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Who's on the team: A guide to the latest federal actions about transgender athletes
Rights and protections for transgender students are constantly evolving, as the culture wars play out and politicians, lawyers, families and students themselves grapple with what it means to be transgender in different contexts, particularly sports.
Reddit is updating its gender identity and ads policies
Reddit will soon begin using self-disclosed gender identity to personalize ads on the platform. The goal of this change is to ensure that the content you see on Reddit – including advertising – is as relevant to the user as possible. Implementing the new changes. The change will be implemented on April 24, 2023. Reddit wants to ensure its users are aware of the upcoming change and have ample time to adjust their account settings or remove their gender information if desired. Private messages will be sent to users who have previously provided their gender, while those who haven’t will be informed during the account creation process and on the account settings page where they can provide their gender.
The Deep-Down Truth of Why Evangelical Christians Can’t Stand Drag
In late March, the Judicial Committee for the Nebraska Legislature heard public testimony over LB 371, a bill that would criminalize drag shows where minors are present. Opponents vastly outnumbered supporters, with a line extending beyond the committee room and snaking along the hall. The group of supporters was smaller, but their claims were bold. “Queer theory is a nationwide playbook trying to indoctrinate our children!” one supporter exclaimed. Another called Drag Story Hour “sexually manipulative sleaze.” “Stop twerking our kids!” one testifier defiantly yelled to end her speech.
There is a difference between biological sex and gender identity
Thank you so much for your article (“At last, a consensus is emerging on protecting women-only spaces”, Comment). As a left-leaning feminist, doctor and trainee psychotherapist, I wept with joy and relief to see an article that finally seemed to voice that there is a difference between biological sex and gender identity, and sometimes this difference matters.
California Transgender Woman Beaten in Men’s Jail Wins Settlement
San Diego County has settled with a transgender woman who was beaten by a fellow inmate after being placed in a cell with three men at a men’s prison in 2020. While admitting no guilt or liability in the case, San Diego County agreed to pay $275,000 to Kristina Frost for the incident that took place on November 20, 2020, at the Central Jail in downtown San Diego.
3 Ways to Support a Friend With a New Sexual Identity
Accepting one's gender or sexual identity that does not fit into a heteronormative structure is just one stepping stone on a path of many hardships. "Coming out" is a complicated and challenging process. Research published in the academic journal Sociology Compass shows that the process of coming out to one's parents can be long and challenging. It often takes time and resources (e.g., therapy, family counseling, etc.) before parents come to terms with and accept their children for who they are.
Where gender-affirming care for youth is banned, intersex surgery may be allowed
Multiple U.S. states have banned gender-affirming care for transgender people under the age of 18 this year alone. Indiana and Idaho are the latest to do so. But in some states, "gender-normalizing surgeries" are allowed on intersex infants with "ambiguous sex characteristics." (That's the case in Georgia, Kentucky, and South Carolina.) Those "ambiguous" characteristics apply to an estimated 1.7% of the world's population who are born intersex.
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Proposed Regulation Governing Athletics Eligibility Based on Gender Identity
On April 6, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education issued a proposed rule that would govern a school, college, or university’s ability to regulate participation by transgender athletes on teams designated “men’s” and “women’s.” The proposed rule, if ultimately adopted in its current form, would prohibit institutional policies that categorically ban transgender students from participating on sex-designated teams consistent with their gender identity. But it would allow schools to limit participation based on gender identity where such a limitation is “substantially related to the achievement of an important educational objective,” such as ensuring “fairness” in competition or preventing “sports-related injury.”
How young people are shaking off gender binaries
Like many members of Gen Z, 20-year-old Rain Ashley Preece views gender outside of the Western established norms. “I think it is limiting everyone in society by saying there are only two genders – male and female,” says Cardiff-based Preece, who identifies as transgender male and uses he/they pronouns. “People may feel like they are both, neither or a bit of one or the other. I don’t personally feel completely masculine, even though I mostly see myself as a boy.”
Crack down on guns for the Nashville school shooting, not trans people
In Nashville on Monday, a devastating school shooting appears to have been perpetrated by a 28-year-old transgender man named Audrey Hale. According to media reports, Hale was autistic, though high functioning, and only recently came out as trans. Many conservative figureheads, however, like the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-N.C., have already jumped on the bandwagon of blaming the shooting on Hale’s gender identity, sparking panic among many in the trans community over potential conservative reprisals.
Some on the right blame gender identity and not guns for Nashville shooting
In the hours after the shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday, some conservatives rushed to blame the massacre on the suspect’s gender identity, connecting the tragedy to their national crusade against transgender rights. Little is so far known publicly about the motives of the shooter, whom police identified as a transgender former student of The Covenant School who resented having to attend the facility.
Understanding Terminology for Sex, Gender Identity is Critical in Patient Care Today
The terms “sex” and “gender” are often misused in US society and in medical communities, explained Kelsea Aragon, PharmD, PhC, BCACP, CDCES, during her presentation at the APhA 2023 Annual Meeting & Exposition. In relation to sex and gender, the term “sex” refers only to a person’s external genitalia; however, medical literature commonly does not make this distinction. For example, in US society, the trend of “gender reveal parties” is in fact misusing the term gender.
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