What is in the draft Conversion Practices bill?

The draft Conversion Practices Bill includes three proposed offences which would ban criminal conversion practices.

It defines “conversion practice” as “conduct carried out by a person towards an individual with the intention of causing the individual to have or not to have, to believe that they have or do not have” a particular sexual orientation or transgender identity, including non-binary.

The UK based addiction/recovery service informed a cis woman that their online women only meetings are exclusively "for participants who were assigned female at birth and still live as a female."

A New York Appellate court has lifted a ban against trans athletes in Nassau County facilities. The ruling came on November 4, a day after the blue wave election. 

It’s the latest ruling in what has been a two-year battle between the state’s attorney general, a Long Island-based roller derby team and Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman.

A four-judge panel of the the New York Appellate Division, Second Department, ruled that the ban violated state human rights laws.

Brett Shumate spent his time at the DOJ subpoenaing the records of thousands of transgender children and defending bogus investigations into gender-affirming care.

Gender-critical forces in the UK are mustering yet again and need to be opposed. Their latest anti-trans action is about the British Conversion Practices Bill.

This Conversion Practices Bill partially outlaws conversion practice for trans people and the British Government is in the call for evidence phase of that bill. Labour have already gutted it by allowing medics to do Conversion Practice, but UK gender-critical forces are trying to expand it to allow parents to do it.

After establishing her career in Los Angeles, the mother of YouTube is coming back to Toronto, the city that saw her grow from a young content creator to a multi-hyphenated woman, to announce a grant at the Pink Triangle Press Pink Awards to help the IVF journey of an LGBTQ2S+ individual in Canada. (Pink Triangle Press is Xtra’s parent company.)

In Nov. 2025, The Needle opened an investigation into McMaster University’s collaboration with an anti-trans hate group which promotes pseudoscience about trans people. The Needle’s earlier coverage showed that SEGM paid over $300,000 CAD to the Canadian University to suit politically-aimed research objectives.

Now, according to a new batch of records released under Canada’s Freedom of Information laws, it is clear that SEGM’s control of the research went deeper than previously reported.

Pew also found that the internet brings a lot of value to queer people’s lives. While only about a quarter of straight and cisgender people said the internet brings either a “great deal” or “quite a bit” of value to their lives, 42% of LGBTQ+ respondents said the same.

And, almost three-quarters of LGBTQ+ Americans who have a “most-visited” online community say that they go there in order to feel acceptance.

Beyond finding acceptance, LGBTQ+ respondents said that they go online to share their thoughts (83%), get support (74%), obtain advice (80%) and meet new people (58%). In each of these categories, LGBTQ+ respondents agreed at a higher percentage with the statement than non-LGBTQ+ people.

The gender-critical feminist made the remarks on Times Radio while discussing the UK government’s proposed ban on conversion practices, and criticising the draft Conversion Practices Bill.

During the segment, Stock argued that while sexual orientation is not a choice, identifying with that sexuality is. Additionally, writing for The Times, she said: “Some will reply that sexual orientation is not a choice. I totally agree: you can’t choose who you fancy. But that point is irrelevant to what we are talking about, which is self-declared sexual orientation; or in other words, identity.”

The group behind the UK Supreme Court ruling that robs trans + people of a legal gender identity have targeted a cis man with harrasment.

PROMO launched its first deep canvassing project in 2024 as a power-building strategy that uses face-to-face conversations to counteract anti-trans political rhetoric and work toward a pro-trans majority among voters. Deep canvassing involves lengthier conversations than typical “get out the vote” canvassing. PROMO characterizes these efforts as “honest, emotional conversations about healthcare and protections for LGBTQ+ individuals, especially trans and gender-expansive people.”

What started with four paid canvassers across two cities now includes over 40 paid canvassers and about 120 volunteers across five Missouri cities, said PROMO Field Director Courtney Cook.

Since the European Court of Human Rights’ earliest decisions on legal gender recognition, strategic litigation has driven many major advances. More recently, rulings by the Court of Justice of the European Union on freedom of movement and non-discrimination have further strengthened these gains. TGEU’s 2026 Trans Rights Map also found that national court decisions are increasingly driving progress in trans rights, particularly where legislative and policy advances are stalled or reversed.

Trans-specific healthcare is an exception and is comparatively less litigated at the European level. Trans people across the EU face significant barriers in accessing trans-specific healthcare. Enforcing their rights to healthcare is further complicated by administrative refusals, unclear national regulations, and national court rulings that remain largely unknown. At the same time, interest is growing in using legal tools to advocate for improved access to trans-specific healthcare, and in how courts across the region handle such cases.