Category: PinkNews

  • GenderMenace.net Media Rankings for October 2023

    Here at GenderMenace.net, we review a lot of media stories that address gender issues each month. For each story, we provide a rating of “Transsupportive”, “Transneutral”, or “Transphobic”. These labels make it possible to perform an article count for each media source that gives a sense of how to rank them from most transsupportive to…

  • Che Flores becomes first out trans non-binary referee in NBA

    Che Flores becomes first out trans non-binary referee in NBA

    Rating: Transsupportive, PinkNews, October 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Che Flores becomes first out trans non-binary referee in NBA An NBA referee has made history as the first publicly out trans non-binary referee in professional sports in the United States.  Che Flores, a second-year staff referee for the…

  • Definition of ‘infertility’ updated to include LGBTQ+ couples

    Definition of ‘infertility’ updated to include LGBTQ+ couples

    Rating: Transsupportive, PinkNews, October 26, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Major medical group update definition of ‘infertility’ to include LGBTQ+ couples A major medical association has updated its definition of ‘infertility’ to include LGBTQ+ couples. (Pexels) A major medical group has updated its definition of “infertility” to be more…

  • GenderMenace.net Media Rankings for September 2023

    GenderMenace.net Media Rankings for September 2023

    Here at GenderMenace.net, we review a lot of media stories that address gender issues each month. For each story, we provide a rating of “Transsupportive”, “Transneutral”, or “Transphobic”. These labels make it possible to perform an article count for each media source that gives a sense of how to rank them from most transsupportive to…

  • Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson stands up for trans women in sport: ‘Rise to the occasion’

    Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson stands up for trans women in sport: ‘Rise to the occasion’

    Rating: Transsupportive, PinkNews, September 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson stands up for trans women in sport: ‘Rise to the occasion’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson boldly defended trans women in sport in a recent debate. (YouTube/TRIGGERnometry) Astrophysicist and science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson boldly…

  • GenderMenace.net Media Rankings for July 2023

    GenderMenace.net Media Rankings for July 2023

    Here at GenderMenace.net, we review a lot of media stories that address gender issues each month. For each story, we provide a rating of “Transsupportive”, “Transneutral”, or “Transphobic”. These labels make it possible to perform an article count for each media source that gives a sense of how to rank them from most transsupportive to…

  • Trans men entering Miss Italy in protest demand apology amid ‘continuous transphobia’ across country

    Trans men entering Miss Italy in protest demand apology amid ‘continuous transphobia’ across country

    A group of trans men, who have entered the Miss Italy contest to protest its ban on trans women, say they want to “blow away the sand castle of biology [organisers have] been hanging on to”. Rating: Transsupportive, PinkNews, July 27, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Trans men entering Miss Italy in protest…

  • All the ways queer icon Sinéad O’Connor proved she was a fearless LGBTQ+ ally

    All the ways queer icon Sinéad O’Connor proved she was a fearless LGBTQ+ ally

    As tributes pour in for Irish singer and outspoken political activist Sinéad O’Connor, who died yesterday (26 July), aged 56, many are remembering her long-standing LGBTQ+ allyship. Rating: Transsupportive, PinkNews, July 27, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) Content Summary All the ways queer icon Sinéad O’Connor proved she was a fearless LGBTQ+ ally…

  • Labour ‘placating gender critics’ with latest U-turn – and trans members have had enough

    Labour ‘placating gender critics’ with latest U-turn – and trans members have had enough

    Labour is sitting on the fence over trans rights to placate a gender-critical faction of the party, trans members claim. Rating: Transsupportive, PinkNews, July 26, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Labour ‘placating gender critics’ with latest U-turn – and trans members have had enough Labour shadow equalities secretary Anneliese Dodds and leader Keir…

  • Vladimir Putin signs Russia law banning trans healthcare and adoptions, and annulling marriages

    Vladimir Putin signs Russia law banning trans healthcare and adoptions, and annulling marriages

    Vladimir Putin has signed extreme legislation which bans all forms of gender-affirming care in Russia, as well as removing marriage and adoption rights for trans people.  Rating: Transsupportive, PinkNews, July 25, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Vladimir Putin signs Russia law banning trans healthcare and adoptions, and annulling marriages Vladimir Putin signs law…