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What is essentialism? And how does it shape attitudes to transgender people and sexual diversity?

Recent debates around transgender people and sexual diversity have been marked by essentialism, a profoundly conservative mindset with deep links to religious and metaphysical dogmatism. It is a stance through which conservative thinkers seek certainty in a world of change and fluidity.

The Conversation

Jordy, pop star from Northbrook, gives 2000 hit a queer update with ‘Story of a Boy’

Former Glenbrook North theater kid inspires transgender TikTok campaign with his take on the Nine Days hit ‘Absolutely (Story of a Girl).’

Chicago Sun-Times

Heavy police presence divides transgender debate rallies in Belfast city centre

More than 50 police officers formed a line between the demonstrations

Belfast Live

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Police form line between rival transgender debate demos in Belfast

Hundreds of people took part in the separate trans and women’s rights protests in the city centre.

The Independent UK

Privilege health card for transgender community in Bengal

KOLKATA: As the country celebrated the National Transgender Day on Saturday, the community in Bengal had a reason to feel inclusive. A private healthcare unit in Kolkata launched a healthcare card for the community that has been complaining of accessibility and rights issues including that of healthcare.

The Times of India

'Dangerous' inmate Barbie Kardashian to move prisons amid fear she could follow through on threats

A source said Kardashian, who was born Gabrielle Alejandro Gentile and changed her name by deed poll, is deemed too dangerous to mix. Kardashian was found guilty on seven counts of threatening to kill, rape, torture or cause serious harm to her mother.

Irish Mirror

Terrified and angry, LGBTQ Texans and allies rally at Capitol to protest bills targeting queer community

With six weeks remaining in the legislative session, advocates implored Texans to join the “resistance” against fast-moving efforts to curb health care, drag queens, education, trans athletes and more.

The Texas Tribune

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Bomb threats made to Budweiser factories after transgender promotion controversy

A Budweiser-sponsored post by actress and transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has led to fierce backlash for the company including from musicians such as Kid Rock who posted a viral video of himself shooting cases of Bud Light in protest

Daily Mirror

Akshay Kumar's younger version Aryan Preet talks about playing a transgender in Laxmii

Actor Aryan Preet, who's been part of TV shows like Punyashlok Ahilyabai and Kulfi Kumar Bajewala, has played the role of young Akshay Kumar in movies like Laxmii and Bachchhan Paandey. The actor reveals how playing a role of transgender was challenging and how he is happy he did it.

The Times of India

Transgender adults brace for treatment cutoffs in Missouri

An emergency rule introduced this week by Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey will impose numerous restrictions on both adults and children before they can receive puberty-blocking drugs, hormones or gender-affirming surgeries

The Independent UK

Still No Pseudonymity for Sorority Members Suing to Challenge Sorority's Admission of Transgender Student

From Judge Alan Johnson's decision today in Doe v. Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity (D. Wyo.) (the "fraternity" is really a sorority), declining to reconsider an earlier decision: I yearn for the day where litigants seek their courts unburdened by the mere possibility of physical reprisal. That hope may be quixotic…

Reason

Transgender adults face 'egregious' barriers to care under new Missouri rules, advocates warn

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri's foremost LGBTQ advocacy group raised alarm on Friday that adults currently receiving transgender medical care will face "egregious" barriers to continued treatment under new emergency rules in Missouri.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Texas House panel advances bills banning puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender kids

Under the legislation, minors currently receiving certain gender-affirming care would have to taper off their treatments. A majority of Texas lawmakers in each chamber has supported previous versions of the legislation.

The Texas Tribune

First gay president of Chicago-based American Medical Association Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld talks about challenges he’ll face

An anesthesiologist in Milwaukee, Navy combat veteran and father of two young children, he spoke in an interview about himself, his job and the AMA’s outspokenness on big issues.

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The Independent UK

Colorado governor to sign abortion, transgender care bills

Colorado's Democratic governor is scheduled to sign a set of health care bills Friday afternoon that enshrine protections for abortion and gender-affirming care procedures and medications

The Independent UK

Missouri rules part of rapid push to limit trans health care

The push to restrict health care for transgender people has expanded beyond children, with Missouri's new limits on gender-affirming care

Daily Record

Tory MSP apologises for suggesting transgender people have learning difficulties

Stephen Kerr appeared to blame a staff member for a comment widely criticised

The Independent UK

Donald Trump Jr calls for end to conservative boycott on ‘iconic’ Budweiser

The intervention after conservatives have expressed outrage at Bud Light partnering with transgender TikToker Dylan Mulvaney

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'Disgusting': Tory MSP suggests trans people have learning disabilities

A TORY MSP is facing intense criticism after he suggested there was a connection between people having learning disabilities and being transgender…

The Texas Tribune

The eyes of LGBTQ Texans are upon Dade Phelan and the House

Spurred by a groundswell of far-right support, the Texas Senate has passed all of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s priority LGBTQ bills — and then some. What the House does next will impact queer Texans’ lives and could determine Speaker Phelan’s future.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: ‘So much evil,’ indeed, in this lawmaker’s heart

Floridians see far too much bigotry on display in their state Capitol. It’s often thinly veiled or cloaked in lies, such as repeated allegations that gay, lesbian and transgender people “groom” others or need state-issued control through new laws like the “Safety in Private Spaces Act.”

Tribune News Service

Missouri House passes Republican-led bill banning gender-affirming care for minors

The Missouri House on Thursday approved a Republican-led bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors.

The Independent UK

Limits on transgender care for Missouri youths begin shortly

Missouri minors will soon be required to go through 18 months of therapy before receiving any gender-affirming health care

The Independent UK

Rayner: Gender recognition reforms not at odds with women’s rights overall

Labour’s deputy leader said protecting women-only spaces does not need to come at the expense of supporting transgender people.

The Guardian - US

Trans people, students and teachers are besieged by DeSantis’s crusade. But he’s not done yet

Florida sees deluge of legislation targeting trans rights and controlling public education as governor steps up courtship of Trump voters

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