Transgender / Transsexual

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Paxton Moves To Sue School Over “Bathroom Violation”

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced Friday it has notified Austin ISD of a citizen complaint via a state tip line alleging a violation of Senate Bill 8, also known as the Women’s Privacy Act or the “bathroom bill.” In his statement, Paxton said Austin ISD and Austin High School were aware that a student used a restroom that was not consistent with their sex at birth. The state policy, which went into effect in December, limits transgender people’s use of public bathrooms in government buildings. The announcement comes after conservative group Texas Values put out a […]

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Trump just rolled out a cruel anti-trans prison policy doctors are calling ‘dangerous’

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The Trump administration has ordered federal prisons to begin tapering hormone therapy for incarcerated transgender people. Physicians say that it could inflict immediate psychological distress and long-term medical harm on a vulnerable population. The guidance, issued February 19 by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, outlines how the federal prison system will treat incarcerated people diagnosed with gender dysphoria. It bars the agency from initiating hormone therapy for inmates who were not already receiving it and instructs clinicians to develop tapering plans that could ultimately discontinue treatment for prisoners who currently rely on hormones as part of their medical care. To physicians who treat transgender patients, the […]

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Many alleged suicides of Black trans women are in fact modern-day lynchings, report finds

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A new report is raising questions about how U.S. law enforcement agencies across the South classify the deaths of transgender women, arguing that some cases ruled suicides may warrant deeper scrutiny. The story, in too many Southern towns, begins with speed. A body is found. Authorities announce no foul play. A ruling is entered. The case, advocates argue, was closed before it was ever truly opened. Jill Collen Jefferson has spent years in the gap between what official records say and what families believe happened. The founder of social justice organization JULIAN, she has reviewed hundreds of deaths across seven Southern states, […]

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Federal workplace rights agency says Trump’s government can limit transgender employees’ bathroom usage

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The federal government’s chief workplace civil rights agency has reversed course on one of its most consequential transgender rights precedents, allowing federal agencies to bar trans employees from using restrooms that align with their gender identity. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has reversed a key portion of its 2015 landmark transgender rights ruling, narrowing protections for transgender federal employees and intensifying a growing clash between the Trump administration and congressional Democrats over the future of workplace equality. In a 2–1 decision issued February 26, the EEOC ruled against a transgender federal employee who filed a discrimination complaint after being denied access to the women’s restroom at work. The […]

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Trans man jumps in frigid lake & saves baby from drowning: “I wasn’t going to let that baby die”

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30-year-old trans man Lio Cundiff has been hailed as a hero for jumping into Chicago’s frigid Lake Michigan to save a baby whose stroller was blown into the water by a strong gust of wind.  Cundiff recounted hearing the mother scream and then observing her being frozen in shock. “And so I just jumped in,” he told the Chicago Tribune. “My only thing was, ‘You got to get this baby out of here.’ If she’s going down, I’ll go down with her, but the goal is to get us both up.” Cundiff told ABC 7 Chicago that the mother was clearly “too panicked to do […]

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We Spoke to 8 Trans Inmates. They Say the Bureau of Prisons Is Illegally Denying Them Care

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On his first day back in office, President Trump signed Executive Order 14168, which contains several provisions rolling back trans rights including a ban on the use of federal funds for gender-affirming health care in prisons. The following month, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) issued a memo outlining their compliance with the order and that they would be removing nearly all accommodations for trans people. This would include access to gender-affirming hormones, clothing and other items like razors and chest binders. In March 2025, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Transgender Law Center (TLC) filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over these […]

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Conservative Supreme Court justices curb California’s effort to shield transgender students from forced outing

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered a significant blow to transgenderstudents in California, allowing parents challenging the state’s school gender identity policies to enforce a lower court injunction that restricts student confidentiality while the case moves forward on appeal. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. In an 18-page unsigned opinion in Mirabelli v. Bonta, the court vacated a Ninth Circuit order that had blocked a district court ruling against California officials, including Attorney General Rob Bonta. The justices concluded that parents objecting on religious grounds are “likely to succeed on the merits” […]

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Fox News posts more articles on trans people than any media outlet in the country. Even queer ones.

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New analysis from trans journalist and researcher Jessica Kant has found that Fox News publishes more articles about trans people than any other media outlet in the country. And that includes LGBTQ+ publications.  The findings bolster what Democrats have long argued, that it’s actually Republicans who are obsessed with trans people and not the other way around. Kant also noted that right-leaning publications produce far more articles on trans people than the mainstream media.  “Our annihilation has become a central organizing principle of the Republican Party,” Kant wrote in her analysis, which used her research to unpack how the right “manufactured […]

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Wyoming sorority members who harassed a trans sister are back in court, with a Trump ally’s help

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The case of the Wyoming sorority that admitted a transgender member several years ago — which was twice dismissed — keeps on giving, now in an Ohio federal court. An aggrieved and dissident group of sisters in the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) first made headlines in 2023 when they sued the Greek organization for offering membership to a transgender student at the University of Wyoming. The vicious complaint — which a judge later said devoted about 95% of its text to simply maligning the trans student, and the rest making its dubious legal argument — was written by May Mailman, a lawyer who later went […]

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“An absolute travesty”: GOP bill seeks to legalize so-called conversion therapy for trans minors

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Republican lawmakers in Ohio have introduced a sweeping bill aimed at preventing schools and local governments from supporting transgender children and also at overturning bans on so-called “conversion therapy.” “State institutions, government institutions cannot promote that woke ideology,” state Rep. Gary Click (R) told local ABC affiliate News 5 Cleveland this week. “We’re going to say in Ohio, it is not a danger to treat your child normally and to affirm your son is your son and your daughter is your daughter.” Click and state Rep. Josh Williams (R) introduced H.B. 693. Among numerous other anti-trans provisions, it would redefine “conversion therapy” as not […]

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