After her friends were killed in transphobic attacks at home in Brazil, Ariella Moura's aim was to make a statement against gender discrimination on Saturday at the world's top transgender pageant in Thailand. The annual Miss Tiffany's Universe pageant brings together 21 international contestants showcasing their beauty but also spreading a defiant message for equality from across the globe.

A group of about two dozen people, mostly women, stood on the steps of the Connecticut capitol on a New England winter day with signs reading “Protect Women’s Sports” and “#FairPlay”. In front stood Christiana Holcomb, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative Christian legal group representing three cis teen girls in a lawsuit filed this month demanding two transgender teen girls be barred from competing in the female high school sports division.

The United States Supreme Court will issue a ruling this year in a landmark case that will determine whether transgender people – individuals whose sex assigned at birth does not match their current innate sense of being male, female, both or neither – are protected by federal law from employment discrimination. At stake is whether transgender individuals can reasonably earn a living without fear of losing their jobs simply because they are transgender.

The finding suggests that a major — and politically controversial — aspect of trans health care for minors could help reduce the community’s disproportionate suicide risk.

Transgender individuals tend to report experiencing more sexual problems than the general population, according to new research published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine. But the prevalence of sexual dysfunction is highest among transgender individuals who do not receive gender-affirming surgeries.

Selin Ciğerci ve Gökhan Çıra Swiss Bosphorus otelde dünyaevine girdi. Çiftin nikah şahitliğini Demet Akalın yaptı. Trans Kadın Selin Ciğerci, Transeksüel..

A Virginia teacher has filed a lawsuit saying he was wrongfully fired for refusing to use male pronouns for a transgender student. In 2018, a student at West Point High School began identifying as male. He and his mother asked for him to be referred to with his preferred name and pronouns: he, him, his.

It takes a concerted effort to move from pleasantries to real support

Here are 5 tips to help support non-binary people in your workplace, based on my own experience.

The World Health Organization has amended its classification of transgender health issues.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced plans to roll back Obama-era protections for transgender people who are experiencing homelessness. The change would allow shelters to turn people away by claiming a “religious” exemption. So-called “religious freedom” exemptions have become popular with the religious right as evangelicals attempt to use it as a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people and women. The federal law was not intended to be used as a get-out-of-jail-free card for civil rights violations.

Because Sterling Crutcher was already serving openly in the military, the ban won't apply to him. Still,

Police are investigating it as a possible hate crime

The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset won the Inaugural GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Video Game. For 30 years, the GLAAD Media Awards have recognized the importance of LGBTQ representation in media, and the Outstanding Video Game category debuted tonight with The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset being the first ever recipient of this award. Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, and The Sims Mobile were also in consideration.

By a 5 to 4 vote, justices temporarily stayed trial court decisions blocking the policy while litigation in the lower courts moves forward.

Since 2013, Kristina Olson, a psychologist at the University of Washington, has been running a large, long-term study to track the health and well-being of transgender children—those who identify as a different gender from the one they were assigned at birth. Since the study’s launch, Olson has also heard from the parents of gender-nonconforming kids, who consistently defy gender stereotypes but have not socially transitioned.

Big coastal cities don’t have a monopoly on truly progressive organizing. By Leigh Ann Carey.

The challenges of defining Latinidad in Queer and Trans Latinx communities.

The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law. A series of decisions by the Obama administration loosened the legal concept of gender in federal programs, including in education and health care, recognizing gender largely as an individual’s choice and not determined by the sex assigned at birth. The policy prompted fights over bathrooms, dormitories...

The prison service has apologised after a transgender inmate, charged with raping a woman, sexually assaulted four fellow inmates just days after being remanded into an all female jail.