Tag: Trans Youth
Labour’s spokesperson for Rainbow Issues, Shanan Halbert, stands firm on puberty blocker access.
New Zealand has now had a year of the coalition government, and to mark the anniversary, we heard some deliberately misleading murmurs from ACT and Winston Peters about access to puberty blockers. This kind of rhetoric is...
Eli Luke Michel ‘thinks of the children’ and discusses the medication subscribed to trans kids entering puberty.
“Won’t somebody please think of the children?!” It’s a popular line in the animated sitcom The Simpsons whenever the town is thrown into chaos, but it's also pertinent to the issue of transgender children having...
The U.S. State of South Carolina is facing widespread criticism for passing a ban on gender-affirming care for trans young people, along with imposing "extreme" restrictions on healthcare for transgender adults.
On Tuesday, 21 May, South Carolina’s governor, Henry McMaster, signed bill H4624 into law. The bill prohibits all gender-affirming...
A lawsuit, supported by LGBTQ+ rights groups and the child's parents, has been filed against North Carolina's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
The child, identified as Victor Voe in the lawsuit, asserts that the ban is unconstitutional and poses a significant threat to the health and well-being of...
Saturday Night Live (SNL) has never been one to shy away from tackling important social issues, and the show’s latest episode was no different, with non-binary cast member Molly Kearney making a powerful statement in support of trans rights.
Kearney made the statement during the “Weekend Update” segment on 15...
Republican lawmakers in the U.S. state of Arizona have passed new legislation that will restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for trans youth in the state.
Senate Bill 1138 (SB 1138) was approved by the state’s Republican-led House on Thursday the 24th of March, with 31 votes to 26.
According to...
Evan Bialosuknia has made history at Olympia High School in Orlando, Florida, after she became their first trans student to be elected homecoming queen.
Elected overwhelmingly by her fellow students, 17-year-old Bialosuknia described the moment as historic and leaving her feeling accepted and with a sense of belonging.
"It made me...
A recent study out of the United States has highlighted the need for trans-inclusive training for health providers, trans-inclusive sexuality education, and supportive adults, in the fight to reduce the rates of HIV transmission in trans-youth.
Published in Pediatrics the study which is titled, Transgender Youth Experiences and Perspectives Related...
