Trans woman recognised as biological mother in France

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.

Andrew Garfield said he’ll compete on Strictly Come Dancing if he wins at the upcoming Oscars.

already record total to 56.Martina Caldera, 38, was found dead December 6 near a highway overpass in Channelview, Texas, a suburb of Houston, TV station KPRC reports. Investigators with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office initially believed she was hit by a car, but they then discovered she had been shot several times.Her family held a demonstration at the site this month to call attention to her death and to demand justice.

The situation for LGBTI asylum seekers in a number of European countries is fraught with difficulties with many facing double discrimination, a new report has warned.They face "specific difficulties and injustice" even in countries that rank high for positive LGBT legislative change, according to an annual review by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA).ILGA-Europe says LGBTI asylum seekers face double discrimination in Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Malta, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK.In Denmark, activists have documented cases of trans asylum seekers without access to trans-specific healthcare or being harassed, while NGOs in Spain have warned of the underreporting of discrimination and violence that LGBTI asylum seekers endure, and a lack of access to social and healthcare services.Germany was flagged for "the unsafe practice of conducting investigations of asylum seekers in their home countries and outing them".Several countries including France, Malta and Greece were decried for adding nations -- thought by some as being unsafe for LGBTI people -- to their list of "safe countries" that asylum seekers could be sent back to if their applications were unsuccessful.Greece now considers Turkey safe for LGBTI asylum seekers to be sent back to, but ILGA-Europe ranks the country as among the three worst countries in Europe for LGBTI rights and protection.France's Council of State, which acts as a supreme court for administrative justice, ruled in March that LGBTQI+ asylum seekers coming from a country that criminalises or persecutes LGBTQI+ people, should not be automatically given refugee status.Malta and Sweden were meanwhile flagged for new

Jodie Harsh has released her brand new single, Good Time, and it’s everything you’d expect from the queer icon in the best way possible.

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In a landmark case, a judge in Scotland has approved a decision that Trans people can self identify in the country’s upcoming census. Under the decision, the question “what is your sex?” on the census form will now be accompanied by guidance which reads: “If you are Transgender, the answer you give can be different […]

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 […]

MPs in the French parliament have unanimously approved a new law banning so-called gay conversion therapy.The new law will introduce prison sentences and fines for any citizen who attempts to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBT+ people.The draft bill was supported by MPs on Tuesday, with 142 voting in favour and 0 against. The law had already been supported by France's Assembly in October and was also passed by senators in December.Those found guilty of so-called gay conversion therapy could face two years imprisonment and a €30,000 fine.

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.

If it feels like Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been running for governor in Arkansas forever, it’s because she has. Sanders first announced her candidacy in January 2021, one year and 10 months before the election was scheduled to take place. But looking at her campaign website, you might think she’s already got the job, even though the election is still several months away.Related: Sarah Huckabee Sanders went on “The View” this morning and OMG you guysWhen most candidates run for public office, they indicate that they are, indeed, running for public office.

At the Ivy League women’s swimming championships this week, many eyes in the crowd will be fixed on Lia Thomas, a star of the University of Pennsylvania team. In recent months, Thomas has made headlines not only for her speed — handily winning one Ohio race that went viral — but also for her gender identity. In 2019, while competing on the men’s team, Thomas began to medically transition, taking testosterone blockers and estrogen.

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A post shared by JACQUEMUS (@jacquemus) When French fashion designer, Simon Porte Jacquemus, shared a photo [above] of himself kissing his husband on Monday, he probably thought it would be little more than a sweet Valentine’s gesture.Some of the comments it provoked shocked him.Simon’s label, Jacquemos, is known for its clothing, bags, earrings and sunglasses. It takes a pro-LGBTQ stance and has used same-sex couples in its marketing campaign.Related: Pete Buttigieg, Billy Porter, Colton Underwood and others celebrate ValentinesThe photo shows Simon kissing his husband Marco Maestri beside a swimming pool.

Andrea Jenkins is a triple-threat: a poet, performance artist and politician, and now she’s become a trailblazer as the first Black Trans person to run a city council in the United States. “Poetry and politics have had a very close connection,” Jenkins said to the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “As one of my favourite poets and […]

Downton Abbey: A New Era, the latest film born out of the beloved BBC series Downton Abbey. Michelle Dockery’s Lady Mary continues to exude her signature ennui while Dame Maggie Smith’s Violet Crawley doles out the familiar bon mots.

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

The BBC is coming under fire again for its “transphobic reporting” but this time by ILGA-Europe, a leading LGBTQ+ rights organisation.  In their annual review, they warn that the UK’s increasing anti-trans rhetoric is causing “serious damage”. In the review, they cited the BBC as a leading agent in “biased motivated speech”.  With the UK […]

The EU's top court has ruled that same-sex parents and their children must be recognised as a family in all member states.In a landmark ruling on Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) said that if one country acknowledges a parental relationship with a child, then every member state should do the same in order to guarantee the child's right to free movement.The case came before the court after Bulgarian authorities refused to give a birth certificate to the new-born daughter of a same-sex couple on the basis that a child cannot have two mothers.Bulgarian Kalina Ivanova and British Gibraltar-born Jane Jones are both registered as the mothers of Sara, who was born in Spain in 2019.But neither parents are of Spanish descent, meaning citizenship in that country is not allowed and under the British Nationality Act of 1981, Jones cannot transfer British citizenship to her daughter as she was born in Gibraltar.On this basis, Ivanova requested Bulgarian citizenship for her child, which was subsequently rejected since same-sex marriages and partnerships and not legally recognised in Bulgaria.As a result, Sara was left at risk of statelessness, with no access to citizenship, unable to leave her family’s country of residence, Spain, as well as no personal documents, therefore, limiting her access to education, healthcare and social security.The CJEU also ruled that the child should be issued a Bulgarian passport.Speaking on Tuesday following the ruling, Arpi Avetisyan, head of litigation at NGO ILGA-Europe said: "The judgment has brought long-awaited clarification that parenthood established in one EU Member State cannot be discarded by another, under the pretence of protecting the 'national identity'."This is a true

Out French ice dancer, Guillaume Cizeron, won a gold medal Monday at the Beijing Winter Olympics.Cizeron skated with his longtime skating partner, Gabriella Papadakis.

Gigi Hadid was spotted taking a walk in SoHo, New York City with Queer Eye stars Antoni Porowski and Tan France on Monday.The 26-year-old supermodel wore a wool overcoat, brown blazer paired with leather pants and Doc Marten boots.Tan, 38, was seen wearing a blue face mask and a brown leather jacket with blue jeans. He paired his look with a vibrant yellow sweater with a cactus on the front.

already record total to 55.Black trans woman Keeva Scatter, 34, was shot to death in Baton Rouge, La., October 15, TransGriot reports. Her body was found just a block away from her home. Local media deadnamed and misgendered her at the time.

NBC News reports. This means the bill will not go any farther.The measure, Senate Bill 848, would have banned all gender-affirming procedures for people under 18, including not only genital surgery — which doctors do not generally recommend for minors anyway — but also hormone treatment, puberty blockers, facial feminization surgery, and more.Pace said his vote was influenced by the testimony from transgender youth and their families at a committee hearing last week.

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On Friday, February 11, Isabel Torres sadly lost her battle with lung cancer, her family confirmed in a post on the Trans star’s Instagram account. “Today, February 11, 2022, we say goodbye to Isabel,” the post read in Spanish.  “Although her family and friends feel her loss deeply, we know that wherever she goes, she […]

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A post shared by Guillaume Cizeron (@guillaume_cizeron)Out, gay skater Guillaume Cizeron and dance partner Gabriella Papadakis have won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in the pairs ice dancing.The French couple, who put on a stunning display of synchronicity, also earned themselves a record-breaking score of 226.98 in the process.Their triumph comes four years after they won a silver medal at the Pyeongchang Games in South Korea. On that occasion, Papadakis suffered a “wardrobe malfunction” and her dress came apart.

blog post Tuesday, stating that misgendering and deadnaming users are “prohibited on our platform.” Keenan also stated that content promoting conversion therapy and misogyny is also banned as the video platform provided more clarity on its content moderation policies.Following advocacy from GLAAD and @UltraViolet, and recommendations from the GLAAD Social Media Safety Index, @tiktok_us updated Community Guidelines to prohibit misgendering, deadnaming, misogyny, and promotion of so-called “conversion therapy” programs.https://t.co/lmxQNXYKM8“Though these ideologies have long been prohibited on TikTok, we’ve heard from creators and civil society organizations that it’s important to be explicit in our community guidelines,” Keenan said. He went on to highlight the recent addition of a feature that allows users to list their pronouns on their account as something he hopes “will encourage respectful and inclusive dialogue on our platform.”The changes came as part of a wider revision of TikTok’s community guidelines aimed at addressing multiple issues present in content on the platform.

Ben Croll “I asked myself, why was it so difficult to name a Quebecois film from the past 25 years that treated sexuality as its central theme?” Côté told Variety. “Why could France foster directors who filmed the human body in direct and unselfconscious ways, and Quebec could not? Were Quebecois more prudish than others?”And so the Montreal-based filmmaker started on his 14th feature, which follows three so-called “hypersexual” women, plagued with troubled histories and fragile mental states, as they participate in a month-long therapy retreat. But as he developed the script with a local sexologist, the filmmaker saw potential traps in two very different directions.“The film could never be meant to judge,” Côté explained.

record total of such deaths to at least 54.Rubi Dominguez, a Latina trans woman, was killed in a hit-and-run accident July 16 in Arlington, Texas. Her trans identity was initially reported by TransGriot, as some other media had deadnamed and misgendered her.Her sister Monica described Rubi as “a happy, social, humorous person” who “made people laugh.” Appearing on Telemundo, Monica called for justice and appealed to the driver to come forward. “Make yourself responsible because it has caused great pain in my family, both emotionally and psychologically,” she said.

A landmark court ruling in France saw a trans woman be registered as her child’s mother on the baby’s birth certificate.

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One of the UK’s leading human rights watchdogs is facing an international review over its recent stance on LGBTQ+ rights.

Drag Race season 14’s Bosco has just come out as Trans in a Twitter thread that is garnering massive support from fans, friends and allies. “I can’t really think of a better time to tell y’all so here it goes,” the reality TV star wrote, clearly referencing the ongoing conversation about her heterosexual cisgender season […]

Perth and Kinross Council is celebrating LGBT+ History Month with a range of events this February. This year’s theme is “Blurring Borders,” which explores LGBT liberation and community across the globe.Perth Bridge and St Paul’s were lit up in rainbow colours at the start of February and will be lit in purple on 25 February to mark Purple Friday, LGBT Youth Scotland’s annual fundraising event.Rainbow Laces Day took place on February 1 to launch LGBT+ History month, and is also part of a national campaign led by Stonewall UK to promote lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality within sport.Time to Talk Day is the nation’s biggest mental health conversation and took place on February 3, it’s the day that friends, families, communities, and workplaces come together to talk, listen and change lives.

Drag Race contestant Bosco came out as trans in an intimate message and said they are the “happiest” they’ve “ever been.”

The New York Times reports.His discovery was important but not without controversy. The deadly disease that had first surfaced in 1981 and was eventually given the name of AIDS, for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, was devastating gay and bisexual men, along with certain other populations, but its cause remained mysterious for some time.Some scientists, however, suspected it was caused by a retrovirus, “a kind of germ that slips into the host cell’s DNA and takes control, in a reversal of the way viruses typically work; hence the name retro,” the Times notes.Montagnier, an expert on retroviruses, and his team at the Pasteur Institute did research in 1983 on a lymph node that had been removed from a person with AIDS.

Destinee Lashaee, who was the first trans castmember of the TLC reality hit My 600-lb Life, has died at 30, according to a family member’s social media post. No cause of death was given.

The trailer for French director Guillaume Grélardon’s debut film A Night In The Fields has just dropped.The 55 minute film is set in a working class town near the French border. It follows teenagers Anthony and Dylan, who decide to crash an evening at a nightclub.

Human Rights Campaign has suspended UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Health from its Hospital Equality Index because of Children’s decision to end its Genecis program.

Poet, performance artist, politician and ground breaker. For Andrea Jenkins, the first Black transgender American to lead a city council, all roles rest on her lifelong quest for justice.

Ever After (think The Bachelor meets Disney) is the talent handler of “Prince Charming,” Charlie Winshaw, a tech wunderkind hiding a few secrets of his own. While working together, Dev and Charlie develop a growing attraction to each other, a development that could spell disaster for both of their professional lives. Come for the drama.

Josiah Carter, a former Below Deck cast member, revealed that he and his boyfriend Michael Groves recently got engaged.

Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, was the first cisgender woman to win the Miss Trannyshack title in 2003, raising many glittered eyebrows in consternation and launching a performance career that has taken her around the globe. In a kiki of sorts with Out in the Bay, she shares live performance clips from her show "The F Word;" reads from her memoir, "Faux Queen: A Life in Drag;" and spills tea about where drag and feminism meet and about words that are "now Problematic with a capital P. Or rather, a capital T."

#Toulouse https://t.co/CM7hXHNRQQOnly the gestation mother appeared on the child's civil status.Since the transgender partner was not recognised as the father, her partner had to adopt her own biological daughter, as the adoptive mother.The couple took legal action and in 2018, a court of appeal in Montpellier ordered that the transgender mother could be mentioned on the child's birth certificate as the "biological parent".But in 2020, France's highest Court of Cassation referred the case to the Toulouse court of appeal.Yesterday's decision recognises the husband, who had become a woman, on the child's birth certificate as the mother - essentially ruling that two maternal filiations could be approved.Since 2016, French law has authorised gender reassignment without sexual reassignment that has allowed distinct legal and biological realities to coexist.But the legislation, according to the Court of Appeal, "leaves an undeniable legal vacuum" due to the lack of a provision relating to the filiation of children born after the change of gender in civil status, even though gestational motherhood is no longer exclusive.The court considered that was in the best interests of the children - and their personal privacy - to make it imperative that children born to a couple in which one of its members is transgender, can have a double affiliation established with respect to both parents.Daily newsletterReceive essential international news every morningKeep up to date with international news by downloading the RFI app

Piers Morgan has weighed into the row over Adele’s ‘anti-trans’ comments following Tuesday night’s gender-neutral BRIT awards. The TV Presenter and former journalist, defended the singer who has came under fire for comments she made after she won Artist of the Year award at the BRIT Awards.

With only one member opposed, the San Francisco Unified School District board voted Tuesday night to create a parent advisory council for queer and trans families. It's the third school district in California to do so.