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Transgender lawmaker hopes her presence brings understanding

Zooey Zephyr worked behind the scenes during Montana's 2021 legislative session to oppose an ultimately unsuccessful effort to ban transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming health care

The Independent UK

Cambridge Dictionary updates definition of ‘woman’ to include transgender people

The online dictionary added a supplementary definition in October that includes anyone who “identifies as female” regardless of their sex at birth

Evening Standard

Trans women can take seats on public boards set aside for women, Scottish judge rules

Guidance that extends definition of ‘woman’ to transgender women with gender recognition certificate is lawful, court rules

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Judge rules in favour of Scottish Government over definition of 'woman'

A JUDGE has ruled that transgender women with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) can legally be defined as women when it comes to legislation…

The National (Scotland)

Editorial: Republicans swore ‘Don’t Say Gay’ isn’t anti-gay, Now they’re going after school LGBTQ protections

When Republican lawmakers were pushing Florida’s new “parental rights” law this year, they feigned indignation when critics labeled it “Don’t Say Gay.” They boasted the word “gay” wasn’t even in the legislation. They acted as if critics were hysterical for worrying schools would be forced to out LGBTQ students to…

Tribune News Service

Court wins allow Dallas doctor to treat dozens of new transgender youth

DALLAS — The Dallas doctor who ran the state’s most prominent medical program for transgender youth says she has seen dozens of new patients since crucial court wins this summer and fall.

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Elon Musk, who predicted the Covid pandemic would end in April 2020, suggests Fauci should be prosecuted

The world’s wealthiest person endorses right-wing attacks against the public health official in a tweet that also appears to mock nonbinary and transgender people

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Biden called gay marriage 'inevitable' and soon it'll be law

President Joe Biden will soon sign legislation to protect gay unions even if the U.S. Supreme Court revisits its ruling supporting a nationwide right of same-sex couples to marry

The Independent UK

Texas drag shows become a right-wing target amid rising extremism

LGBTQ Texans say lawmakers and right-wing figures are misrepresenting what happens at all-ages performances to propagate hate and violence against queer people.

The Texas Tribune

For India’s ‘third sex’, acceptance mired in colonial past

India’s Supreme Court officially recognized transgender Indians as a third gender, separate from males and females in 2014, declaring that all persons have the constitutional right to self-identify regarding gender

The Independent UK

Traditional Buddhist teachings exclude LGBTQ people from monastic life, but change is coming slowly

The symbolic image of the silently meditating nun or chanting monk often embodies the Buddhist religion. Such representation may make it appear that Buddhist teachings and practices are grounded in heterosexual norms. However, there is also plenty of discussion on the various expressions of human sexuality and sexual orientations in…

The Conversation

Sport NZ’s transgender guidelines are a good start – but can they filter up from grassroots to elite competition?

The release this week of Sport NZ’s new Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport caused a minor and predictable controversy. One former parliamentarian called the guidelines “woke ideology”. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson responded that such opposition was “petty and small-minded”.

The Conversation

Across the Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized

Many Muslim nations criminalize gay sex — including World Cup host Qatar. Appeals for change from LGBTQ-friendly nations are routinely dismissed as unwarranted interference.

Chicago Sun-Times

Journal of Free Speech Law: "When Teachers Misgender: The Free Speech Claims of Public School Teachers," by Prof. Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami)

Just published, at 1 Journal of Free Speech Law 615 (2022); from the Introduction: This Article argues that public school teachers do not and should not have a free speech right to deliberately misgender students in the classroom. Transgender students are already a vulnerable at-risk population, and studies show that…

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Evening Standard

Transgender guidance for schools delayed until next year

Guidance for schools is ‘clearly critical and needed’, MPs warn

Tribune News Service

Florida leaders misrepresented research before ban on gender-affirming care

Behind Florida’s decision to block clinical services for transgender adolescents is a talking point — repeated by the state’s governor and top medical authorities — that most cases of gender incongruence fade over time.

Salon

Trans people need global health equity

A sociologist explains the history of gender-affirming care, and the need for global, equitable access to it

The Conversation

For Indonesia's transgender community, faith can be a source of discrimination – but also tolerance and solace

Shinta Ratri, an Indonesian transgender woman, taught transgender people at the Al-Fatah Islamic boarding school she founded in 2008 that God didn’t care if you were gay or transgender.

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‘I hope this can help someone feel less alone’ – Elliot Page announces new memoir, Pageboy

The Umbrella Academy and Juno actor came out as a transgender man in 2020

The Independent UK

Transgender athletes do not need to ‘prove or justify’ identity to compete, say Sport New Zealand

NZ transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard competed at the Tokyo Olympics last year to make history

Evening Standard

Elliot Page shares release date of his new memoir, Pageboy

Page came out as a transgender man in December 2020

Tribune News Service

Texas man arrested, accused of threatening Boston doctor who cares for transgender kids

DALLAS — A Texas man was arrested last week on a federal charge after authorities said he called and threatened the life of a doctor in Boston who provides care to gender nonconforming children, according to court documents.

Reuters

New Zealand says self-identity enough for transgender athletes in community sport

Transgender athletes will be able to participate in community sport in New Zealand in the gender they identify with and not need to prove or justify their identity, according to guiding principles released by Sport New Zealand (SNZ) on Tuesday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Former Cub Fred McGriff elected to Hall of Fame; Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens again passed over

Bonds and Clemens have been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs, and support for Curt Schilling dropped after he made hateful remarks toward Muslims, transgender people, reporters and others.

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: Pageant celebrates transgender life in India

Anilya Boro may not have won the crown at India's Miss Trans NE pageant this year, but having her parents there in support was a validation in its own right.

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