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Gender recognition certificates: self-identification and the row over it explained

The UK’s equalities minister, Kemi Badenoch, has announced a review of the list of countries whose gender recognition certificates are recognised by the UK. This could mean that transgender people from more than 40 countries may not have their legal gender recognised by the UK government.

The Conversation

Late Pentagon chief Ash Carter to be honored at service

President Joe Biden and other past and present U.S. officials are honoring the late defense secretary, Ash Carter, who opened the way for women to fight in combat and for transgendered personnel to serve

The Independent UK

Indonesia's transgender community fears threat posed by new law

Transgender Indonesian woman Chika Ananda Putrie wakes every morning in her decrepit rented room in a Jakarta slum, worried for her safety because of her gender identity.

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Startling evolution of anti-trans bills

Two dozen bills aim to cut off transgender people's access to healthcare — with adults as well as minors targeted

Salon

Refusing to recognise Scottish gender certificates 'disgraceful new low' from UK

THE UK Government will hit a “disgraceful new low” if it insists on transgender Scots applying for a separate Gender Recognition Certificate…

The National (Scotland)

States target transgender health care in first bills of 2023

Republican state lawmakers are following up a midterm election and record flow of anti-transgender legislation last year by zeroing in on bodily autonomy with proposals to limit gender-affirming health care and abortion access

The Independent UK

Domestic abuse and sexual violence against transgender and non-binary people surges

Exclusive: ‘He thought, ‘now you’re a man, I can treat you like one.’ They try to weaponise your identity as if it’s your fault,” victim says

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West Virginia can keep its ban against transgender school athletes, a judge says

The judge said he recognized that being transgender is "natural" and "not a choice." But he said one's sex is also natural and "dictates physical characteristics that are relevant to athletics."

WEKU

Over 250,000 trans people in UK, as census data reports gender identity for first time

Around 1.5 million people are gay, lesbian or bisexual in England and Wales

The Independent UK

Court Upholds Law Excluding Male-to-Female Transgender Athletes from Girls' Sports

"The state is permitted to legislate sports rules on this basis because sex, and the physical characteristics that flow from it, are substantially related to athletic performance and fairness in sports."

Reason

Transgender man dips his prosthetic penis into punter's pint as a 'drunken prank'

Jesse Hawthorne, who was born Jessica, was asked to leave the pub after dipping his prosthetic penis into a pub-goers pint glass. Customers at the bar were offended by his prank

Daily Mirror

First transgender inmate Amber McLaughlin executed in the US

The Missouri prisoner was put to death for a 2003 killing

Irish Mirror

Amber McLaughlin becomes first transgender woman to be executed in US after 2003 murder conviction

The 49-year-old was on death row in a prison in Missouri for killing a former girlfriend in 2003 in St Louis

Evening Standard

Missouri carries out first US execution of a transgender person

Amber McLaughlin, convicted of murder, was executed by lethal injection after being denied clemency.

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Daily Mirror

Death row inmate put to death ate 'simple' fast food dish and snack as last meal

A transgender woman who was executed on Tuesday night was given a choice of last meal and 'spoke quietly with a spiritual adviser' as a lethal injection was administered

Daily Mirror

First transgender death row inmate's final words as state defies execution protests

The first transgender person to be executed in the United States has given her final words before she was put to death by legal injection - despite controversy over her death sentence

AFP

US carries out first execution of a transgender person

Washington (AFP) - A transgender woman convicted of murder was put to death late Tuesday in the first such execution in the United States, officials said.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri executes transgender inmate convicted of murdering ex-girlfriend in 2003

BONNE TERRE, Mo. — Missouri on Tuesday executed by lethal injection a transgender inmate who stabbed, strangled and raped an ex-girlfriend 19 years ago.

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The Independent UK

Amber McLaughlin: Missouri carries out first execution of openly transgender inmate for 2003 murder

Killing marks one of few executions of women in US since 1970s

Daily Mirror

Amber McLaughlin execution: First transgender woman put to death in the US

Amber McLaughlin was sentenced to death for the 2003 murder of ex-girlfriend Beverly Guenther in St Louis, Missouri. She transitioned just three years ago

Liverpool Echo

Look back on ITV's Coronation Street's first transgender character

Julie Hesmondhalgh played Hayley Cropper for 16 years and became synonymous with the show

AFP

US set for first execution of a transgender person

Washington (AFP) - A transgender woman convicted of murder was scheduled to be put to death Tuesday in the first such execution in the United States.

Evening Standard

Harry Potter actor Harry Melling asked about JK Rowling’s anti-trans comments

The actor has shared his thoughts on the author’s controversial remarks made

Evening Standard

Woman set to be first openly transgender person to be executed in US history

Amber McLaughlin, 49, is scheduled to die by injection in the Midwestern state of Missouri on Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003

The Independent UK

Transgender Missouri inmate scheduled to be executed Tuesday

Nearly 1,600 death row inmates have been put to death in the U.S. since 1977, but an execution scheduled for Tuesday in Missouri would be the first involving a transgender woman

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