LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Update Dec. 2, 2015. Second UK trans woman found dead inside a men’s prison. The Guardian: “A transgender woman has become the second trans prisoner in the space of a month to apparently take… Read More ›
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UK trans woman hears ‘kill him, kill him’ while being violently attacked
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — An unidentified trans woman waiting at a bus stop in the Newham area of London was violently assaulted by a man who got out of his car and walked up to her. The attacker… Read More ›
(UPDATED) Renowned transgender UK boxing manager Kellie Maloney not quite pro-trans/LGBT
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Updated August 16, 2014 — About a week ago Maloney came out as trans in an interview with a UK tabloid. Shortly after I wrote this about her, it was brought to my attention… Read More ›
UK press admit to exploiting severely injured trans woman
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — “Sex-swap scientist gored by stag” read one UK tabloid headline after a noted Scotland scientist was hit in the neck at night by the antlers of a deer that had wandered into a yard…. Read More ›
Ex-Guardian writer: ‘trans women are blokes with cut off cocks’
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — A former columnist for the UK’s Guardian newspaper unleashed a transphobic rant directed at trans women in the form of a response to an article written by a UK trans activist in Vice Magazine…. Read More ›
UK trans woman’s visa snafu results in male jailhouse detention
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Although UK comedian Avery Edison admits the visa snafu is of her own making and her passport indicates she is female, Canadian border officials in Toronto still housed her in a men’s correctional facility… Read More ›
Did Caleb Hannan’s transgender exploitation trigger a suicide?
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — During the research for an article about a golf putter invention for Grantland, writer Caleb Hannan uncovered a detail that wasn’t quite related to the story he was pursuing — the inventor was transgender…. Read More ›
UK judge orders man to stop harassing transgender neighbor
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — After admitting to harassing a transgender neighbor, a Blackburn, UK man was ordered by a magistrate to stay away from her. Matthew Mark Rivers was also ordered to serve 60 hours of community service as… Read More ›
Trans women found dead in the UK, Detroit
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — A UK trans woman was found dead in her home in Worthing, a town along the south coast of England last week on the 19th. The victim was identified as Jacqueline Cowdrey, known to her… Read More ›
Tesco caught in a hypocritical pickle as employees mock trans customers online
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — A mere few weeks after a publicly assuring the transgender community that their face recognition technology was unlikely to unintentionally out trans people, UK retailer Tesco finds itself having to explain how their employees were… Read More ›
Face recognition technology: dangerous implications for trans people?
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — I’m quite sure the potentially dangerous implication of face recognition technology for trans people has crossed our minds a number of times and off the top of my head, I can think of a number… Read More ›
UPDATE-2: Trans UK cop loses lawsuit filed after being outed by dispatcher
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — (UPDATE-2 PC Emma Chapman loses her lawsuit. See below.) After nearly a decade on the force, transgender Essex (UK) Police officer Emma Chapman had to explain on the police radio to a dispatcher that she… Read More ›
(UPDATE — Killer gets life in prison) UK trans woman stabbed to death
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — (Update — See below) The alleged murderer of London trans woman Chrissie Azzopardi is currently on trial for the crime that occurred last April. April, 2012 (Note: an earlier report gave the wrong year.) Prosecutors… Read More ›
UK scholar urges Hong Kong government to delete transgender surgery requirement
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Zeroing in on what is becoming commonplace throughout Europe and elsewhere, a Cambridge University (UK) law professor lecturing in Hong Kong at a transgender conference argued the surgery requirement for trans legal status needs to… Read More ›
Chrisie Edkins, trans musician, activist and more than a stat
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Chrisie Edkins died nearly 3 weeks ago. Her funeral was held yesterday in Southamption, in the United Kingdom. By all measures, she was highly regarded and admired in the trans community — not only was… Read More ›
UK court ruling: trans people engaging in sex without disclosure may be criminal
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — I’m still trying to find the handle on this thing, but it appears that an appeals court in the UK has found that a trans person withholding certain facts prior to sex with another person… Read More ›
UK coroner on suicide of trans teacher: “And to you, the press, I say shame – shame on all of you.”
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — ‘Hounded to death’ — that’s pretty much the conclusion reached by Coroner Michael Singleton on the death of transgender teacher Lucy Meadows. Meadows taught at Mary Magdalen’s Primary School in Accrington, Lancashire in the UK…. Read More ›
UK woman cited by police for transphobic abuse of trans woman, trend developing
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Halstead (UK) Police cited an apparent neighbor for transphobic abuse following a hate crime investigation into a claim made by a trans woman. On April 22, a trans woman named Maddie reported to the police… Read More ›
British airline mogul loses bet, agrees to be a ‘tranny for a day’
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Richard Branson,Virgin Air CEO, lost a wager to AirAsia X boss Tony Fernandes, and agrees to dress in drag and serve as a flight “stewardess” on Fernandes’ airline. While I cannot say for sure if… Read More ›
[UPDATED: Firestorm brewing] Transgender UK primary school teacher found dead at home
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — [UPDATED, see below.] Lucy Meadows, a teacher at primary school in Accrington in the UK was found dead in her home. The police say her death is not suspicious. Meadows only recently began presenting as… Read More ›
Disturbing UK gender ID “fraud” sexual intimacy case complicated by age misrepresentation
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — A Scottish trans man faces jail time after admitting to ‘obtaining sexual intimacy by fraud’. Chris Wilson supposedly ‘did not tell his girlfriends he was trans’ before getting intimate with them and misrepresented his age,… Read More ›
UK trans student verbally abused, shoved out of university restroom
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Two females in a restroom at the Student Union in UK’s Leeds University apparently grabbed a trans woman’s breasts then shoved her out while verbally abusing her. The university’s security was called and the issue… Read More ›
‘Lifestyle choice’ results in UK housing association apology to trans woman
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — A UK housing association staffer told a trans woman complaining about transphobic neighbors that she couldn’t be relocated because she made a “choice” to be transgender. Stephanie Elliott Lowther then took her complaint higher up… Read More ›
UK’s Telegraph newspaper publishes yanked Julie Burchill transgender hate piece
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — In the midst of this ongoing explosion in the transgender community over the Julie Burchill trans-hate piece that was pulled from the UK’s The Observer newspaper, another UK paper, the Telegraph, has recently republished it… Read More ›
UK’s “Observer” owns up to transphobic article publication blunder
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — While the massive fallout from Julie Burchill’s now-pulled transphobic article continues, the United Kingdom publisher is owning up to what is, as Observer readers’ editor Stephen Pritchard, described as ‘a collective failing of editing by… Read More ›
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