Articles by Jane Fae

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24 July 2012
Police guidance on risk of trans suspects ‘manipulating sex’ was outdated 3 There were red faces at the Association of Chief Police Officers yesterday as PinkNews.co.uk quizzed officials about wording on recent guidance perceived as offensive by many in the trans community.
23 July 2012
New search rules for trans police officers and suspects drawn up 26 It is all change for trans police and policing, as increased awareness of trans sensitivities sees new rules for searching suspects – both who can do the searching and how people should be searched – emerging in the last few weeks.
19 July 2012
France: Concern as senate approves protections for ‘sexual’ not ‘gender’ identity 12 Hopes that the election of a Socialist President and Assembly might usher in a new era of inclusivity in France took a blow last week, as Socialist Senators faced up to a first opportunity to legislate protections for the country’s trans minority but declined to do so.
17 July 2012
Sweden: Trans asylum seeker’s partner to be deported to Russia 9 Russian trans asylum seeker, Lita, who is currently in hiding somewhere in Sweden, narrowly escaped being caught last week. But her partner and boyfriend Anton was apprehended by police and is now in deportation prison in Flen, from where he will shortly be removed to Russia.
16 July 2012
Bristol ‘full of goodwill’ as Pride parade ends week of celebrations 9 Despite a grey and dismal start to the day – and a rival march by the English Defence League that claimed to be supporting LGBT rights – Bristol Pride concluded its week-long celebrations on an upbeat note, with a parade and free outdoor festival on College Green, between Council House and Cathedral.
9 July 2012
Newspaper declines to apologise for terminology in intersex story 37 The People newspaper has said there is no difference between the term “hermaphrodite” and “intersex” – and therefore has not apologised for its substitution of the h-word in a story last month.
19 June 2012
Concern over ‘pernicious’ Freedom of Information requests on LGBT issues 15 Concern is growing that some national newspapers are abusing Freedom of Information laws to trawl for stories that they then skew to depict LGBT issues in a sensational and negative fashion.
18 June 2012
Comment: Opposing gay state marriages while accepting straight ones is repugnant, and it does faiths no good 64 Jane Fae asks, if our Churches already sanction straight civil marriages, how can they legitimately get so het up about gay ones?
25 May 2012
Diane Abbott lands Labour in hot water with UK intersex community 144 The Labour Party is in hot water with the UK intersex community, following sweeping tabloid generalisations by their Shadow Health Minister, Diane Abbott, MP.
9 May 2012
New French president may signal ‘no miracle’, trans candidate says 3 Brigitte Goldberg, one of two trans candidates in the recent French Presidential election, yesterday expressed herself only slightly moved by the replacement of right-wing Nicolas Sarkozy with socialist Francois Hollande.
9 May 2012
Sweden: Trans woman ‘in hiding’ to escape deportation to Russia 12 A Russian trans woman refused asylum in Sweden appears today to be defying Swedish authorities by refusing to aid them in their efforts to deport her to Russia.
4 May 2012
Sweden: Deportation nears for trans woman abused in native Russia 130 Time is fast running out for a Russian trans woman who, it was reported recently in Pink News, fears being forced by Swedish authorities to return to Russia, where she expects to face violence and possible imprisonment at the hands of the authorities.
1 May 2012
DJ apologises after telling man to have gay daughter ‘screwed straight’ 43 US media company, Clear Channel Inc. has moved swiftly to distance itself from the storm created last week when Dominic Dieter, a DJ at their Cleveland radio station, WMMS, went on air and apparently advocated the 'corrective rape' of a young gay woman.
24 April 2012
Analysis: Sweden to deport trans woman assaulted and urinated on by Russian police 26 As a Russian trans woman prepares to return to violence or worse if she is expelled from Sweden later this week, the latter country’s reputation as a less than welcoming place for the trans community is once more in the spotlight.
23 April 2012
France: Presidential elections highlight trans voters’ rights gap 27 As the dust settles on the first round of the French Presidential election this morning, a sharp warning that discrimination by the French state means that trans citizens can no longer count on access to that most basic of Human Rights – the right to vote!
2 April 2012
Comment: The real issues in stories of the priest, the porn and the memory stick 54 Having had a giggle at the expense of the Catholic priest who accidentally displayed gay porn to a roomful of primary school parents, Jane Fae says, we should address the real issues the story raises: bigotry and quick condemnations.
16 February 2012
Exclusive: The Sun defends call for identity of ‘first trans man to give birth’ 123 The Sun newspaper hit back yesterday at claims that it had failed to mend its ways in respect of its treatment of the UK’s trans community, defending its attempts to locate the trans man who had given birth as being “in the public interest”.
8 February 2012
Comment: Does today mean change for the trans community? 16 Listen. That sound you don’t hear: the silence. That is the UK’s trans community waiting with bated breath. Because today, by a strange co-incidence of events, really does feel to many like the day that things change.
6 February 2012
Canada: Trans woman detained under US flight rules 16 In the wake of Canada’s continued support of a no-fly rule for anyone who fails to meet gender norms, as subjectively assessed by that country’s border police, a harrowing tale emerges of an incident last year in the United States.
2 February 2012
London protest follows Sweden’s trans sterilisation rule 24 Worldwide protest at continuing insistence by the Swedish government on what has been described as a policy of eugenics in respect of trans men and women led on Monday to the unusual sight of a demo outside that country's London embassy.

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