r/transgender

“Seeking to become the Georgia legislature’s first openly transgender and nonbinary elected representative, Bentley Hudgins won their primary election Tuesday night.

“Hudgins, who uses they/them pronouns, is headed to a Nov. 3 general election against Samantha Boston in the heavily blue state House District 90. They defeated Leisa Stafford in Georgia’s nationally watched primaries on May 19, capturing 66% of the vote to Stafford’s 34%.”

“If they’re victorious, Hudgins also said they’d become the first Japanese-American to serve in the Georgia legislature.”

“Hudgins’ campaign was endorsed by the Georgia AFL-CIO, the Human Rights Campaign PAC, the Working Families Party, Georgia Equality, Georgia Conservation Voters, the LGBTQ Victory Fund and other organizations.”

After some delay the Minister for Women and Equalities published the EHRC Equality Act 2010 Code of Practice on 21May2026. As part of the British War on Trans (#BWOT) it drastically constrains the freedoms of trans people in the UK. It follows the British convention of saying that a group is protected and then gives detailed descriptions of methods to subvert those protections.

“A lawsuit challenging Idaho’s transgender bathroom ban in K-12 public schools could end soon, after a group at Boise High School suing over the law dropped the case.”

“Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador hailed the case’s end in an announcement Thursday morning, saying the law ‘is fully in effect.’”

“But Labrador’s announcement did not address why the suing parties agreed to dismiss the lawsuit.”

“‘While I may never have certainty about all the things that ultimately led to Jane’s death, I know that one stressor in her life was her struggle to fit in socially as a transgender girl,’ according to the court record written by her mother, who was identified only as Janice Doe in the filing. 

“‘This stress of feeling alienated in her life was exacerbated by Jane’s exclusion from the girls’ restroom at school,’ her mother continued in the court record. ‘The option of a single-user restroom did not resolve her distress. Rather, it caused her to feel ostracized from others — ‘like I’m being treated as this other kind of thing’ — as she described in her supplemental declaration.’”

“In November, the student, Jane, wrote in a court document in the lawsuit about how Idaho’s law was affecting her. She used single-user restrooms at Boise High School, and often had to wait, she wrote. 

“‘… I fear that use of the single-user restroom has increased either the knowledge or suspicion of me being transgender against my wishes,’ Jane wrote. ‘I have heard students refer to the single-user restroom in the main gym building as the ‘trans bathroom.’’”

“The case was appealed to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which in March 2025 rejected a longer block on Idaho’s law. 

“‘Applying intermediate scrutiny, the panel held that the State identified an important governmental objective — protecting bodily privacy — and that the State chose permissible means to achieve that objective,’a panel for the federal court ruled in March 2025.”

Shame them:
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Cleo Fields (LA-06)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Eugene Vindman (VA-06)