A soon-to-be-finalized legal settlement in Colorado comes amid a growing number of lawsuits across the country aimed at improving health care access and safety for incarcerated trans people. Feb 1, 2024 Transg
their existence out of the legal definition of sex itself. These examples barely scratch the surface of U.S. transgender legal history, but they demonstrate that gender-nonconforming people have faced widespread legal discrimination, showing us how laws aimed at enforcing gender norms have prevented ...
Nearly twenty Republican legislators in Montana’s state house helped reject a bill that would have charged adults with “endangering child… WorldPride Organizers May Issue Advisory For Trans People ByLauren MulveyApril 18, 2025 With just one month’s notice, lead organizers for WorldPride 2025 ...
In an enlightened age, although it may make a mockery of retrospective legal change, it is also mockery of human decency not to pardon all for breaching laws that we now consider an affront to human rights. Turing’s “Royal” pardon should be extended to tens of thousands of people convic...
I cannot even remember how many government consultations related to trans rights or trans healthcare I have completed over the past 8 years. It is far far far beyond a joke. And each public consultation takes the same form. The new NHS adults services consultation even provides a link to an...
Women’s Fund or Wedge Issue? Rowling Fuels Legal Trans Panic JK Rowling has once again entered the political spotlight, this time by publicly offering to bankroll lawsuits from women incarcerated in facilities that also house transgender women. The controversial author, whose advocacy against trans ...
IntroductionRecent policies have restricted the rights of the US transgender people; there is a need to explore transgender people's knowledge and attitudes regarding such policies and related mental health.Methods In 2019, 580 transgender adults living in the Northeastern US completed a survey ...
So far in 2023, a record-breaking568 billshave been introduced in 49 U.S. states and at the federal level that seek to block transgender people from receiving “basic health care, education, legal recognition and the right to publicly exist,” according to Trans Legislation T...
Meanwhile, the well-being and safety of transgender and nonbinary people have never been more at risk. According to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation,22 percent of transgender adults, and 32 percent of transgender adults of color, have no form of health coverage. That makes it more likely ...
“Adults can do as they as they will, and there are perfectly fine people that have transitioned. That’s their business,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb. “But we feel that children just are really unable to do this in a way that involves informed consent, primarily...