Mia Ashton
Mia Ashton is the lead on lead on caWsbars child safeguarding campaign and has been published in The Critic Gender Dissent and Lesbian and Gay News. Twitter: _CryMiaRiver
Non-binary preschool teacher is 'affirmed' by students confusion over gender
"I think 'she’s a boy' is personally pretty gender-affirming for me, and it came at a great time because tomorrow is my first HRT appointment and I’m very nervous and very excited,” said the person entrusted with educating impressionable minds.
San Francisco requires gender identity lessons for elementary school students
The document advises teachers to weave information about LGBTQ issues into their teaching throughout the year because as elementary staff, there is a “legal and moral imperative” to interrupt the cycle of violence faced by the LGBTQ community.
Leading American pediatric group says enabling child sex changes is 'huge priority'
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) says that fighting laws that seek to ban "gender-affirming care" for minors, or in other words laws that seek to ban doctors from performing experimental sex changes on children, is a “huge priority."
JK Rowling accused of transphobia for opening rape crisis service for women
Rowling’s announcement that she'll be funding a female-only service for survivors of sexual violence resulted in activists accusing her of hate, with one likening the service to a whites-only orphanage and another calling the move vindictive.
WATCH: Biden claims ‘trans kids’ under attack, must be protected
People took to Twitter to point out the illogicality of claiming to want to protect children while advocating for them to be sterilized and have healthy parts of their bodies amputated.
Rate of detransition among 'trans' youth higher than activists claim
At the Re/Detrans Canada event held last month at York University in Ontario, recent studies were revealed that show detransition rates up to nearly 30 percent.
Lecturers at Essex University aim to protect trans people by silencing free speech on campus
Two academics at the University of Essex are receiving criticism for producing "largely wrong" guidance about free speech on campus and the right to silence gender critical thinkers.
American Academy of Pediatrics suggests parental rights advocates want to roll back child abuse protections
The CEO of the American Academy of Pediatrics recently connected parental rights advocates with an effort to roll back child abuse protections.
Maryland teacher gives tips on how to keep students' gender identity secret from parents
A Maryland teacher advises teachers to ask students for their name and pronouns at the start of term and stresses the importance of asking if the information students give can be shared with their parents.
Woman faces 3-year prison term in Norway for saying it's 'impossible' for men to be lesbians
A woman in Norway is facing criminal charges and up to three years in prison for saying that men cannot be lesbians. This news comes as Norwegian police dismiss similar charges brought against another woman back in May of this year.
JK Rowling launches female-only service for survivors of sexual violence
The idea to create the service came to Rowling after she heard the trans-identified male CEO of Edinburgh’s Rape Crisis Centre say that “bigoted” women requesting female-only services would be told to “reframe their trauma.”
PA parents outraged over 6th grade field trip to Alice in Wonderland drag show
Parents were not explicitly informed about the drag performer being part of the show, and only became aware of the fact after some children told their parents that they had been made to wear masks for the event. This prompted parents to investigate the outing at which point they discovered that not only was a drag queen one of the stars of the show, but also that the theater was promoting this particular character above all others.
Drag Queen Story Hour counter-protestor arrested in New York after allegedly assaulting police officer
A man was arrested at a Drag Queen Story Time in New York City after aggressively attempting to provoke protesters who had shown up in opposition to the event, resulting in an altercation with what turned out to be an undercover cop.
San Francisco public school teachers trained by gender clinic on how to 'affirm' students
The Benioff Children’s Hospital has been conducting training sessions for school staff in the region on how to deal with students who believe themselves to be transgender and the concerns of their parents, internal documents have revealed.
Ottawa city councilor blames Freedom Convoy for 'anti-trans hate'
Troster, a lesbian who has “been out for more than 20 years” says she has never seen such “horrendous hate … specifically homophobia and transphobia.” She attributed this to the convoy, but failed to provide evidence of a link between the two.