Congress members denounce VA's end to gender-affirming care, demand answers
U.S. Rep. Mark Takano and others sent a pointed letter to VA Secretary Doug Collins.
MARCH 30, 2025
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New report finds LGBTQ+ and intersex Americans faced much discrimination in 2024
The results make the situation "worryingly clear," the Center for American Progress reports.
MARCH 12, 2025
'Intellectually and morally indefensible': Montana court blocks trans-exclusionary law defining sex
“It is the right decision, not only for us Plaintiffs but for every Montanan’s right to privacy,” one plaintiff said.
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Judith Butler: Don't be overwhelmed by Trump's sadism
We can be outraged, but we mustn't be paralyzed, the esteemed scholar of gender writes.
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Trump 'two genders' exec order will hurt millions of Americans: study
Some effects of the order are yet to be known, but most of its impacts will be negative, the Williams Institute reports.
JANUARY 24, 2025
Health and Human Services takes stand against nonconsensual intersex surgeries
The report comes from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, headed by Adm. Rachel Levine.
JANUARY 16, 2025
Intersex youth have worse mental health, and 'harmful' nonconsensual surgeries may play a part (exclusive)
The lead author of an eye-opening new report from the Trevor Project tells The Advocate about the "stigma" intersex youth face, how it impacts them, and how to rectify it.
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Study: Gender-affirming hormone therapy improves mental health
The report indicates this continues over the long term.
MARCH 18, 2025
Donald Trump delivers presidential address filled with anti-LGBTQ+ lies and transphobic rhetoric
The address to a joint session of Congress was marked by bluster, exaggeration, and outright lies.
MARCH 4, 2025
Trump’s health department launches ‘vile’ anti-trans website featuring right-wing influencer (exclusive)
Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “are starting their tenure at HHS by attacking trans people, harming their access to health, and promoting unscientific rhetoric about sex as a so-called immutable characteristic,” former HHS official Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
South Carolina venue hosts free LGBTQ+ weddings in show of support and protest
Amid threats to marriage equality and LGBTQ+ rights in general, an art fair hosted the weddings and raised money to benefit transgender people.
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Marco Rubio's State Department won't issue passports with X gender markers
It also has forbidden sex changes on existing passports, in accordance with Donald Trump's "two genders" executive order.
JANUARY 23, 2025
Transgender beyond borders, what Western society could learn from global cultures
As America battles over gender identity, there’s something we’re overlooking: the world’s rich history of nonbinary identities that challenge the Western notion of "male" and "female."
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
Texas sues Biden admin over requirement for LGBTQ-affirming foster care placements
The suit comes from notoriously anti-LGBTQ+ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Over 80 U.S. House members rally against Trump's anti-transgender passport policy
Trans, nonbinary, and intersex people deserve passports that reflect their identity, the representatives say.
MARCH 17, 2025
Trump's VA rescinds policy treating transgender vets with dignity (exclusive)
The Trump administration quietly reversed the policy, which means trans veterans won't be protected from discrimination at VA facilities.
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MARCH 14, 2025
U.S. withdraws from U.N. LGBTQ+ and intersex group
The move is among numerous anti-LGBTQ+ actions by the Trump administration.
MARCH 3, 2025
Trump is ‘dangerously’ conflating gender-affirming care with a human rights violation
Groups that work to end female genital mutilation and cutting worry about an executive order that co-opts the policies they’ve worked to pass over nearly 30 years.
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Lawsuit challenges Trump's 'two genders' passport policy
The State Department, acting on a presidential executive order, has ended the use of a third-gender marker on passports and won't allow gender changes on them.
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Here are all of Trump's executive orders that have targeted transgender people — so far
He's going after diversity programs, transgender students, and more with executive orders that will most definitely be contested in court.
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
Trevor Project sees 33 percent jump in crisis line volume on inauguration day and more the next
"The political targeting of LGBTQ+ youth — and transgender and nonbinary youth in particular — must stop," says Trevor Project CEO Jaymes Black.
JANUARY 22, 2025