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Category: Massachusetts

  • Medicine with a “Transgender Bias”

    Rating: Transphobic, City Journal, November 8, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Medicine with a “Transgender Bias” A new lawsuit raises the question of whether “gender-affirming care” constitutes gay conversion therapy and violated the civil rights of a gay man. Nov 08 2023 Fenway Community Health Center in Boston, the…

  • 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…

  • Maine Mass Shooter Liked Anti-Trans Posts Online

    Rating: Transneutral, Advocate.com, October 27, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Maine Mass Shooter Liked Anti-Trans Posts Online The suspect in a Maine mass shooting, Robert Card, seems to have held extremist right-wing views, particularly against the transgender community, according to social media accounts appearing to be from him. The…

  • Transgender athlete laws by state: Legislation, science, more

    Rating: Transneutral, ESPN, August 24, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video 1 archive) (Video 2 archive) (Video 3 archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Transgender athlete laws by state: Legislation, science, more Since 2020, 23 states have passed laws restricting transgender athletes’ ability to participate in school sports in accordance with their gender identity.…

  • Roadblock to Care: Barriers to Out-Of-State Travel for Abortion and Gender Affirming Care

    Rating: Transsupportive, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, July 18, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

  • Top 5 States To Be Transgender In 2023

    Transgender people are migrating across the country, and many are trying to decide which state they want to move to. This list shows the best states for being trans in 2023. Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, July 5, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

  • June Anti-Trans Legislative Risk Map

    A map of the risk for anti-trans laws. For Pride, America feels like it has cleaved into two countries – one which targets transgender people everywhere, and one that has taken huge protective steps. Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, June 25, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

  • Pride Month rainbow cake sells out at Massachusetts tavern after deluge of comments

    The Old Grist Mill Tavern owner Karl Pelletier said the tavern’s Facebook page often posts, usually promoting food, beverages, desserts and specials. This was the second year the nearly 300-year-old tavern in Seekonk, Massachusetts had offered the vanilla cream rainbow cake in celebration of Pride Month, and it was a routine post last week promoting the cake that began…

  • May Anti-Trans Legislative Risk Map

    The map of anti-trans risk has polarized into two Americas – one where trans people have full legal protections, and one where they are persecuted by the state. Rating: Transsupportive, Erin In The Morning, May 20, 2023 (PDF archive)

  • What states are restricting transgender health care

    Politicians in red states are placing new limits on gender-affirming care for transgender people, creating a patchwork of sanctions on health providers who offer such services and limits on access. Rating: Transsupportive, Axios, May 17, 2023 (PDF archive)