Category: News
U.S. House Representative Sarah McBride, the United States’ first openly transgender member of Congress, has fiercely criticised former President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service in a passionate House floor speech, calling the policy “appalling”, “cynical”, and “un-American”. McBride, who represents Delaware, condemned the policy for disqualifying thousands of qualified transgender Americans from serving in […]
London Trans Pride 2025 drew tens of thousands of people to the streets today (26 July), as marchers from across the UK gathered in the capital to demand trans liberation and protest ongoing discrimination. Despite cloudy skies, the crowds—many waving trans flags and holding pro-rights placards—marched from Langham Place to Parliament Square, sending a strong […]
Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who made global headlines in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples, has petitioned the US Supreme Court to overturn the legal right to marriage equality. On Thursday, 24 July, Davis filed a request asking the court to reverse the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, […]
Out gay Congressman Robert Garcia (D-CA) has issued a scathing letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., questioning whether the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to HIV and AIDS programmes were based on science—or on Kennedy’s well-documented history of misinformation. The letter, dated 17 July and co-signed by Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), outlines what the […]
A respected gay school superintendent from Vermont was detained, separated from his husband, and subjected to “inhumane” treatment by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers while re-entering the country from Nicaragua earlier this week. Wilmer Chavarria, superintendent of the Winooski School District, says he was held for over five hours at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental […]
In a landmark ruling, Hong Kong’s High Court has struck down a law banning transgender individuals from using public toilets that align with their gender identity, declaring it unconstitutional. The decision follows a legal challenge brought in 2022 by a transgender man known by the pseudonym “K”, who argued that the Public Conveniences (Conduct and […]
Sport New Zealand has officially withdrawn its guidelines on the inclusion of transgender athletes in community sports following direct instruction from the Government, prompted by pressure from coalition partner New Zealand First. The decision comes after NZ First leader Winston Peters threatened to strip funding from sporting codes that continue to implement gender inclusion policies, […]
A new Gallup poll has found that a majority of Americans believe gender transition is morally wrong, with more people approving of animal testing, the death penalty, and gambling than affirming trans identities. The annual Values and Beliefs survey, released by the long-running analytics firm, asked Americans to assess the moral acceptability of 20 behaviours, […]