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‘Friends’ co-creator admits it was a ‘mistake’ to misgender Chandler’s trans parent in the show

“Friends” co-creator Marta Kauffman has admitted it was wrong to misgender the transgender parent of one of the show’s main characters.

Tribune News Service

Macy Gray deletes tweet claiming anti-trans comments were ‘grossly misunderstood,’ tells critics to ‘fk off’

Macy Gray is changing her tune.

Tribune News Service

Pronouns and Cases Involving Transgender Parties

From In the Interest of C.G., decided today by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley, agreed with in relevant part by all the Justices except Justice Brian Hagedorn: Because Ella [the pseudonym the parties used for the petitioner] entered the juvenile justice system as…

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Sharron Davies launches impassioned tirade slamming RFU over transgender stance

Former British swimming star Sharron Davies criticised the RFU for “putting female athletes in danger” by refusing to adopt a stricter policy against transgender athletes

Daily Mirror

Voice therapy can help trans people sound like themselves and feel safer

(NOTE: This story contains references to suicide. If you or someone you know is thinking of suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 or text TALK to the Crisis Text Line at 741741.)

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Equalities minister quits, citing ‘atmosphere of hostility’ for LGBT+ people

It comes as he told MPs that “elements” of Parliament have issues with transgender people but it is not “on the whole” transphobic.

The Independent UK

Maya Forstater wins discrimination claim after losing job over transgender tweets

Maya Forstater lost her job in 2019 over series of posts claiming ‘men cannot change into women’

The Independent UK

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Maya Forstater was discriminated against over gender-critical beliefs, tribunal rules

Researcher lost job at thinktank after tweeting that transgender women could not change their biological sex

The Guardian - UK

British Triathlon creates ‘open’ category for transgender athletes to compete at all levels

Triathlon has become the first UK sport in the UK to ban transgender athletes from racing in the female category after deciding that ‘fairness of competition is paramount’

The Guardian - UK

Transgender women banned from competing against women born female in triathlons

The female category will be open solely to athletes assigned the female sex at birth

Wales Online

Transgender women to compete in open category under new British Triathlon rules

British triathlon events will consist of just two categories – female and open.

The Independent UK

Bette Midler says trans-inclusive language will ‘erase’ women

Her comments fall in line with that those of Macy Gray and J.K. Rowling, who have been accused of being transphobic by suggesting women other than cisgender do not belong to the same classification.

Chicago Sun-Times

A window into the number of trans teens living in America

In our recent analysis of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a representative health survey of high school-age Americans at the school district, state and national levels, we found that about 1.4% of youths ages 13 to 17 identify as transgender in the U.S. That proportion amounts to approximately 300,000 transgender…

The Conversation

Macy Gray tells Piers Morgan ‘changing your body parts doesn’t make you a woman’

Elsewhere, Bette Midler has been using transgender people to make a point about the abortion crisis in the United States

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The Independent UK

JK Rowling says she’ll be buying Macy Gray’s ‘entire back catalogue’ following singer’s ‘transphobic’ comments

Rowling has repeatedly been criticised and accused of transphobia for her past comments about transgender people

Chicago Tribune

In Chicago, killings of transgender women of color often go unsolved. ‘There’s no justice,’ relatives say

CHICAGO — Speaking through tears, Rosemary Gamble returns again and again to the questions she would like to ask her granddaughter’s killer:

Daily Mirror

Piers Morgan slams 'trans activist mob' as Macy Gray says 'surgery doesn't make a woman'

Macy Gray has been dubbed "transphobic" after she told Piers Morgan on his TalkTV show: "Just because you go change your [body] parts, doesn’t make you a woman, sorry."

AAP

Consulting trans community vital: Campbell

Dual Olympic gold medallist Bronte Campbell says the transgender community must be consulted as FINA begins designing an open category at future events.

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The Guardian - UK

The Extraordinary Life of April Ashley review – the trans icon steals the limelight yet again

Grayson Perry, Boy George and Simon Callow feature in this zippy documentary about the transgender pioneer. But the grace and articulacy of Ashley see her outshine them all

Newsroom.co.nz

Competing in elite sport as a transgender woman

Elite sporting bodies worldwide are barring transgender women from competing if they’ve experienced male puberty, all in the name of fairness – but The Detail finds out that the science isn’

Liverpool Echo

The Extraordinary Life of April Ashley: LGBTQ icon's Merseyside roots and MBE award

A documentary on the transgender pioneer will air tonight

The Conversation

U.S. anti-trans laws won't 'save women's sports'

A tsunami of intolerance has engulfed the sporting world. Wave after wave of prejudice continues to make equitable sports participation difficult, and the most recent news heaves trans athletes of all ages overboard into a swirling current of exclusion and stigmatization.

ABC News

Intersex woman lodges complaint after being taken to Yatala Labour Prison for men

An intersex prisoner, who identifies as female, was placed in a male prison where she was exposed to "ridicule" and "cruel and degrading treatment", a South Australian tribunal hears.

WEKU

Alabama is using the case that ended Roe to argue it can ban gender-affirming care

The case marks one of the first known instances in which a conservative state has tried to apply the abortion ruling to other realms, just as LGBTQ advocates and others were afraid would happen.

The Independent UK

‘Never ask permission’: How two trans women ran a legendary underground surgical clinic in a rural tractor barn

The neighbours had no idea. The medical equipment came from eBay. But in a dark time for transgender people, these anarchist medics treated patients that no one else would touch, reports Io Dodds

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