#gender-identity

#gender-identity

I'd really been feeling this stuff bubble up and talking about it a lot in therapy. We started writing the song, and I saw this TV performance of it [in my mind's eye], and it wasn't even finished. And in the performance I saw myself in jeans, no shirt. And I thought about how I would actually do that on TV. It wasn't a bra.

In her early 20s, Sherrinford Holmes began to discover that she can't stand the feeling of being confined to any point on the gender spectrum, whether it's woman-which she said is how most people perceive her- man, or genderfluid. She likened the sensation to feeling weighed down by hotel bed sheets or blankets when she would prefer to kick them loose. "It feels restricting," said Holmes, now 33. "It feels suffocating."

"I wanted to fulfil her fantasies," the defendant said. "I would run the blunt end of a knife along her body. I always made it very clear that she could use her safe words. I was always acutely aware of her body language. "I'm not into rape fantasies. It's not something that has ever interested me. "I did not rape her. We had very clearly discussed before what the limits were."

For Women Scotland has stated that nothing has persuaded the government to take action, and both policies remain stubbornly in place, to the detriment of vulnerable women and girls.

"I realised that there would be people who had never met a single openly queer person in their life, reading this alongside people who would probably already feel quite shocked by all of the other revelations and my journey with gender identity."

Nicola Sturgeon describes feeling at risk of physical harm after JK Rowling's provocative T-shirt, which stated: 'Nicola Sturgeon, destroyer of women's rights.' She decried the vile abuse stemming from it.

The case was the first gender identity discrimination case to reach the federal court and centred on the definition of sex and what it means to be a woman.

In March, the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature passed Senate Bill 125, which mandates the removal of gender-identifying pronouns and gender ideology from state employees' email communications.

The updated statutory guidance on RSHE calls for schools to remain 'mindful' of the 'significant debate' around transgender identities and not to endorse any particular view.

The Scottish government is reviewing its trans and non-binary inclusion policy following a new threat of legal action by gender-critical group Sex Matters, spurred by a Supreme Court ruling.

The NWSL established a policy in 2021, stating: athletes who transition from male to female are eligible to compete if they declare their gender identity is female subject to testosterone levels being within typical limits of women athletes.

The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to weigh in on the growing controversy over transgender athletes and decide if federal law bars transgender girls from women's school sports teams.

Luke O'Reilly Kane emphasizes a significant issue with the current understanding of the Gender Recognition Act, stating that without clarity and foresight, achieving true equality for transgender individuals remains distant.