#transgender-rights

#transgender-rights

In April, the supreme court ruled in a long-running case against the Scottish government brought by gender critical campaigners For Women Scotland (FWS). The landmark judgment said that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, the legal definition of a woman was based on biological sex. We look at what has happened since the ruling. The judgment has significant ramifications for who can now access women-only services and spaces, such as refuges or toilets, but most public bodies, businesses

The announcement came amid ongoing tension and break between the congresswoman and President Donald Trump. Once a vocal supporter of Trump, Congresswoman Greene voted in favor of releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files held by the Department of Justice. She had called for the release earlier, when Trump had resisted it. He finally signed a bill for the release into law this week after it was passed overwhelmingly by both the House and Senate.

The Alabama Public Library Service Board of Directors approved a rule Thursday that orders the removal of content related to "transgender procedures, gender ideology or the concept of more than two biological genders" from children's and young adult sections across the more than 200 libraries in its system. The directive bans all "sexually explicit or other material deemed inappropriate" from youth sections, though it does not define sexually explicit content.

"When I started wearing makeup and being more feminine and wanting to do certain things... it wasn't like, 'Oh my God, Jeffree needs, what do they call it now, gender-affirming care?' It's like when you're a tomboy. Did your mom... did she cut your tits off at 13? Nowadays, it's all these f*****g weirdos telling their kids, 'OMG you like a Barbie? You're a woman!'"

"We have heard calls by members of congress to institutionalise all transgender people, comments referring to transgender people as mentally ill, and false suggestions by high-level political figures that transgender people are inherently violent and must be addressed as a national security threat," the signatories to the letter claimed. That language, along with a "rising number of legislative and administrative attacks" on the community, "is taking a real toll", they added.

Eight nurses are challenging a policy which allows the single-sex room at Darlington Memorial Hospital to be used by Rose Henderson, a biological male who identifies as a woman.

A cisgender woman in Arizona is speaking out after she says she was harassed by cops in the women's restroom of a Tucson Walmart late last month. Kalaya Morton, 19, of Phoenix, says she and her ex-girlfriend were using adjacent stalls in the store's women's restroom when two male sheriff's deputies entered. 'They were flashing lights on our feet and saying, 'You have to get out of here. You have to come out. We need to talk to you,'' Morton told .

The Trump administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" continues to make headlines. Nine selective institutions were originally asked to agree to reduce transgender and foreign students' rights and make other changes in exchange for federal funding priority and other unspecified benefits. All of these universities either rejected the compact or gave noncommittal responses, while a few relatively unknown, non-research-intensive institutions have publicly expressed interest in signing.

"I have spoken with Lia's family to express my heartbreak," Baucom said. "As president, and far more as a fellow parent, I ache for them. This is a profound loss that nobody should have to endure."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is now saying that his state should consider rolling back its law allowing trans students to participate in school sports as their gender, while he argues that he isn't transphobic because he has signed many pro-trans rights bills and also has a trans godson. "I disagree with all the vitriol, but I agree on the issue of fairness in that respect, that it is unfair in these circumstances, and I haven't been able to reconcile it," he told KQED this past Friday about the issue of trans student-athletes.

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.

The Biden administration's interpretation of sex-based discrimination protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the list of protected characteristics in certain health programs and activities under the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) caused outcry on the right when implemented in 2024, causing them to sue so that health care providers wouldn't be obligated to treat LGBTQ+ people equally. In his ruling, the judge explicitly states that discrimination against people based on their gender identity is now legal.

A trans powerlifter in Minnesota scored a victory on Wednesday in her years-long battle with USA Powerlifting over her participation in the sports federation's competitions. The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that barring trans powerlifter JayCee Cooper from women's competitions was discriminatory on its face and in violation of Minnesota's Human Rights Act. The justices sent part of the case back to a lower court to determine if USA Powerlifting had a legitimate business interest in discriminating against Cooper, a carve-out in the state's anti-discrimination laws.

Jackson will voice the role of Professor Trelawney, Martin will play journalist Rita Skeeter, and Nighy, who played Rufus Scrimgeour in the Harry Potter movies, will voice Professor Slughorn in the Audible series. Other stars announced yesterday (22 October) include David Holmes - who was a stunt double in the films - playing Stan Shunpike, Slow Horses star Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù as Sirius Black, The Office star Mackenzie Crook as Kreacher, comedian Stephen Mangan as Nearly Headless Nick, and EastEnders actress Tracy-Ann Oberman as Madam Hooch.

In these times of intensified fascism - marked by racist anti-trans violence and further abandonment by liberal politicians - it's harder to know where to find anything other than despair without her here. A freedom fighter and glamour gurl until the end, Major is probably most famous for being a survivor of the 1969 anti-police uprising at New York's Stonewall Inn. However, for those fortunate enough to inhabit her orbit, she's a mother and mentor who held on to us when others threw us out.

"We are nurses who love our jobs and our patients and only want to be afforded the dignity of getting dressed and undressed for work without a man present,"

The new US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) policy has been issued to comply with president Donald Trump's "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" executive order, which directed airlines to disregard the "X" marker and ask for either "M" or "F" instead. The "X" non-binary marker was introduced in 2022, during Joe Biden's presidency, but has since been suspended for anyone applying for a new passport.

Trans people are the canary in the coal mine, but the air is getting thin for everyone,

"I think in particular now more than ever, we need to be showing support for those the Trump administration has been targeting," Romman told The Advocate on Saturday. "Especially if you're an elected official, this is the time to show up. Sometimes showing up really is the only thing we can do, but if that's the only thing, we should be doing it."