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Trans student’s arrest for violating Florida bathroom law is thought to be a first

A transgender college student declared “I am here to break the law” before entering a women’s restroom at the Florida State Capitol and being led out in handcuffs by police. Civil rights attorneys say the arrest of Marcy Rheintgen last month is the first they know of for violating transgender bathroom restrictions passed by numerous state legislatures across the country. Capitol police had been alerted and were waiting for Rheintgen, 20, when she entered the building in Tallahassee March 19. They told her she would receive a trespass warning once she entered the women’s restroom to wash her hands and pray the […]

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Reality star Ts Madison opens re-entry home for formerly incarcerated Black trans women

Ts Madison, a reality TV personality and LGBTQ advocate, opened a re-entry house in Atlanta this week for formerly incarcerated Black transgender women. “This is about providing not only shelter but access to opportunities they’ve been denied,” Madison told NBC News. The TS Madison Starter House debuted Monday on Transgender Day of Visibility and will host a cohort of five residents participating in a 90-day program designed to support their reentry into society. Organizers said the program will offer stable housing, gender-affirming health care, job assistance, GED support, life-skills training, nutrition education and individualized therapy. Madison, known for her reality […]

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Gender euphoria a ‘key component’ of trans and non-binary wellbeing, expert says

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A first-of-its-kind gender euphoria scale study has found, just in time for Trans Day of Visibility (3 March), that an overwhelming majority of trans and non-binary people feel affirmed when allowed to be themselves. The collaborative study, which helped to create the ground-breaking scale, found that, out of a survey of more than 700 trans and non-binary Australians aged between 16 and 79, 96.6 per cent felt gender euphoria in some capacity. Researchers from the Swinburne University of Technology, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), and the University of Melbourne, used the data to create the gender euphoria scale – an innovative way […]

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The media has yet to embrace the dignity & complexity of trans lives

Trailblazing transgender pageant contestant Bella Bautista recently withdrew from the Miss Georgia USA competition, saying that the organization’s values no longer aligned with her “personal values” and “mission for inclusivity and a world free from discrimination.” She said she could not share more details due to ongoing legal proceedings, but confirmed in Teen Vogue that her resignation was in part due to the head of the organization’s support for the president.  Bautista, a 22-year-old former Miss Buckhead USA 2025, had recently made headlines for becoming the first openly trans contestant in the state’s pageant. “I wanted nothing more than to be the representation our community […]

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The government is abandoning the fight against HIV. Businesses need to step up & fill the void.

We know how to end new HIV transmissions in the United States. The science is here. We have PrEP to prevent HIV, and we know that for people living with HIV, maintaining an undetectable viral load means they cannot transmit the virus (U=U). The roadmap exists. But getting there requires full alignment between government, private industry, and community-based organizations. I founded MISTR because sexual health care should be easy, accessible, and stigma-free. No waiting rooms, no awkward conversations, no judgment — just simple, private, online care with free prescriptions shipped to your door. Today, over 500,000 people across all 50 states, […]

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Now is a uniquely terrible time to cut funding for HIV

Rebecca Denison expected to have a short life. She’d acquired HIV as a college student in the 1980s, she told the audience at an infectious disease conference in San Francisco earlier this month, and got an official diagnosis in 1990. “Back then,” she said matter-of-factly, “It was understood we were all going to die.” Within six years, that all changed. A new generation of drugs called protease inhibitors, when combined with other drugs, made the virus virtually undetectable in people with HIV, giving them a much greater chance of living to old age. “Your work saved my life,” Denison, now an advocate for HIV-positive women, […]

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Walmart fires 6’4″ cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans

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A cisgender woman Walmart employee who says she was verbally assaulted in the female restroom by a man who mistook her for a transgender woman was fired because she reported the incident to the wrong supervisor and created a security risk. Dani Davis, who is queer, took to social media on March 24 and wrote a post about what she said happened while she was at work. The incident occurred on March 14 at the Walmart in Lake City, Florida. She noted she was a nearly seven-year employee of Walmart and holds several other part-time jobs, including the “joy and privilege” of tutoring “special-needs […]

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In Memphis, Kayla Gore is building homes — and a future — for Black trans people

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While lawmakers across the country push a record number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills, in Tennessee, Kayla Gore is pushing back — not just through protest but with power tools, persistence, and vision.  In a quiet stretch of Memphis, she’s creating something remarkable: a neighborhood of tiny homes designed to house Black transgender people and nonbinary individuals impacted by housing insecurity. Her nonprofit, My Sistah’s House, founded in 2016, is reimagining what safety and autonomy can look like in the South. Gore and her work are featured in the GLAAD Media Award-nominateddocumentary American Problems, Trans Solutions, hosted and produced by Emmy and Peabody-winning trans journalist Imara Jones, the founder of TransLash Media. […]

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Transgender bathroom restrictions take effect as Montana governor signs law

Transgender people in Montana can no longer use bathrooms in public buildings that do not align with their sex assigned at birth after Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed new restrictions into law Thursday. The law requires public buildings including the state Capitol, schools, jails, prisons, libraries and state-funded domestic violence shelters to provide separate spaces for men and women. It defines the sexes in state law based on a person’s chromosomes and reproductive biology, even as a district court ruling earlier this year declared the definitions unconstitutional. The new law also declares that there are only two sexes, male and […]

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Transgender people are about 1% of the U.S. population. Yet they’re a political lightning rod.

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump used contentiousness around transgender people’s access to sports and bathrooms to fire up conservative voters and sway undecideds. And in his first months back in office, Trump has pushed the issue further, erasing mention of transgender people on government websites and passports and trying to remove them from the military. It’s a contradiction of numbers that reveals a deep cultural divide: Transgender people make up less than 1% of the U.S. population, but they have become a major piece on the political chess board — particularly Trump’s. For transgender people and their allies — […]

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