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Dems with anti-trans views are on the ballot. What should pro-trans voters do with them?

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Numerous Democratic midterm candidates have previously made anti-trans statements or voted for anti-trans legislation. Trans journalist Erin Reed published a list yesterday of these candidates and advised her followers not to vote for them, lest their victories convince the Democratic Party “that throwing transgender people under the bus is a winning strategy,” Reed wrote. Reed’s list only included Democrats running in federal and statewide races, and noted that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) endorsed some candidates who had made anti-trans votes or statements. She warned that if these candidates win and transphobia becomes a permanent Democratic Party value — as it has with the UK’s ostensibly left-of-center Labour […]

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Female-only app Giggle For Girls loses appeal in trans discrimination case

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The High Court of Australia has blocked Giggle for Girls app founder Sall Grover from challenging the landmark ruling that found excluding a transgender womanfrom her app was gender identity discrimination. After years of back-and-forth court appeals, this landmark case (dubbed Tickle v Giggle) has finally come to an end. Giggle for Girls was marketed as a female-only space. The app allowed women to find roommates, engage in freelance work, find friendship groups and more. The discrimination case brought by trans woman Roxanne Tickle was against Giggle for Girls and its founder, Sall Grover. Grover’s Wikipedia page describes her as a “self-identified trans-exclusionary radical feminist”. […]

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LGBTQ+ book shop ‘blown away’ by support after ‘transphobic attack’

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An LGBTQIA+ bookshop in Glasgow has been left “completely blown away” by an outpouring of love and support from its community after one of the shop’s windows was smashed in what the owners have described as a “transphobic attack”. Queer News. Straight Up. The LGBTQ+ stories you don’t want to miss, delivered to your inbox daily. Category Is Books in Govanhill was vandalised on 5 September, with a section of the shop window where the word “TRANS” was painted being smashed. In a 9 September GoFundMe post, the owners said the location of the damage made the attacker’s alleged transphobic […]

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The 15 best universities in the U.S. for LGBTQ+ students

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A new study was just released that provides a comprehensive look at U.S. universities to see how LGBTQ+ inclusive they are.  The adult entertainment portal Erobella, responsible for the Sexually Liberal City Index, published Out on Campus: The LGBTQ+ College Index 2026, a study ranking “1,718 four-year colleges scored against twelve public data sources.” Universities across the country were measured against each other to see which four-year institutions have the most professionally staffed LGBTQ+ centers, provide gender-inclusive housing, have a written policy protecting trans students from discrimination, cover transition care with student health insurance, and allow for chosen names and pronouns to be used […]

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A First Nation is making itself a safe haven from Alberta’s trans youth care ban

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The Saddle Lake Cree Nation is standing up against the Canadian Province of Alberta’s gender-affirming care ban by positioning itself as a safe haven for transgender people seeking medical care.  In December 2024, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and other members of the United Conservative Party passed a law that bars medical providers in the Canadian province from prescribing gender-affirming care like puberty blockers and hormone therapy to trans youth under age 16. Smith previously stated that the ban’s goal is to “preserve [the] fertility” of young people, despite longstanding scientific research that puberty blockers do not render a person infertile, and studies demonstrating repeatedly that gender-affirming care saves lives. Stay up to date […]

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LGBTQ+ middle schoolers took a conservative Virginia school board to court to protect their rights — and won

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For nearly a year, LGBTQ+ students in one rural Virginia county watched the adults overseeing their education move the goalposts. Students at King George Middle School followed the rules to establish a Gay-Straight Alliance. The principal approved it. Seventeen students expressed interest. Then conservative backlash erupted on Facebook, the club was suspended, and the King George County School Board changed its policy so middle school students could no longer form noncurricular organizations. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. Now, after being sued in federal court, the board has changed […]

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63 detained after gay bars and LGBTQ+ groups raided in Turkey

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Turkish authorities have detained at least 63 people in a nationwide crackdown targeting LGBTQ+ organisations, activists and businesses across some of the country’s biggest cities. Police raided gay bars, organisation offices and activists’ homes in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Mersin on Sunday (13 September). Current and former members of LGBTQ+ rights and HIV awareness groups were among those targeted.  Several organisations had their websites blocked in the days leading up to the raids, Al Jazeera reports. Turkey’s Justice Minister Akin Gürlek said in a social media post on Sunday that prosecutors were investigating 162 suspects, nine associations and 13 businesses as part […]

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BOYCOTT: Lilly Wachowski says ‘If you support Harry Potter, you’re supporting trans genocide’

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Lilly Wachowski, acclaimed co-director of films including The Matrix, Bound, andV For Vendetta, said in a new interview that supporting the Harry Potter franchise is akin to supporting genocide against transgender people. In an interview with Variety published today, Wachowski was asked about her thoughts on the controversy surrounding HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series set to premiere in December. The project has been met with significant LGBTQ+ backlash, especially given author J.K. Rowling’s involvement as executive producer and the author’s long history of anti-trans organizing.  Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. […]

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Pete Buttigieg: ‘Of course’ America is ready for a gay president

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Pete Buttigieg says “of course” America is ready for a gay president. “I wouldn’t have run for president in the first place if I didn’t believe that,” he told Meet The Press host Kristen Welker in an interview aired Sunday. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. Buttigieg ran for president in 2020 while serving as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana and became the first gay candidate to win a major party caucus when he came out on top in Iowa. That would be the only state he won that year. […]

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