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  • Oklahoma governor signs order targeting transgender rights

    Rating: Transneutral, The Hill, August 2, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Oklahoma governor signs order targeting transgender rights Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed an executive order Tuesday directing state agencies to adopt narrow definitions of “male” and “female” in a move that will roll back legal protections for transgender people in the…

  • Transgender rights targeted in executive order signed by Oklahoma governor

    Rating: Transneutral, Associated Press via KTUL, August 1, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Transgender rights targeted in executive order signed by Oklahoma governor  KTUL by SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Tue, August 1st 2023, 1:12 PM PDT Screenshot from the Stand with Women ceremonial signing. Aug. 1, 2023. Courtesy: Independent Women’s Voice OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —…

  • 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…

  • Maya Forstater: Woman who lost her job over transgender views awarded £100k compensation

    A woman who lost her job after expressing views that biological sex cannot be changed has been awarded more than £100,000 after an employment tribunal found she experienced discrimination and victimisation at work. Rating: Transneutral, Sky News, July 1, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive)

  • Family shares their journey with their transgender child

    Lunch with Hendrix is a combination of whipped cream, cookies, crackers, more whipped cream, and given a little more time, we may have ended up with cake. Rating: Transsupportive, Fox News, June 22, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive)

  • Transgender issues: The Enquirer answers reader comments

    Our stories on Kentucky’s new law prohibiting gender-affirming medical care – as well as a similar bill proposed in Ohio – generated hundreds of online comments. Rating: Transsupportive, Cincinnati Enquirer, June 20, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

  • Ask Ethan: What is a woman?

    If you think you know what sex, gender, and “the right thing to do” for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science. Rating: Transsupportive, BigThink, June 9, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) Content Summary STARTS WITH A BANG — JUNE 9, 2023 Ask Ethan: What is a woman?  If you…

  • Majority of Latino Catholics and evangelicals say there are only 2 genders

    A majority of Hispanic Catholics and Protestants in a new survey say they believe there are only two genders, but the percentage isn’t as high as it is among white evangelicals. Rating: Transneutral, Axios, June 8, 2023 (PDF archive)

  • Notes from South Sulawesi: Gender diversity in Bugis society

    We soon learned that Buginese people (also referred to as Bugis), who are one of the three major ethnic groups in the province, have five genders that coexist in harmony. Aside from makkunrai (women) and oroané (men), the Buginese society identifies calalai (transgender females), calabai (transgender males) and bissu. Bissu is the fifth gender, which…

  • Exclusive: Mike Pence says he would ban transgender troops again

    Mike Pence addressed numerous topics, including trans rights, Trump, the war in Ukraine and the current field in the race for president. Rating: ?, Scripps News via WKBW ABC, May 24, 2023 (PDF archive)