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Transgender attorney who argued before Supreme Court explains why it was ‘my nightmare’

The film, Heightened Scrutiny, follows Chase Strangio as he prepares to argue in favor of gender-affirming care access for trans youth in U.S. v. Skrmetti at the high court, and captures the quiet radicalism of showing up.

House Oversight Democrats demand records over RFK Jr.’s HIV program cuts

Robert Garcia and Raja Krishnamoorthi accuse HHS of dismantling life-saving HIV programs based on conspiracy theories and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.

Federal HR office sets deadline for government-wide purge of transgender and nonbinary inclusion

The Office of Personnel Management has become the enforcement arm of Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ agenda.

As Trump faces escalating Epstein scandal, Marjorie Taylor Green targets drag queens

After a report linked Donald Trump to a lewd Jeffrey Epstein note, the Georgia Republican tried to shift focus to drag queens, Pride, and trans people.

Why a bipartisan group of lawmakers is demanding Trump save the LGBTQ+ 988 crisis lifeline

One lawmaker called the administration's explanation for cutting the service “insufficient and dangerous.”

Two Wisconsin congressmen clash in front of cameras during U.S. Capitol confrontation

"That's your a**hole buddy," gay Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan said about Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden.

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Lawmakers call out Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ‘unconscionable’ apathy on eve of LGBTQ+ 988 Lifeline shutdown

“It’s heartbreaking, scary, and deeply harmful,” Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids, who said the Department of Health and Human Services should keep the successful suicide prevention program intact, told The Advocate.

Ric Grenell’s rogue diplomacy stalls Marco Rubio’s Venezuela prisoner deal

The gay Trump loyalist and special envoy is ruffling feathers in Washington.

Donald Trump’s election triggered transgender people to contemplate DIY hormones & suicide: study

A new University of Vermont study found that 100 percent of respondents worried about their access to care after Donald Trump became president again.

ICE frees transgender asylum seeker from detention after Oregon court order

A federal judge ruled that the government violated her rights.

Trump administration stops abuse protection for transgender detainees in ICE custody

Since 2015, detention facilities had to take into account the gender identity of trans migrants. Not any more.

5 charged in assault that left a transgender girl with a broken jaw in D.C. juvenile detention center

The trans girl was reportedly housed in a boys' unit.

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Transgender woman who escaped Alabama for her safety beaten & left for dead near National Mall in D.C.

Cayla Calhoun left Alabama seeking safety as a trans woman. Instead, she was nearly killed on D.C.’s streets, and now she refuses to stay silent.

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Bombshell records expose political plot to oust rural Georgia librarian over LGBTQ+ book

Behind the scenes, Pierce County officials shared conservative social media posts and strategized LaVonnia Moore’s removal after she displayed a book about a trans child at the public library.

Delta passenger recounts harrowing JFK-bound flight’s emergency landing in remote North Atlantic islands

Ken Elder set out for a vacation in Spain. He didn’t expect to spend 30 hours stranded on his way back.

Experts brace for crisis as Trump administration’s end to key emergency resource for LGBTQ+ youth looms

Despite bipartisan pushback, the Department of Health and Human Services is scheduled to discontinue the specialized service next week.

Why is the Army recommending training for this transgender officer that the Pentagon plans to oust?

Second Lieutenant Nicolas Talbott is bracing for what's next as the deadline for trans reservists to resign passes.

Trump's DOJ subpoenas doctors and medical clinics that care for transgender youth

The Justice Department said that its investigations center on allegations of health care fraud and false statements related to gender-affirming medical care.

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