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world·World NewsbyTRAHR

A mosque built by a transgender person raises questions about faith and belonging in Pakistan

When 46-year-old Rajab Ali, a transgender man, spent his life savings to build a mosque for his local community in Okara district of the Punjab province in Pakistan, he hoped it would bring goodwill and allow people to pray there without gender discrimination. Now that it is complete, however, his neighbors are harassing him for praying in it because he is transgender, known in Pakistan as Khawaja Sira (third gender), a community that has come under renewed attack in Pakistan.

A mosque built by a transgender person raises questions about faith and belonging in Pakistanhttps://globalvoices.org/2026/08/15/a-mosque-built-by-a-transgender-person-raises-questions-about-faith-and-belonging-in-pakistan/Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works
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sports·SportsbyTRAHR

Deadlifting Our Way To a More Inclusive Strength Sports World

To many on the outside, strength sports seem like a masculinity-obsessed, all-male freak show. But what I found when I entered the strength sports world was completely the opposite of anyone’s perception. There were men of all ages, races, sizes, and capabilities, of course, and there were so many other kinds of people, too. While there are certainly gyms that are majority male and cishet, I found there are many spaces that are commanded by diverse groups of people with an even larger diversity of bodies. Queer and trans people — and I’m not talking about just gay men — account for a not-so-insignificant amount of this diversity. And the popularity of strength sports continues to grow steadily amongst LGBTQ+ people all over the world.

Deadlifting Our Way To a More Inclusive Strength Sports Worldhttps://www.autostraddle.com/deadlifting-our-way-to-a-more-inclusive-strength-sports-world/Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works
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progressivepolitics·Progressive PoliticsbyTRAHR

Appeals court revives DOJ subpoena to gender-affirming care provider

Washington - A U.S. federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump’s administration a legal victory on Friday in its efforts to seek data from providers of transgender healthcare to minors, reinstating a Justice Department subpoena that a lower court had blocked as politically motivated.

In its ruling, a divided panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a federal judge in Seattle wrongly concluded the Justice Department’s subpoena was issued in bad faith in a lawsuit brought by telehealth provider QueerDoc.

Appeals court revives DOJ subpoena to gender-affirming care providerhttps://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2026/08/14/trump-wins-appeal-for-doj-subpoena-to-gender-affirming-care-provider/91310738007/Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works
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sports·SportsbyTRAHR

WNBA denounces ‘bad-faith’ transgender debate and says league has no eligibility issues

The WNBA on Wednesday criticized those trying to create a narrative about transgender women playing in the league.

“There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we strongly denounce the bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others,” a league spokesperson said Wednesday in a statement, hours after an anti-hate task force met virtually and discussed a variety of topics, including social media vitriol and transgender athletes.

WNBA denounces ‘bad-faith’ transgender debate and says league has no eligibility issueshttps://apnews.com/article/wnba-transgender-task-force-99e137102826677747da7986025c8b69Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works
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yepowertrippinbastards·Ye Power Trippin' BastardsbyTRAHR

Trans posts removed from News and Politics for made-up reasons

Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

Gedaliyah

What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Removed/Locked Posts

Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).

Deleted/Locked for being a 'Substack Blog'. However there are no rules against Substack blogs and Erin In The Morning is on MBFC.

Deleted for being a 'self post'. It is not, I do not run Transvitae or have any affiliation to it.

Deleted for being 'Substack blog. Please repost this story from a journalistic source. It's an important story '. Erin In The Morning is one of the leading journalistic sources for breaking trans news and investigations written by a trans journalist, who is also the wife of a trans member of the Montana House of Representatives.

Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.-

It is unfair because these were valid articles that were removed for reasons not within the rules or outright fabrications. It silences awareness of systemic discrimination and violence against a minority group. Marginalising issues trans peoples are facing in an ever increasingly transphobic world because they do not come from large scale news corporations who would rather run articles against us.

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crimes_of_ice·Crimes of ICEbyTRAHR

What it’s like inside Eloy’s detention center as a trans woman

Karla Saenz’s pink tennis shoes no longer had laces — United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confiscated them — but her step was firm. She was hungry but not ready to eat; her voice was tired, but she refused to be silent. Clutching her black purse against her pink sweater, she sat down at a truck-stop Wendy’s outside Eloy, Arizona, and described her experience in immigration detention, just minutes after being released. She was exhausted and yet determined to keep fighting.

What it’s like inside Eloy’s detention center as a trans womanhttps://www.hcn.org/issues/58-8/44-days-inside-eloys-detention-center-as-a-trans-woman/Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works
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politics·politics on db0byTRAHR

Mass. vows support for trans kids as Trump bans Medicaid funds

The Healey administration said it will assume the full cost of hormone therapy and counseling for transgender children and teenagers covered by two public insurance programs if a federal rule out Tuesday takes effect on Oct. 13, 2026, as proposed.

The move is the latest effort by the Trump administration to ban medical care for trans kids.

Mass. vows support for trans kids as Trump bans Medicaid fundshttps://www.wbur.org/news/2026/08/12/massachusetts-transgender-care-children-chip-medicaid-hormone-therapyOpen linkView original on sh.itjust.works
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