#gender-identity

#gender-identity

Data on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) are essential for understanding the characteristics of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations in the United States. However, on the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that declared it was official policy of the administration that transgender, nonbinary, and intersex identities would not be recognized by the federal government.

It is, officially, just a small part of wider guidance for schools and colleges, titled Keeping Children Safe in Education, which covers everything from the basics of safeguarding, checks on staff and dealing with harassment. The section on students who might question their gender covers about five of the document's 201 pages, guiding institutions about what they should do in such circumstances. Unlike the previous guidance it is statutory it must be followed. It is currently being consulted on, and so will not come into force until September. The DfE says it will then be reviewed annually.

Parents should be involved in the "vast majority" of cases where a child questions their gender, according to new government guidance for all English schools. The legally-binding advice says schools should not initiate steps towards social transitioning - when pupils change their name, pronoun or clothes to reflect their gender identity - and should instead consider carefully what other support a child might need.

As a teenager, your biggest concerns may include embarrassment in front of peers, family structural stability, and romantic relationships. As an adult, your biggest concerns are likely similar. Another teenage fear might be someone finding your journal, reading your deepest joys and terrors of personhood. The second album from Portland's Nonbinary Girlfriend realizes that fear, listening like an evolutionary confessional of what it is to be a human in the 21st century.

In an interview last week with the American LGBTQ+ publication Them, when asked about her penchant for taking roles in films featuring LGBTQ+ characters (say, The Favourite or Heartstopper), the actor said that she feels that she has a foot in various camps. Throughout my whole life, I've had arguments with people where I've always felt sort of nonbinary I've never felt massively feminine in my being female.

In a statement released by Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Wednesday, she accused CDE of "egregiously" abusing its authority by "pressuring school officials to withhold information about students' so-called 'gender transitions' from their parents." "Children do not belong to the State-they belong to families," she added. "We will use every available mechanism to hold California accountable for these practices and restore parental rights."

Approved in 2024 during the Biden administration, the nearly 200-page document describes how harassment based on protected characteristics such as race, sex, religion, age, and disability is defined under federal law. It includes more than 70 examples, describing scenarios that employers might encounter. While much of that guidance wasn't new, one addition that rankled many conservatives was a section on gender identity and sexual orientation.

"Part of the beauty of psychedelics is that they loosen our fixed notions of ourselves in the world," said Jae Sevelius, a licensed clinical psychologist and behavioral health researcher at Columbia University.

On Tuesday (23 December) the judge in the case, Alexander Kemp, published a certificate of corrections in regards to 11 points in the original judgement which were described as "clerical mistake(s), error(s) or omissions(s)". These included references to other cases and grammar issues, which follow on from a prior update published on 11 December in reference to a false quote attributed to gender critical campaigner Maya Forstater's tribunal case.

Massachusetts will no longer require prospective foster parents to affirm the sexual orientation and gender identity of the children they foster, following legal challenges and criticism from religious groups. The change comes after the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a federal lawsuit in September on behalf of two Massachusetts families, who claimed the requirement conflicted with their religious beliefs, according to a Fox News report.

that the story opens with a Christmas holiday celebration. As it happens, dramaturg Kamilah Bush's show notes for Portland Center Stage, where the play continues through December 21, include some helpful analysis of how the celebration of Christmas in American culture changed during the very Civil War time period in which Little Women is set. But this adaptation by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Joanie Schultz, mostly isn't aiming so directly at holiday traditions.

MLM is an acronym that stands for "men loving men" - not to be confused with another MLM acronym, which stands for a multi-level marketing scheme - sometimes referred to as a pyramid scheme! The acronym refers to men who are attracted to men or non-binary people, but it doesn't have to exclusively apply to people who are only attracted to men, so it can include gay, bisexual and pansexual men as well as non-binary people who are either romantically or sexually attracted to men.

A federal judge in Oregon has blocked President Donald Trump's administration from pulling sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken issued the preliminary injunction Monday as part of a lawsuit filed against the Health and Human Services Department by 16 states and the District of Columbia, which argued that pulling such money violated the separation of powers and federal law.

Raised in Baton Rouge, Lousiana, Jim was born in 1976 with XY chromosomes and had atypical genitals. So his parents, under the advice of a local doctor, decided to have surgery performed on the infant to create more female-looking organs, and then raised him as a girl without ever telling him the truth. It wasn't until he read about intersex people in a university feminism course that he realised who he really was.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed legislation to study inequalities in youth sports, a move likely to draw ire from Republicans who believe the measure is intended to support transgender athletes. The legislation, Assembly Bill 749, creates a commission to examine whether a new state board or department is needed to improve access to sports regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, income or geographic location.

In June, right-wingers hit out at a member of staff at Office for National Statistics for wearing a Pride flag badge, with one critic describing it as the "flag of transgender activism". The year before, right-wing news outlets were left "outraged" by a trans artwork, funded by London's Mayor Sadiq Khan, for London's Trafalgar Square. A Christmas advert featuring Black actress Adjoa Andoh as Mrs. Claus, that saw her use they/them pronouns to refer to someone,

C-SPAN Screenshot A combative Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) sparred with Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) over Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) language in the D.C. legal code on Thursday during a House Oversight Committee hearing about crime. The government of the District of Columbia under the leadership sitting in front of us today has become a poster child for DEI and gender madness, Mace began as those watching the proceedings audibly reacted.

It's this tonal tweak that gives us elements like the puppet sequences from Sam's point of view, or the interpersonal drama that feels straight out of Riverdale, and that's a refreshing change of pace from The Boys ' high octane action. A related and underrated strength is how Gen V handles real-world issues, often using its superpowers to provide a model for the problems of young adults. Marie uses her bloodbending powers by cutting herself, which reflects self-harm.

In her early 20s, Sherrinford Holmes began to discover that she can't stand the feeling of being confined to any point on the gender spectrum, whether it's woman-which she said is how most people perceive her- man, or genderfluid. She likened the sensation to feeling weighed down by hotel bed sheets or blankets when she would prefer to kick them loose. "It feels restricting," said Holmes, now 33. "It feels suffocating."

"I wanted to fulfil her fantasies," the defendant said. "I would run the blunt end of a knife along her body. I always made it very clear that she could use her safe words. I was always acutely aware of her body language. "I'm not into rape fantasies. It's not something that has ever interested me. "I did not rape her. We had very clearly discussed before what the limits were."

Since January, President Donald Trump's administration has been clear about its stance on systemic racism and gender identity, deeming them made-up concepts, irrelevant to American health.

For Women Scotland has stated that nothing has persuaded the government to take action, and both policies remain stubbornly in place, to the detriment of vulnerable women and girls.

"I realised that there would be people who had never met a single openly queer person in their life, reading this alongside people who would probably already feel quite shocked by all of the other revelations and my journey with gender identity."

Nicola Sturgeon describes feeling at risk of physical harm after JK Rowling's provocative T-shirt, which stated: 'Nicola Sturgeon, destroyer of women's rights.' She decried the vile abuse stemming from it.