Tag: transgender

San Francisco to Give $1,200 a Month to Low-Income Transgender Residents

San Francisco has launched a new pilot program offering guaranteed monthly income to a number of low-income transgender residents of the city, Mayor London Breed announced on Wednesday. Known as the Guaranteed Income for Transgender People (G.I.F.T.) program, the new plan will provide “economically marginalized transgender people with unrestricted, monthly guaranteed income as a way to combat poverty…


Appeals Court Makes Decision on Arkansas Trans Surgery Ban for Minors

A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to reconsider a temporary block on Arkansas’s enforcement of a ban on sex change procedures for minors. This means the ban continues to be blocked until a federal trial concludes. The decision comes while a federal bench trial that is being heard by U.S. District Judge James Moody…


Olympian Calls on Swimming’s Governing Body to Remove Restriction on Trans Women Athletes

Australian Olympic champion Ian Thorpe has criticised the international swimming body FINA’s decision to bar male-to-female transgender athletes from elite female competitions. The athlete, who previously advocated for same-sex marriage in Australia, said it was a “very complicated issue” and that he was “personally opposed to the position FINA has taken on this.” “I am…


Transgender Health Association ‘Discredited Itself’ By Failing To Protect Children, Critics Claim

Concerned parents and health professionals have declared war on the world’s most prominent organization that advises professionals on how to help children and others who struggle with gender identity. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has failed to address concerns about “experimental” medical treatment of gender-dysphoric adolescents, according to 1,700 people who signed…


Ex-trans Teen to Sue Kaiser Permanente Over Gender Transition as Minor

Chloe Cole, who was prescribed puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and then had her breasts removed when she was 15, says she will sue the medical group and hospital that facilitated the gender transition as a minor she now deeply regrets. “The adults who were supposed to take care of and guide me as a child…


Activism to Save Children From Medical Transition Is Not About Right and Left. It’s About Right and Wrong

Commentary Activism? Wow, what a carnival filled with clowns driven to climb to the top of the heap of social media for fame and fortune. Activism has always been a business—but before, social media activism was a much more level playing field. What about now? Currently, activism is filled with people whose sole purpose is…


British Feminist Against Transgenderism Tours US: ‘Land of Free Speech’ Doesn’t Feel Free

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—British feminist Kellie-Jay Keen is touring the United States to raise more awareness that gender transition is “mutilating children’s bodies” and “the sterilization of those children.” At the same time, she didn’t feel that the United States was so free. “I want people to be fully knowledgeable about what [gender transition] is that…


Americans Won’t Vote for Candidates Who Support Youth Transgender Procedures: Poll

The vast majority of Americans will not vote for candidates who support transgender procedures for minors, a recent survey finds. According to a recent national survey (pdf) from the Trafalgar Group, 72.7 percent of American voters say they are not likely to vote for a candidate who supports allowing minors to use puberty blockers or to…


Beauty Pageants’ Rejection of Transgender Women Is Legal, Appeals Court Rules

Miss United States of America is legally able to reject men who claim that they’re women, an appeals court has ruled. The beauty pageant’s “natural born female” requirement conveys a message and the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment gives the pageant the ability to voice that message and enforce the rule, Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a…


Mother of Newborn Regrets Gender Transition in Her Youth

As she coddles her infant son at her home in the Chicago suburbs, newlywed Daisy Strongin says she deeply regrets having both of her breasts removed in gender transition surgery when she was 20. She was an “insecure, very self-involved, outcasted 15-year-old girl,” Strongin said, and the urge to transition was “enticing.” “I really wanted…