Search Results: transgender people (1585)

About 80 people signed up to testify at a hearing Tuesday in the Texas House regarding a bill to ban transgender students from participating in school sports. The proposed law would mandate that Texas youth only be allowed to compete in sports under the sex on their birth certificate, a rule already in place under […]

[…] harmful lies and misinformation about LGBTQ people. Youngkin appeared at a gala hosted by the so-called Family Foundation, which filed a lawsuit challenging Virginia state policy protecting transgender students, and which has supported discredited and dangerous “therapy” that falsely claims people can change their sexual orientation or gender identity. The anti-LGBTQ legal group Alliance […]

[…] shattered ceilings and broken new ground including a bevy of Emmy nominations and wins. Prior to its introduction, Pose was touted as making history with the largest transgender cast ever for a scripted series. But beyond this distinction, its episodes have been credited as giving voice and vision to aspects of Black and Latinx […]

  On Sunday, after months of debating and public testimony across four arduous legislative sessions, Texas lawmakers passed a law that shuts transgender youth out of school sports. HB 25, which now goes to Governor Greg Abbott’s desk for his signature, limits schoolchildren from kindergarten through 12th Grade to participating in sports according to […]

[…] shows a growing familiarity with transgender and nonbinary people, including more Americans being aware that there are more than two genders, two recently released reports show why transgender people remain highly vulnerable in our society to violence and to violent conditions. UCLA’s Williams Institute, analyzing newly-collected Census data, found 25% of trans people struggled to […]

On this Transgender Day of Visibility, we’re honoring the exemplary work of such organizations; take a look below to see who is fighting anti-trans legislation on the ground by providing care to those who need it most.

[…] partners.  According to studies, 85% of transgender and nonbinary youth — and two-thirds of all LGBTQ youth (66%) — say debates in the states restricting rights of transgender people negatively impacted their mental health. Anti-LGBTQ legal groups (classified as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center) also support these bills, often with identical language […]

The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) extended the final deadline for the U.S. Trans Survey to Dec. 5. Take the survey today!