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The Transgender Movement’s House of Cards Is Falling

Rating: Transphobic, Public Discourse, August 2, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary The Transgender Movement’s House of Cards Is Falling This week, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is holding its annual leadership conference at its headquarters in Itasca, Illinois. One issue that won’t be on the agenda but will be on the minds of many members is how to treat gender…

August 2, 2023
Costa Coffee faces boycott calls over transgender illustration

Rating: Transneutral, NBC News, August 1, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Costa Coffee faces boycott calls over transgender illustration Anti-LGBTQ social media users are threatening to boycott the world’s second-largest coffee chain after a photo of one of its mobile cafe vans, which bore an illustration of a transgender person, began to circulate…

August 1, 2023
GenderMenace.net Media Rankings for July 2023

Here at GenderMenace.net, we review a lot of media stories that address gender issues each month. For each story, we provide a rating of “Transsupportive”, “Transneutral”, or “Transphobic”. These labels make it possible to perform an article count for each media source that gives a sense of how to rank them from most transsupportive to…

August 1, 2023
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…

August 1, 2023
How Terry Dubrow Supported Son Ace When He Came Out as Transgender

Rating: Transsupportive, E! NEWS, July 29, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary How Botched‘s Terry Dubrow Supported Son Ace When He Came Out as Transgender Botched star Terry Dubrow’s take on parenting with Heather Dubrow will never need fixing. The key, he told E! News of raising their four kids, is to “envelop them in love…

July 29, 2023
Macomb County minister pleads guilty to fatally shooting transgender woman

Rating: Transneutral, The Macomb Daily, July 27, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Macomb County minister pleads guilty to fatally shooting transgender woman – Macomb Daily A Macomb County minister pleaded guilty Thursday to fatally shooting a transgender woman in a Detroit neighborhood five years ago. Albert Weathers, 50, of Sterling Heights, entered a…

July 28, 2023
Transgender player Quinn shaking up the Women’s World Cup: Non-binary Canada midfielder no longer identifies as a woman

Rating: Transsupportive, Daily Mail, July 27, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Transgender player Quinn shaking up the Women’s World Cup: Non-binary Canada midfielder no longer identifies as a woman Transgender player Quinn shaking up the Women’s World Cup: Non-binary Canada midfielder no longer identifies as a woman – and loyal team mates insist…

July 28, 2023
Family of murdered transgender woman finally get justice ending nearly 5 year wait

Rating: Transneutral, FOX 2 Detroit, July 27, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) Content Summary Family of murdered transgender woman finally get justice ending nearly 5 year wait Family of murdered transgender woman sees her killer plead guilty Albert Weathers pleaded guilty to killing 36-year-old Kelly Stough – a transgender woman, and leaving…

July 27, 2023
Trans men entering Miss Italy in protest demand apology amid ‘continuous transphobia’ across country

A group of trans men, who have entered the Miss Italy contest to protest its ban on trans women, say they want to “blow away the sand castle of biology [organisers have] been hanging on to”. Rating: Transsupportive, PinkNews, July 27, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Trans men entering Miss Italy in protest…

July 27, 2023
Federico Barbarossa, Astro Ferrante, Elia Bonci, Jude Guaitamacchi: Gender Heroes

The lead Italian transgender men who entered the Miss Italy beauty pageant as a protest again exclusion of those people who were not assigned women at birth. WINNER: GenderMenace.net Gender Hero Award for July 2023

July 27, 2023