Trans Swimmer Revives an Old Debate in Elite Sports: What Defines a Woman?

A poll released March 16 by the campaign working to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin shows that more than a majority of city voters would remove him from office.Boudin, one of several progressive DA's in the country, faces a June 7 recall vote. Organizers gathered enough signatures to force the ballot question after many residents grew frustrated with quality of life crimes and some of Boudin's policies.The Safer SF Without Boudin campaign, which is led by Democratic Party members, community leaders, and small business owners, released a poll from EMC Research showing that 68% of San Francisco voters support the recall.

Malaysia’s government has launched a ‘conversion therapy’ app which it said would help LGBTQ+ people “return to nature”.

Ireland’s largest LGBTQ+ inclusive football club, Dublin Devils FC, landed a victory against the Yorkshire Terriers on March 12, becoming the very first Irish football team to reach the final of the UK Gay Football Supporters Network (GFSN) Cup. Founded in 2005, Dublin Devils are the largest LGBTQ+ inclusive football club in Ireland. The club […]

Spend this Easter Sunday with The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and guest emcee Peaches Christ on April 17th, in San Francisco’s Dolores Park. After a two-year hiatus, this year’s theme is “Back to Our Old Habits.” Expect all your favorite holiday traditions, including performances by the Sisters and the popular “Hunky Jesus” costume contest. The day kicks off with an Easter egg hunt, storytime, and other activities for the kiddies from 10 am to noon.

A post shared by Channing Tatum (@channingtatum)Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock has opened up about filming a harrowing scene for her new film The Lost City.The Gravity star, 57, stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert this week to promote the film. During the interview, she discussed one scene in particular that challenged her concentration.

As the House select committee investigating January 6 zeroes in on the key players behind in the deadly insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, conservative attorney and Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway has revealed telling information about his wife Kellyanne Conway someone he knows “very well”.Speaking to The Bulwark’s “Beg to Differ” podcast this week, Conway implied that Kellyanne thinks Trump ran a “crappy campaign” and suggested the ex-president might be laying the groundwork to plead insanity should he be charged with any crimes related to the attack.“[Trump] learned in so many different ways that he had lost,” Conway said, “And, frankly, he said to people, one of whom I know very well, but I won’t specify who she is, ‘How could I have lost to this guy?’ And she basically said, ‘You know, you ran a crappy campaign.’ She wasn’t alone in telling him that.

Hypochondriac and the phrase that haunts the character of Will (Zach Forte) as he spirals deeper and deeper down into paranoia that his body’s betraying him and a supernatural creature is hunting him.Will is a young gay Hispanic potter whose life is pretty great when audiences first meet him. He has friends, an amazing boyfriend, and a job working for an upscale pottery. But anyone who has experienced periods of anxiety, depression, and panic attacks will identify with his journey, because he’s also plagued by a past that still has its hands wrapped around his throat — and when it reemerges without warning, things take a dark and monstrous turn.It begins with physical manifestations: Issues with his hands and arms that begin spreading further throughout his body, leading him to fear that something’s terribly wrong with him.

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March 16, 2022Nassib had one season left on his three-year, $25 million deal.In June 2021, Nassib made national headlines when he came out as gay in an Instagram video post.“I just wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay,” he said. “I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now, but I finally feel comfortable getting it off my chest. I really have the best life, I have the best family, friends and job a guy can ask for.”He noted, “I’m a pretty private person so I hope you guys know that I’m really not doing this for attention.

@ProudTwinkie â¬ï¸ pic.twitter.com/Az1yCu5qxzWhen asked why Mr Biden had previously backed such restrictions, Ms Psaki said: ‘You have seen the president speak passionately about his view that a bill like this, which would discriminate against families, kids and put them in a position where they don’t get the support they need, is discriminatory.‘It is a form of bullying and it is horrific. The president has spoken about that.‘In terms of his views and comments from 25 years ago, I think the most important question now is why are Florida leaders deciding against kids who are members of the LGBT+ community.‘What prompts them to do that? Is it meanness? Is it wanting to make kids have more difficult times in school and their community?’ According to the Public Opinion Research Lab at the University of North Florida, 49% of residents oppose the bill while 40% support it.

transgender activist who disappeared a week ago say they fear for her safety and worry she may have been targeted for her lifestyle.Elise Malary, of Evanston, Illinois, was last seen on Wednesday, March 9 and relatives say they haven't seen or heard from her since.The 31-year-old's car, a 2008 Honda Accord, was found in a municipal parking lot two blocks from her apartment on Tuesday. Detectives are now scouring security camera footage to see who drove it there.Police said that Malary had quit her job at the Civil Rights Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General's Office the day before she went missing, according to Block Club Chicago.

Her comments were a wild mischaracterization of the bill, which would prohibit educators in Florida from discussing issues of sexual orientation and gender identity through third grade and require discussion of those topics with students at any level to be “age-appropriate.”The bill has passed both Florida's House and Senate and is waiting for DeSantis' signature.Since the post, lawmakers and LGBTQ+ advocates have called for Pushaw’s resignation.Florida Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, the only out gay man serving right now in the Florida House, responded with anger at the insinuation from the governor’s office that any acknowledgment of queer people should be considered grooming.

Senate earlier this month passed a bill that would criminalize the performing of gender-affirming care and procedures on minors, and would also require schools to inform parents of new information regarding their child's gender identity that is expressed in school."The sex of a person is the biological state of being female or male, based on sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous hormone profiles, and is genetically encoded into a person at the moment of conception, and it cannot be changed," an early section of Senate Bill 184 reads.This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available.

With young transgender Americans caught in the middle of a culture war over LGBTQ+ rights, Texas has sought to clamp down on gender-transitioning medical treatments that Governor Greg Abbott says are “child abuse.”

Matt Bomer is reportedly in early talks to join the cast of Netflix’s upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic, Maestro.

The Queerties 10th anniversary award show will stream on Revry and YouTube on Wednesday, March 16 at 9pm ET / 6pm PT. It will also be streaming on the Queerty homepage — we got you, girl!Hosted by Drag Race star Mo Heart and Queerty Editor in Chief Dan Tracer, this year’s event honors Pose’s Michaela Jaé Rodriguez with the Icon Award and RuPaul’s Drag Race finalist Gottmik with the Groundbreaker Award.

Op 24 maart wordt de First Art Fair om 19:00 uur feestelijk geopend door Sylvana Simons, parlementslid en partijleider van Bij1. De openingshandeling bestaat uit het onthullen van haar portret, kersvers geschilderd door de bekende Amsterdamse realist Wim Heldens.

NEW DELHI – Police threats, slurs and even violence are all part of LGBTQ+ life in India, but a new rule could ease the onslaught in one southern state as it becomes a “pioneer” for sexual minorities.The government of Tamil Nadu recently changed state conduct rules, telling its police officers to stop harassing LGBTQ+ Indians, on the orders of a high court judge.

Police threats, slurs and even violence are all part of LGBTQ+ life in India, but a new rule could ease the onslaught in one southern state as it becomes a “pioneer” for sexual minorities.

Trans icons Zaya Wade and Amy Schneider get candid about trans visibility with Teen Vogue and non-profit organisation It Gets Better.

A Black Atlantan trans woman has been granted $1.5 million dollars after being wrongfully arrested and imprisoned for more than five months.

Elliot Page is speaking out.

Jeopardy! Champion Amy Schneider refused to stay quiet. In an interview with Teen Vogue, they — alongside It Gets Better Project youth ambassador Zach Koung — discussed what it’s like to be trans in the public eye.Schnieder said she “felt a certain responsibility to be my best self and represent the trans community well,” during her time on Jeopardy!.“But I was also worried about that in the sense that I don’t want to present a ‘too perfect’ image of myself because I want everyone to be able to see that whether or not you are good at trivia, whether or not you have a lot of followers on social media, any of those things, you still deserve and can find the same acceptance, the same affirmation and freedom to express who you are,” she explained.Schnieder was pleasantly surprised by the response she got from the audience.

Zack Sharf Elliot Page is “horrified” by Texas government officials declaring that medical care for transgender youth is child abuse. The “Juno” actor spoke out after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton proclaimed Monday that hormone therapy, puberty blockers and other types of gender-affirming health care for trans youth are forms of chid abuse.“There is no doubt that these procedures are ‘abuse’ under Texas law, and thus must be halted,” Paxton said in a news release.

Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared to suggest the threat of violence is "exactly how we need to stand up" against trans and non-binary people in society.Speaking on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' InfoWars show on February 20, Greene criticized reports that biologically male counselors who use they/them pronouns at a science camp in California shared a cabin with fifth-grade girls, as well as transgender woman competing in sporting events.Greene described the reports that the non-binary counselors at the Camp Pali in San Bernardino slept in the same cabin as the school girls as "evil" before suggesting her husband would have attacked the counselors if her children were at the camp."First off, if I was a parent and my fifth-grade daughter had to sleep and showered in some kind of cabin at some summer camp that I paid money to send my child to, and there was a man calling himself a woman sleeping in her cabin, showering with her, that guy would, he'd be in jail. He would be in jail," Greene said."Well, first off, my husband would've beat him into the ground, and then he'd be in jail.

Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, compared medical procedures for young transgender people to “child abuse”.

Gov. Greg Abbott told state health agencies in Texas on Tuesday that medical treatments provided to transgender adolescents, widely considered to be the standard of care in medicine, should be classified as “child abuse” under existing state law. His statements, made in a letter to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, followed an opinion on Friday by Attorney General Ken Paxton that said providing medical treatments like puberty-suppressing drugs and hormones to transgender teenagers should be investigated as child abuse.

Greg Abbott has become the target of death threats on social media as news of his order to have the parents of trans children investigated for child abuse hit the trending page of Twitter, prompting an outcry from users.A Tuesday letter sent from Abbott to the state's Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), saw the Republican governor demand that the agency look into parents who have supported gender-affirming procedures for their children.The letter read that reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers and hormone treatments violated state law and amounted to "child abuse," adding that doctors, nurses, and teachers held a responsibility to report parents who violate this law.Outrage around this measure sparked violate comments from Twitter users, with one person stating "[I] will personally beat [G]reg [A]bbot to death. [I] do not care that [I] live in a different country [I] will personally fly to [T]exas and beat the ever loving s**t out of him."i will personally beat greg abbot to deathi do not care that i live in a different country i will personally fly to texas and beat the ever loving shit out of himA separate user tweeted, "'Vote out Greg Abbott!' b**ch we need to KILL him." Another user wrote, "[M]fs in [T]exas are so stupid, all u gotta do is kill Greg Abbott." Other tweets, including one where a user wrote "I'm going to kill the governor of Texas" have since been taken down."Vote out Greg Abbott!" bitch we need to KILL him.mfs in texas are so stupid, all u gotta do is kill greg abbottThough actual surgery is rarely used, some trans children do use puberty blockers, a measure that medical professionals report to be "completely reversible," The Texas Tribune wrote.

Gov. Greg Abbott, left, and Attorney General Ken Paxton

The New York Times. The judge's statement came two days following a jury’s verdict in the suit that was originally filed in 2018.Goldring was arrested by two officers — Vladimir Henry and Juan Restrepo — in Atlanta, Ga.

Cypress Ramos was found dead in Texas, making her at least the third trans or gender non-conforming person to be killed in America in 2022.

Swim Swam reports.She not only bested Henig’s 47.80 record, which he had set earlier that day during morning heats, but also Henig himself, who came in second with a 47.82 swim.It was one of three individual victories Thomas secured.

Liz Truss said the government “has no interest” in banning transgender people from using spaces that align with their gender identity.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, indicted nearly seven years on three felony charges on securities fraud violations and now under investigation by the FBI for abuse of power, released a formal attorney general opinion today (Monday, Feb. 21) declaring that “performing certain ‘sex-change’ procedures on children, and prescribing puberty-blockers to them, is ‘child abuse’ under Texas law,” according to a press release from Paxton’s office.

Kuwait’s constitutional court has struck down an anti-trans law under the belief it imposed on the “personal freedom” of trans individuals.

Netflix announces new Dave Chappelle projects despite previous anti-trans comments.

Transgender people in Scotland can now self-identify in the country’s census without a gender recognition certificate.

Kit Volcano is a business and life coach living in San Diego with his wife, Rosie and their son. Kit and Rosie co-founded coaching business The Little Volcano.

En los campeonatos de natación femeninos de la Ivy League de esta semana, muchas personas estarán atentas a lo que haga Lia Thomas, una estrella del equipo de la Universidad de Pensilvania. En los últimos meses, Thomas ha sido noticia no solo por su velocidad —ganó con comodidad una carrera en Ohio que se volvió viral—, sino también por su identidad de género. En 2019, mientras competía en el equipo masculino, Thomas comenzó la transición médica, que consiste en tomar bloqueadores de testosterona y estrógeno.

Big changes are afoot at San Francisco Pride with the sudden departure of its executive director, less than five months before the nonprofit plans to return to pre-COVID life with its annual in-person parade and festival.

High Entropy, the new comedy-drama pilot by Irish Trans filmmaker Ailo Kerr, is now casting its two lead roles. “This pilot will explore family dynamics, identity, censorship, and the factors that can affect a good relationship, not only between other people but between people and their bodies,” Kerr tells GCN. “It will delve into the […]

A petition demanding reform to the Gender Recognition Act has triggered a debate on self-identification in the House of Commons.

Caitlyn Jenner has faced backlash from charity Mermaids after suggesting transgender swimmer Lia Thomas should not be competing against cisgender women and should have more ‘integrity’.University of Pennsylvania swimmer Thomas, 22, won both the 100 and 200-metre races against Harvard University this month. Former Olympian Jenner, who came out as a transgender woman in 2015, has come under fire for her views on other transgender athletes, and has now called for the ‘rules to be changed’.Verity, Trans Inclusion in Sports Youth Worker at Mermaids, a charity supporting young trans people, hit back at her comments, telling Metro.co.uk: ‘Caitlyn Jenner has, again, used her platform of privilege against the trans community… In fact, Lia has won some races and set records, but she has also had her times beaten by much younger athletes and cis female swimmers.’Verity added: ‘Trans people are allowed to be good at sport, just because you’re trans does not make you superhuman. You must train, have the right coaches, nutrition, training programmes, facilities, funding and most of all, skill within the sport.

Lia Thomas is getting a lot of love and support from the swimming community.

Caitlyn Jenner has continued her campaign against trans athletes who were born male competing in women’s sports, by calling out transgender swimmer Lia Thomas for lacking ‘integrity’. The 72-year-old Olympic legend herself came out as a trans woman in 2015 but has received backlash for her stance against trans athletes who were born male from competing alongside other women. University of Pennsylvania swimmer Thomas, 22, won both the 100 and 200-metre races against Harvard University this month. Her controversial spate of victories prompted the NCAA to review its guidelines for male-to-female trans athletes, but said it would not get involved in the row regarding transgender athletes in college sports. Transgender participation for each non-college sport will now be determined by the policy for each sport’s national governing body. Reacting to the news, Jenner told GB News on Monday: ‘I’m a common sense person. Obviously in the case of Lia Thomas it’s not working.

A review into LGBTQ+ human rights has highlighted the “serious damage” caused by “anti-trans rhetoric” in the UK.

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Lia Thomas is a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a transgender woman. The latter statement is currently jeopardizing the former.