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  • 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…

  • Laurence Fox: Gender Villain

    Former actor, failed London mayoral candidate, virulently transphobic social media poster, and founder of Reclaim Party in the United Kingdom.

  • Gender Awards Poll: July 2023

    We’re excited to announce our GenderMenace.net Gender Awards Poll for July 2023! Please check it out and vote by the end of the day on August 3, 2023, for your favorite Gender Hero, Gender Villain, and Gender Waffler of the month.

  • James Esses: Gender Villain

    Therapist-in-training expelled from university course in 2021 for objecting to counseling youth about gender-affirming care and co-founder of anti-trans group Thoughtful Therapists.

  • Russia’s Law Targeting Transgender People Sows Fear for L.G.B.T. Russians

    Rating: Trans supportive neutral phobic, New York Times, August 1, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Russia’s Law Targeting Transgender People Sows Fear for L.G.B.T. Russians A new law underscores how Vladimir V. Putin is increasingly using the war in Ukraine as justification for greater restrictions on L.G.B.T.Q. life, portraying it as a consequence…

  • First Baptist Academy: Gender Villain

    Religious school in Houston, Texas, that fired an employee for attending a drag show.

  • Federico Barbarossa, Astro Ferrante, Elia Bonci, Jude Guaitamacchi: Gender Heroes

    The lead Italian transgender men who entered the Miss Italy beauty pageant as a protest again exclusion of those people who were not assigned women at birth. WINNER: GenderMenace.net Gender Hero Award for July 2023

  • Giorgia Meloni: Gender Villain

    Right-wing populist elected Prime Minister of Italy in September 2022 who campaigned against the “LGBT lobby” and “gender ideology” and in March 2023 ordered that state agencies should no longer register the children of same-sex couples and in July 2023 removed lesbian mothers from their children’s birth certificates.

  • Quinn: Gender Hero

    Quinn is a non-binary soccer player who is the first to come out as a transgender athlete who has played in a World Cup competition.

  • Mike Kennedy: Gender Villain

    State senator in the U.S. state of Utah who sponsored legislation banning gender-affirming care for youth in that state.