A screenshot of a tweet purportedly asking dog owners to avoid saying “good boy” or “good girl” to their pets because it “delegitimises the lived experience of transdogs” has been shared thousands of times on Facebook. The remarks prompted
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Snopes→ Arkansas Lawmakers Enact Transgender Youth Treatment Ban
Arkansas lawmakers have made the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, enacting the prohibition over the governor's objections.
Snopes→ Arkansas Lawmakers Enact Transgender Youth Treatment Ban
Arkansas lawmakers made the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, enacting the prohibition over the governor's objections.
Snopes→ Arkansas Governor Vetoes Transgender Youth Treatment Ban
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has vetoed legislation that would have made his state the first to ban gender confirming treatments or surgery for transgender youth
Snopes→ Transgender Ex-Neo-Nazi Receives No Prison Time in Threat Case
A federal judge declined to impose prison time on a former member of a neo-Nazi ring that threatened journalists.
Snopes→ Reversing Trump, Pentagon to Release New Transgender Policy
The Pentagon will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military.
Snopes→ Arkansas Senate OKs Ban on Treatments for Transgender Youth
The measure is among several targeting transgender people that have advanced in Arkansas and other states this year.
Snopes→ A First: US Senate Confirms Transgender Doctor for Key Post
Voting mostly along party lines, the U.S. Senate confirmed former Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be the nation’s assistant secretary of health.
Snopes→ Is Transgender Surgery Now ‘Free for the Military’ Thanks to Biden Order?
March 2021 internet outrage over a Jan. 25 executive order was more spectacle than substance.
Top Fact Checks→ To date, four bills have been introduced in Congress restricting transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports.
Out of the four bills, three were never voted on and the fourth one was introduced in January 2021 in the House.
Top Fact Checks→ Joe Biden withdrew support for a lawsuit in Connecticut seeking to ban transgender students from taking part in sports.
The Biden administration has withdrawn its support for a federal lawsuit that seeks to ban transgender students from competing in high school sports.
Top Fact Checks→ Over 15 states in the U.S. are debating legislatures to restrict transgender students’ participation in sports.
Bills aimed at preventing transgender youth from athletics are under debate in more than a dozen states in the US.
Top Fact Checks→ Sixteen U.S. states currently allow transgender high school athletes to compete without restrictions.
Currently, there are 16 states in the United States which allow transgender students in high school athletics without any restrictions.
Top Fact Checks→ Biden is reversing the Trump administration’s laws on transgender rights.
On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order pledging to combat discrimination based on gender identity.
Top Fact Checks→ Idaho was the first state to pass a bill restricting transgender women and girls to participate in women’s sports.
Idaho was the first state to pass a bill limiting transgender women to compete in women's sports. It has been temporarily blocked by the federal court
Snopes→ Do These Transphobic Posts Show a Transgender College Basketball Player?
The posts are both out of date and out of context.
Snopes→ TN Governor Says Transgender Athletes Will ‘Destroy Women’s Sports’
It's unclear how many transgender students are participating in public school sports in Tennessee.
Top Fact Checks→ Republicans introduced a congressional bill to ban transgender girls from school sports.
Republicans have introduced bills to ban transgender students from competing in sport, but none has been approved.
Snopes→ Did Biden’s Exec Order Say Schools Should Include Transgender Athletes in Girl’s Sports?
Amidst a flurry of executive orders signed by the new administration in January 2021, one stood out.
Snopes→ Biden Reverses Trump Ban on Transgender People in Military
President Joe Biden has signed an order reversing a Trump-era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military
Snopes→ AP Source: Biden to Drop Trump’s Military Transgender Ban
“If you’re fit and you’re qualified to serve and you can maintain the standards, you should be allowed to serve,” said newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Snopes→ Biden Picks Transgender Woman As Assistant Health Secretary
Dr. Rachel Levine is poised to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Snopes→ Supreme Court Rejects Appeal to Limit Transgender Students
The suit from a group of Oregon parents sought to prevent transgender students from using locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender of which they identify, rather than their assigned sex at birth.
Snopes→ ‘All My Love, Elliot’: Actor Page Comes out As Transgender
Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page, the star of “Juno," “Inception” and “The Umbrella Academy,” came out as transgender in an announcement greeted as a watershed moment for the trans community in Hollywood.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Say ‘If Your 8-Year-Old Child Says They Want To Be Transgender … They Have A Right To Transition’
Did Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden say during an ABC News Town Hall, "If your 8-year-old child says they want to be transgender ... they have a right to transition and there is no reason for you to deny it"? No, that's not true
Top Fact Checks→ Beau Biden passed the first transgender law in the state of Delaware.
Gender Identity Nondiscrimination Act was passed by the Delaware Senate and signed into law by the then governor. Beau Biden publically supported it.
Top Fact Checks→ Trump administration has attacked the rights of transgender people – banning them from military service, weakening non-discrimination protection and even removing the word transgender from some govern
The Trump administration has rolled back several rights and measures against discrimination that protected the transgender community.
Liste→ False claim circulates that Pakistani singer was shot dead after transgender woman with same name murdered
A photo of Gul Panra, a popular Pakistani Pashto singer, has been shared multiple times on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim that Panra was shot dead in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The claim is false; Panra is alive and well; the posts circula
Snopes→ Did Trump Admin Memo Explain How To Spot Transgender People?
A federal memo allegedly said homeless shelters could identify some incoming transgender residents based on height and whether or not they had facial hair or Adam's apples.
Snopes→ Trump Administration Revokes Transgender Health Protection
The Trump administration finalized a rule that overturns Obama-era protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care.
Snopes→ JK Rowling Responds to Critics Over Her Transgender Comments
“Harry Potter” creator J.K. Rowling said she refuses to “bow down” to criticism about her recent comments on transgender people.
Snopes→ JK Rowling’s Tweets on Transgender People Spark Outrage
Rowling drew outrage on Twitter when she criticized an opinion piece from Devex that used the phrase ”people who menstruate.”
Snopes→ 2 Missouri Officers Accused of Assaulting Transgender Woman
Two police officers face assault charges for allegedly slamming a transgender woman’s face into a concrete sidewalk during an arrest.
Snopes→ Girls Sue to Block Participation of Transgender Athletes
The families of three female high school runners have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block transgender athletes in Connecticut from participating in girls sports.
Snopes→ Did the U.S. Army Welcome Its First Openly Transgender Working Dogs?
A routine review of content labeled satire.
TruthOrFiction→ NikkieTutorials (Nikkie de Jager) Comes Out as Transgender
On January 13 2020, YouTube star Nikkie de Jager — known to her fans as NikkieTutorials — revealed in a 17-minute video that she is transgender: I’m coming out. https://t.co/chLHURZKk4 — NikkieTutorials (@NikkieTutorials) January 13, 2
TruthOrFiction→ Did J.K. Rowling ‘Confirm Her Stance Against Transgender Women’?
Rumors that author J.K. Rowling (of the popular Harry Potter series) was a trans-exclusionary feminist circulated for years due to her comments and behavior on Twitter, culminating in a viral June 2019 Medium piece by Phalen Fairchild titled, “
Snopes→ Agreement Affirms North Carolina Transgender Restroom Rights
The legal settlement affirms transgender people's right to use restrooms matching their gender identity in many North Carolina public buildings.
Snopes→ Settlement Expands Transgender Restroom Rights in N Carolina
The consent decree could end a protracted lawsuit by transgender people against North Carolina's so-called bathroom bill.
Snopes→ Did J.K. Rowling ‘Confirm Her Stance Against Transgender Women’?
A thought-provoking, widely shared blog post made a series of allegations against the "Harry Potter" creator in June 2019.