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Three Black Trans Americans Murdered as Epidemic of Violence Reaches Record Levels

Two more Black trans women have been murdered in the US this week, and reports have emerged that a Black trans man was killed in June. Their deaths mean there have been at least 25 trans people murdered in the US in 2020, just over halfway into the year. The Human Rights Campaign tracked 27 violent fatalities throughout all of 2019. According to local New York TV station WPIX, 32-year-old Tiffany Harris was stabbed to death in her Bronx apartment early Sunday morning (July 26). She was initially deadnamed and misgendered by the police and the media, but was correctly identified by people […]

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A Black Trans Army Vet was ‘Misgendered, Assaulted and Sexualized’ by Police

Black trans army veteran Jamel Young is suing the New York Police Department for their “dehumanising” treatment of him during what began as a routine traffic stop in 2019. Young, 33, had driven to New York from Atlanta, with his girlfriend, in March 2019. His ordeal began when, after dropping his girlfriend at a friend’s apartment, he began looking for somewhere to park. When an unmarked NYPD car pulled him over, Young said he didn’t panic. “I’m feeling like, OK, I didn’t do anything wrong, whatever this is I’ll take care of it,” Young told BuzzFeed News. But the US citizen said […]

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Publishers Refuse to Gender Correct A Trans Academic Name

When Theresa Jean Tanenbaum changed her name last summer, she realised she was now deadnamed in two decades worth of professional accomplishments. A trans woman who transitioned in her 40s, Tanenbaum is a designer and scholar of human-computer interactions who’s been published in dozens of journals. Not only was her deadname a traumatic reminder of her past, in her own words, but having new work published in her correct name meant she would lose the continuous record of her life’s work. “I was faced with what felt like an impossible choice: to abandon past work, or accept that I would never escape […]

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Transgender Man Files Discrimination Suit after Maryland Hospital Cancels Hysterectomy

A transgender man is suing the University of Maryland Medical System in federal court, claiming his rights were violated when his gender-affirming surgery was canceled by one of the hospital system’s subsidiaries. Jesse Hammons was scheduled to have a hysterectomy in January at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson. The procedure, routinely performed on cisgender women at the same hospital, was deemed medically necessary for Hammons, who had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. However, about a week before the scheduled surgery date, the center canceled the procedure because it “conflicted with the hospital’s Catholic religious beliefs,” according […]

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Dem AGs Sue Trump Admin. to Stop Reversal of Transgender Health Protections

A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general sued the Trump Administration on Monday, seeking to block next month’s implementation of a rule overturning Obama-era protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care. New York Attorney General Letitia James, leading the group of 23 states, said the change affecting the Affordable Care Act’s anti-discrimination section would give health care providers and insurance companies carte blanche to refuse treatment based on factors such as gender identity. James also raised concerns that women could be denied access to abortion under the revision, which takes effect Aug. 18, and that non-English speakers […]

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Transgender Facebook Content Dominated by Right-wing Sources, Study Finds

Anti-transgender Facebook content shared by right-wing news sources generated more engagement than content from pro-transgender or neutral sources combined, according to a Media Matters for America study of 225 viral social media posts. That means the majority of Facebook interactions with those viral posts — over 43 million of 66 million shares, comments and reactions over the span of a year — were on items posted by anti-trans websites like LifeSiteNews, Daily Wire and Daily Caller, according to the report. “Facebook users are getting a totally biased and factually inaccurate understanding of the multitude of issues that impact trans people,” said Brennan Suen, […]

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Gay Men Start Having Sex Earlier than Straights – and it Means They’re Missing out on Sex Ed

Sex education may be starting too late to help young gay men, according to new research. A study from Rutgers University, published in the Journal of Sex Research, highlights a disparity between young gay men and the straight population when it comes to the age at which people first engage in sexual behaviours. Queer men become sexually active at an earlier age, researchers find. Based on a sample of 600 young men who have sex with men, researchers found that on average, same-sex sexual encounters first happen at 14.5 years of age – before straight teens are typically sexual active. Queer men have […]

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Nonprofit Hopes to Build 20 ‘Tiny Homes’ for Black Transgender Women

Ever since Perriviia “Black Butterfly” Brown moved into her Memphis, Tennessee, apartment in 2015, she has been afraid to sit on her front porch. A Black transgender woman who is partially blind, Brown said she doesn’t feel safe in her neighborhood. She said she often deals with transphobic abuse when she ventures to the nearby grocery store. “I just stay in the house and mind my business,” Brown, 46, told NBC News. “If I have someone come over, they just have to come over on the inside. I would love to entertain on the outside, but it’s … so violent […]

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Trans People Murdered at the Highest Rate since Records Began

At least four transgender people lost their lives in the space of a week, as trans homicides in the US reach the highest pace ever. According to The Human Rights Campaign, at least 21 transgender or gender non-conforming people have been killed by violent means so far this year, nearly matching 2019’s total of 27. The organisation says it has “never seen such a high number at this point in the year” since they began tracking this data in 2013, and other advocates across the US are horrified by the pace of “rampant and repeated” murders. “It is ridiculous that […]

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