Trans Issues – Page 7

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Julie - October 15, 2025

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Is Non-Affirming Counseling for Gender Dysphoria “Conversion Therapy”?

On October 7, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, the case challenging Colorado’s ban on counseling for gender dysphoria that does not seek to affirm gender transition as the best path forward for the patient. Much of the legal debate concerns whether psychotherapy is medical treatment (conduct that can be […]

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Julie - October 15, 2025

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Adolescent Sexual Fluidity

A study of 1,513 Swedish adolescents from age 14 to 17 reveals a surprising degree of variation in sexual orientation during this developmental phase. Most striking is the fluidity of those who at some point in their trajectory identify as lesbian or gay: only 17.6% of girls and 29.4% of boys who so identify did […]

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Julie - October 15, 2025

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Heteronormative Family Expectations

Heteronormativity is a cultural, social, and political framework that institutionalizes heterosexuality as the standard and preferred sexual orientation. Heteronormative familial discourses play a significant role in socializing children, and what makes them so influential is their ability to naturalize certain behaviors and desires. Children are taught that “this is how things are” or “how things should […]

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Julie - October 15, 2025

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More Bad News for Trans Athletes

Although trans-female athletes are a tiny group, they continue to attract an inordinate amount of attention from both trans activists and their political enemies on both the national and local levels. The Trump administration’s Department of Education Civil Rights Office has sued Minnesota for allowing trans students to compete in women’s sports, alleging that it […]

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Julie - October 1, 2025

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Will Michigan Declare Trans Visibility “Obscene”?

Michigan state Rep. Josh Schriver (R) introduced a bill, the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act, that proposes banning pornography and depictions of transgender people, real or imagined, under very broad terms. This pushes criminal penalties, heavy fines, possible sexual-offence charges. Critics argue that the bill is unconstitutional and say it conflates trans existence with obscenity […]

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Julie - October 1, 2025

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Trans People May Be Banned from Owning Guns

In the wake of the mass shooting at a Minneapolis school perpetrated by a young trans woman who regretted her transition and the earlier shooting by a trans man at a Nashville religious school, the Trump DOJ is reported to be considering a proposal to declare gender dysphoria a disqualifying form of mental illness that […]

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Julie - October 1, 2025

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Saving the Suicide Hotline for LGBTQ+

In July, the Trump administration shut down LGBTQ+ youth support options on the national suicide hotline, putting the lives of LGBTQ+ kids and teens at risk. New bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) looks to restore the vital “option 3” which offers support to LGBTQ+ youth. The new 988 […]

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Julie - October 1, 2025

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More Trans Bathroom Bans

Texas has passed the so-called Texas Women’s Privacy Act, S.B. 8 which prohibits transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity in schools and government buildings. This bill also bans women’s violence shelters from providing services to anyone not assigned female at birth unless they are younger than 17 and a child […]

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Julie - October 1, 2025

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Eliminating the “X” Gender Marker on Passports

The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a policy requiring passport gender markers to match the sex listed on one’s birth certificate. The policy would undo lower-court rulings that allow transgender and nonbinary individuals to use identity-consistent markers, including an “X.” This dispute is one of several over an executive order […]

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Gary Pelletier - September 10, 2025

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The Trump administration continues to use gender ideology as a means to combat gender ideology

It is hard to keep up with all the ways that the American government is threatening the livelihoods of its transgender citizens. It is hellbent on eradicating so-called gender ideology and those who promote it, but you don’t need a PhD in Gender Studies to see that the deranged bullies who are most responsible for […]