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Trans is not a trend: 4 gender-nonconforming historical figures who dared to be themselves
Any queer person who’s spent time on the internet has no doubt heard the tired, dismissive right-wing argument that LGBTQ+ folks are just some recent fad, that some nebulous combination of the internet, declining western values, and their favorite boogeyman, “Cultural Marxism” are to blame for the rise in visible, out queer people. This is a favorite refrain, especially when…
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Two men plead guilty to assaulting trans woman hours before she was found dead
Alexa Negrón Luciano Photo: Federal Bureau of Investigation Two Puerto Rican men pled guilty to assaulting Alexa Negrón Luciano, a transgender woman, just hours before she was murdered in 2020. On Monday, the Department of Justice announced that Jordany Rafael Laboy-Garcia and Christian Yamaurie Rivera-Otero pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to commit a hate crime and obstruction of…
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GRAHAM LINEHAN: The world should remember Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint as arrogant, ungrateful cowards for turning on J.K. Rowling in trans row
Why do I risk everything to battle the madness of the trans activists? What’s my endgame? It’s simple. I am concerned about women losing their words, safe spaces and sports to fanatics who denounce the very idea of womanhood. I want to reveal the havoc gender identity has wrought on society, expose those who enabled it and help to bring…
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“I’m not going to give back the crown”: Trans homecoming queen won’t let haters steal her joy
Trans high school student Tristan Young has received an onslaught right-wing backlash after her peers at Kansas’s Oak Park High School voted to crown her homecoming queen. But Young won’t let the bigotry bring her down. She told The Kansas City Star that she’s not the kind of person to let people shut her down. “I like to stay strong.…
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I was an awkward tomboy when I was young. What I needed was someone to say it was okay to be a girl… but the trans community insisted I was a MAN: A heartbreaking story of detransition
A former trans man who detransitioned back to being a woman has slammed gender ideology and cautioned against teaching children they can change sex. Hazel Appleyard, 31, from Leamington, was referred to a gender clinic aged 17 after she said she wanted to become a man. She even intended to make herself infertile by having an operation to remove her…
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Conservative says voters care more about attacking trans kids than anything else
Michael Knowles Photo: Twitter screenshot Michael Knowles — The Daily Wire broadcaster who called for eradicating “transgenderism” and who believes that all demons are trans — says that the 2024 Republican presidential candidates should focus on transgender kids rather than “bread and butter, dinner table issues” that voters actually care more about. In a recent broadcast, Knowles — who believes…
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QAnon believer faces 5 years for death threat against “Satanic, trans” politician
A QAnon conspiracy theorist Photo: Shutterstock A New Mexico QAnon believer has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a cisgender Texas congresswoman because he thought she was a Satanic, transgender pedophile. He now faces up to five years in prison. At 9:04 p.m. on May 18, 2023, a man named Michael David Fox, called the office of an unnamed U.S.…
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Jonathan Van Ness Cries While Discussing Trans Issues With Dax Shepard
In the most recent episode of Dax Shepard’s podcast “Armchair Expert,” Jonathan Van Ness broke down in tears while defending the rights of transgender kids. Shepard and Van Ness engaged in a light-hearted conversation about a range of topics before they began talking about The New York Times. When Van Ness said the publication should not be considered left-leaning, Shepard…
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Nicole Watson started a youth support group after her son came out as trans
Nicole Watson with her children Kendyl, who nominated her as a Hometown Hero, and Finn. Photo: Nicole Watson Hometown Hero Nicole Watson has a lot on her plate these days — with a trans son who recently came out, and an LGBTQ+ youth group she started along with a parents’ spinoff, and hitting the local school board “hard” in support of…
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Trans sports bans may be a threat to trans kids’ health
Anti-trans bills sports bills are sweeping the nation, and laws in 23 states currently ban trans kids from participating in the sports they love. A recent study in adolescent health journal JAMA Pediatrics has put forth that this isn’t just unfortunate for trans kids – it’s also bad for their health. The study’s authors – a group of health services…
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