Leading Off: Assigned Media interviews trans activist Bella Bautista. Also, in this week’s news, a UK woman is jailed for not disclosing that she was trans, and the BBC cuts staff training about transgender people. Our top stories starting out the week in trans news.

Right-wing media has repeatedly shared false and misleading claims about the findings presented in the Final Report of the Cass Review.

A BBC Newsnight investigation is shedding light on the hopelessness of waiting years for a first appointment at a UK gender clinic.

This Week in Barrel Scraping: A slip of the tongue led to a conspiracy theory that UK politician Keir Starmer has a trans son and many statements to the effect that having a trans child would be disqualifying for a polician on TERF Island.

Yosha Iglesias is the only trans woman currently playing competitive chess.