Representatives Sarah McBride and Nancy Mace have spent years trading barbs due to the South Carolina lawmaker’s numerous attacks on the transgender community. But on Tuesday, after Mace lost the state’s gubernatorial Republican primary race, McBride kept her comments short and sweet.
“Congress’s top bathroom sheriff, Nancy Mace, was on the ballot,” McBride commented to Axios. “And while all of…
With high gas prices caused by an unnecessary war in the Middle East and a floundering economy, the GOP seems to realize they aren’t going to win the midterm elections on policy issues. Instead, they’re pivoting to the most distasteful plan B possible.
A new ad released Tuesday by the dark money organization Citizens for Sanity depicts the Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico wearing a…
Since the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers, much of the public discussion has focused on a single conclusion: the Court held that the terms “sex”, “man” and “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 refer to ‘biological sex’ rather than ‘certificated sex’. For many campaigners, that was where […]
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Sometimes, the things you say yes to surprise you. The flicker of something that feels like hope and desire that dances from your stomach to your throat, as you gaze into the mirror and weave earrings through your earlobes.
The Democratic Women’s Caucus pulled support after Republicans amended the legislation to require that the museum exclude transgender women.
"Silence and delay cannot defeat rights," the High Court wrote.
Just a few weeks into Trump’s return to the White House, thousands of people made their way to a Manhattan park close to NYU Langone Hospital. The rally, one of the earlier mass protests against the president’s second administration, was in defense of transgender rights. NYU Langone had begun quietly canceling appointments for gender-affirming care for minors, seemingly in response to a cruel…
Abstract This paper explores the emergence of what may be described as “Trans Derangement Syndrome” (“TDR”), a rhetorical and sociological framework used to describe the social contagion of obsessive anti-trans fixation, moral panic, and identity-threat responses surrounding transgender people in contemporary public discourse. Originating as a term coined by journalists and trans rights…
In October last year, TransActual made a submission to GANHRI’s Sub-Committee on Accreditation, regarding the EHRC’s U-turn on the definition of “sex” in the Equality Act. Having previously upheld a position of trans recognition and trans inclusion for years, in 2023 the EHRC suddenly pivoted to a concerted campaign to redefine the terms “sex”, “man” […]
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On July 1, perhaps the most punitive bathroom ban in the country is set to go into effect in Idaho. The ban threatens people with criminal penalties for being in a public restroom that does not match what the law refers to as their “biological sex” (a term it does not define). A group of transgender Idahoans have now challenged the ban in federal court, in hopes that it will be blocked before it…
President Donald Trump’s Department of Education is targeting Smith College for accepting transgender women.
The DOE’s Office of Civil Rights announced Monday that it would investigate Smith College for allowing “biological males into women’s intimate spaces” in violation of Title IX, the landmark 1972 law banning sex discrimination that the Trump administration has used to rampantly…
Earlier this month, someone at the FBI made an extraordinary decision: to send a plane to Cuba to bring home an American child who had allegedly been kidnapped. It was a possibly unprecedented intervention, apparently connected to a family member’s reported fear that the child’s alleged kidnappers sought “gender reassignment surgery” for the 10-year-old. On April 21, federal prosecutors announced…
Maine Governor Janet Mills withdrew her campaign to represent the state in the U.S. Senate on Thursday.
Mills was the establishment Democratic favorite to replace Senator Susan Collins, a Republican who has held the seat since 1997. But she severely lagged in the polls behind progressive candidate Graham Platner.
In a statement released Thursday, Mills explained that her exit from the race…
We have submitted a formal complaint to the House of Commons Library regarding briefing CBP 9972 and related materials on conversion practices. Parliamentary briefings are expected to provide MPs with clear, impartial, and well-sourced information. In its current form, this briefing does not meet that standard. It relies heavily on gender-critical organisations as sources of […]
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After threats from the Trump administration, many health systems have stopped providing gender-affirming care to trans youth and adults. Getting access to this care is critical.
That sentence should not be controversial. It is just describing people as they actually exist. Sex is not binary. Some women have penises. Some men have vaginas. And non-binary people may have either, both, or none. Not as a metaphor, not as a thought experiment, not as some fringe anomaly you can handwave away. It […]
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On Saturday, a U.S. district judge, Mustafa T. Kasubhai, blocked a federal policy that forced healthcare providers to follow the government’s agenda and halt gender-affirming care for young people. The ruling began with a short, emphatic declaration: “Unserious leaders are unsafe.” My distinct impression was that if Kasubhai could have left it there, with just those few words, he would have. In a…
In Ohio, the state legislature’s GOP super-majority has been busy, populating the legislative slate with ruinous bills that test the outside bounds of common sense and basic constitutional rights. There is a bill that would require medical personnel to file a “certificate of life” for every fetus in Ohio, after detection of a heartbeat. There’s Ohio’s version of the SAVE Act; a separate bill…
A new campaign from Sex Matters claims that, after For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers, the law is “clear” and organisations must base single-sex services solely on “biological sex”. That is not an accurate statement of the law. The High Court in Good Law Project Ltd v Equality and Human Rights Commission confirmed that […]
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) says it is working to rebuild trust and engage widely with civil society. The material disclosed through this FOI request presents a more uneven picture of how that engagement is being carried out in practice. The response confirms that the EHRC held information relating to a meeting between […]
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The Supreme Court’s recent decision in _Chiles v. Salazar_ looks at first glance to be a lopsided triumph of First Amendment values—a ringing endorsement of the principle that the state can’t prescribe what is orthodox in the marketplace of ideas.
Eight justices agreed that Colorado had violated the First Amendment by taking sides in a social controversy involving so-called “conversion therapy”…
We’ve submitted a formal complaint to the EHRC asking them to investigate Sex Matters for sustained conduct that appears to amount to harassment and discrimination against trans people. This is about their repeated messaging that frames a protected group as inherently deviant, predatory, or dangerous, while persistently denying their identity. Sex Matters has an unjustifiable […]
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Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has advocated for enhanced social acceptance and free access to essential services for the transgender community. Her call emphasizes the need for greater inclusivity and support for transgender individuals in the region.
A claim has been circulating in parts of the Gender Critical Ideological Movement (GCIM) that the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 require the main door to a toilet or changing room to be lockable for facilities to count as separate. Under that interpretation, a standard toilet cubicle would not qualify as a “separate […]
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I had a kid come up to me at work yesterday. About twelve. You know that age where curiosity is loud and social boundaries are still… under construction. He asks if he can ask me something. Fair enough. “Are you transgender?” Yeah. I am. “Do you identify as he or she?” I tell him I’m […]
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Forty years ago, disability advocates abandoned the LGBTQ+ community in exchange for legal protections. Decades later, they are fighting a Trump administration rule to roll back more safeguards for trans people.
If you follow UK policy debates around gender, the Gender Critical Ideological Movement turns up again and again. Groups within the movement write long legal letters to public bodies. They challenge official guidance. They push departments to change how they interpret the law. And when those departments do not agree, the next step is often […]
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Last night, around 10,000 people gathered at OVO Arena Wembley for Trans Mission, a huge night of music, solidarity, and fundraising organised by Olly Alexander and Glyn Fussell. The room was full of artists, allies, trans people, and families celebrating a community that has spent the past few years being relentlessly talked about rather than […]
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Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds' signature follows a repeal of trans protections from the state's civil rights code last year.
⚠️PUBLIC HEALTH WARNING The Trans Advocacy & Complaints Collective is issuing this public notice because of escalating concerns about the direction of NHS England and Department of Health and Social Care policy affecting transgender people. Recent developments indicate a pattern of policy decisions that are increasingly aligned with the objectives long promoted by the gender […]
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