Transgender / Transsexual

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Young woman ‘with so much life ahead of her’ shot dead. She’s the 50th trans person killed this year

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Nikai David, a “sweet”, spirited Black trans woman, has been shot dead in the US. She was 33. The model, described by those who knew her as a “happy, fun person”, was killed in the early hours of Saturday (4 December) in Oakland, a port town in California. Local law enforcement responded to a report of shots fired at 4am on Castro Street, West Oakland. David was found suffering from a gunshot wound only to die at the scene, FOX KTVU2 reported. The Oakland Police Department said that there is no evidence of a hate crime. An aspiring social media influencer who hoped to […]

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Hundreds rally in support of trans student outed in a bitter election

Hundreds of residents in Hastings, Minnesota, took to the streets over the weekend to rally in support of LGBTQ youth after an official’s transgender child was publicly outed.  The demonstrations in support of the child come after Concerned Parents of Hastings, a Facebook group for conservative parents, publicly outed Kit, 8, in the wake of a bitter school board election, KARE-TV, an NBC affiliate based in Minnesota, reported.  The child’s mother, Kelsey Waits, was running for re-election to the town school board in November when opponents of her campaign outed her child, who is nonbinary and uses gender-neutral pronouns. In light […]

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$2.2 million settlement for family of transgender woman who died in Georgia men’s prison

Georgia’s prison system on Monday agreed to pay $2.2 million to the parents of a transgender inmate who hung herself in her cell in 2017.  The settlement came four years to the day since Jenna Mitchell, 25, died after being in a coma for two days before life support was withdrawn.  A lawsuit filed by Mitchell’s parents in 2019 said she had been approved for gender reassignment surgery but was being held at Valdosta State Prison, a men’s prison.  While at the prison, she had been in and out of solitary confinement for months. Before hanging herself on Dec. 4, 2017, […]

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Acceptance significantly reduces suicide risk for intersex youths, report finds

LGBTQ youths who are also intersex — an umbrella term that describes those whose reproductive or sexual anatomy does not fit the typical definitions of “male” or “female” — have a higher risk of suicide when compared to LGBTQ youths who are not intersex, according to a new report. But researchers say there is hope, because the data also show that one thing can help significantly reduce the risk: acceptance. The Trevor Project, a national youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention group, released the research Friday in a report that explores the mental health and well-being of intersex LGBTQ youths. It found […]

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Sweden names first trans government minister in historic step for LGBT+ rights

Sweden’s first female prime minister Magdalena Andersson has added the country’s first-ever trans minister to her new majority female government. On Tuesday (30 November), on her second day as prime minister, Andersson announced her new government, including Lina Axelsson-Kihlbom as education minister. Axelsson-Kihlbom, 51, is a former headteacher and lawyer who became known as “Superrektorn” (“Super Principal”) after she appeared on a documentary series in which she managed to turn around a failing school in one of Sweden’s most deprived areas. The mother-of-two also published a book in 2015 titled Kommer du tycka om mig nu? (Will You Love Me Now?) in which she told the […]

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Iowa Medicaid denial of transgender surgery unlawful, judge rules

An Iowa law that prohibits Medicaid coverage for sex reassignment surgeries for transgender residents violates state law and the state constitution, a judge ruled in a decision made public Monday. Judge William Kelly ordered the Iowa Department of Human Services to provide coverage for sex reassignment surgeries when ordered to treat gender dysphoria, a psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity. It often begins in childhood, and some people may not experience it until after puberty or much later, according to the American Psychiatric Association. At least nine states across […]

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Parents sue school for letting kids use chosen name and pronouns without their permission

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A group of parents in Wisconsin, US, have filed a lawsuit against their children’s school over a policy that allows students to go by their chosen name and pronouns without telling their parents. The parents claim that by allowing children to use different pronouns or a different name, the school has violated their “fundamental constitutional right” to “raise their children”. Studies have found that consistently using the correct name or pronouns for young trans people reduces the likelihood they will become anxious, depressed and suicidal. Attempting to persuade a child not to be trans, also known as “conversion therapy”, has the opposite […]

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Trans Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider explains small but powerful gesture after making TV history

Eight-time Jeopardy! winner Amy Schneider has explained her moving gesture of trans solidarity. Schneider made her Jeopardy! debut on November 17, in the middle of Transgender Awareness Week. Since then, she has won the game eight times, earning $295,200 (£222,000) from her stunning victories. She’ll soon compete in the annual Tournament of Champions, which sees the 15 top contestants of the year go head-to-head. A contestant must clock five consecutive wins to qualify. Schneider works as an engineering manager and is based in Oakland, California. In an interview with Newsweek, Schneider revealed she had been trying to get on the gameshow for more than a decade. She was […]

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Texas’ only gender clinic for trans kids closes after campaign of hate

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The only public gender clinic for young trans people in the US state of Texas has closed after attacks by anti-trans activists. The move comes amid rising tensions in the state over gender-affirming care for young trans people, with transphobic activists targeting officials at the hospital where the gender clinic was based and accusing them of promoting child abuse. Last month, Texas became the 10th US state to sign into law a transphobic bill banning trans students from playing school sports on the teams corresponding to their gender. The GENder Education and Care, Interdisciplinary Support program (GENECIS) was the first clinic of its kind in […]

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Transgender people in ‘survival mode’ as violence rises, anti-trans bills become law

Last Saturday, Que Bell led a vigil for Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual observance to honor the memory of transgender homicide victims that began in 1999. Bell has led these vigils before. He is the executive director of the Knights and Orchids Society, a nonprofit group based in Selma, Alabama, that supports Black transgender, queer and gender-nonconforming people, and he has been an advocate for more than a decade. But this year will be different.  “​​This is literally the first time that I’ll have to write down my best friend’s name for a TDOR celebration,” Bell said, using the initialism for […]

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