Are there any transgender athletes competing at the 2024 Olympics? Transgender athletes face heavier restrictions in a number of sports than during Tokyo 2020 The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2024
Olympics 2024: DSD rules explained The International Olympic Committee has introduced stricter restrictions on transgender athletes and those with DSD The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2024
Woman Sentenced For Fake Bomb Threat At Children's Hospital Woman sentenced to probation for fake bomb threat at Boston Children's Hospital amid harassment over transgender surgical program. Top News · Jul 23, 2024
Woman gets probation for calling in hoax bomb threat at Boston Children's Hospital A Massachusetts woman has been sentenced to three years of probation for calling in a fake bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital as it faced a barrage of harassment over its surgical program for transgender youths The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2024
Republicans are quietly pushing to defund transgender healthcare - and not just for minors For a year and a half, GOP lawmakers have been stealthily adding amendements to government appropriations bills, which are key to funding major government departments, to ban any federal money being used for gender transition procedures. This will dramatically curtail trans people’s access to medical care — just like the… The Independent UK · Jul 20, 2024
'Transfemicides' in Mexico City will be punishable by up to 70 years in prison; how it compares with the U.S. The law, "Ley Paola Buenrostro" was passed by the state legislature, and it punishes murder of transgender women between 35 and 70 years in prison Latin Times · Jul 19, 2024
In a first, 3 transgender persons join Bihar police. Meet their mentor Bihar is now the first state in India to simultaneously recruit three transgender persons as sub-inspectors in the state police. Among the 1,275 candidates who cracked the sub-inspector recruitment examination held by the Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission, three of them broke several stereotypes. Newslaundry · Jul 19, 2024
Chicago Community Rallies For Missing Transgender Woman Taylor Casey Taylor Casey, a Chicago artist and Air Force veteran, is missing in the Bahamas. Loved ones seek help for her safe return. Top News · Jul 19, 2024
Stephen King Slams J.K. Rowling’s Math In Heated Verbal Spat "Whatever the square root of not giving a f--- is, that's where I am." The post Stephen King Slams J.K. Rowling’s Math In Heated Verbal Spat first appeared on Bored Panda. Bored Panda · Jul 19, 2024
Trans students’ rights suffer another blow as appeals court refuses to lift block on new Biden protections New Title IX rules would include protections for gay or transgender students The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2024
“No One’s Canceling Eminem”: Controversy Erupts Over “The Death of Slim Shady” “I'm listening to [the album], and all it is is him saying something about trans people that's, like, not even funny.” The post “No One’s Canceling Eminem”: Controversy Erupts Over “The Death of Slim Shady” first appeared on Bored Panda. Bored Panda · Jul 18, 2024
Pseudonymity Allowed in Case Challenging NCAA's Rules Allowing Transgender Contestants in Women's Sports Monday's decision in Gaines v. NCAA by Judge Mark Cohen (N.D. Ga.), allows two plaintiffs in a challenge to NCAA's transgender eligibility policies to proceed pseudonymously: Although [federal law] creates a "strong presumption in favor of parties proceeding in their own names …, the rule is not absolute. A party… Reason · Jul 17, 2024
Vance quietly tried to shape public health agenda in Congress - Roll Call GOP vice-presidential nominee has focused on bills related to opioid addiction, transgender care and increasing autonomy in health care. Roll Call · Jul 17, 2024
Elon Musk moving SpaceX headquarters to Texas over new California LGBTQ+ law SpaceX's Elon Musk, father to a transgender daughter, says he will move his space company to Texas because he feels California is being too protective of LGBTQ+ kids. Space · Jul 17, 2024
The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2024 Big Brother 5 winner Nadia ‘still debating’ why she won series, 20 years on: ‘Did I highlight a voyeurism?’ Almada remains the show’s only transgender winner
The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2024 ‘I felt invincible!’: Nadia Almada on strength, glamour and trans rights – 20 years after winning Big Brother In 2004, she won the show by the highest margin to date, after a summer of chain-smoking, dancing and opening the eyes of the British public. She looks back on how her life changed for ever
The Guardian - US · Jul 16, 2024 Elon Musk says X and SpaceX will move from California to Texas Musk said a new California bill banning school transgender notification policies as the “last straw” prompting the move
The Guardian - US · Jul 16, 2024 Alpha Phi Alpha reportedly second Black fraternity to ban trans members Ban follows debate at fraternity’s annual convention and subsequent voting and approval process
The Independent UK · Jul 16, 2024 MTG attacks transgender people and ‘illegal aliens’ during RNC speech In the days leading up to her convention appearance, the Republican firebrand accused Democrats of being behind the attempted assassination of Donald Trump
Roll Call · Jul 16, 2024 Fact-checking Day 1 of the Republican National Convention - Roll Call Factcheck.org found some speakers offered false and misleading assessments of employment, tax cuts, inflation and more.
Roll Call · Jul 16, 2024 With Roe overturned, Trump's GOP turns to transgender health care - Roll Call RNC's 2024 platform makes scant mention of abortion, focuses instead on pushing limits to gender-affirming care.
Top News · Jul 16, 2024 New York Attorney General Sues Nassau County Over Transgender Sports Ban Legal challenges arise in Nassau County over a new law banning transgender women from female sports teams, sparking controversy and lawsuits.
The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2024 New York county's latest trans athlete ban draws lawsuits from attorney general, civil rights group The New York attorney general and the New York Civil Liberties Union have sued a county on Long Island over its latest attempt to ban transgender females from playing on women’s sports teams at county facilities
Top News · Jul 13, 2024 Federal Appeals Court Upholds Tennessee's Birth Certificate Policy Federal appeals court upholds Tennessee's policy on birth certificate sex designation for transgender individuals. Ongoing debate on transgender rights and...
The Independent UK · Jul 13, 2024 Federal appeals court says there is no fundamental right to change one's sex on a birth certificate A federal appeals court panel has ruled that Tennessee does not unconstitutionally discriminate against transgender people by not allowing them to change the sex designation on their birth certificates