Category: hormones

  • Anti-trans prison housing bill raises alarms

    Rating: Transsupportive, The Capital Times, November 7, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Anti-trans prison housing bill raises alarms Rylee Jenich spent 10 years incarcerated in various Wisconsin men’s prisons. For the last six of those years, Jenich — a trans-feminine person who uses they/them pronouns — publicly identified as…

  • As transgender health care draws patients to New Mexico, waitlists grow

    Rating: Transsupportive, CBS News, October 31, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary As transgender health care draws patients to New Mexico, waitlists grow ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — This summer, Sophia Machado packed her bags and left her home in Oregon to move to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where her sister lived and…

  • How did testosterone become so criminalized? The ’90s Olympic bribery scandal that started it all.

    Rating: Transsupportive, LGBTQ Nation, October 30, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary How did testosterone become so criminalized? The ’90s Olympic bribery scandal that started it all. Throughout the late 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, Americans became obsessed with anabolic steroid doping – i.e., hormonally altering one’s body to win…

  • USA Cycling updates transgender athlete participation policy

    Rating: Transneutral, Cyclingnews, October 21, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary USA Cycling updates transgender athlete participation policy USA Cycling has updated its transgender athlete participation policy, which now aims to establish new categories for transgender athletes to compete across domestic races within the US. Beginning January 1, 2024, transgender…

  • Right-Wing

    Right-Wing “American College Of Pediatricians” Releases Trans Youth Conversion Therapy Site

    Rating: Transsupportive, Erin In The Morning, October 20, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Right-Wing “American College Of Pediatricians” Releases Trans Youth Conversion Therapy Site The deceptively titled organization, “The American College of Pediatricians,” has introduced a new website aimed at aiding families in subjecting their transgender children to conversion…

  • 18 Republican AGs Sign Letter Citing Anti-Abortion Ruling To Target Trans Adult Care

    18 Republican AGs Sign Letter Citing Anti-Abortion Ruling To Target Trans Adult Care

    Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, October 16, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary 18 Republican AGs Sign Letter Citing Anti-Abortion Ruling To Target Trans Adult Care Republican attorneys general and legal representatives from 18 states have submitted an amicus brief in a Florida case, Dekker v. Weida, which currently…

  • Family Of Missouri Trans Kid: Jamie Reed Lied About Liver Damage, Caused By COVID Drug And Not HRT

    Family Of Missouri Trans Kid: Jamie Reed Lied About Liver Damage, Caused By COVID Drug And Not HRT

    Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, October 13, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Family Of Missouri Trans Kid: Jamie Reed Lied About Liver Damage, Caused By COVID Drug And Not HRT In February, Jamie Reed, a worker who handled patient intake forms and emails, brought forth a series of…

  • 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…

  • No, Trans Hormone Therapy Does Not “Increase Heart Disease By 95%”

    Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, October 7, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary No, Trans Hormone Therapy Does Not “Increase Heart Disease By 95%” On Saturday, a flurry of inaccurate headlines and social media posts proliferated across the internet, alleging that “trans women taking hormones” have a 95% increased…

  • Nebraska is imposing a 7-day wait for trans youth to start gender-affirming medications

    Rating: Transneutral, The Associated Press, October 1, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Nebraska is imposing a 7-day wait for trans youth to start gender-affirming medications Nebraska is requiring transgender youth seeking gender-affirming care to wait seven days to start puberty blocking medications or hormone treatments under emergency regulations announced…