colleague were framed as sports debate, but what actually happened was a workplace outing: a…
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…
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Amira spent years as her real self on the inside and someone else on paper, until the day a bank card arrived with her chosen name on it and…
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.
A Tennessee appellate court overturned Samuel Ward Jr.'s conviction for the murder of Paris Lee, a 36-year-old Black transgender woman, ruling that…
The Daughters of the American Revolution voted on 10 October 2026 to disband its Martha Laird Chapter in Texas after finding that chapter officers…
State supreme court races in 2026 will determine whether trans teenagers can access gender-affirming care, whether abortion protections survive, and…
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…
New York City turned down a $1.3 million federal grant for the Borden Avenue Veterans' Residence in Queens after the White House attached a condition…
India's 2026 amendments to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act removed the right to self-perceived gender identity and redefined…
Alumnae of Kappa Kappa Gamma have returned to the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals, asking judges to revive their breach of contract lawsuit after…
The Liberal Democrats have reaffirmed a commitment to restoring trans rights, calling for a parliamentary review committee, new EHRC guidance,…
Every concession on trans rights becomes the new floor for the next demand. The UK Labour Party shows exactly where the centrist 'moderation'…
Colorado's Proposition 135 would ban surgeries on minors that alter biological sex characteristics and strip state and Medicaid funding from those…
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring the University of California from enforcing parts of its anti-harassment policy against…
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has ended a rulemaking process started by her predecessor Glenn Youngkin that would have restricted transgender…
A piece of paper is never just a piece of paper. For trans people, a birth certificate is the document that lets you travel, rent a flat, open a bank…
Trans people across the US are watching the 2026 midterm elections with a mixture of urgency and exhaustion. For many, the elections represent a…
The Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta has invoked the medicine chest clause of Treaty 6, signed in 1876, to establish a safe haven for…
A birth certificate is not a philosophical statement. It is the document you need to open a bank account, cross a border, or register at a new…
The Pentagon is reportedly searching military medical records, including mental health notes and pre-service treatment histories, to identify and…
The Green Party is facing a fresh legal challenge after Eleanora Folan, a transgender woman, was elected to represent the Eastern Region on the Green…
The Canadian federal government has acknowledged that two transgender inmates housed in women's prisons faced sexual-assault charges following…
A federal appeals court has ruled that the Bow School District in New Hampshire engaged in viewpoint discrimination when it removed and banned…
Brazilian trans woman Anna Laura Amaral Pimentel Pereira had a valid NZeTA visa cancelled by Immigration New Zealand while waiting to board a…
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…
Siobhan Kirchstein, a transgender custodian at the University of Kansas, received a formal warning after someone reported her for using the women's…
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…
Texas Department of Criminal Justice policy G-51.11, reviewed in July 2026, confirms that adult transgender and intersex inmates with an existing…
Major European LGBTI organisations including ILGA-Europe, TGEU, and IGLYO issued a joint statement urging the Portuguese Parliament to reject three…
Trans constituents in King George County, Virginia, confronted Democratic Congressman Eugene Vindman over his vote for Republican-backed legislation…
A federal judge largely dismissed Minnesota's lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's reinterpretation of Title IX to exclude trans students…
Jane-Michelle Arc, a transgender woman from California, sought asylum in the Netherlands after Trump administration policies stripped federal…
A birth certificate is a record of who you are, not a receipt for what you have done to your body. Jaida Birch McGuire, a US Coast Guard veteran born…
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