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All the latest news, commentary, and analysis of issues that impact the transgender community. The Advocate provides up-to-date coverage from around the web about political, medical, and social developments that matter most to transgender people.

How to support trans youth and their families amid Trump’s gender-affirming care ban

We must always make it clear that trans youth are loved, valued, and here to stay.

'Emilia Pérez' star Karla Sofía Gascón faces backlash for old X posts

Karla Sofía Gascón is the first out trans woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.

What does it mean to transition? A journey with your Lovable Trans Auntie

How do you define your own path to authenticity in the face of adversity? Share your story with Auntie and know that you are never alone.

Trump signs executive order banning federal support of gender-affirming care for anyone under 19

The president continues to target transgender people’s existence.

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Donald Trump signs new executive order affecting transgender military members

He signed the order Monday night on Air Force 1.

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Lauren Boebert & Nancy Mace  confront woman they thought was trans in ‘predictable’ Capitol bathroom incident

The anti-LGBTQ+ Republican lawmakers followed a cisgender woman they mistook as the first transgender member of Congress into the bathroom.

Major Virginia medical center stops gender-affirming care for minors after Trump’s executive order

The treatment remains legal in Virginia, but at least one medical provider is complying with the anti-trans presidential directive.

BREAKING: Karla Sofía Gascón's X/Twitter page deactivated

The Academy Award nominee and star of Emilia Pérez was caught in controversy after problematic X posts shared by her came to the surface.

Under Trump's 'authoritarian era,' these LGBTQ+ and abortion rights activists are standing up

The organizers behind last year's Gender Liberation March tell The Advocate about how they're fighting back now.

RFK Jr. lies to senators about claiming that pesticides make kids transgender in HHS confirmation hearing

“I never said that,” he claimed. The record says otherwise.

HRC & Lambda Legal announce lawsuit to block Trump’s renewed moves to ban transgender military service

Trump's new executive order is discriminatory, unconstitutional, and harmful to military readiness, the organizations say.

Capital Pride scrambles after board member joins Trump’s anti-diversity administration

Vince Micone left the LGBTQ+ group ahead of emailing Department of Labor employees that DEI “programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination.”

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'Drag Race' star Kim Chi is 'sad for humanity.' Here's how she's coping (exclusive)

The RuPaul's Drag Race season 8 runner-up tells The Advocate about "giving back to the community" under Donald Trump's regime through her new cannabis campaign, Kim Chi Over Flowers.

Trump's anti-transgender executive orders force CDC to remove HIV resources

Trump's executive order prohibiting federal agenciesfrom making any mention of "gender ideology" has forced the CDC to remove HIV-related pages regardless of if they mentioned gender or not.

America’s first Black gay professional tennis player won't be erased

Lendale Johnson tells The Advocate about what it's like to come out more than once, and how she's making tennis more accessible.

Olympia becomes Washington's first sanctuary city for LGBTQ+ people

The Olympia city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to declare the state capitol a sanctuary for the LGBTQ+ community.

Gender-affirming care ban leaves Trump with ‘blood on his hands,’ group says, joining others in outrage

“Only eight days into his second term, President Donald Trump has blood on his hands,” executive director of Advocates for Trans Equality Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen said earlier this week.

N.J. Democrat launches LGBTQ+ advisory board after filing House resolution to honor queer advocacy groups

“We’ve been through tough times, and we’ll get through this together,” U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman said.

Trump’s new White House Press Secretary targets transgender people in first briefing

Karoline Leavitt said that “sanity has been restored” because it only recognizes a gender binary.

Texas Republican Dan Crenshaw squirms as CNN’s Kaitlan Collins confronts his shifts on trans military members

She presented the lawmaker with his own words on Fox News.