J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
Harry Potter profits are going directly to anti-transgender legal cases.
May 28 2025 11:52 AM
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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.
D.C. police investigate suspected hate crime at bar for queer & trans people of color during WorldPride
As the city ramps up for the world's biggest LGBTQ+ celebration, somebody broke in and vandalized Saints and Sinners, a QTBIPOC space.
May 27 2025 11:11 AM
Most Americans support corporate LGBTQ+ Pride efforts despite pull-back by major brands: report
A new GLAAD report challenges the notion that Americans endorse a retreat from LGBTQ+ inclusion in commerce.
May 22 2025 4:11 PM
Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ banning federally funded gender-affirming care for trans people
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
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May 22 2025 9:04 AM
Here's what queer, transgender, and intersex people should know about prostate cancer after Biden's diagnosis
After President Joe Biden's stunning cancer diagnosis, The Advocate asked medical experts what the LGBTQ+ community should know about this disease.
May 20 2025 5:45 AM
Pentagon begins mass removal of transgender troops
A May 15 Department of Defense memo orders commanders to review medical records of troops suspected to be trans.
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May 15 2025 5:01 PM
Texas to require sex assigned at birth on state documents
The controversial bill is one of several transphobic actions taken by Republicans in Texas.
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Dionne Warwick to perform at National Pride Gala, joining other big names
The EqualityPAC fundraiser will be held on June 4 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
May 28 2025 7:00 AM
We are Veterans Affairs clinicians. Our leadership is failing veterans
Opinion: "The VA’s mission is to honor their service, to treat them with dignity, and to provide comprehensive and compassionate medical and mental health care. This includes gender-affirming care," argues a letter signed by more than 100 VA staff and submitted to The Advocate.
May 26 2025 10:08 AM
Why experts say Trump's budget bill strips health care from nearly all transgender people
The Republican-passed House bill goes beyond limiting access for Medicaid recipients.
May 23 2025 5:03 PM
44 photos of pure transgender joy and visibility at Trans Pride D.C. 2025
The weekend kicked off WorldPride 2025, centering trans lives and experiences.
May 20 2025 11:45 AM
NYU withholds degree from gay transgender student over commencement speech
“[Logan Rozos] lied about the speech he was going to deliver,” a NYU spokesperson said.
May 16 2025 5:30 PM
New Republican House bill bans transgender troops & seeks to strip trans vets of security clearances
Alabama GOP Rep. Barry Moore wants to enshrine discrimination against transgender people into federal law.
May 15 2025 3:33 PM
Transgender teens sue Kansas over 'harmful' gender-affirming care ban
Kansas' gender-affirming care ban "impermissibly infringes" on parents' "fundamental right to the care, custody, and control of their children," a new lawsuit asserts.
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Sir Ian McKellen to host Shakespeare play with all trans and nonbinary cast
The rehearsed reading of Twelfth Night will be produced by the new trans and nonbinary theater company, Trans What You Will.
May 28 2025 5:22 PM
Trump threatens to yank California’s federal funding over one transgender student’s sports participation
"I am ordering local authorities...to not allow the transitioned person to compete in the State Finals," Trump wrote. He doesn't have that power.
May 27 2025 2:12 PM
Utah Republicans ignore study supporting gender-affirming care for trans youth. It's research they demanded
In 2023, the state legislature banned care for transgender youth “pending research.” The research is in — and inconvenient for Republicans.
May 24 2025 4:46 PM
Skeptical California federal judge grills Trump DOJ over anti-trans & anti-DEI orders
“To me, that sounds incredibly vague,” Judge Jon Tiger told Trump administration lawyers.
May 23 2025 4:17 PM
U.S. Army orders systematic erasure of transgender troops’ gender identity
Commanders have been ordered to review service records and make changes to reflect a service member's birth sex.
May 22 2025 3:44 PM
Gay Senate candidate Chris Pappas: The government shouldn’t limit trans people’s health care
Rep. Chris Pappas tells The Advocate why he voted for a defense bill that stripped children of military members of access to gender-affirming care.
May 20 2025 6:30 AM