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Three transgender women in Kentucky find their voice and change their lives

Gender-affirming voice care can change lives

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LGBTQ representation in film dropped in 2021 with all major studios receiving bad grades in GLAAD’s latest report

LGBTQ representation took a hit in 2021, though the year also saw the first transgender character in a major release in five years, according to a new report from GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy group.

Tribune News Service

Texas AG Ken Paxton sought data on transgender Texans, report claims

AUSTIN, Texas — Employees in the Texas Department of Public Safety were asked to provide a list of people who changed their sex on state documents in the past two years to the state attorney general’s office, according to the Washington Post.

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Transgender inmate on Missouri's death row asks for mercy

The first openly transgender woman set to be executed in the U.S. is asking Missouri’s governor for mercy

The Independent UK

US workers sue Georgia for transgender healthcare discrimination

Three employees call for Georgia’s state health insurance to cover gender-confirming healthcare and other procedures.

Al Jazeera

Ky. lawmaker pre-files anti-trans bills including ‘bathroom bill’

WEKU

Club Q mass shooting survivors testify to Congress against anti-LGBT+ violence: ‘We are being slaughtered’

Survivors of the Colorado Springs massacre urge lawmakers to condemn anti-LGBT+ rhetoric that advocates argue has fuelled the attack and a wave of harassment

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‘She was failed’: Missouri woman scheduled for execution next month asks for clemency

Attorneys for a transgender woman scheduled to be executed next month in Missouri are asking for clemency, in part because of her history of abuse and intellectual disability.

Tribune News Service

Bombay HC seeks clarification of stand by govt on its policy for transgenders in MahaTransco

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the Principal Secretary of the Social Justice department of the state to place their stand on the policy for reservation for transgender in Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Ltd. (MSETCL).

The Times of India

A frozen capital market and an insurance premium shock: 10 health care predictions for 2023 from top investors

Distressed deals, inflation in insurance premiums, and restrictions on transgender treatments. Here's what the health care sector will look like in 2023, according to top investors.

Fortune

Transgender lawmaker hopes her presence brings understanding

Zooey Zephyr worked behind the scenes during Montana's 2021 legislative session to oppose an ultimately unsuccessful effort to ban transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming health care

The Independent UK

Cambridge Dictionary updates definition of ‘woman’ to include transgender people

The online dictionary added a supplementary definition in October that includes anyone who “identifies as female” regardless of their sex at birth

Evening Standard

Trans women can take seats on public boards set aside for women, Scottish judge rules

Guidance that extends definition of ‘woman’ to transgender women with gender recognition certificate is lawful, court rules

The Guardian - UK

Judge rules in favour of Scottish Government over definition of 'woman'

A JUDGE has ruled that transgender women with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) can legally be defined as women when it comes to legislation…

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Editorial: Republicans swore ‘Don’t Say Gay’ isn’t anti-gay, Now they’re going after school LGBTQ protections

When Republican lawmakers were pushing Florida’s new “parental rights” law this year, they feigned indignation when critics labeled it “Don’t Say Gay.” They boasted the word “gay” wasn’t even in the legislation. They acted as if critics were hysterical for worrying schools would be forced to out LGBTQ students to…

Tribune News Service

Court wins allow Dallas doctor to treat dozens of new transgender youth

DALLAS — The Dallas doctor who ran the state’s most prominent medical program for transgender youth says she has seen dozens of new patients since crucial court wins this summer and fall.

The Independent UK

Elon Musk, who predicted the Covid pandemic would end in April 2020, suggests Fauci should be prosecuted

The world’s wealthiest person endorses right-wing attacks against the public health official in a tweet that also appears to mock nonbinary and transgender people

The Independent UK

Biden called gay marriage 'inevitable' and soon it'll be law

President Joe Biden will soon sign legislation to protect gay unions even if the U.S. Supreme Court revisits its ruling supporting a nationwide right of same-sex couples to marry

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The Texas Tribune

Texas drag shows become a right-wing target amid rising extremism

LGBTQ Texans say lawmakers and right-wing figures are misrepresenting what happens at all-ages performances to propagate hate and violence against queer people.

The Independent UK

For India’s ‘third sex’, acceptance mired in colonial past

India’s Supreme Court officially recognized transgender Indians as a third gender, separate from males and females in 2014, declaring that all persons have the constitutional right to self-identify regarding gender

The Conversation

Traditional Buddhist teachings exclude LGBTQ people from monastic life, but change is coming slowly

The symbolic image of the silently meditating nun or chanting monk often embodies the Buddhist religion. Such representation may make it appear that Buddhist teachings and practices are grounded in heterosexual norms. However, there is also plenty of discussion on the various expressions of human sexuality and sexual orientations in…

The Conversation

Sport NZ’s transgender guidelines are a good start – but can they filter up from grassroots to elite competition?

The release this week of Sport NZ’s new Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport caused a minor and predictable controversy. One former parliamentarian called the guidelines “woke ideology”. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson responded that such opposition was “petty and small-minded”.

Chicago Sun-Times

Across the Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized

Many Muslim nations criminalize gay sex — including World Cup host Qatar. Appeals for change from LGBTQ-friendly nations are routinely dismissed as unwarranted interference.

Reason

Journal of Free Speech Law: "When Teachers Misgender: The Free Speech Claims of Public School Teachers," by Prof. Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami)

Just published, at 1 Journal of Free Speech Law 615 (2022); from the Introduction: This Article argues that public school teachers do not and should not have a free speech right to deliberately misgender students in the classroom. Transgender students are already a vulnerable at-risk population, and studies show that…

Evening Standard

Transgender guidance for schools delayed until next year

Guidance for schools is ‘clearly critical and needed’, MPs warn

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