This Whole Anti-Trans Thing Is Republican Manufactured

Listening to the Republicans you would think the #1 thing in the US is trans people invading "women spaces", not the killing of Ms. Good, not the invasion of foreign countries, but trans woman in bathrooms!

Almost no one is complaining about trans women in women’s spaces, study finds

“This is a manufactured controversy, not a documented crisis.”

LGBTQ Nation

John Russell (He/Him)

January 6, 2026

Data from hundreds of public bodies in England shows only four complaints about transgender women in women’s single-sex spaces over a period of three years, according to advocacy group TransLucent.

As SceneMag reports, on January 3, the organization released the results of six separate investigations conducted in recent years. Between 2022–2024, TransLucent submitted Freedom of Information requests to major public bodies in England — including NHS hospitals, domestic violence shelters, and local authorities that maintain public restrooms and changing facilities — to see how many official complaints about trans women in women-only spaces had been documented. The investigations specifically examined “whether cisgender women patients or service users had formally objected to sharing spaces with trans women,” according to the report.

I have transitioned all twenty years ago and I have had a problem using a women's bathroom... well I take that back, I did have a problem once. It was during intermission and the lines were so long I missed the beginning of the third act.

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"If you have never had your right to be here questioned, you don't know what it's like to be free."

James Baldwin

How the US supreme court case on trans athletes could unravel LGBTQ+ rights

If bans on trans youth athletes are upheld, more girls could face ‘invasive sex testing’ and trans people could broadly lose civil rights protections

The Guardian

Sam Levin

January 12, 2026

The US supreme court will consider state bans on transgender athletes on Tuesday in a major LGBTQ+ rights legal battle that could have far-reaching consequences beyond youth sports.

The court is hearing oral arguments in two cases brought by trans students who challenged Republican-backed laws in West Virginia and Idaho prohibiting trans girls from participating in girls’ athletic programs.

Those bans were both previously blocked by federal courts, but the states appealed to the supreme court, which is hearing a case on trans people’s access to sports for the first time. If the court’s conservative supermajority sides with the states and upholds the bans, the rulings could have significant ripple effects, paving the way for the enforcement of a range of anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

Baldwin words ring truer now than ever before!