Transgender

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a blue suit speaking into a microphone in congress

US
Jan 26 2021

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shuts down Republicans shamelessly attacking Joe Biden for killing Trump’s trans military ban

Joe Biden has officially lifted the ban on transgender people serving in the US military

US
Jan 25 2021

Joe Biden ends Trump’s monstrous trans military ban in momentous victory for LGBT+ rights

Court gavel leaning against books

Law
Jan 19 2021

Mother who lied to court to block trans son’s gender-affirming surgery shut down by judge

Samuel Edmund Damián Valentín was found dead by a motorist on 9 January in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico

Crime
Jan 18 2021

Young trans man shot dead and misgendered in death as authorities urged to stop ‘ignoring’ transphobic violence

US Secretary of Education Betsy Devos

US
Jan 11 2021

Betsy DeVos fires horrifying parting shot at trans kids before resigning from Donald Trump’s cabinet

Eddie Izzard is using 'she' and 'her' pronouns. It's her right to self-define

Trans
Dec 30 2020

Yes, Eddie Izzard is using ‘she’ and ‘her’ pronouns. And it’s her right to define however she wants

Courtney Eshay Key have spoken out after she was killed in the evening of 25 December in the East Chatham neighbourhood of Chicago

Crime
Dec 29 2020

Transgender woman shot dead on Christmas Day in suspected hate crime. She was misgendered by police in her death

Portrait of a concentrated and serious santa claus working at table and preparing decoration from cone in colourful and decorated cosy room.

Parenting
Dec 23 2020

Heartless grandfather cancelled Christmas because his granddaughter came out as trans

Eddie Izzard

Trans
Dec 20 2020

Comedian Eddie Izzard praised as ‘heroic and brave’ for publicly requesting ‘she’ and ‘her’ pronouns

Twitter

Science and Tech
Dec 19 2020

Twitter’s fastest-growing hashtags of 2020 suggest the internet isn’t such a terrible place

Two of the Ohio lawsuit plaintiffs, Stacie Ray and Basil Argento

Trans
Dec 16 2020

Cruel transphobic law that banned trans people from updating their birth certificate ruled unconstitutional

Jeopardy! champion Kate Freeman, a financial analyst from Lake Orion, Michigan

TV
Dec 15 2020

Trans woman is first ever to win an episode of Jeopardy!: ‘I’m proud to be out and I know representation is important’

Melanie Dawes, the head of UK communications regulator Ofcom (Open Government Licence)

UK
Dec 15 2020

Ofcom boss declares it ‘extremely inappropriate’ for BBC to ‘balance’ trans people with anti-trans activists

Google banner at Berlin's annual Christopher Street Day LGBT+ pride parade

UK
Dec 09 2020

The most searched-for LGBT+ terms on Google in 2020 show just how much the UK still needs to educate itself