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Texas Senate OKs ban on treatment for transgender youth, exempts current patients

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate on Wednesday gave initial approval to a bill that would ban certain medical treatments for transgender youth, but only after exempting anyone already receiving this care.

Tribune News Service

Lexi Rodgers: Australian transgender basketball hopeful breaks silence

Lexi Rodgers, who wants to play in the national league, pleads for more understanding and says people forget she’s an ‘actual person’

The Guardian - AU

Twitter removes tweets about 'Trans Day of Vengeance'

Twitter says it has removed tweets showing a poster promoting a ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ protest in support of transgender rights in Washington, D

The Independent UK

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Kentucky Republicans strike down governor’s veto of sweeping anti-trans law

A state lawmaker whose trans son died by suicide last year pleaded with Republicans to reject the law, derided by LGBT+ advocates as a ‘desperate and cruel effort by extremist politicians’

The Independent UK

Texas Senate scales back proposed restrictions on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender kids

Senate Bill 14 would now allow trans children who are already receiving some transition-related treatments to continue getting that care. The Senate gave initial approval to the reworked legislation Wednesday.

The Texas Tribune

Kentucky Legislature easily overrides Gov. Beshear’s veto of gender-affirming care ban bill

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Republican-dominated Kentucky General Assembly acted swiftly Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of the controversial Senate Bill 150, which bans gender-affirming care for trans youth.

Tribune News Service

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s congressional Twitter feed suspended over anti-trans tweets

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s official congressional Twitter feed was briefly suspended over tweets denouncing a planned rally supporting transgender rights outside the Supreme Court.

Tribune News Service

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Transgender bill spurs competing rallies at Kentucky Capitol

Activists on both sides of the transgender health care debate have gathered at Kentucky's Capitol to make competing appeals

The Independent UK

Tucker stokes fear of "trans terrorism"

Fox News host pushes religious war narrative between trans movement and "traditional Christians"

Salon

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! What is it, and when did it start?

Thousands of trans people and their allies will take part in celebrating today

Evening Standard

England’s first transgender ref Lucy Clark feels support from football community

Clark features in a new film ‘In the Middle’ which will be released on Friday and documents the lives and careers of grassroots officials in England.

The Independent UK

LGBTQ kids walk out over anti-trans bill

“We need to be loud,” said one youth activist at a march in Colorado. “We are here and we are powerful"

Salon

Poll: Dangers for both parties on the economy, crime and transgender rights

The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey finds the economy is still top of mind for Americans — and that both parties are vulnerable on different issues.

WEKU

Texas bill advancing in the Senate would block minors from updating gender on birth certificates

Opponents of the bill call it a “power play aimed at making the lives of transgender children as difficult as possible.”

The Texas Tribune

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Transgender college sports bill gets initial OK by Texas Senate

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate on Tuesday gave its initial approval to a bill that would restrict competition in collegiate sports by transgender athletes.

The Independent UK

GOP lawmakers and far-right figures seize on Nashville shooting to push dangerous anti-trans rhetoric

Right-wing figures pivot to attacks on gender-affirming care after six killed in 130th mass shooting in 2023

The Texas Tribune

Texas Senate approves bill restricting which college sports teams transgender athletes can join

The bill will now head to the Texas House where enough lawmakers have already expressed support to approve a similar bill. Gov. Greg Abbott has also said he supports the measure.

The Independent UK

Transgender woman will serve sentence in male prison after stabbing partner

Zara Jade was jailed after pleading guilty to six offences including false imprisonment, assault and robbery.

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Daily Mirror

Piers Morgan 'doesn't care' about transgender Nashville shooter's 'preferred pronouns'

In an expletive-filled tweet, Piers Morgan claims he has many concerns about "child-slayer" Audrey Elizabeth Hale but is not interested in what pronouns the killer preferred

Los Angeles Times

California bill would require gender-neutral bathrooms in schools

Benjamin Kennedy, a PhD student in education at UC San Diego, remembers what it was like to attend school in California as a transgender student.

The Independent UK

Indiana bill banning gender-affirming care sent to governor

Indiana’s Republican General Assembly is advancing a measure to ban virtually all gender-affirming medical care for minors in the state

Daily Mirror

Nashville school shooter who killed three children was transgender, police say

Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, was killed by police at the scene and has since been confirmed as the shooter who killed six people at the Covenant School in Tennessee

The Independent UK

Foes of Kentucky transgender bill push back with radio ads

A well-known Kentucky Republican has blasted the GOP’s push for transgender legislation

The Guardian - AU

I had two options – die or find a way to live as a transgender man

Transitioning has been the hardest, and most wonderful, thing and I’ll fight hatred and transphobia for as long as I have to

The Conversation

Gender-affirming care has a long history in the US – and not just for transgender people

In 1976, a woman from Roanoke, Virginia, named Rhoda received a prescription for two drugs: estrogen and progestin. Twelve months later, a local reporter noted Rhoda’s surprisingly soft skin and visible breasts. He wrote that the drugs had made her “so completely female.”

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