Protestor holds ‘Trans Lives Matter’ placard during protest in Warsaw, 2018. (Getty/Maciej Luczniewski) Within the first week of 2022, seven US states have proposed nine bills that would roll back the rights of trans and non-binary youth. These proposed bills will negatively impact trans and non-binary youths’ right to privacy, restrict their ability to take
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A protester holds a trans pride flag and a placard that reads “Protect Trans Kids” placard during the trans rights demonstration. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty) An Arizona lawmaker is ringing in the new year by introducing two new bills targeting trans youth in the state. Republican senator Wendy Rogers proposed Senate Bill 1045 (SB
Stock photo of pupils in a classroom. (Pexels) A leading group of girls’ schools has updated its admissions policy to exclude trans girls from being admitted as students. The almost-blanket ban on trans girls has been implemented because, the group says, to let trans girls become pupils would jeopardise the schools’ status as single-sex. However,
A giant trans flag unfurled outside the US Supreme Court. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) West Virginia must pause enforcement of a new law that prohibits trans women and girls from participating in sports after a trans youth challenged the vile law. The West Virginia ban was “proudly” signed into law by Republican
Stock photo of a trans girl at the doctors. (Zackary Drucke/The Gender Spectrum Collection) Shorter gender clinic wait times for trans kids leads to lower levels of depression and anxiety, according to a new study. The research comes from a clinic for trans kids and their families that reduced waiting times by 10 months, resulting
English actor Robert Webb in 2017. (YANN COATSALIOU/AFP via Getty Images) Robert Webb has claimed it is impossible to say “anything even remotely reasonable” about trans issues without facing “defamation and abuse”. The Peep Show star faced criticism from the LGBT+ community when he expressed solidarity with anti-trans commentator Janice Turner in 2018. In the since-deleted tweet, Robert
The idea that trans athletes have an advantage over cis ones is not supported by science (Pexels/Snapwire) Mississippi has voted overwhelmingly in favour of banning trans athletes from school sports, ignoring all evidence proving that such bans are harmful and unscientific. The state’s Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, passed the discriminatory bill in a
Murray School District suspended its Equity Book Bundles after third graders were read a book about a transgender child (Stock photo: Envato Elements) A Utah school district has suspended an inclusive literacy program after a teacher outraged parents by reading a class a storybook about a transgender child. The uproar started when a third-grade student
A man reads The Times newspaper as he rides the tube in London. (Robert Alexander/Getty) Media coverage of trans issues has been linked to an increase in the number of young people seeking support at specialist gender clinics, a landmark study has found. In the past 10 years there has been a significant increase in
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden addresses a drive-in campaign rally at the Michigan State Fairgrounds October 16, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Joe Biden has been condemned by a designated homophobic hate group for saying he will “flat out change the law” to reverse Donald Trump’s transphobic policies. Biden made the comments in a televised town
AJ Nesbitt is an 11-year-old trans girl, and actor and an author. (Nesbitt family) Trans girl AJ Nesbitt, who bravely came out to her classmates at six years old, is sharing her inspirational story with the world, becoming a published author aged 11. AJ Nesbitt’s mother began realising she was trans when she was three
The parents of a nine-year-old trans girl have spoken out about their journey to understanding, to try to help other parents of trans kids with theirs. Rina came out as trans to her parents when she was five, and socially transitioned to living as a girl when she was seven. “When I was about five,
Appearing on The View, Gabrielle Union gave advice to parents of trans kids. (The View/ YouTube) Gabrielle Union has said that parents who “throw away” their trans kids are “bizarre, sad and pathetic”. The Bring It On actress has four kids with former NBA star Dwyane Wade, including Wade’s 12-year-old daughter Zaya, who came out as transgender in