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Caught on Camera: Thief Steals Church Display Honoring Murdered Trans People

A reverend in Ohio revealed a thief has stolen part of his church display honouring the trans people who were killed in 2019. St Peter’s United Church of Christ in Cincinnati, Ohio, describes itself as a “100 per cent hate free zone”. According to its website, the church welcomes everyone into its community “no matter your faith background, sexual orientation, gender identity [or] race”. Reverend Derek Terry had created a display outside the church, flying trans Pride flags and putting up signs showing the names and ages of trans people who had been killed in the US in 2019. But Terry told Fox 19 that […]

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New York State Park to be Renamed after Trans Pioneer Marsha P Johnson

A New York state park will be renamed to honour the trans activist Marsha P Johnson, New York governor Andrew Cuomo has said. Cuomo announced that East River State Park in Brooklyn would be renamed at the Human Rights Campaign greater New York gala on Saturday February 1. Johnson, a black trans woman who worked as a sex worker, is most well-known for her involvement in the 1969 Stonewall uprising, often seen as the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. She was also a trans rights pioneer, and in 1970 she founded “Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries” otherwise known as “STAR”, with […]

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Neighbors Turn a Trans Woman’s House into a Rainbow after Transphobes Kill her Cat

For years, a trans woman had been quietly dealing with the abuse a neighbour pelted her with, until the person killed and cut her cat in half. All for hoisting an Pride flag outside her house. Angelina Bouros, based in New York, US, discovered her cat Rambo’s body ditched behind her shed. An incident that was the boiling point of unrelenting harassment that stretched back to 2017. Transphobic neighbour cut woman’s cat in half because she had a Pride flag.  But after sharing the incident on Twitter, Rosendale locals pulled together to support her by transforming her house with the colours […]

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Confronting the Challenge of Bringing HIV Care to People

“Linkage to care” is a well-spoken mantra in the field of HIV: Make sure that people who are living with HIV are seeing an HIV care provider and have access to HIV medications. As simple as it may seem, the changing nature of San Francisco’s HIV epidemic means that more and more people are not accessing—or are not able to access—HIV prevention or care from traditional medical clinics. HIV providers and frontline staff must confront the challenge of bringing HIV care to people—beyond simply linking people to care.   “Access to HIV care is so much more than making sure a person has […]

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Puberty Blockers Linked to Lower Suicide Risk for Transgender People

Transgender individuals who received puberty blockers during adolescence have a lower risk of suicidal thoughts as adults than those who wanted the medication but could not access them, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Pediatrics. “These results align with past literature, suggesting that pubertal suppression for transgender adolescents who want this treatment is associated with favorable mental health outcomes,” the study states. The finding suggests that a major — and politically controversial — aspect of transgender health care for minors could help reduce the trans community’s disproportionate risk of suicide. “Puberty blockers” are a type of reversible […]

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San Antonio forced to Spend Defending Chick-fil-A amid Lawsuits, Republican attacks

A city has been forced to spend more than $300,000 defending itself from legal challenges over its decision to block a Chick-fil-A from opening in an airport. The city of San Antonio, Texas, has faced lawsuits and a federal investigation pushed by Republican officials over the March 2019 decision to block the chicken chain from opening an outlet in San Antonio International Airport over its links to anti-LGBT+ groups. The anti-LGBT+ San Antonio Family Association and the state’s attorney general Ken Paxton – who has separately fought to deny discrimination protections for transgender children – have both launched legal action against the city, forcing it to […]

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Over a Dozen New Bills Target Trans Youth, LGBTQ Advocates Warn

At the urging of conservative advocacy groups, Republican legislators in more than a dozen states are promoting bills that focus on transgender young people. One batch of bills would bar doctors from providing them certain gender-related medical treatment; another batch would bar trans students from participating on school sports teams of the gender they identify with. The proposed laws, if enacted, “would bring devastating harms to the transgender community,” said Chase Strangio, a transgender-rights lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union. He warned that the medical bans — now pending in Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota and […]

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Trump-appointed Judge Dismisses Trans Defendant’s Chosen Pronouns

Stuart Kyle Duncan, a judge on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, issued an advisory opinion Wednesday that dismissed a transgender defendant’s chosen pronouns and the broader concept of gender identity, just less than two years after LGBTQ advocates warned that Duncan would not rule fairly if confirmed to the bench. Kathrine Nicole Jett, a transgender woman who was known as Norman Varner when she pleaded guilty in 2012 to attempted receipt of child pornography, moved to have her conviction records updated to match her changed name, according to the decision. A lower court judge dismissed her motion because there was […]

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Half of Cisgender Americans ‘Don’t Care’ about Violence Against Black Trans Women

Only half of cisgender people in the US consider violence against trans women a major problem, despite increasing numbers of fatal attacks on Black trans women in particular. Just 42 per cent of cis men and 59 per cent of cis women see violence against trans women as an issue, according to the Black Futures Lab report ‘Beyond Kings and Queens: Gender and Politics in the 2019 Black Census’. In 2019, at least 22 trans and gender non-conforming people were killed and 91 per cent of them were Black trans women, according to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT+ advocacy organisation that tracks anti-trans violence in the […]

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NY Times: Grindr is Sharing Personal Info With Advertisers

The New York Times reports: Popular dating services like Grindr, OkCupid and Tinder are spreading user information like dating choices and precise location to advertising and marketing companies in ways that may violate privacy laws, according to a new report that examined some of the world’s most downloaded Android apps. Grindr, the world’s most popular gay dating app, transmitted user-tracking codes and the app’s name to more than a dozen companies, essentially tagging individuals with their sexual orientation, according to the report, which was released Tuesday by the Norwegian Consumer Council, a government-funded nonprofit organization in Oslo. Grindr also sent a user’s […]

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