A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison after being found guilty of the murder of a transgender woman. Damarean Kaylon Bible, 25, was jailed for 367 months after being convicted of second-degree murder, having shot Savannah Ryan Williams last November. Under Minnesota sentencing guidelines, he will serve two-thirds of […]
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Women’s rights campaigner and the chief executive of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, Mridul Wadhwa, has stepped down from her post. Wadhwa, who is transgender, announced her departure following the publication of an independent review of the trans-inclusive centre that criticised its policies around women’s-only spaces. In a statement released on Friday morning (13 Friday), […]
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A Black transgender woman has been shot dead in Chicago. 26-year-old Redd, also known by friends as Barbie, was shot numerous times on Sunday (8 September), according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Her family is asking for killing to be investigated as a hate crime. A gunman opened fire on her and a group of friends […]
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Letters written to each other by two gay WWII soldiers have inspired a new exhibition that proves “love never changes” through the ages. Gilbert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher’s love letters were written during the devastating 1939-45 conflict, when same-sex activity was still illegal in the UK. On display at Oswestry Town Museum, in Shropshire, the […]
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Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert has parroted Donald Trump’s recent debate claims that migrants are eating cats and dogs in Ohio. Boebert, the US representative for Colorado’s third congressional district, repeated the conspiracy theory in a post on X/Twitter while discussing Tuesday’s (10 September) televised debate between the former president and vice-president Kamala Harris. During the […]
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