Gender Menace

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Category: bathroom ban

Pride sponsors, stand up for your trans employees in Missouri

Show us that you value our community. Tell Attorney General Bailey and Governor Parsons that this will not stand. Spread the word! Share this petition with the hashtag #NOMODiscrimination and this link: https://chng.it/48GZHRPGzf See also: this update. Rating: Transsupportive, Change.org, April 24, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

April 24, 2023
The hyper fixation on bathrooms and sports teams

There is so much more to the trans struggle Rating: Transsupportive (except for sports), Medium, April 21, 2023 (PDF archive)

April 21, 2023
Erin Reed on Transgender Rights and Politics

Erin Reed talked about transgender rights and equality, including transgender athlete legislation. Rating: Transsupportive, C-SPAN, April 21, 2023 (PDF archive) (Video archive)

April 21, 2023
Florida GOP lawmaker likens trans people to “mutants”

During bill hearing, Rep. Webster Barnaby said “We have people that live among us today on planet Earth that are happy to display themselves as if they were mutants from another planet.” Rating: Transneutral, CBS, April 11, 2023 (Video archive)

April 11, 2023
Florida Republican apologizes after calling transgender people ‘mutants’

A Florida Republican apologized Monday after he called transgender people “demons” and “mutants” during a hearing on a bill that would make it a misdemeanor offense for someone to use a bathroom that doesn’t align with the sex they were assigned at birth. Rating: Transneutral, Politico, April 10, 2023 (PDF archive) (Video archive)

April 10, 2023
Asleep at the Wheel

Policy report from transphobic organization Policy Exchange seeking to implement and reinforce transphobic policies for schools in the United Kingdom. Rating: Transphobic, Policy Exchange, March 30, 2023 (PDF archive)

March 30, 2023
Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country

Leaked emails give a glimpse of the religious-right networks behind transgender health care bans. Rating: Transsupportive, Mother Jones, March 8, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive)

March 8, 2023
Axios Explains: Gender-affirming care in the U.S.

A growing number of states are authorizing restrictions on gender-affirming care, stoking public confusion about what it entails and where it’s permitted. Rating: Transsupportive, Axios, March 3, 2023 (PDF archive)

March 3, 2023
Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8

The overall goal of SOC-8 is to provide health care professionals (HCPs) with clinical guidance to assist TGD people in accessing safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort with their gendered selves with the aim of optimizing their overall physical health, psychological well-being, and self-fulfillment. Rating: Transsupportive, World Professional Association of Transgender Health via International Journal…

September 15, 2022
Women Are Adult Human Females: Why Trans Women Aren’t Women

Kellie-Jay Keen (AKA Posie Parker) is a women’s rights campaigner and prominent critic of the trans rights movement (which she criticises because of the effect she believes it has on women). She is the founder of “Standing for Women” and appears regularly in the news and media, most recently in a heated interview with James…

January 23, 2022