#transgender-rights

#transgender-rights

"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.

The Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education was sent on Oct. 1 to nine colleges both private and public and would require schools to bar transgender people from using restrooms or playing in sports that align with their gender identities, freeze tuition for five years, limit international student enrollment, and require standardized tests for admissions, among other things. Of the original nine schools that received the document, as of Sunday night, six have indicated they are not planning on signing.

"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."

Just a few days later, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) - which oversees the enforcement of equality law - published interim guidance that recommended service providers bar trans men and women from single-sex services and facilities that align with their gender and adding in "some circumstances" transgender people could also be barred from spaces based on "biological sex".

To put it simply, the Court has struggled with the correct outcome in this matter,

On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed and vetoed the last of a slew of bills passed by the state legislature this year. Out of nearly a thousand measures awaiting his signature, Newsom signed 794 into law and vetoed 123. About the same ratio applied to bills designed to shore up state protections for transgender rights and the LGBTQ+ community, as the Trump administration's crusade against LGBTQ+ identity presses on.

She told bosses that she felt singled out, was subjected to name calling, touching and physical assault. The bullying included colleagues "burping" at her and moving her van mirrors in a bid to get her into trouble. She also highlighted that they would stare at her and try to mimic her voice. Cole said at times the harassment led to her feeling "concerned" for her life and "really depressed", and described the Royal Mail investigation as "a shambles".

The consultation by the City of London Corporation (CLC) is now presenting six options for gender inclusivity in the historic institution, one of which would ban trans people from using their preferred ponds. It comes amid a battle between groups who swim in the natural pools, with a protest in 2018 in the men's pond by women wearing fake moustaches and beards to draw attention to the organisation's refusal to ban trans women from the ladies' pond.

➡️ The government has officially shut down, the third time this has happened under President Trump's leadership - and Democrats in the Congressional Equality Caucus wasted no time blaming the Republican Party. Meanwhile, Trump ally Michael Flynn urged a federal appeals court to uphold Trump's renewed ban on trans military service in a filing that reads like a culture war manifesto, and Texas is cracking down on state universities teaching about gender identity.

We are witnessing the restoration of patriarchy, nationalism, racism and capitalist individualism. It is the nostalgic fury of right-wing movements that want to return to an idealised past, one that perhaps never truly existed, and to re-establish hierarchical orders. We need to revive a Marxist analysis in light of the new social movements. We must commit to saying what we want to see realised, and not just complain about what is going wrong.

State schools in Scotland have been pushed to create toilet policies based on "biological sex", under updated guidance from Holyrood. New recommendations issued by the Scottish government on Monday (29 September) called for all schools to have separate facilities, including toilets and changing rooms, for boys and girls "on the basis of biological sex". For the purposes of the guidance, the term "biological sex" referred to "sex recorded at birth", and schools will also be "required to provide accessible facilities for young people with a disability".

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door.

Aux Armes, Citoyens! Let's talk bathrooms, shall we? I'm not sure how many states now outlaw transgendered men and women from using their appropriate facilities, but I'm confident many such laws apply only to bathrooms in public offices. Nonetheless, the outsized political attacks on trans people have created a kind of open season on anyone who might look out of place in this or that toilet.

the UK health secretary said the government was looking to create "third spaces" for trans women, away from female single-sex facilities such as toilets and changing rooms. "I know there will be lots of people, probably some Mumsnet users, and there'll be lots of people in the LGBT community and allies who would say that that's outrageous," he said. "I'm trying to find a way through on this that maybe not everyone loves but can live with and treats people with dignity and respect."

I feel I am living out my ancestors' wildest dreams: being here, loud and proud in my skin, happy with who I am, and representing my entire community. It feels so amazing and I'm so happy to do it alongside my sisters. It means the world to me.

On Thursday evening, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported that the FBI is developing tools to identify transgender suspects and classify them as "nihilistic violent extremists." Within hours, the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation - the same outfit driving Project 2025's blueprint now being implemented inside the federal government - released a four-page memo urging the bureau to go even further. Its proposal: formally designate all transgender activism as "Trans Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism," a new category of domestic terror threat.

Recent tweets from Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth inaccurately linked transgender people to an increase in mass shootings following the August 27 shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the 47th school shooting in the U.S. to date. The truth is, 96% of mass shootings are carried out by cisgender (non-transgender) men, a fact Ainsworth does not tweet about.

The headline on a lengthy piece in The New York Times late last month read: "Donald Trump's Big Gay Government." It profiled a certain type of gay man: white, successful, conservative, probably handsome (Trump and company dislike unattractive people), full of themselves, disdainful of most of the rainbow colors that represent the GLBT community beginning with women (although they love Melania), and absolutely indifferent to the civil rights movement that now allows them to be out and proud.

As Courthouse News reports, the scene at the Solano County Courthouse in Central California earlier this week was pandemonium as 30-year-old Alex "Somni" Leatham and 24-year-old Suri Dao awaited the official date for their trial, in which both are charged with the attempted murder of their former landlord, Curtis Lind, who was blinded during a 2022 katana attack over a rent dispute - an assault that ultimately became the first of six violent crimes associated with the loose group.

The proposal by the Department of Education would halt data collection on nonbinary students, remove gender identity and sex characteristics from the Office of Civil Rights' definitions of harassment and bullying on the basis of sex and cease collection of data on harassment and bullying on the basis of gender identity. This will almost certainly result in more hostile school environments for these young people, said Shannon Minter, the legal director at the National Center for LGBTQ Rights.