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December 23, 2025
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors passes with Democrats’ support
The outgoing Georgia congresswoman was able to successfully make transgender young people a target as one of her last acts in Congress.
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December 17, 2025
Pam Bondi wants FBI to offer bounties for ‘radical gender ideology’ groups, leaked memo shows
The U.S. government is trying to figure out a way to pay people for reporting on anyone who supports trans lives.
December 17, 2025
Tennessee whistleblower says library board chair sought private data as part of state's book purge
A First Amendment expert told The Advocate that there are "huge" legal implications stemming from the situation.
December 17, 2025
Connecticut hospitals sued after cutting off transgender youths’ access to care, despite state protections
Trans patients say that preventing them from receiving care that cisgender patients can still receive violates the state’s public accommodation law.
December 17, 2025
Lesbian federal worker pleads for answers about wife trapped in immigration detention limbo
Grazi Chiosque and Xiomara Suarez are stuck between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
December 16, 2025
Michigan Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers surrounds himself with hardcore LGBTQ+ rights opponents
From calling transgender people an "abomination" to claiming the Equality Act is "demonic" and "wicked," his faith leaders coalition is as extreme as they come.
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December 16, 2025
11 times Donald Trump has randomly brought up his ‘transgender for everybody’ obsession
The president continues to bring up transgender people in situations completely unrelated to their lives.
December 15, 2025
A trans woman's cancer symptoms were almost missed — until gender-affirming care saved her life
Here's how gender-affirming care can save your life too.
December 15, 2025
RFK Jr.’s health department is using religious freedom to strip transgender people of health care
“This administration is obsessed with targeting trans folks,” former HHS deputy assistant secretary for health policy Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
December 9, 2025
Colin Allred targets first LGBTQ+ congresswoman from Texas for House seat as Jasmine Crockett runs for Senate
It's a variable musical chairs of Democratic political campaigns in the aftermath of recent mid-decade Republican gerrymandering.
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December 8, 2025
Another University of Oklahoma instructor suspended in biblical psychology paper grading controversy
The university is investigating whether the second instructor engaged in "viewpoint discrimination."
December 8, 2025
Three lesbian attorneys general beating back Trumpism in court warn of marriage equality’s peril
"The only thing a bully like Donald Trump and his administration understands is fighting back with everything that you have,” AG Dana Nessel said.
December 5, 2025
‘Gayest’ Congressman Robert Garcia & Maine Gov. Janet Mills target Trump at LGBTQ+ leadership conference
The out ranking member of the House Oversight Committee and the ally who fought Donald Trump got rousing applause for their opening remarks.
December 5, 2025
Upstate New York Methodist minister comes out as transgender to congregation during Sunday service
"I’m affirming and saying to all of you that I am transgender, and so the best way to put this is that I’m not becoming a woman, I’m giving up pretending to be a man," Rev. Dr. Phillippa Phaneuf told her congregation in a powerful speech.
December 3, 2025
Transgender Army vet running for state delegate in red Maryland district is all about showing up
“I signed up to serve, and I will do so here again,” Alleria Stanley told The Advocate in an interview.
December 3, 2025
Karine Jean-Pierre to lead discussion with LGBTQ+ women attorneys general on holding Trump at bay
“Their work to defend civil rights and protect vulnerable communities shows what it means to lead boldly in the face of federal attacks,” the former White House Press Secretary told The Advocate.
December 3, 2025
Out former CDC vaccines head Demetre Daskalakis named chief medical officer at NYC LGBTQ+ health center
Infectious diseases specialist Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who walked out of the CDC over Trump's health policies, will begin his new role at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in February.
December 3, 2025
Ruben Gallego’s leaked texts mocking Democrats’ looks & masculinity intensify temperament concerns
His party is “not allowing men to be men,” or “women to be hot,” the Arizona Democrat complained.
December 2, 2025
More LGBTQ+ people are quietly planning to flee America as fears of fascism in Trump’s second term rise
The instinct to flee is not new in American life. But the scale, and the kinds of people considering it in the Trump era, reflect something different.
December 2, 2025
Maryland community outraged after ‘bigoted’ early morning rainbow crosswalk removal
“If you don’t want to be called a bigot,” Council member Michele Gregory said to Salisbury Mayor Randy Taylor, “don’t do bigoted things.”
December 1, 2025