Trans News

Hope as Court Appeal is Granted for Youth

Posted on 20 Jan 2021 in Trans

Top LGBTQ newswire Pink News is amongst those tonight reporting that the National Health Service's Tavistock and Portman Trust, which operates the Gender Identity Clinic for younger trans people, has been granted leave to appeal December's High Court ruling, which found that trans teens would need court permission to seek access to “puberty blocker” medication.

Actor Elliot Page Comes Out as Trans

Posted on 3 Dec 2020 in Trans

Metro Newspaper and Digital Spy are amongst those media outlets reporting the news that actor Elliot Page has come out as transgender.

Additional Boost for Awareness from Google

Posted on 21 Nov 2020 in Trans

Google, one of the world’s largest corporations, is sometimes accused of not doing enough to stop the dissemination of hate or misinformation about minorities on the internet. Sometimes this failure to police what goes on is due to the sheer size of the internet, and its wild west and unregulate

How to be a Trans Ally - Top Trade Union Mag

Posted on 21 Nov 2020 in Trans

UNISON, Britain's largest trade union, has published a guide to being a Trans Ally in its November magazine, “U”. The two page article addresses issues such as deadnaming, challenging prejudice and just being a friend to trans + people.

Marking Transgender Day of Remembrance

Posted on 20 Nov 2020 in Trans

Friday, 20th November will mark the Transgender Day of Remembrance. This was inaugurated in 1999 to bear witness to violence against transgender people.

Oct

Trans Community Radio UK Launches New Site

One of our partner stations, Trans Radio UK, the only station in Europe made by and for the transgender community, has redesigned its website to give a better listening and more in

Oct

Literary Giants Come out for Trans Equality

Newswire LGBTQ Nation reports that many people in the literary world have responded to the anti-transgender activism of JK Rowling with an open letter to the press, in which they a

Jul

Channel Four Doc on Trans Parenting - Tues PM

Channel Four Television looks at the experience of a mixed gender trans couple who have started a family.

Jul

Bergdorf Secures Book Deal for Manifesto 2021

Munroe Bergdorf remains a crucial voice at the intersections of class, racial and gender politics.

Sep

Bath Uni blocks research into "De-transition"

Bath Spa University has blocked a counsellor for therapy for transgender people from writing a thesis on “de-transition” as it may be seen to be “politically incorrect”.