Transgender / Transsexual

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Senate Democrats introduce legislation to help trans people get accurate credit scores

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Senate Democrats have introduced legislation that could help transgender and nonbinary people receive accurate credit scores. The Name Accuracy in Credit Reporting Act, introduced last week by Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Tina Smith (D-MN), would amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require credit reporting agencies to only use a person’s current legal name in credit reports, according to The Hill. In March, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) marked Transgender Day of Visibility by introducing companion legislation in the House. As Fetterman’s office noted in a press release announcing the introduction of the legislation, people who legally change their names often face challenges obtaining […]

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A staggering 81% of trans adults have considered suicide

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An alarming 81% of transgender adults have considered suicide, according to a new studyfrom the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. Comparatively, it found 35% of cisgender adults have considered suicide. The first-of-its-kind study, which appeared in this month’s edition of the journal Psychiatry Research, examined the prevalence of serious drug use, psychological distress, and suicidality among a nationally representative sample of trans and cisgender adults. The study took its data from the U.S. Transgender Population Health Survey (TransPop). The study found that 42% of trans adults have attempted suicide, compared to just 11% of cis adults. It also found that 56% of […]

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Trans men enter Miss Italy pageant in droves after trans women are told they can’t compete

More than 100 transgender men have entered the Miss Italy pageant this week, according to an activist leading a protest against recent comments by the pageant’s organizer, who said trans women wouldn’t be allowed to compete. The comments came after another European pageant, Miss Netherlands, crowned its first transgender winner, Rikkie Valerie Kollé, this month. About a week later, Patrizia Mirigliani, the official organizer of Miss Italy, told an Italian radio station that Miss Italy wouldn’t allow trans women to compete.  “Lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news using strategies that I think are a bit absurd,” Mirigliani said, according […]

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Virginia superintendent defies governor’s new policies that discriminate against trans students

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Francisco Durán, the Arlington Public Schools superintendent, announced he would not comply with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) new educational policy that targets transgender students for discrimination. Durán made a public statement outlining his reasoning for parents in the district. For his decision, Durán cited federal court decisions, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Virginia’s Department of Education introduced policies last week that would force students to use bathrooms, pronouns, and names that align with their sex assigned at birth. The guidelines went into effect immediately. “I reaffirm our unwavering support for our LGBTQIA+ […]

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Trans patients sue hospital that provided their records to Tennessee’s attorney general

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is being sued by its transgender clinic patients, who accuse the hospital of violating their privacy by turning their records over to Tennessee’s attorney general. Two patients sued Monday in Nashville Chancery Court, saying they were among more than 100 people whose records were sent by Vanderbilt to Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. His office has said it is examining medical billing in a “run of the mill” fraud investigation that isn’t directed at patients or their families. Vanderbilt has said it was required by law to comply. The patients say Vanderbilt was aware that Tennessee authorities are hostile […]

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The Right Is Using the Anti-Abortion Supreme Court Ruling to Attack Trans Care

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When the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the national guarantee of abortion rights last year, there were warnings that the ruling would endanger other rights involving bodily autonomy. And indeed, it’s now being weaponized against gender-affirming care. Several states that have outlawed such care for transgender minors are invoking the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization anti-abortionruling when defending their laws in court. That argument hadn’t succeeded until this month, when a federal appellate court cited Dobbs in letting Tennessee’s gender-affirming care ban take effect. The ruling, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, isn’t the final word on the case; it simply lets the law […]

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Latino families with trans minors fear new laws limiting medical treatment: ‘It’s what’s kept my daughter alive’

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As a 7-year-old, Adelyn Vigil believed death was the way to be able to live as a girl.  Adelyn’s nightly prayer to God was to become a bird to be able to fly, then die and then be made into a girl.  “I was crying and I told her: ‘Oh, but mom, it’s going to take a long time, because first I have to die as a boy and then as a bird and then be a girl,” Adelyn, 14, told Noticias Telemundo about the conversation with her mother years earlier.  “The only thing I could say without crying was: […]

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Wisconsin school district can’t restrict bathrooms for trans student, judge says

A federal judge has blocked a Wisconsin school district from requiring transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match the sex they were assigned at birth while a lawsuit plays out against the school. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman said Thursday that the Mukwonago Area School District must allow a transgender student to use facilities that align with their gender identity, temporarily blocking a policy approved last month by the school board, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The order comes in a lawsuit brought anonymously by an 11-year-old transgender student and her mother. The judge ruled that the school’s policy […]

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Families with trans kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for health care

On an early morning in June, Flower Nichols and her mother set off on an expedition to Chicago from their home in Indianapolis. The family was determined to make it feel like an adventure in the city, though that wasn’t the primary purpose of the trip. The following afternoon, Flower and Jennilyn Nichols would see a doctor at the University of Chicago to learn whether they could keep Flower, 11, on puberty blockers. They began to search for medical providers outside of Indiana after April 5, when Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a law banning transgender minors from accessing puberty blockers and […]

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Kansas AG sues for the right to force trans people to use the wrong gender markers on IDs

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Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R) has filed a lawsuit to force the state government to discriminate against trans people on their driver’s licenses and birth certificates.  The suit asks the court to demand the Department of Revenue’s Division of Vehicles comply with S.B. 180, a sweeping new anti-trans law that, among other things, bans trans people from updating the gender marker on their birth certificates and driver’s licenses.  This is Kobach’s latest move in an ongoing battle between himself and the state’s Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.  In April, Kelly vetoed S.B. 180, but the state’s Republican-led legislature overrode her veto […]

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