Transgender / Transsexual

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Police officer hurled slurs and shoved trans woman who was being assaulted, court hears

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As the victim of a transphobic attack fended off her assailant, a police officer allegedly lobbed racist and anti-LGBT+ slurs at her instead of helping. Luis Cruz was strolling through Manhattan, New York, on 11 April, 2020 when a man began harassing her, according to court papers. She called the cops. But when the officer arrived to Tompkins Square Park in the Alphabet City neighbourhood, instead of coming to her aid, she instead discriminated against her, the lawsuit claimed. The New York Police Department (NYPD) officer allegedly shoved Cruz and neglected to arrest her actual attacker, the Manhattan Supreme Court heard, […]

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Schools are absolutely fine to demoralize children who support trans rights, court rules

Schools are within their right to demoralise children who support trans rights, according to a terrifying court ruling about a school in South Carolina. A principal at an elementary school in Moore, South Carolina was in the right when she banned a student’s pro-trans essay from a school booklet, a federal appeals court has ruled.ADVERTISING The child, named in court documents only as RRS, was 10 years old when she was assigned to write an “essay to society” in 2019. The court heard her maternal grandfather is part of the LGBT+ community, and RRS is a “proud advocate of LGBTQ rights”. So she […]

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As anti-trans violence surges, advocates demand policy reform

Tatiana Williams said she “adopted” her daughter Alexus Braxton about 25 years ago in Miami after the two met while doing sex work to survive. “It was her and a group of friends, they would come hang out,” she said. “And I think they were looking for a sense of family.” The two became each other’s chosen family, and Williams said “Lexus” — as she calls her — “would be my ear to the streets” and her source for gossip. “She has a lot of people that feed her information, you know, and she was a good source when it […]

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Parents of trans kids urged to flee Alabama as total ban on trans youth healthcare passes

Young trans people and their families living in Alabama have been warned to “run” after the state banned gender-affirming care for minors. Marie Willa, who posted on TikTok as MissWilla, pleaded for parents living in Alabama to get their trans children out of the state and to “somewhere safe”.×ADVERTISING In an emotional video on TikTok, Willa, a trans woman, said: “I come to you tonight on a very serious note with a dire warning and a plea for help. “If you are the parent of a transgender child that is 19 or under and you live in the state of Alabama, your child lives […]

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America’s leading psychiatric organisation finally accepts being trans is not a ‘mental disorder’

The American Psychological Association (APA) adopted a resolution rebuking conversion therapy on trans patients, correctly citing that being trans is not a “mental disorder”. The APA is the leading scientific and professional organisation representing psychology in the US, with more than 122,000 researchers, clinicians, consultants and educators as its members. The prominent psychological association has decried the use of conversion therapy – the dangerous, discredited ‘treatment’ to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity – for trans people.ADVERTISING In a February resolution, the APA stated that “transgender and gender non-binary identities and expressions are healthy” and that “incongruence between one’s sex and gender is neither […]

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Rand Paul criticized for trans ‘gender mutilation’ remarks in Rachel Levine hearing

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., compared gender-affirming surgery to “genital mutilation” during confirmation hearings Thursday for Dr. Rachel Levine, President Joe Biden’s nominee for assistant secretary of health. If approved, Levine will become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Paul, a former ophthalmologist, was questioning Levine about transition-related care for transgender youth when he said that “genital mutilation is considered particularly egregious because … it is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children.” Sen. Paul compares gender-affirming health care for minors to ‘genital mutilation’ FEB. 25, […]

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Gay campground bans trans men ‘to build a like-minded atmosphere’. The backlash was swift

A gay campground in Michigan, has issued a ban on trans men to “build a like-minded atmosphere”. Camp Boomerang RV Park and Campground has yet to open its site in Orleans, Michigan, but is already in hot water after co-owner Bryan Quinn announced a set of transphobic campground rules on its Facebook page. Quinn wrote: “Camp Boomerang is a private, membership-only RV park/campground that allows only ‘guys’. “A ‘guy’, in terms of this discussion, is defined as a person with a penis, [who] presents himself as male and has a state-issued ID that says ‘male’. “We understand this statement, unfortunately, may not make […]

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Federal judge dismisses discrimination lawsuit by transgender fire chief in Georgia

A federal judge has dismissed a discrimination lawsuit by a transgender fire chief who led a rural Georgia city’s fire department for more than a decade, then got fired 18 months after first coming to work as a woman. U.S. District Court Judge Tilman E. Self III didn’t rule on the merits of Rachel Mosby’s discrimination claims. Instead, the judge decided Mosby had no legal standing to sue because of a technical flaw with the initial complaint she filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Mosby’s attorney, Kenneth Barton, said in a court filing Feb. 2 that he planned to appeal […]

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‘Beautiful, magical’ trans woman brutally murdered in a chilling attack

Trans woman Chyna Carrillo has died following a brutal assault in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. She was just 24-years-old. Police in Pennsylvania received reports of an attack at a residence on the morning of 18 February, according to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). When officers arrived, they found the suspect violently assaulting Carrillo in the yard of a home. They ordered him to stop his attack, but he ignored police commands. Officers then shot the assailant and he died at the scene. Carrillo was rushed to St Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown, where she died shortly afterwards. Carrillo’s death makes her at least the seventh known […]

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State anti-transgender bills represent coordinated attack, advocates say

Bills in at least 20 states are targeting the transgender community in what LGBTQ advocates say is an organized assault by conservative groups. On Thursday, the North Dakota House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban transgender student athletes from joining teams that match their gender identity. The measure, which passed 65 to 26, also calls for withholding state funds from sporting events that allow athletes to play as anything other than their sex assigned at birth. The bill now heads to the state Senate. Supporters of the bill — including Republican state Rep. Ben Koppelman, its primary sponsor […]

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