Articles by Vic Parsons

Christian bigots in favour of conversion therapy met by defiant protesters

UK
Nov 25 2021

Surprise, surprise! Christian bigots are urging MPs to scrap ban on barbaric conversion therapy

Billy Tipton

Trans
Nov 25 2021

Trans Joy: Film about a trans jazz legend shows the joy in discovering you’re not alone

Malaysia: Trans woman Nur Sajat Malaysia

Trans
Nov 25 2021

Trans woman forced to flee her home after being ‘hit, beaten and stamped on’ by religious police

Parents claim that a school using a student's name and pronouns violates their constitutional rights

US
Nov 23 2021

Parents sue school for letting kids use chosen name and pronouns without their permission

Trans adults are twice as likely to die as cis adults, because transphobia

Trans
Nov 23 2021

It’s a tragedy that 2021 is the most deadly year for trans people on record – but not a surprise

Jade Thirlwall of Little Mix.

Celebrity
Nov 23 2021

‘Horrific TERFs’ won’t stop Little Mix icon Jade Thirlwall from being an unwavering trans ally

Trans supporters outside Netflix headquarters

Trans
Nov 23 2021

Netlfix loses another trans employee after Dave Chappelle ‘transphobia’ controversy

trans texas billboards

US
Nov 22 2021

Texas’ only gender clinic for trans kids closes after campaign of hate from right-wing bigots

Gender-affirming healthcare is used by cis people, too

Opinion
Nov 19 2021

Cis people get gender-affirming healthcare over the counter. Why can’t trans folk have the same?

Trans supports outside Netflix

Trans
Nov 18 2021

7 times trans people took to the streets for urgent, vital protests, in pictures

Jeffrey Marsh, Asifa Lahore and Chiyo Gomes

Trans
Nov 17 2021

Trans Joy: 3 trans people share powerful, personal moments of gender euphoria

Billboard reading "trans lives are precious" in Texas

US
Nov 17 2021

‘Trans lives are precious’ billboards light up Texas after wave of hurtful transphobia

Trans athletes like Laurel Hubbard will be impacted by the new policy

News
Nov 17 2021

Olympics committee drops restrictions on trans athletes – but sports free to set own rules

Children with trans parents face disadvantages due to inaccurate birth certificates

Parenting
Nov 16 2021

The UK is making sure kids of trans parents are disadvantaged from the moment they’re born

Bobbi Pickard at the London Stock Exchange

Exclusive
Nov 16 2021

History made as out trans person closes London Stock Exchange for the first time in its 200 years

My Genderation's YouTube channel is still down two days later

News
Nov 15 2021

Film project celebrating trans lives deleted from YouTube without warning after 10 years

The number five with the colours of the trans Pride flag

Trans
Nov 15 2021

5 meaningful ways you can show up for trans people this Trans Awareness Week – and beyond

Covers of books including The Transgender Issue and The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes, all detailed in this article

Books
Nov 13 2021

16 joyful, devastating, tender and eye-opening trans books you need to read

Students at the University of Sussex protesting against Kathleen Stock

Trans
Nov 03 2021

Trans academics on being silenced, outed and worse at university amid anti-trans Kathleen Stock row

Far-right extremists attacked an LGBT centre in Bulgaria

World
Nov 01 2021

Bulgarian LGBT+ community centre ‘destroyed’ by frenzied fascist mob led by presidential candidate

Studnets protesting at the University of Sussex against Kathleen Stock

News
Oct 29 2021

LGBT+ students claim ‘monumental victory’ after anti-trans professor Kathleen Stock quits

UK
Oct 28 2021

Anti-trans professor Kathleen Stock quits Sussex university in ‘massive win for LGBT+ students’

BBC defends 'rigorous' standards as lesbians condemn 'transphobic' article

Trans
Oct 27 2021

BBC rigorously defends anti-trans article blisteringly condemned by thousands as ‘fake news’

Trans
Oct 26 2021

Judith Butler says the ‘anti-gender ideology movement’ is a dangerous ‘fascist trend’

Hollyoaks' Ki Griffin speaks to thousands of queers at London Trans+ Pride

Trans
Oct 26 2021

Intersex Hollyoaks star Ki Griffin explains why we need to ‘transcend’ the ‘broken’ binary system

Mauree Turner, a Black queer Muslim state House candidate in Oklahoma

Trans
Oct 25 2021

Oklahoma’s trailblazing non-binary lawmaker has zero time for ignorant Republican dinosaurs

Transgender Action Block activists and supporters protest outside the first annual conference of the LGB Alliance at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre on 21st October 2021

Trans
Oct 25 2021

Trans comedian called a ‘homophobic nonce’ and a ‘mentally ill pervert’ at LGB Alliance conference

Gender has been split in two and marketed pink and blue

Features
Oct 23 2021

The long, troubling history of pink toys for girls and blue for boys

Trans supporters outside Netflix headquarters

Trans
Oct 22 2021

Fired trans Netflix employee says Dave Chappelle controversy is just the tip of the iceberg

Vladimir Putin said trans existence is almost a crime

World
Oct 22 2021

Teaching about trans people is a ‘crime against humanity’, says war criminal Vladimir Putin

Trans people don't report hate crimes to the police.

Trans
Oct 21 2021

Victims of transphobic hate explain the simple, bare-faced reason they don’t report to police

Trans dad Freddy McConnell is crowdfunding to give birth to his second child abroad.

Trans
Oct 21 2021

British trans man must give birth abroad to be legally recognised as his baby’s dad

Netflix trans employee walkout

Trans
Oct 21 2021

Netflix protesters clash with Dave Chappelle fans and ‘Team TERF’ amid staff walkout

Rape crisis centre attacked by "feminists" for having gender-neutral toilets

Trans
Oct 20 2021

Gender-neutral pronouns are a feminist icon that help boost women and LGBT+ people, says science

Stonewall claims 'coordinated attacks' by British media over trans guidance

UK
Oct 16 2021

Politicians and senior LGBT+ figures stand with Stonewall in wake of BBC attack

Texas is the latest US state where republicans have targeted trans kids.

Trans
Oct 15 2021

Cruel and redundant bill banning trans kids from playing sport inches closer to the finish line

Protesters holding placards saying 'some poeple are gay/bi/trans, get over it'

UK
Oct 15 2021

Stonewall leaders on beating the bullies and the LGBT+ movement’s inevitable reckoning

Hamilton the Musical follows the story of the Founding Fathers. (Joan Marcus)

Theatre
Oct 15 2021

Hamilton accused of ‘forcing out’ non-binary actor ‘because they stood up for themselves’

Black trans man Mel Groves died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Trans
Oct 15 2021

Student shot dead is 39th trans person violently killed in the US this year. His name was Mel Groves

Labour's shadow equalities minister is "greatly concerned" by the LGB Alliance

Politics
Oct 14 2021

Labour shadow equalities minister Taiwo Owatemi systematically condemns LGB Alliance