Transgender / Transsexual

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A Black Trans Army Vet was ‘Misgendered, Assaulted and Sexualized’ by Police

Black trans army veteran Jamel Young is suing the New York Police Department for their “dehumanising” treatment of him during what began as a routine traffic stop in 2019. Young, 33, had driven to New York from Atlanta, with his girlfriend, in March 2019. His ordeal began when, after dropping his girlfriend at a friend’s apartment, he began looking for somewhere to park. When an unmarked NYPD car pulled him over, Young said he didn’t panic. “I’m feeling like, OK, I didn’t do anything wrong, whatever this is I’ll take care of it,” Young told BuzzFeed News. But the US citizen said […]

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Transgender Man Files Discrimination Suit after Maryland Hospital Cancels Hysterectomy

A transgender man is suing the University of Maryland Medical System in federal court, claiming his rights were violated when his gender-affirming surgery was canceled by one of the hospital system’s subsidiaries. Jesse Hammons was scheduled to have a hysterectomy in January at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson. The procedure, routinely performed on cisgender women at the same hospital, was deemed medically necessary for Hammons, who had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. However, about a week before the scheduled surgery date, the center canceled the procedure because it “conflicted with the hospital’s Catholic religious beliefs,” according […]

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Dem AGs Sue Trump Admin. to Stop Reversal of Transgender Health Protections

A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general sued the Trump Administration on Monday, seeking to block next month’s implementation of a rule overturning Obama-era protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care. New York Attorney General Letitia James, leading the group of 23 states, said the change affecting the Affordable Care Act’s anti-discrimination section would give health care providers and insurance companies carte blanche to refuse treatment based on factors such as gender identity. James also raised concerns that women could be denied access to abortion under the revision, which takes effect Aug. 18, and that non-English speakers […]

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Transgender Facebook Content Dominated by Right-wing Sources, Study Finds

Anti-transgender Facebook content shared by right-wing news sources generated more engagement than content from pro-transgender or neutral sources combined, according to a Media Matters for America study of 225 viral social media posts. That means the majority of Facebook interactions with those viral posts — over 43 million of 66 million shares, comments and reactions over the span of a year — were on items posted by anti-trans websites like LifeSiteNews, Daily Wire and Daily Caller, according to the report. “Facebook users are getting a totally biased and factually inaccurate understanding of the multitude of issues that impact trans people,” said Brennan Suen, […]

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Nonprofit Hopes to Build 20 ‘Tiny Homes’ for Black Transgender Women

Ever since Perriviia “Black Butterfly” Brown moved into her Memphis, Tennessee, apartment in 2015, she has been afraid to sit on her front porch. A Black transgender woman who is partially blind, Brown said she doesn’t feel safe in her neighborhood. She said she often deals with transphobic abuse when she ventures to the nearby grocery store. “I just stay in the house and mind my business,” Brown, 46, told NBC News. “If I have someone come over, they just have to come over on the inside. I would love to entertain on the outside, but it’s … so violent […]

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Trans People Murdered at the Highest Rate since Records Began

At least four transgender people lost their lives in the space of a week, as trans homicides in the US reach the highest pace ever. According to The Human Rights Campaign, at least 21 transgender or gender non-conforming people have been killed by violent means so far this year, nearly matching 2019’s total of 27. The organisation says it has “never seen such a high number at this point in the year” since they began tracking this data in 2013, and other advocates across the US are horrified by the pace of “rampant and repeated” murders. “It is ridiculous that […]

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Non-binary People Gain Legal Recognition and Birth Certificate Rights in Oregon Ruling

Non-binary people in Oregon will now be able to change the gender marker on their birth certificates to reflect their identity, an appeals court has ruled. The verdict came when Oregon’s Court of Appeals overturned a 2019 decision that barred people from changing their legal gender to non-binary. The appeals court sided with Eugene resident Jones Hollister, 53, who has been petitioning to have their gender legally recognised since 2017. “I am thrilled,” Hollister said. “To have a ruling and to have a really affirming statement by the court, I’m speechless. I can barely talk because I keep crying every time I […]

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Lawyers Say Transgender Prisoner Was ‘Set Up’ after Making #MeToo Complaint

California prison officials are staring down yet another lawsuit from a transgender woman who says she was abused in custody. C. Jay Smith, 59, filed a federal lawsuit last Monday alleging that staff members at San Quentin State Prison, just north of San Francisco, refused to investigate reports she had filed after having been sexually abused and that they retaliated against her. Smith alleges that the campaign went so far that guards falsely accused her of serious violations, potentially adding 10 years to her sentence. A 36-page complaint filed in U.S. District Court for Northern California claims that staff members […]

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J.K. Rowling Calls Gender Transitioning ‘a New Kind of Conversion Therapy’

– “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling is back in the spotlight after stating on Twitter that young people are being “shunted towards” hormones and surgery that may not be in their best interests, and comparing the measures to “conversion therapy.” “Many, myself included, believe we are watching a new kind of conversion therapy for young gay people, who are being set on a lifelong path of medicalization that may result in the loss of their fertility and/or full sexual function,” Rowling tweeted. Rowling was responding to a July 4 post by Twitter user @TrinerScot, who called out the author for […]

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Overwhelming Majority of Generation Z Transgender People Are Closeted

Almost eight in 10 Gen Z transgender people have only come out online and are still closeted in real life, according to a report by Tinder. One year on from the introduction of its orientation feature, which allowed daters to pick up to three sexual orientations to find better matches, Tinderhas conducted research into Gen Z attitudes towards LGBT+ issues. Gen Z, described in the Tinder research as 18 to 25-year-olds, were more likely than other age groups to use the orientation feature, were most likely to include more than one sexual orientation, and were more likely to choose more than one gender […]

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