Transgender / Transsexual

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Arizona legislator compares transgender people to farm animals

An Arizona state representative is facing an ethics complaint after he compared transgender people to farm animals at a Wednesday committee hearing. The hearing was for House Bill 2725, which would require state identification documents to contain only a male or female gender marker. The bill pre-emptively bans nonbinary people, who are neither exclusively male nor female, from using gender-neutral X markers on their IDs, even though Arizona law doesn’t currently permit that. ‘It’s dehumanizing’ Transgender rights advocate on Arizona bill limiting gender options FEB. 12, 202102:10 State Rep. John Fillmore, the bill’s sponsor, said during the hearing that he “proposed […]

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Activist confronts women he says posted ‘disgusting’ transphobic stickers in N.Y.C.

A transgender activist said he encountered two women allegedly posting transphobic stickers in New York City and decided to confront them. “You know being transphobic kills people? You want to kill innocent people with your hatred?” Simon Chartrand can be heard telling the women in a video he recorded and shared with NBC New York. The neon-pink stickers read, in part, “Transwomen are men.”https://nbcnewyork.com/video-layout/amp_video/?noid=1:2:2866308&videoID=1853390915852&origin=nbcnewyork.com&fullWidth=y&turl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Ffeature%2Fnbc-out%2Factivist-confronts-women-he-says-posted-disgusting-transphobic-stickers-n-n1256754&ourl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com&lp=5&fullWidth=y&random=p7qpff&callletters=wnbc&embedded=true Chartrand, who was with his partner when he confronted the women, said that once he “made sure it was them putting the stickers up, I had to act, I had to record it, I had to call […]

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Fifty Bandz, a Black trans woman, shot dead; the fifth trans American killed in 2021

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Fifty Bandz, a 21-year-old Black trans woman, has become the latest victim of a wave of violence against trans people in the US that activists and physicians have dubbed an “epidemic”. Bandz was shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on 28 January by her former partner, Michael Joshua Brooks, 20, according to The Advocate.× Brooks told law enforcement that he pulled the trigger during an argument at the 5000 block of McClelland Drive in the Brookstown neighbourhood. The pair had been in a one-year-long relationship, Baton Rouge Police Department detectives said, but began seeing one another again only days before the […]

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Oklahoma Wants to Make Gender-Affirming Care a Crime

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Oklahoma lawmakers have introduced a new bill that would make it a felony to provide gender-affirming medical treatment, other than counseling, to anyone under the age of 21. Such treatment can alleviate gender dysphoria and postpone puberty to give children time to explore their gender identity. The bill would punish doctors, parents, and even children themselves with penalties of up to life imprisonment. Oklahoma’s bill is extreme, taking autonomy away from young adults and imposing draconian punishments, and is part of a worrying larger trend. Across the US, state lawmakers are once again introducing a slew of bills that seek to block transgender children […]

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Alabama’s Trans ID Law Requiring Proof of Surgery is Unconstitutional, Court Rules

Alabama’s policy requiring transgender people to have undergone gender-affirming surgery before they can get state IDs that accurately reflect their gender identities is unconstitutional, a federal court ruled this month. Fewer than 10 states now require proof of surgery to update the gender marker on a driver’s license. The Alabama case began in 2018, when three transgender people — Darcy Corbitt, Destiny Clark and an unnamed third person — sued the state after they were denied driver’s licenses that reflected their genders, opposed to their sexes assigned at birth, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. “The policy for driver’s licenses, […]

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With Ban Lifted, Transgender Service Members Free to Figure Out What Comes Next

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Emily Shilling came out as transgender on April 14, 2019, two days after a Trump administration policy barring trans people from serving openly in the military took effect. The policy prevented trans people from enlisting, and it forced “non-exempt” service members like Shilling, who came out after the ban took effect, to continue serving as their assigned sex at birth. “It was kind of like ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’” she said. “I could be whoever I wanted to be at home. I just couldn’t do anything at work.” Shilling was depending on the outcome of the presidential […]

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Two groups Team up to Help Trans, Non-binary Puerto Ricans

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Two organizations have entered into a partnership that seeks to improve the health and quality of life of transgender and non-binary people in Puerto Rico. The collaboration between the South Florida-based Arianna’s Center and the Puerto Rico-based Waves Ahead seeks to strengthen and improve programs and/or services to these communities. They include free mobile HIV testing, prevention and care, case management to help with name changes, legal referrals and links to medical care and mental health services. Both organizations will offer workshops to help trans women and non-binary people enter the workforce. Arianna’s Center and Waves Ahead will also train […]

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Biden Reverses Trump’s Transgender Military Ban

 President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order repealing the ban on transgender people serving openly in the military, a ban that former President Donald Trump had put in effect, the White House said. In a statement, the White House said Biden’s order “sets the policy that all Americans who are qualified to serve in the Armed Forces of the United States should be able to serve.” “President Biden believes that gender identity should not be a bar to military service, and that America’s strength is found in its diversity,” the White House said. Biden’s order “immediately prohibits involuntary separations, discharges, and […]

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President Biden Will Reverse Trans Military Ban

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US president Joe Biden will reverse Donald Trump‘s ban on transgenderpeople serving openly in the military “in the coming days and weeks”. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday (20 January) that, while the transgender troops ban wasn’t one of the Biden administration’sfirst 15 actions, it would be among the “additional executive actions” that will be taken “in the coming days and weeks”. Amid a wave of anti-LGBT+ policies, Donald Trump first announced on Twitter in July 2017 that he would be banning trans people from serving in the military. The ban came into force in April 2019 following a series of legal challenges, and plunged trans service […]

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Trans Man Killed Amid Puerto Rico’s ‘Wave of Anti-trans Violence’

Puerto Rican police are investigating the death of a transgender man found with multiple gunshot wounds Jan. 9. A motorist was driving on an unlit section of highway in Trujillo Alto, a municipality about 15 miles southeast of San Juan, when she hit something, according to the local news site WAPA. As she got out of the car, she realized it was a dead body and notified authorities, who identified the victim as Samuel Edmund Damián Valentín. Police initially misgendered Damián, who listed on Facebook his current home as Juncos, less than 15 miles from Trujillo Alto. Lt. José Padín, homicide […]

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