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New Research Documents the Severity of LGBTQA+ Conversion Practices—and Why Faith Matters in Recovery

By Timothy W. Jones, Jennifer Power, Tiffany Jones — 2021

New research reveals the harms of religion-based LGBTQA+ conversion practices are more severe than previously thought. All survivors needed help balancing the relationship between their LGBTQA+ identity and their faith, family and culture.

Read on theconversation.com

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Pushing Past Tokenism

La Sarmiento has been a leader of American LGBTQ and people-of-color Buddhist communities for close to a decade. I caught up with the trans, queer Filipino teacher before a silent retreat to discuss the dynamics of race and gender in a world that is typically White, cisgender and straight.

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Political Dispute Over Transgender Rights Focuses On Youth Sports

There was an impassioned debate in the South Dakota State Senate this week over a proposed bill that would restrict transgender female students from participating in female sports.

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The Movement to Exclude Trans Girls from Sports

The opposition is cast as one between cis-girl athletes on the one hand and a vast liberal conspiracy on the other.

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No One Transitions to Win in Sports. Period.

Myth making, policy making and never the twain should meet.

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Want to Support Women’s Sports? Try Actually Supporting Women’s Sports

Hand-wringing about the sanctity of women’s sports reflects an unwillingness to understand what it truly means to be transgender.

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A Gender-Diverse Sangha

How a groundbreaking book created a community for trans, genderqueer, and nonbinary Buddhists

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More than 1 Million Nonbinary Adults Live in the U.S., a Pioneering Study Finds

The U.S. Census doesn’t ask about gender identity. Until now, no population estimate of nonbinary LGBTQ adults in the United States existed.

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Young Trans Children Know Who They Are

A new study shows that gender-nonconforming kids who go on to transition already have a strong sense of their true identity—one that differs from their assigned gender.

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Gender Is Not Just Male or Female. 12 People across the Gender Spectrum Explain Why.

“Our gender identities and the way we relate to gender is more of a constellation than an either-or.”

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See Us Clearly: A Buddhist’s View of Transgender Visibility

Ray Buckner offers a personal view of what it means to be Buddhist, gender-queer, and trans—and why they all fit together like “a miracle.”

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Gender Issues in Spiritual Life