Transgender / Transsexual

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Trans people could remove ‘deadname’ from Gmail address under new changes

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Trans people could be able to update their email address with their new name under an upcoming Gmail update. The world’s largest email provider is reportedly rolling out a new function which will allow users to update their “gmail.com” addresses. The email service, operated by Google, currently forbids users with a Gmail handle from changing their email address. However, according to the blog 9 to 5 Google, an updated section to its support page suggests developers are “gradually rolling out” a change which will allow addresses to be changes. The new section, which is currently only present on Google’s Hindi support pages, […]

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Missing Black trans man Danny Siplin found dead in Rochester, New York

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Danny “Dusse” Siplin, a 33-year-old Black transgender man who was reported missing last Tuesday, was found dead Friday in Rochester, New York. Police do not suspect foul play but are still investigating, according to local media. “There does not appear to be any criminal intent involved with Siplin’s death,” police said, as quoted by TV station WROC. Anyone with information is asked to call 911. Siplin’s body was found near the Genesee River Gorge, and his vehicle was found on Upper Falls Bridge with the motor running, the doors closed, and his wallet inside, TV station WHEC reports. He had spoken on the phone to his mother, […]

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Trans National Security Agency employee sues Trump administration for ‘denying her existence’

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A trans employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) is suing the Trump administration over its anti-trans executive orders and policies, which the employee says violate federal civil rights law. Sarah O’Neill, a data scientist at the intelligence agency, has disputed the legality of Executive Order 14168, which was signed by Donald Trump in January following his return to the White House for his second term and stated that the US would henceforth only recognise “two sexes, male and female” and these are “immutable”.  The executive order, titled ‘Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the […]

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RFK Jr.’s HHS investigates Seattle Children’s Hospital over youth gender-affirming care

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched an investigation into Seattle Children’s Hospital for providing gender-affirming careto youth.  The department announced Friday that it has referred the hospital to the Office of Inspector General for “for failure to meet professional recognized standards of health care as according to Secretary Kennedy’s declaration.” If the department concludes the hospital violated the policy, it could lose its Medicaid and Medicare funding. Cited in the referral is the agency’s announcement from earlier this month that it is proposing to ban the lifesaving care for those under age 18, and to prevent both Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance […]

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Oklahoma instructor who gave student a zero on gender essay barred from teaching duties, school says

The University of Oklahoma said Monday that the graduate teaching assistant who assigned a failing grade to a student for a psychology essay on gender stereotypes will “no longer have instructional duties” at the university. A graduate teaching assistant for an online psychology class was “arbitrary in the grading of this specific paper” and therefore will “no longer have instructional duties,” the university said in a statement. It is not immediately clear whether the teaching assistant faces further disciplinary action or is still on leave. “We are committed to teaching students how to think, not what to think,” the university […]

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“Becoming a woman”: How anti-trans activists are twisting the roots of feminism

Simone de Beauvoir is one of the most influential feminist philosophers of all time, with The Second Sex (1949) defining many elements of second-wave feminism. In recent years, her work has been twisted to support the biological imperative agenda pushed by prominent anti-trans figures in their most inflammatory books and blog posts. Beauvoir scholar Megan Burke sought to set the record straight and prove that Beauvoir’s work supports an ethics of trans affirmation. That’s precisely what they have achieved in their gripping new book, Becoming A Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Trans Existence. When Burke originally sat down to write […]

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The heartwarming community project bringing joy to hundreds of trans kids this holiday season

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Trans rights have taken a big hit in the United Kingdom this year, but one community project is working to give trans youth a reason to smile this holiday season.  Over the past few years, Trans Secret Santa UK has provided over a thousand gifts to trans youth under 25. But the group’s call for donations this year acknowledged that this year was especially tough.  In 2024, the UK government released the Cass Review, a wide-ranging review of Britain’s medical interventions for transgender youth that was condemned by many trans people and allies. Following the review, the UK Department of Health and […]

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HHS moves to slash funding and access to care for transgender minors

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would begin to take steps aimed at ending transition-related care — or what the Department of Health and Human Services has termed “sex-rejecting procedures” — for minors nationwide.  The proposals — which, if enacted, would pull federal funding from hospitals that offer transgender care to minors — are the latest effort by the administration to restrict access to certain transgender care. Doctors across the country “provide needless and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures that violate their sacred Hippocratic Oath, endangering the very lives that they are sworn to safeguard,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. […]

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U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals

U.S. Catholic bishops voted Wednesday to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals. The step formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. From a Baltimore hotel ballroom, the bishops overwhelmingly approved revisions to their ethical and religious directives that guide the nation’s thousands of Catholic health care institutions and providers. More than one in seven patients in the U.S. are treated each day at Catholic hospitals, according to the Catholic Health Association. Catholic hospitals are the only medical center in some communities. Major medical groups and health organizations […]

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Trump just nominated an anti-trans lawyer to become a federal judge

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President Donald Trump just nominated transphobic Indiana attorney Justin Olson to serve as a federal judge in the Indiana Southern District Court. Olson works with the so-called Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) to sue universities and the NCAA for their trans-inclusive sports policies. In a social media post announcing Olson’s nomination, Trump wrote, “Graduating magna cum laude from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Justin previously distinguished himself at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Indianapolis and, as a litigator, has been fighting tirelessly to keep men out of women’s sports.” Olson is a lead lawyer in an anti-trans lawsuit financed […]

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