Category: Underscore

  • Wisconsin Rep Neubauer: Anti-Trans Bills

    Wisconsin Rep Neubauer: Anti-Trans Bills “Will Not Become Law,” Veto to Come

    Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, October 12, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Wisconsin Rep Neubauer: Anti-Trans Bills “Will Not Become Law,” Veto to Come On Thursday, the Wisconsin Assembly passed three bills aimed at transgender individuals in the state. Two of these bills seek to ban transgender athletes…

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

    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…

  • GenderMenace.net Media Rankings for June 2023

    GenderMenace.net Media Rankings for June 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…

  • San Francisco’s Deep History of Policing Public Cross-Dressing

    San Francisco’s Deep History of Policing Public Cross-Dressing

    A 19th-century law led to over 100 local arrests of people wearing clothes typical of the opposite sex — an archaic ban akin to Tennessee’s recent law banning public drag, which has now been blocked and deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge. Rating: Transsupportive, Underscore, June 5, 2023 (PDF archive)