I’m worried that it’s only a matter of time before trans rights are stripped away

Reddit forum, earning 5,700 upvotes and 1,100 comments for his post, "AITA for throwing a gender reveal party for my son instead in the same week as my sister's baby shower?"He says that his son, 19, came out as transgender three years ago, and just completed his transition. He told his father that since coming out, he'd wanted to have a gender reveal party.

The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass the Respect of Marriage Act, which seeks to codify same-sex marriage rights into law. The final tally of 267 – 147 included 47 Republican representatives joining the majority-led Democratic effort.The bill is a direct response to the Supreme Court’s dismantling of Roe vs.

2022 total of violent deaths among trans, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people in the U.S. to 20.Shawmaynè Giselle Marie McClam, a Black trans woman, was shot to death at her apartment in Gulfport, Miss., June 21, reports the Sun Herald, a local newspaper. Initial media coverage misgendered and deadnamed her.

Lia Thomas has been nominated for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year award by her alma mater. In March, Thomas became the first transgender woman to win a Division 1 title, where she won in the Women’s 500-yard freestyle event.As the first trans NCAA champion in Division I history, Thomas quickly became the face of the ongoing backlash against transgender athletes’ participation in sports — specifically the participation of trans women. Beyond elite competition, the controversy continues to intensify throughout the country — over the past year, 10 states have passed anti-trans legislation banning trans student-athletes from competing in categories that align with their gender identities.“I knew there would be scrutiny against me if I competed as a woman,” Thomas told JuJu Chang on Good Morning America in May. “But I also don’t need anybody’s permission to be myself and to do the sport that I love.”Thomas began her medical transition in 2019, following the NCAA requirements of completing at least one year of hormone therapy prior to competing in women’s sports categories.In her conversation with Chang, the Ivy League swimmer set the record straight on her reason for transitioning, debunking the ludicrous claim that she did so in order to have an “advantage” while competing.Thomas recalled that her swimming career was actually what kept her from transitioning in the first place.“Trans people don’t transition for athletics,” she emphasized.

It was getting an abortion after being raped as a teenager that drove transgender man Adri Perez to help set up an LGBTQ-inclusive fund in the U.S. state of Texas to support others wanting to end their pregnancies.

An estimated 20,000 gathered in Brighton in protest for trans liberation on Saturday (16 July). Trans Pride Brighton returned last weekend for the first time since before the pandemic. 

One thing’s for sure: This former Chick-fil-a employee is anything but chicken.After months of harassment and transphobic discrimination by co-workers, mishandling by supervisors, and a wrongful termination, Erin Taylor of Decatur, Georgia is taking the fast food giant to court.While she wasn’t aware of the company’s queerphobic history when she started training for her location’s director of operations role last year, the restaurant’s culture soon made itself apparent.“I was excited, and unfortunately that excitement changed quickly, starting with my first day,” she tells NBC News.Taylor says she almost immediately started to be harassed by a co-worker with “very vulgar comments” including explicit “sexual passes” at her.

Supreme Court's decision, the state asked the 11th Circuit to overturn a partial injunction to the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act. They even cited the Roe verdict in their appeal.This partial injunction had prevented doctors who prescribe hormones and puberty blockers to trans minors from being charged with a Class C felony. If it is appealed, doctors could face up to 10 years in jail for prescribing these drugs.We don't know what this would mean for my 17-year-old son, Phin, as he has already been injecting himself with testosterone every week for the past year.

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Mary Trump is back with another hot take on her crazy uncle Donald and what could be in store for the ketchup flinging ex-president.During an appearance on The Thom Hartmann Program, Mary was asked what we might expect should Trump be indicted. She said things will get very, very ugly, very, very fast.“We should expect a full court press by him and everybody in his orbit,” she replied.

As the rights of transgender people dominate the Tory leadership contest, Angela Rayner has shown her support for the community.

Last Saturday, July 16, more than 2000 people joined a march for Trans and Intersex Pride in the streets of Dublin. Protestors took to the streets of the capital to demand better access to healthcare, increased protections for Intersex people and an end to the culture of homophobia and transphobia that is still present in […]

has issued a temporary block against President Joe Biden, stopping the administration from from enforcing LGBTQ civil rights protections in employment and education the President had put into place upon taking office. That order comes in response to a lawsuit filed by 20 right wing state attorneys general.Judge Charles E.

A recent survey by the South Africa-based Ichikowitz Family Foundation that gauged the level of LGBTQ and intersex tolerance on the continent has received mixed reactions from some of Africa’s advocacy groups.

Frozen toys.‘I have two other children, Ella’s brothers, two cisgender boys who play rough but Ella never wanted to join in. ‘At age six she wanted to start wearing girls clothes like skirts and dresses.‘I must admit with Ella being our first child and that being all we knew, I thought it might just be a phase.

ban on trans women and girls back in October 2020 due to ‘significant risk of injury’ for cis women, I was both devastated and frustrated. The ban means that any trans women and girls cannot play at an elite level or international level of the game.This landmark ruling rippled through the trans community, as well as through people who had supported World Rugby. We knew the danger this ban could have on players and equality in the sport as a whole. I tried to have chest surgery when I was both 19 and 23, but I was told by coaching staff that if I came out as trans, I would lose my ability to play the sport. This was upheld as there were no policies to support trans inclusion in the early 90s. I lost my parents young – my dad died of lung cancer when I was 17 – and my mum, who was ill most of my life, when I was in my 20s.

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez has opened up about her groundbreaking journey as a trans actress in Hollywood.

politics and the media.While the issue is furiously litigated on social media, the organisation he runs, the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT), works on the ground every day to help those whose stories are often overlooked.Trans issues have fuelled debate in activist and academic quarters for a long time but 2022 looks set to be the year it goes fully mainstream.Under Boris Johnson, the gender debate has become politicised, from the stripping of trans protections from the ‘conversion therapies’ bill, to his jibes over Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘struggle to define what a woman is’.From major sports bodies adopting new gender policies, to high-profile interventions from national figures like J. K.

Queerly beloved, we are gathered here today to listen to these things called bops.It’s really been a novel week for singers all over: Kehlani put Christian Walker in his place, Harry Styles hosted another gender-diverse group hang in his bed, and Lana Del Rey accidentally gave us the diversity win that nobody asked for.Now that we’ve made it to the weekend, hopefully our favorite musicians can get a break from all the wild happenings and just get to focus on what they do best: feeding the gays.From celebrating femboys to a club hit for the boytoys, here’s your weekly bop roundup:To quote Leslie Knope, “You know why tonight’s fun? ‘Cause everyone’s so gay.”Lizzo’s entire new Special album is full of song-of-the-summer contenders, but “Everyone’s Gay” is a specific love letter to her favorite fans. The song was originally debuted at a “Night of 1,000 Lizzos” event at Heart WeHo hosted by Drag Race fan favorite Kornbread, who introduced Lizzo as an up-and-coming drag artist named “Amazonia Prime”.

Twelve years later, Seth MacFarlane is reflecting on “Quagmire’s Dad,” the 2010 Family Guy episode in which Quagmire’s war-hero parent comes out to him as a transgender woman named Ida. When it first aired, “Quagmire’s Dad” drew the ire of Queerty, GLAAD, and other LGBT groups for its portrayal of Ida, including a scene in which Brian vomits after hearing that Ida, with whom he’d had sex, is trans.

In two separate filings Friday with the Court of Justice, the European Commission sued Hungary over a Hungarian law which discriminates against people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity.

One thing’s for sure: This former Chick-fil-a employee is anything but chicken.After months of harassment and transphobic discrimination by co-workers, mishandling by supervisors, and a wrongful termination, Erin Taylor of Decatur, Georgia is taking the fast food giant to court.While she wasn’t aware of the company’s queerphobic history when she started training for her location’s director of operations role last year, the restaurant’s culture soon made itself apparent.“I was excited, and unfortunately that excitement changed quickly, starting with my first day,” she tells NBC News.Taylor says she almost immediately started to be harassed by a co-worker with “very vulgar comments” including explicit “sexual passes” at her.

"Throughout my school years, Section 28 was firmly in place.When I left education and started full-time employment, same-sex marriages did not (legally) exist.And yet here I am, on the eve of Pride month, logging off work and about to head on honeymoon with my wife. There’s a lot of progress still needed for all members of the LGBTQ family to feel safe and to live their lives without prejudice (and I’m very aware of the privileges that make my life easier than some), but it’s also amazing to look back and appreciate just how far we’ve come over the last 50 years, and for that I’m very grateful

a statement said.

Elon Musk, music artist Grimes, has split up with transgender activist and WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning after just four months together.Singer Grimes, 34, and Chelsea Manning, 34, were revealed as an item just four short months ago but reports indicate that the pair have now split.The couple had started dating after Grimes split from the father of her two children, Musk, 54, for the second time.READ MORE: World's 'most inhumane' jail where 'prisoners eat bodies of dead lags to survive'But sources now claim that the Wikileaks whistleblower and Delete Forever singer have split up despite reports that they had been getting "pretty serious" after Grimes had split with the SpaceX CEO.Grimes and Manning had reportedly been living together in Austin, Texas, where the singer is raising her two young children with Musk.Despite the move to Texas for Manning, the WikiLeaks whistleblower had kept hold of her Brooklyn-based apartment.It is unclear how the couple had met or when they began dating, but sources have claimed that the pair have ended their relationship with one another after "breaking up for a while".

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticKelsa, the protagonist of Billy Porter’s “Anything’s Possible,” played by Eva Reign, has already dealt with most of the tough obstacles to claiming her identity as a trans girl: She admitted it to herself, she told her mom (a ferociously supportive Renée Elise Goldsberry), she took the blockers and the hormones, and she went back to the same school where people had previously known her as a boy. She doesn’t like it when people call her “brave” (which is what her new name means, incidentally), but she had to be to do all that.Now Kelsa just wants to blend in and be an “average” girl, even if the film she carries is a sparkling celebration of in-your-face individuality. The truth is, Kelsa’s denying herself a huge part of the average high school experience by avoiding things — like falling in love — that she anticipates being unusually complicated for someone in her position.

English actress, Yasmin Finney, well known for her role as Elle Argent in the Netflix series Heartstopper, announced that she would play a trans character in Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary special. 

overturning Roe v. Wade, Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz made the bizarre argument that the availability of abortion makes it harder for LGBTQ+ people to become parents.The Human Rights Campaign’s legal director, Sarah Warbelow, was testifying about the threat to individual rights because of the recent Supreme Court decision and others that may follow, as conservatives have targeted marriage equality, contraception, and more.Gaetz, who has never shown any support for LGBTQ+ people before (he has a zero rating from HRC), said to Warbelow, “I worry that if the LGBTQ community and advocacy organizations for same-sex couples somehow reorient to be a pro-abortion enterprise, that could actually result in fewer same-sex couples having access to the family formation that gives them fulfilled lives.

U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) is calling on President Joe Biden to appoint a Monkeypox Czar to heighten the administration’s response to the “outbreak that is primarily impacting gay and bisexual men.”Congressman Crist, who is running for his former job of governor of Florida, is calling the outbreak an LGBTQ rights issue.

testified against harmful bills in the state legislature last year, posted on Twitter recently that she and her family have sold their home and most of their belongings and are planning to move elsewhere. They have set up a GoFundMe campaign to help fund the move and help other families as well.

London’s official Pride march took place on July 2, when a record 1.5 million people showed up, walked and partied into the early hours of the next morning. But last Saturday saw more than 20,000 people, also a record-breaking number, take a stand for trans people specifically in the fourth-ever march of its kind.People met at Wellington Arch, in Hyde Park Corner, and made their way through the capital. This year’s slogan was: ‘Pride is a protest’.Some made a point about trans people being included in the LGBTQ+ community, with signs reading: ‘There is no LGB without the T’.

From contraception rights to same-sex marriage and parenting, and even interracial marriage, Senate Republicans are refusing to commit to voting to codify into law existing rights the U.S. Supreme Court – at least up until it overturned Roe v. Wade – has deemed constitutional.

The European Commission is set to take the case of the Hungarian anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda law to the European Court of Justice. According to an opinion issued by the commission, the law in question breaches EU policies and Hungary failed to take appropriate action to rectify this. Today, July 14, the Hungarian newspaper Nepszava announced that, […]

With the Supreme Court overturning on Roe v. Wade last month, the architect of the Texas abortion law has already aimed at marriage equality, and his next target could leave Texans without access to lifesaving preventive care.Jonathan Mitchell, the former solicitor general who helped write Senate Bill 8, the restrictive abortion law, opened a private law firm in Texas in 2018 to go after decades of the High Court's rulings, according to The Dallas Morning News.Since the beginning of his career, Mitchell has been vocal about his desire to dismantle decades of decisions he believes depart from the Constitution’s language or recognize constitutional rights that do not have a textual foundation.

Emmy nominations with a statement about LGBTQ+ rights.The nominations for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on Tuesday (July 12), with Succession, Ted Lasso and The White Lotus among the most celebrated shows.RuPaul’s Drag Race earned eight nominations in total, including Outstanding Competition Program and Outstanding Host For A Reality or Competition Program.In a post on Instagram following the nominations, RuPaul wrote: “As the basic human rights of LGBTQ+ people are being threatened once again, I want to thank our peers in the Television Academy for acknowledging the achievements of the beautiful and talented souls that work in front of and behind the cameras at RuPaul’s Drag Race.A post shared by RuPaul (@rupaulofficial)“Through the miracle of drag, our spectacular season 14 queens have touched hearts and opened minds around the planet.”He added: “We will never take for granted the platform we’ve been given to tell authentic queer stories, and pledge to do everything in our power to continue to spread light, love, and laughter.“To our partners at World of Wonder, Paramount and VH1, thank you for having our backs every high-heeled step of the way.”The digital companion show to RuPaul’s Drag Race, Whatcha Packin’ hosted by Michelle Visage, also received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction Or Reality Series.The ceremony will take place at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles on Monday September 22.

told MailOnline that the 82-year-old “It’s Not Unusual” singer collapsed one hour before his show on Tuesday. However, Jones disputed that on Instagram, stating he had doctor’s orders not to perform because of “viral laryngitis.”“Hello to all concerned.

Nintendo Japan has made the bold move to recognise same-sex marriage among its employees, confirming the news publically weeks after the country declared these unions “unconstitutional”. On June 20, it was ruled that the “definition of marriage did not extend to partnerships between people of the same gender”, thereby upholding the ban on same-sex marriage […]

Harry Potter empire remains an expanding behemoth, but as a trans person it's been difficult to get excited about any new films because of the anti-trans views of the writer. The big question is how Warner Bros., the studio behind the films, can square its patronage of J.K.

Iconic 2000s TV show That’s So Raven may have centred around a girl who could glimpse the future, but who could have predicted then that a reboot of the show, Raven’s Home, would feature the Disney Channel’s first live-action openly Trans character? That is exactly what happened, though, as audiences learned through a season five […]

Yasmin Finney delivered a powerful speech at London Trans+ Pride this weekend – and she made a point of calling out the Conservative government.The 18-year-old actress rocketed to fame following her appearance in the coming-of-age Netflix series, in which she plays Elle Argent, a trans girl who has moved from an all boyall-boyss grammar school to Higgs school for girls.Heartstopper has garnered a legion of fans all over the world following its release, with viewers overjoyed that it’s been renewed for not one, but two more seasons.Yasmin has long been vocal about the challenges the trans community face and the importance of representation in the media, and on Saturday she attended her first Trans+ Pride along with thousands of other LGBTQ+ people and allies.Sorry, this video isn't available any more.The Trans+ Pride march is held every year and aims to ‘celebrate the memory of trans lives taken and uphold the next generation of trans revolutionaries’, with thousands lining the streets annually in protest.Taking centre stage on Saturday, Yaz gave a speech in which she said she feels ‘connected to my community more than ever’.‘If the government is trying to eradicate us, we’re all here, and we’re just duplicating, look at how many of us there are,’ she declared, earning major cheers from the crowd.Proceeding to take aim at Prime Minister Boris Johnson – who resigned from office earlier this week – she added: ‘Boris, bye! Bye!’Yasmin continued to talk about the importance of seeing people she can relate to in TV and film: ‘Having this representation on screen has made me realise how impactful it is.

RuPaul thanked the Television Academy for his Emmy nominations with a powerful statement on LGBTQ+ rights. 

Raven’s Home has made Disney Channel history by introducing the network’s first openly trans character.

Despite following instructions from the owner of the campground he was at, a Trans man named Noah Ruiz was attacked on July 3 when he left the women’s bathroom that he’d been told to use. To top things off, he was then arrested by local authorities. At Cross’ Campground in Camden, Ohio, the property owner […]

WXIX he was using the women’s restroom at the Cross’s Campground in Camden at the direction of the camp owner, Rick Cross, when a woman camper became very upset.“She was like, ‘No man should be in this bathroom. Like, if you’re a man you need to use a man’s bathroom,’” Ruiz told the outlet. “And I was like, ‘I’m transgender.

A new study found that abortion legislation in Ireland fails to meet the needs of those seeking to terminate a pregnancy in the country and causes a “chilling effect” on the interactions between clinicians and patients due to the criminalisation of doctors. The Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion Care (UnPAC) is a study conducted by Trinity […]

In a recent study conducted by UpCounsel, Ireland has ranked eleventh in the list of best European countries to move to regarding LGBTQ+ rights. It shares the spot with the UK and Germany, with all three nations recording a score of 53 out of 100. Researchers used data from Rainbow Europe to analyse 49 states […]

3 million people without electricity.Curran suggested there was a deep connection between Hurricane Maria and Pulse that “hit on a very similar wound,” noting that similar communities were impacted by the events and there was a great deal of neglect in the wake of both tragedies. Feliciano echoed this similarity through her instinct to help out when her community is in need that was activated during both events.

A transgender man in Ohio says he was using the women’s restroom in a Preble County campground—which he was advised to do because he was assigned female at birth—when a group of men savagely beat him and was later arrested.