Gender Menace

WARNING: Among posts supportive of transgender people, you may encounter transphobic items intended to assist in research and action to prevent transphobia.

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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
Doctors question aspects of Missouri transgender care limits

Missouri’s attorney general has said he will issue an emergency regulation that at least temporarily puts strict limits on transgender medical treatment for youth. The planned rule comes as legislators in that state and many others seek bans or other restrictions on the treatment. Rating: Transneutral, Associated Press, March 21, 2023 (PDF archive)

March 21, 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
Kellie-Jay in the USA – Let Women Speak

This is the original #AdultHumanFemale channel and home of Kellie-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker. Rating: Transphobic, YouTube, February 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive too large… available on request)

February 28, 2023
We never pass — even if we do

A friend of mine started her transition in her twenties. She had always had narrow shoulders, small hands, a feminine face, full hair, and a slender body. She lives stealth, but although she passed by even the strictest norms of today’s society, she wasn’t happy with her face. So she had facial feminization surgery (FFS)…

February 7, 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
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to criminalise life-saving healthcare for trans kids

Notoriously anti-LGBTQ+ congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to introduce legislation that would criminalise vital gender-affirming care for trans youth. Rating: Transsupportive, Pink News, August 19, 2022 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

August 19, 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
Trans Activism UK’s Finalised Open Letter to the BBC

The following version of Trans Activism UK’s Open Letter to the BBC, complete with signatories present at 8pm UK on Friday October 29th, is the version which will be sent in digital and physical formats to multiple members of staff at the BBC. Rating: Transsupportive, LauraKBuzz.com, October 29, 2021 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

October 29, 2021