Transgender / Transsexual

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Rep. Ritchie Torres to introduce measure condemning anti-trans bills

Rep. Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat, said he plans to introduce the first resolution to condemn state bills targeting transgender people this week.  This year, state legislatures have considered more than 100 bills targeting trans people, “making 2021 the worst year for legislation that discriminates against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) community since 2015,” the bill states. Eighteen anti-LGBTQ bills have passed, and 10 await governors’ final signatures, it adds. Most of the bills target transgender youth by seeking to ban them from school sports teams that align with their gender identity or limit their access […]

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Justice Department challenges transgender restrictions in 2 states

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday challenged bans involving transgender people that target athletes in West Virginia and children in Arkansas, slamming them as violations of federal law. The department filed statements of interest in lawsuits that seek to overturn new laws in those states. In West Virginia, a law prohibits transgender athletes from competing in female sports. Arkansas became the first state to ban gender confirming treatments or surgery for transgender youth. The DOJ said the laws in both states violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. It also said the West Virginia law violates Title […]

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Baker fined for refusing to make transgender transition cake

A Colorado baker who won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a birthday cake for a transgender woman, a state judge has ruled. In Tuesday’s ruling, Denver District Judge A. Bruce Jones said Autumn Scardina was denied a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside to celebrate her gender transition on her birthday because of her transgender status in violation of the law. While Jack Phillips said he could not make […]

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Trans man shot dead in the street in broad daylight. His name was Novaa Ru Watson

A 23-year-old trans man was fatally shot outside a dollar store in Lynchburg, Virginia. At around 5:55pm on Monday afternoon (12 June), police arrived at the Family Dollar at 2029 Fort Avenue to find Novaa Ru Watson suffering from “malicious wounds”. He was rushed to the Lynchburg General Hospital where he later died of his injuries, the Lynchburg Police Department said in a statement. Police officials confirmed to The News & Avenue that investigators are looking into whether the shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute. They confirmed that a child was found at the scene of the shooting and was unharmed, but did not […]

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American Medical Association delivers firm rebuke to anti-trans bills that criminalise healthcare

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The American Medical Association (AMA) has delivered a firm rebuke to the spate of anti-trans bills attempting to criminalise healthcare for trans youth. Arkansas became the first state to ban puberty blockers and gender affirming treatment for trans minors in April, while similar bills are currently being considered in up to 20 state legislatures State representatives are pushing their discriminatory bans through despite firm opposition from medical and healthcare advocacy groups, including the AMA – which is the largest association of physicians in the United States. The American Medical Association recommitted to its already established position in a wide-ranging statement issued on Tuesday (15 June). The […]

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Republican States Have Already Enacted 19 New Anti-Trans Laws This Year

State lawmakers across the country have introduced at least 171 pieces of legislation that target the rights of transgender people this year, according to a new legislative database compiled by the Progressive Caucus Action Fund, a grassroots group that opposes the bills. At least 19 of the bills ― 13 that specifically target trans people and six more that could more broadly hurt LGBTQ rights ― have already become law. “We’re only six months into 2021 and it’s already been a devastating year for protecting transgender people,” said Ricardo Pacheco, a researcher at the Progressive Caucus Action Fund who compiled […]

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‘Keeps me up at night’: Doctors who care for transgender minors brace for bans

Dr. Stephanie Ho, a family medicine physician in Fayetteville, Arkansas, said she’s had state legislators in her exam room before. Ho, who has provided gender-affirming care to transgender people in the state since 2015, is also an abortion provider, so she is familiar with lawmakers’ restricting the care she provides. She said she wasn’t surprised when the Legislature overrode Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto of a bill last month that would ban puberty blockers, hormones and surgery for transgender minors.  “I think that it’s kind of ridiculous that we’ve gotten to the point that we’re letting politicians dictate how health care is delivered […]

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‘Don’t hurt your children’: A history-making trans man warns against conversion therapy

Justin Santiago, 66, the first trans man in Puerto Rico to change his name and gender on his birth certificate, remembers the long-ago incident that led to years of pain he hopes other teens don’t have to endure. During biology class in the mountain town of Barranquitas, Santiago would sit at his desk, take a wooden pencil, grab a sheet of paper and write love letters to his teacher. She had a voluptuous body, Santiago recalled, and wore her curly blonde hair tied back. He wrote the letters hoping that one day she would reciprocate his feelings. Every time Santiago […]

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Trans men and non-binary people ‘discouraged’ from life-saving cervical screenings, research finds

Trans and non-binary people experience barriers to accessing cervical screenings due to discrimination, new research has confirmed. The findings from Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, which were published in the British Journal of General Practice on Tuesday (18 May), surveyed 137 trans men and non-binary people about their experiences with cervical screening. Among the respondents, 47 per cent reported they were eligible for cervical screening – but just over half (58 per cent) of this group had ever been screened for cervical cancer. Only 53 per cent of those eligible felt like they had sufficient information about cervical screening. According to the research, trans men […]

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Much-loved trans woman Thomas Hardin among victims of killing spree

Thomas Hardin, a 35-year-old trans woman, was murdered this month in a brutal killing spree across two US states. Hardin, described by those who knew her as an affable wisecracker, was killed at her home in York, South Carolina on 2 May. Local officials have not confirmed a cause of death, but witnesses say she was shot. It’s believed that she was killed by a man she had been romantically involved with, and who is also accused of shooting two other people that same day. The suspect, Tyler Terry, has been linked to killings across both South Carolina and in […]

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