In a shocking blow to transgender rights across Europe, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg yesterday ruled that forcing transgender people to divorce before their legal gender is changed in countries where equal marriage laws are not available is legal.
Over the weekend Inhouse Pharmacy, the website most commonly used by trans* and intersex people in the UK to self-medicate, changed its ordering policies. Whereas in the past the website has accepted orders for hormone replacement therapy medication (used by large numbers of older cisgender women in the UK and also by younger cisgender women […]
It’s 20 November and the trans* blogs, plus allied blogs & news sites around the world, are going black, sporting pictures of candles and remembering the trans* people who have passed away since 20 November 2012. It is a day of mourning for the community and, now, a wake-up call to the cisgender people of […]
Following recent controversial decisions regarding consent in rape and other sexual offence cases, an update of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Legal Guidance on section 74 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 was inevitable. The new guidance takes into account the courts’ decisions in several cases, primary amongst them Assange and McNally. The new guidance on […]
The T-Vox News service originally launched alongside the organisation’s wiki and forum, but using the Wiki to propagate news wasn’t effective. Work on building up a comprehensive database of trans and intersex information was deemed more important than keeping the news service up-to-date and, as a result, the news halted. Now T-Vox News is back, […]