Transgender Report

‘No other option’: inside the refugee camp for trans Americans fleeing Trump

Last year, 76 Americans claimed asylum in the Netherlands, according to the Dutch asylum and immigration ministry, up from nine in 2024.
Photograph: Judith Jockel/The Guardian

Understanding Transmisogyny, Part Six: Epistemic Vandalism. How science grades trans people.
By Talia Bhatt.

“It is epistemic vandalism. It is the refusal to consider any knowledge base or testimony or advocacy or opinion that is insufficiently transphobic as valid at all. It is the active and malicious exclusion of even the credible and authoritative if their judgment of us is deemed to be insufficiently harmful. It is the mandating and requirement that only that which actively denies, displaces, and dismisses us is acceptable as knowledge, and everything else is ‘opinion’ or ‘activism’ or, bluntly, hysteria. It is, in short, the collective global and societal gaslighting of an entire category of person, because to consider us as anything less than a tumor to excise or a blight to cure is in and of itself disqualifying. It is a reversal of reality, an inversion of who victim and oppressor are to justify a level of violence and stigmatization and exclusion as to be tantamount to genocide.”

Speedball Mike Bailey: the first non-binary person to win an AEW championship

Congress: McBride, other US lawmakers travel to Denmark

How the ACLU is using fashion to fight for trans kids

UK

Dr Hilary Cass accused of ‘hypocrisy’ over social media ban comments

NHS puberty blockers trial ‘designed to reach negative conclusion’, trans rights group argues

US

This high school sophomore is aiming for a Supreme Court upset in transgender sports case

Judge Kacsmaryk Compares Drag To Blackface, Allows College Campus Drag Ban In Texas

An Evangelical Christian teacher, involved in a row over how to address a transgender student, has been sent back to prison after again breaching a court order which banned him from trespassing on the school premises.

Former Oregon Republican ousted for supporting abortion rights, trans care running as Independent

Do Transgender Rights Hinge on Antebellum Laws?

Council to declare Eureka a sanctuary city for transgender people

Why a trans woman helped right-wing activist Jake Lang flee Minneapolis march
Archived.
Daye Gottsche on what happened

Six the Musical locks X account following backlash over Dylan Mulvaney casting

Why Transgender Performers Still Trigger Outrage on Broadway

Trans Theatre Festival arrives in Melbourne this week

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New 2026 Data On Gender-Affirming Care For Adolescents With Dr. Luke Allen
Research paper here.

The Queensland Health Minister has quietly amended the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors, voiding the LGBTI Legal Service’s latest court challenge days before it was set to begin.

Qld Health Minister Amends Directive On Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth

Nigeria: “These laws don’t just simply dictate how queer people should live their lives in Nigeria, but also determine social and cultural attitudes towards queer people. “

Transgender Actress Dylan Mulvaney Cast as Henry VIII’s Wife in Broadway Musical

Dylan Mulvaney, Abigail Barlow to Join Six on Broadway; Adrianna Hicks, Anna Uzele to Return

Anti-transgender bill among ‘most harmful and outrageous’ Utah LGBTQ+ advocates have seen

Debunking Transing the Gay Away

Why Media Terminology Choices Matter for Trans Rights

I told my son I was trans – nothing prepared me for the response🩷🩵🤍

Amid a culture war over trans athletes, Team USA’s Chris Mosier says he’ll stay the course

Transgender Catholic Envisions a Church for Everyone

US

New guidance from the Trump administration has stripped transgender people in ICE custody of safeguards against rape.

Democrats weighing bids for president are struggling for footing on transgender issues, dodging questions on the topic

The transgender refugees fleeing the US – podcast

In ‘Spectrum of Desire,’ the Met takes a nuanced look at gender fluidity
Archive

“Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages” is a small but potent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annex of medieval art, the Cloisters, in Fort Tryon Park on the north end of Manhattan. The curators use art from the 13th to the 16th centuries to muster a set of corollary questions: If God made man and woman, didn’t he/she/it also make angels, who have no gender? What do we make of these celestial androgynes? And if God made woman from man, extracting the feminine Eve from the rib of masculine Adam, what gender were they before the twain were separated?

Videos

Can Trans Women And Maga REALLY Get Along?

As LGBTQ+ people go back into the closet under Trump, the Human Rights Campaign reveals plan to fight back

Nearly half of American LGBTQ+ adults now report being less “out” than they were a year ago, according to HRC’s new national survey.

Trans Journalist’s Rules For Describing Sex
Why “biological sex” may not mean what you think

One year in, the Gender Liberation Movement is upping its fight for trans rights

News Stories Shape Public Perception of Trans Lives. We’re Keeping Score.

Trans athletes are back in the news again and, as such, so are the myths some use to try to justify their exclusion from sports.

Good Law Project: We’re suing Virgin Active over their transphobic rules

US News

CBS News Changes Guidance on Trans Athletes to Refer to ‘Biological Sex at Birth’

SC GOP pushing law to restrict transgender students’ bathroom use at public schools, colleges

“No Investigation Will Stop Us From Taking Care Of Our Kids”: School Districts Respond To Latest Anti-Trans Threats From Trump Admin

Virginia school board adopts anti-transgender policy and blocks LGBTQ+ club

Emily Suski, the attorney and educator named l to be the next dean at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville law school, is already out after powerful conservative officials found Suski’s pro-trans opinions distasteful.

Utah’s transgender care ban let some continue treatment. Lawmakers might reconsider it

Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdown

Even Barrett Seemed Alarmed by the Implications of Anti-Trans Arguments at SCOTUS

Bills to restrict transgender rights spark emotional testimony at Wisconsin Capitol

Lawsuit Claims HHS Funding Rules Target Transgender Rights

Wisconsin: After UW Health, one of the state’s largest hospitals, announced it’s pausing its gender-affirming care citing “recent federal actions,” a local, independently owned pharmacy is stepping up to help.

Sydney Sweeney is the latest celebrity to face vile harassment online from conspiracy theorists claiming she is secretly transgender.

TERFs lose it over an autistic Barbie’s speech tool

Supporting Trans Youth is Good. Using Technology to Produce Sexual Images of Children is Bad

The Harm of Ending Gender-Affirming Care After It Starts

The US

Madison families with transgender kids scramble after hospitals halt gender-affirming care
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Bill would stop transgender Kansans from changing sex on drivers licenses, birth certificates

New Jersey Remains Among Last Blue States Without Trans Shield Law As Democrats Punt To Next Session

Trump administration opens 18 new probes over trans athletes
Archive

Arizona voters may be asked to decide transgender rights issues

Kavanaugh and Roberts are already looking ahead to the next major transgender controversy

A U.S. District Court judge sided with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) late Sunday night in a ruling that temporarily restores $12 million in funding to the group.

Artificial intelligence’s need to categorize the world may be the root of distrust among LGBTQ+ people.

Indiana Republicans Say They’re Banning Gender Marker Changes on IDs. They Left an Embarrassing Loophole.

Black trans woman is being targeted by the FBI
Read the comments!

Key takeaways from Supreme Court hearing on trans sports bans

The UK

UK: Government supports ‘moving away’ from puberty blockers, minister suggests

“The worst thing I’ve ever experienced” – comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UK

Video

Millions of Dead Genders: 5 years later (MOGAI)

MacKenzie Scott donates $45 million to LGBTQ+ youth mental health nonprofit the Trevor Project (Out)

MacKenzie Scott (formerly Bezos) is an American novelist, philanthropist, and early contributor to Amazon.

This is not the first time MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the US, has given money to LGBTQ organizations.

In 2020, Borealis Philanthropy’s Fund for Trans Generations announced it received a $2 million gift from MacKenzie Scott (described as its largest one-time gift at the time).

Outright International published a report presenting Scott’s support as a major “game changer” investment in the global queer and transgender movement, noting gifts to multiple LGBTIQ organizations.

MAP’s announcement of a Scott gift discusses the rise of anti-LGBTQ attacks and mentions laws targeting families “simply for supporting their transgender child.”

Anti-childhood-sexual-abuse spaces have a transphobia problem

Despite ban on transgender athletes, 2 Arizona students played on

Op-Ed: With KOSA, Elizabeth Warren is Betraying the Trans Youth She Claims to Protect

A myth that we often see when discussions of gender, and especially trans people, come up is the idea of lesbians being somehow anti-trans.

Two U.S. Trans Political Prisoners Recount Torture, Misgendering, Human Rights Violations After Texas ICE Protest Crackdown

HRC holds retirement ceremony for ousted transgender servicemembers

An Elliot Page-produced lesbian softball series is coming soon – here’s everything you need to know

Grok controversy the ‘real threat’ to women, not trans people, cisgender women argue

The LGBTQ+ book industry is struggling amid attacks by the Trump administration

What has Ricky Gervais said about the trans community? A timeline of his controversial comments

Nine fascinating facts about Elon Musk’s estranged daughter – and trans icon – Vivian Jenna Wilson

The hip-hop and R&B-inspired group XG changes name after a singer came out as transmasculine, nonbinary

US Supreme Court

SCOTUS is set to weigh in on transgender athletes. What it means for California

The trans athletes at the center of Supreme Court cases don’t fit conservative stereotypes

Supreme Court Battle Over Trans Athletes Is About So Much More Than Sports

SCOTUS Case Is Not Just About Transgender Sports; Ruling Could Impact All Trans Rights

As Supreme Court weighs trans sports bans, advocate and former athlete speaks out

The U.S. Supreme Court is stepping into one of the most politically charged corners of LGBTQ+ rights: whether states can bar transgender girls and women from participating on girls’ and women’s school sports teams.

On January 13, 2026, the justices are scheduled to hear two cases together – West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox – challenging statewide bans in West Virginia and Idaho.

The Supreme Court hears oral argument in B.P.J. v. West Virginia, a case about whether West Virginia’s law banning transgender girls and women from female sports violates Title IX and the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

Since the Supreme Court protected transgender people from discrimination, ‘The backlash has been brutal’

Eyes are on Gorsuch as Supreme Court weighs rights of trans athletes
Archive

US Supreme Court Shifts on Transgender Rights and Discrimination Protections

Transgender teen athlete in a Supreme Court fight knows the upcoming sports season could be her last

The US Supreme Court is hear two transgender cases

Photo: Getty

Why Transgender People Are So Good at Emotional Masking

India: Young Man Breaks Into Tears On Train, Transgender Woman’s Act Wins Hearts

Ricky Gervais wins Golden Globe; Wanda Sykes thanks trans people on his behalf

Two ballot initiatives gathering signatures target transgender kids in Colorado

Nicki Minaj has gone from musician to getting involved in right-wing politics? Including echoing anti-trans rhetoric.