Category: transsupportive
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Coming out trans at school: Students share stories
As the government prepares to release restrictive new guidance for schools on trans students, three young people share their experiences of exploring their gender while in education. Rating: Transsupportive, Pink News, June 8, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Right-wing protest turns violent outside school board meeting in Glendale, California
Rating: Transsupportive, Boing Boing, June 7, 2023 (PDF archive) (Video archive)
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I Took My Trans Daughter To Florida On Vacation. Now I’m Not Sure If We’ll Ever Go Back.
“Was I willingly dragging my daughter into the line of fire?… Would my daughter not only *be* safe, but *feel* safe, when we landed?” Rating: Transsupportive, Huffington Post, June 7, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Brianna Ghey: Mum of teen trans girl killed in park says daughter’s death ‘cannot be for nothing’
The mum of Brianna Ghey, the teenage trans girl tragically killed in a park, has launched a fundraiser for a mindfulness charity in her daughter’s memory, telling PinkNews her death “cannot be for nothing”. Rating: Transsupportive, Pink News, June 6, 2023 (PDF archive)
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‘State of Emergency’ Declared For LGBTQ+ People By Human Rights Campaign
For the first time in its 40-plus year history, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has issued a “state of emergency” in response to a record number of bills introduced across state legislatures this year that has already surpassed numbers from 2022. Rating: Transsupportive, Newsweek, June 6, 2023 (PDF archive) (Video archive)
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Judge Blocks Florida Bill That Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
This action presents a constitutional challenge to a Florida statute and rules that (1) prohibit transgender minors from receiving specific kinds of widely accepted medical care and (2) prohibit doctors from providing it. The treatments at issue are GnRH agonists, colloquially known as “puberty blockers,” and cross-sex hormones. This order grants a preliminary injunction. Rating:…
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LGBTQ Americans Are In A State of Emergency, HRC Declares
LGBTQ+ Americans are facing “real, tangible and dangerous” threats, said Human Rights Campaign CEO Kelley Robinson. Rating: Transsupportive, Huffington Post, June 6, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Trans Kids Playing Sports ‘Women’s Issue Of Our Time,’ Nikki Haley Says
“I want everybody to live the way they want to live,” the 2024 GOP presidential contender said. “But stop pushing your views on everybody else.” Rating: Transsupportive, Huffington Post, June 5, 2023 (PDF archive) (Video archive)
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The fight for trans* truths: Erin Reed and Matt Walsh
Somewhere off in the distance on a digital soap box Matt Walsh is yammering on about trans* women like they are leper sores on the feet of the hold virgin. His Catholic sensibilities are offended, he tells us, by the mere whiff of gender non-conformity. He cannot get an answer to a simple question, despite…