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 Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson recently named 51-year-old Lina Axelsson Kihlblom as the country’s new Schools Minister. Kihblom is the first transgender government minister in not only Sweden but all of Scandinavia.“This is a huge and exciting task and I’m ready to take it on,” Kihblom said at a press conference on last week.Before her entry into politics, Kihlblom was known for achieving a great deal of success through her work as a principal.

By Michael MacKayOn The Transgender Day of Remembrance I am reflecting on the transgender lives lost to anti-transgender violence.

Hobart City Council has received criticism from a number of trans rights advocates after it was revealed that Women Speak Tasmania, a group that likens the transgender community to a “cult” and a “social contagion”, have booked Hobart Town Hall for an upcoming public forum on November 27.The concerns were first raised by Hobart Councillor Jax Fox, who told Star Observer that when the event was first booked for back in August, they adamantly tried shut it down but were told there, “wasn’t the

Star Observer caught up with Inkpin, on what was Transgender Day of Visibility, to discuss what this news meant for her personally and for the church at large.Such a tremendous joy to become Minister of @PittStUniting today – the 1st openly #trans person inducted in a mainstream Australian Church – with such an extraordinary range of friends old & new

Former Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Corporal Rian Ross Toyer, convicted for the manslaughter of trans woman Mhelody Bruno, has been jailed for at least for 12 months. Toyer, 33, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges for choking Filipina trans woman Mhelody Bruno to death during a sex act on September 21, 2019. Justice Gordon Lerve admitted to an error in earlier sentencing Toyer to an intensive correction order and 500 hours of community service that let him avoid jail time for the

reported on an interaction involving Senior Constable Mark Follington of New South Wales Police, and transgender woman Anya Bradford, which saw the woman pepper sprayed and left with a black eye and cuts to her wrist, after being unable to provide photo ID while at the Railway Hotel in Liverpool in May 2019.“The larger officer picked me up by the handcuffs, like I was on a leash, like I was a dog, then he dragged me out… laughing,” Bradford said. “My head hit the corner of the room and then he

In the ultimate smack down, former WWE superstar Gabbi Tuft took to social media on Thursday to announce that she is a transgender woman.Tuft, previously known in the ring as Tyler Reks, had joined World Wrestling Entertainment in 2007, later signing to a WWE developmental contract the following year. She took to Instagram saying: “This is me.

Australians will now be able to select “non-binary sex” as an option for the question about sex recorded at birth in the 2021 Census. For the first time, the census will make available the “non-binary sex” option. This announcement comes as the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) published new standards for the collection and dissemination of data relating to sex, gender, variations of sex characteristics and sexual orientation.While the 2021 Census will still not have an option to enter