Transgender
Anti-LGBTQ violence in Israel rose sharply in 2025, national queer and trans violence report finds
A total of 432 homophobic or transphobic physical incidents were reported in Israel in 2025, the Aguda's report found.
US Supreme Court rejects Colorado's ban on LGBT 'conversion' talk therapy
US judge will block attempt to restrict gender affirming care to minors after lawsuit
Jewish man stabbed after refusing sex with content creator on religious basis - report
Trans screenwriter Our Lady J condemns anti-Zionism in LGBTQ spaces: ‘Zionism is not a dirty word’
“Until the LGBTQ community distances itself from antisemitism, including antizionism, our allies will continue to fall away, and we will remain defenseless,” wrote actress and producer Our Lady J.
Trump draws criticism after joking about transgender athlete at Kennedy Center
Remarks by President Donald Trump mocking a transgender athlete have sparked criticism, amid ongoing legal battles over transgender rights in the US.
US federal workers challenge Trump policy on gender-affirming care
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation called the policy "the latest attack from a Trump administration obsessed with undermining the rights and freedoms of transgender people."
Kennedy seeks to cut US children's access to gender-affirming care
Kennedy proposed rules barring hospitals that provide such care from participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs and prohibiting Medicaid from paying for it.
Tennis player Aryna Sabalenka says women facing transgender athletes 'not fair'
"The woman has been working her whole life to reach her limit, and then she has to face a man who is biologically much stronger. I don't agree with this kind of stuff in sport," Sabalenka said.
Carrie Soloway, inspiration for trailblazing trans Jewish protagonist of ‘Transparent,’ dies at 88
Carrie Soloway was an icon to the trans community, inspiring a TV show that blazed a path for modern LGBTQ Jews exploring their identity.
Family suspected in stabbing of transgender woman in Beersheba
A transgender woman from the Bedouin community was seriously wounded in Beersheba in a suspected family-based hate crime, prompting a police investigation.
Olympic committee moves toward blanket ban on transgender women athletes
The ban is set to come into effect in early 2026, The Times reported.
US Supreme Court allows Trump's passport policy targeting transgender people
The administration's policy reverses decades of practice at the US State Department, which had permitted passport sex designations to differ from sex assigned at birth with medical documentation.
In National Book Awards finalist, Jewish trans boy and golem team up to save the world
The novel, which is aimed for middle-grade readers, features a young Jewish transgender boy who teams up with a golem, a creature from Jewish folklore, to save the world from demons.
