Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity. This piece has been updated from its original email version. Genocide scholars are sounding the alarm over what they describe as escalating attacks targeting transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans in the United States. Experts, including two former presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), warn that the nation may already be in the

QueerAF December 2025 TL;DR: Within one day of each other, the Women's Institute and Girl Guiding both announced they would reverse their trans-inclusive approaches with the “utmost regret and sadness”, citing communications with "references to legal challenge" as one of the reasons as their response to the Supreme Court decision on the definition of a woman under the Equality Act 2010. Two culturally significant women's organisations have reversed long-standing trans-inclusi

Exposing the truth: The real children behind the headlines and the outrage Photograph: Medium 2025 Whenever trans inclusion in Girlguiding comes up, social media fills with dramatic claims about “masses” of trans girls joining, supposedly threatening the very fabric of the organisation. As a parent who has actually looked at the numbers, I wanted to understand the basic question: how many trans girls are we really talking about? The short answer: very few . The long answer: e

These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views. BBC // Creative Commons Following a contentious newsroom battle at the BBC over allegations of political bias, it seems the media empire has given way to transphobic rhetoric—canonizing anti-trans talking points in one of the world’s most influential news outlets. This week, the BBC published an article a

The benefits, which are set to expire on November 1st due to the government shutdown, will lead to millions of people struggling to secure access to food. This morning, news broke that the Trump administration will not use emergency funds to pay out SNAP benefits to the millions of Americans who rely on them starting November 1. The benefits are set to expire as the government shutdown drags on, with Democrats and Republicans at an impasse over a series of funding bills for F