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Here’s how the U.S. government is defining ‘biological sex’
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Here’s how the U.S. government is defining ‘biological sex’

ANALYSIS: A new document featuring the administration’s attempt to categorize ‘two sexes’ is needlessly convoluted and contradictory

By Mel Woods
What’s going on with Trump’s cuts to PrEP funding?
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What’s going on with Trump’s cuts to PrEP funding?

The president’s freeze on foreign aid has raised many questions about HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in the U.S. and abroad

By Mel Woods
How to survive the ‘shock and awe’ Trump news cycle
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How to survive the ‘shock and awe’ Trump news cycle

Two weeks into his second presidency, it has felt like a nonstop onslaught of news. Here are three ways to cope

By Mel Woods
What happens when we erase trans people and gender from CDC research?
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What happens when we erase trans people and gender from CDC research?

ANALYSIS: The Trump administration’s directive to purge CDC research and data from mentions of gender will have broad impacts

By Mel Woods
How Trump’s attack on gender-affirming care for youth could impact trans adults
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How Trump’s attack on gender-affirming care for youth could impact trans adults

ANALYSIS: From rejecting WPATH to a chill on doctors, we break down how the president’s executive order might influence care for adults in addition to young people

By Mel Woods
How Trump’s gender executive order hints at reproductive rights fight
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How Trump’s gender executive order hints at reproductive rights fight

ANALYSIS: The focus on a person “at conception” forecasts more federal attacks on reproductive rights to come

By Mel Woods
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Trump’s ‘revolution of common sense’ is already decimating  trans rights
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Trump’s ‘revolution of common sense’ is already decimating trans rights

ANALYSIS: In one of his first executive orders, the new president called for the erasure of federal recognition of trans people

By Mel Woods
Why did Danielle Smith meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago?
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Why did Danielle Smith meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago?

Social media photos show the Alberta premier cavorting with a variety of conservative figures at Trump’s golf resort

By Mel Woods
Why queer people should worry about Meta’s new hate speech guidelines
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Why queer people should worry about Meta’s new hate speech guidelines

ANALYSIS: In promising to allow “discourse about transgenderism,” Zuckerberg and Meta make a clear political choice

By Mel Woods
Who gets to claim parental rights?
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Who gets to claim parental rights?

Xtra and TVO’s Unravelled partnered on this mini-doc diving into what “parental rights” policies mean for kids and parents across Canada

By Xtra Staff
Second Alberta town votes to ban Pride flags, rainbow crosswalks
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Second Alberta town votes to ban Pride flags, rainbow crosswalks

Barrhead residents voted this week in favour of new “neutrality” bylaw

By Mel Woods
Xtra Explains: Parental rights
Xtra Explains

Xtra Explains: Parental rights

What does Canadian law actually say when it comes to the rights of parents and trans kids?

By Mel Woods
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Xtra Explains: Social vs. medical transition
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Xtra Explains: Social vs. medical transition

Media and politicians like to fixate on the medical aspects of transition. But for most trans youth, social transition plays a much bigger part in their lives

By Mel Woods
Could Canadian conservatives copy Trump’s anti-trans messaging?
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Could Canadian conservatives copy Trump’s anti-trans messaging?

The president-elect’s final ad push—and subsequent election win—may have Canada’s right looking to lean in on anti-trans messaging

By Mel Woods
Xtra Explains: Detransition
Xtra Explains

Xtra Explains: Detransition

In reality, only around three percent of trans people experience some form of regret

By Mel Woods
UCP AGM signals that more anti-trans laws could be coming for Alberta
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UCP AGM signals that more anti-trans laws could be coming for Alberta

Danielle Smith’s party passed resolutions at their AGM this weekend including a bathroom bill and defunding gender-affirming healthcare for all ages

By Mel Woods
Celebrities, activists take red carpet at Pink Awards
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Celebrities, activists take red carpet at Pink Awards

Catch them here and on YouTube as LGBTQ2S+ changemakers and their champions are honoured at the inaugural celebration

By Xtra Staff
Alberta introduces Canada’s harshest anti-trans policies yet
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Alberta introduces Canada’s harshest anti-trans policies yet

Premier Danielle Smith’s government tabled three new policies on gender-affirming healthcare, pronouns in schools and trans girls in sports

By Mel Woods
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