#transgender-people

#transgender-people

Reynolds has signed two anti-transgender bills into law this year, negatively impacting trans students in Iowa.Transgender high school senior Clementine Springsteen stands onstage between Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg (R) and Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) during the Iowa Governor's Scholar awards on April 30, 2023.The Iowa High School Athletic Association On Sunday, a transgender student in Iowa used an award ceremony as an opportunity to protest Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), who earlier this year signed two bills into law that attack trans kids across the state.

Mary and her teenage child Jasper (these are pseudonyms) clasp hands in a public park in Minneapolis, where they moved from Texas to ensure Jasper's safety amid anti-transgender bias
Minneapolis (AFP) - With bills targeting transgender youth multiplying at an alarming rate, Mary knew it was time to leave Texas - and fast.

Since mid-April, transgender people in Missouri have known that it could soon be much harder for them to get gender-affirming care in the state.On April 13, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced an emergency rule that puts big limits on hormone therapy for both adults and children, and was set to take effect Thursday, though a judge temporarily blocked the measure Wednesday in response to lawsuits from advocacy groups.

LGBTQ+ advocates are calling for stronger legal protections following a series of attacks against Australia's queer community.Earlier this month neo-Nazis held a banner reading destroy paedo freaks at a rally in Melbourne attended by trans rights activists, and days later an LGBTQ+ group said they were attacked by a mob while protesting outside a Sydney church.

Just weeks after a Daily Wire host called for " eliminating transgenderism," Fox News host Tucker Carlson described in apocalyptic terms that transgender people are the "natural enemy" of Christianity on his show last night in a rant about the Nashville school shooter, who is possibly transgender.

One of the Edinburgh Fringe festival's most popular venues could be at risk of legal action, lawyers have warned, after staff refused to work at an event with the SNP MP Joanna Cherry.The MP has been outspoken in her opposition to self-identification for transgender people.The Stand Comedy Club said that Cherry's planned appearance during the Fringe Festival in August had been cancelled because key operational staff were unwilling to work with her.

In 1978, Village People, a disco band of six men deliberately stylized as sexy macho gay characters, released its album Cruisin'.The album featured "YMCA," an upbeat disco track praising the Young Men's Christian Association's (YMCA) community centers as a great place for physical recreation and temporary lodging.

Fox News' The Five flew into chaos when co-host Jessica Tarlov suggested that when discussing the topic of transgender people, it was respectful to use correct pronouns.The exchange took place on the Thursday edition of The Five and a clip from the episode began to circulate on Twitter via Justin Baragona.

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit yesterday against the state of Tennessee over its S.B. 1, a bill that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors and gives trans youth already receiving gender-affirming care until March 2024 to detransition."No person should be denied access to necessary medical care just because of their transgender status," Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in a statement.

Stanford Law School has announced its associate dean of diversity is on leave, the latest fallout from an event that brought a Trump-appointed judge and 100 student protestors to the university earlier this month.Stuart Kyle Duncan, a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, was invited to speak on Guns, COVID and Twitter on March 9 by the law school's Federalist Society, a conservative and libertarian group.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) ripped into Rep.Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for arguing that gender-affirming hormones and the lack of guns in schools were responsible for the shooting in Nashville that killed three students and three school employees on Monday."You guys are worried about banning books?

As debates over transgender issues embroil Montana's legislature, the governor has faced lobbying from someone close to him: his son, who identifies as nonbinary and has pleaded with his father to reject what he called immoral, unjust bills backed by Republicans.In an interview with The Montana Free Press published Wednesday, David Gianforte, who uses he and they pronouns, said he had sat down with his father, Gov. Greg Gianforte, a Republican, last month with a prepared statement in hand to read aloud.

Minnesota passed legislation Friday that would make the state as a place of refuge for transgender people, Valley News Live reports.Per the Minnesota Reformer, the bill "would block other states' laws that are meant to ban or reduce access to gender-affirming care."Democratic State Rep. Leigh Finke - and Minnesota's first transgender elected official, said, "To all those families across the United States that are afraid and wondering where they can go for help - Minnesota is saying we see you, we love you and you belong here."

Minnesota passed legislation Friday that would make the state as a place of refuge for transgender people, Valley News Live reports.Per the Minnesota Reformer, the bill "would block other states' laws that are meant to ban or reduce access to gender-affirming care."Democratic State Rep. Leigh Finke - and Minnesota's first transgender elected official, said, "To all those families across the United States that are afraid and wondering where they can go for help - Minnesota is saying we see you, we love you and you belong here."

On the heels of the White House vocally condemning a call to eliminate transgender people, President Joe Biden called out Florida for attacking transgender youth."What's going on in Florida, is as my mother would say, close to sinful," Biden told out actor Kal Penn on The Daily Show in an interview that will air later today.

Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jim Banks (R-IN) have introduced a bill to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. military, effectively bringing back Donald Trump's transgender military ban.But the two senators promise their bill is worse than Trump's ban.The bill, called the "Ensuring Military Readiness Act," says "persons who identify as transgender with a history of diagnosis of gender dysphoria are disqualified from military service."

Democratic lawmakers in the state were only notified of the resolution after it passed.Transgender rights advocates rally outside the Ohio Statehouse in Colombus on June 24, 2021.Stephen Zenner / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Last week, the Alaska State Board of Education published a resolution recommending that the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development adopt a policy that would ban transgender girls from participating in girls' sports teams.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon delivers his State of the State address to the Wyoming Legislature on Feb. 14, 2022, in Cheyenne, Wyo.Rhianna Gelhart (AP) Wyoming has become the 19th state to ban transgender athletes from playing on girls or women's sports teams after the Republican governor opted not to veto the legislation.

Amending controversial gender reforms would be dancing to Westminster's tune, Humza Yousaf has said as he clashed with fellow SNP leadership candidates on the issue.The UK Government for the first time used Section 35 of the Scotland Act to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which was passed in December.

AUSTIN, Texas Equality Texas and the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) will hold a rally outside the Capitol on Thursday morning to speak out against bills targeting transgender Texans.The bills Senate Bill 14, Senate Bill 250 and Senate Bill 1029 are set to be debated at the Senate Committee on State Affairs meeting Thursday.

Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally speak ahead of Gov. Bill Lee's State of the State Address.Monday, Feb. 06, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn.Blaise Gainey/WPLN NASHVILLE, Tenn.Republican Lt. Gov. Randy McNally has confirmed that for "a little while" he has been liking and leaving comments on social media photos of an openly gay Tennessee man who often poses nearly naked.

The Scottish Government was wrong to reject amendments to controversial gender reforms, but Labour was right to back the Bill, Anas Sarwar has said.The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill was passed by MSPs in December before being blocked by the UK Government.The legislation would have made it easier for transgender people to obtain a gender recognition certificate (GRC), but critics warned it could impact on the rights of women and girls.

Out Rep. George Santos (R-NY) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) are cosponsoring a bill that could restrict students' access to books that discuss LGBTQ+ themes.Santos is one of 11 out LGBTQ+ members of the House of Representatives and the only one advancing an anti-LGBTQ+ equality agenda.The other 10 LGBTQ+ House members are Democrats.

Researchers estimate that the state of West Virginia has the highest percentage of transgender youth in the country.Advocates for transgender rights pack the West Virginia state capitol in Charleston, West Virginia, on March 9, 2023.Robb Livingood On Wednesday, House Bill 2007, a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth in West Virginia, passed the state Senate judiciary and advanced to the Senate floor.