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Joe Battenfeld: Charlie Baker about to confront heated debate over transgender athletes

Former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker will be walking into a buzzsaw of controversy over transgender athletes in his new job as head of the NCAA.

Boston Herald

Tory ministers reveal fear conversion therapy ban could ‘criminalise’ parents

Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch set to write to Tory MPs about concerns

The Independent UK

California school district transitioned child without telling parent, lawsuit alleges

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A conservative legal group has filed a lawsuit against the superintendent and school board members for the Chico Unified School District, alleging that a district employee helped a fifth grade student transition their gender identity without informing the child’s parent.

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South Dakota GOP lawmakers push trans youth health care ban

A group of South Dakota Republican lawmakers are pushing a bill to outlaw gender-affirming health care for transgender youth

The Independent UK

Conversion practices ban will include transgender people, Donelan confirms

Latest government U-turn on policy comes amid row over Scotland’s gender recognition bill

The Guardian - UK

Conversion therapy ban for ‘everyone’ announced by UK Government

The government had previously said transgender conversion therapy would not be included in the ban

Liverpool Echo

Britain vows new law to ban conversion therapy for LGBT people

Britain will seek to ban conversion therapy targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, cracking down on so-called treatments that claim to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Scotland gender recognition bill: what is a section 35 order?

Clash over transgender rights will be seen as a test of the constitutional balance between Holyrood and Westminster

The Guardian - UK

Sunak blocks Scotland’s gender bill, angering nationalists

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak blocked transgender rights legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament, setting up a major constitutional row and fanning nationalist sentiment in Scotland.

Tribune News Service

For the first time, the UK has used Section 35 to veto a Scottish law. Here's what that means

For the first time, the UK government has blocked legislation passed by the Scottish parliament. Here's why that is such a momentous move.

ABC News

Rishi Sunak blocks Scotland’s gender recognition legislation

UK ministers to use provisions in Scotland Act to block legislation making it easier for transgender people to self-identify

The Guardian - UK

Mary Lou McDonald vows support for sibling who transitioned from male to female last year

She said Ireland was on a 'learning curve' on gender identity and would not be in a position to follow Scotland’s overhaul of transgender laws.

Irish Mirror

Mary Lou McDonald says she fully supports trans sibling

The Sinn Fein leader said Ireland was on a 'learning curve' on gender identity and would not be in a position to follow Scotland’s overhaul of transgender laws

Dublin Live

Transgender Kenyans seek refuge amid backlash over activist's death

NAIROBI - For the first time in years, Arya Rams falls asleep and wakes up each day without a dense knot of fear in her chest.

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Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak 'concerned' over Scottish gender reforms as clash looms with Nicola Sturgeon

It comes amid strained relations over the issue of Scottish independence and threats by the UK Government to block landmark reforms for transgender people at Holyrood last month

The Conversation

Gender recognition certificates: self-identification and the row over it explained

The UK’s equalities minister, Kemi Badenoch, has announced a review of the list of countries whose gender recognition certificates are recognised by the UK. This could mean that transgender people from more than 40 countries may not have their legal gender recognised by the UK government.

The Independent UK

Late Pentagon chief Ash Carter to be honored at service

President Joe Biden and other past and present U.S. officials are honoring the late defense secretary, Ash Carter, who opened the way for women to fight in combat and for transgendered personnel to serve

Reuters

Indonesia's transgender community fears threat posed by new law

Transgender Indonesian woman Chika Ananda Putrie wakes every morning in her decrepit rented room in a Jakarta slum, worried for her safety because of her gender identity.

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Salon

Startling evolution of anti-trans bills

Two dozen bills aim to cut off transgender people's access to healthcare — with adults as well as minors targeted

The National (Scotland)

Refusing to recognise Scottish gender certificates 'disgraceful new low' from UK

THE UK Government will hit a “disgraceful new low” if it insists on transgender Scots applying for a separate Gender Recognition Certificate…

The Independent UK

States target transgender health care in first bills of 2023

Republican state lawmakers are following up a midterm election and record flow of anti-transgender legislation last year by zeroing in on bodily autonomy with proposals to limit gender-affirming health care and abortion access

The Independent UK

Domestic abuse and sexual violence against transgender and non-binary people surges

Exclusive: ‘He thought, ‘now you’re a man, I can treat you like one.’ They try to weaponise your identity as if it’s your fault,” victim says

WEKU

West Virginia can keep its ban against transgender school athletes, a judge says

The judge said he recognized that being transgender is "natural" and "not a choice." But he said one's sex is also natural and "dictates physical characteristics that are relevant to athletics."

The Independent UK

Over 250,000 trans people in UK, as census data reports gender identity for first time

Around 1.5 million people are gay, lesbian or bisexual in England and Wales

Reason

Court Upholds Law Excluding Male-to-Female Transgender Athletes from Girls' Sports

"The state is permitted to legislate sports rules on this basis because sex, and the physical characteristics that flow from it, are substantially related to athletic performance and fairness in sports."

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