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Michael Phelps weighs in on trans athletes in sport: “It has to be a level playing field”

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Michael Phelps said sport “has to be a level playing field” when asked about the controversy surrounding Lia Thomas. Thomas, a transgender swimmer on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania, previously spent three years competing on the men’s team. She has become the topic of debate among those questioning trans participation in sport, with Phelps now weighing in on the topic. The 36-year-old, who is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time, compared the discussion surrounding Thomas to that of doping in sport and stated…

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Elliot Page to executive produce ‘artful’ transgender documentary

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Elliot Page will serve as an executive producer for a soon-to-be-released transgender documentary, Nel Mio Nome. The film, which translates to Into My Name, comes from Nicolò Bassetti, an Italian director best known for his work on Magnificent Fortunes. It is scheduled to premiere in February 2022 at the Berlin International Film Festival as part of the Panorama section, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The storyline will follow four friends as they come to terms with their gender identity and transition from female to male at different points in their…

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Netflix drops official trailer for Inventing Anna starring Laverne Cox

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Netflix dropped the official trailer for Inventing Anna on 14 January, giving fans a glimpse into what they can expect from Laverne Cox. The brand new show tells a fictionalised story of real-life scammer Anna Delvey (whose real name is Anna Sorokin). Delvey became an elite in New York social circles after posing as a German heiress, resulting in her making around $200,000 from her cons. She is currently serving a 4-to-12 year prison sentence, with the show’s official synopsis saying: “Audacious entrepreneur or con artist? A reporter digs into…

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Hormones help trans teens, U.S. study finds, as state bans loom

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Transgender teenagers prescribed cross-sex hormones are less likely to have suicidal thoughts and other mental health problems as adults, research showed this week as lawmakers in several U.S. states seek to ban the treatment among minors. Debate has grown about the age at which transition treatment should begin as more people come out as trans. Some fear hormones and puberty-blocking drugs are prescribed too early or hastily, but others say access to them can be life-saving. The new paper published by researchers at Stanford University and The Fenway Institute, a…

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“Cruel” attempt to change how trans people are imprisoned withdrawn from House of Lords

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Following a debate in the House of Lords, a “cruel” amendment attempting to change how trans people are imprisoned was withdrawn. On 10 January, an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill was proposed in the House of Lords to make prisoners put in a jail corresponding to the sex recorded at their birth. Put forward by Lord Blencathra, a Conservative Party life peer and former MP, his suggested changes would have made whether or not someone had a gender recognition certificate irrelevant when it comes to the…

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Hundreds protest BBC’s “problematic” trans coverage outside London HQ

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Protestors took to the streets outside Broadcasting House in protest of the BBC’s “problematic coverage of marginalised groups”. In a demonstration on the afternoon of 8 January, hundreds showed up to object to how the BBC has depicted transgender and other minority communities in recent times. It marks at least the fourth protest in the last three months after the outlet’s publication of Caroline Lowbridge’s infamous article about lesbian women allegedly “being pressured into sex by some trans women.” It has since been revealed that Lily Cade, a lesbian porn…

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Trans Pride flag planted at Antarctica’s highest peak to celebrate “resilience” of community

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A mountaineer waved and planted the transgender Pride flag at the peak of the highest mountain in Antarctica. On 26 December, Erin Parisi reached the summit of Vinson Massif which is 16,067 feet above sea level. After coming out as transgender in 2016, she decided she wanted to climb the highest peaks on each of the seven continents and become the first openly trans woman to do so. “I felt so strong after coming out,” she told NBC News. “I lived in fear, basically my whole life, of being seen,…

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Beloved Black trans activist shot and killed ‘trying to break up a fight’

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Ke’Yahonna Stone has tragically become the 51st trans or gender non-conforming person to be killed in America this year. Content warning: This story may include topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable. Stone, who was from Indianapolis, Indiana, was just 32-years-old at the time of her death on 28 December. According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the victim was at a nightclub on Christmas Day when she tried to break up a fight in the venue’s car park. The situation quickly escalated, resulting in Stone being hit in…

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In Burkina Faso, trans people self-medicate in ‘dangerous’ transition

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It took Aicha Sylla three attempts to get a prescription for hormones in Burkina Faso so she could start to transition gender. In the end, one doctor agreed – if she had sex with him first. “I didn’t have any choice … The other doctors didn’t even listen to me; they refused,” Sylla, 22, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, visibly upset, as she sat in a restaurant in the capital, Ouagadougou. Despite the health risks, she has been self-medicating ever since using the same prescription, a practice that trans rights…

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France’s first lady Brigitte Macron ‘to sue’ over conspiracy theory she is secretly transgender

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Brigitte Macron is allegedly planning to sue the people behind the rumours that she was born as a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux. According to Paris-based newspaper Le Figaro, a hashtag of her deadname, #JeanMichelTrogneux, was trending for several days in December. The conspiracy reportedly started after an article was published in September by right-wing journal Faits et Documents. CNews stated that It was claimed the outlet conducted a three-year-long investigation into Macron and that its theory had support from experts. It cited “proof” such as Macron frequently covering her neck…

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