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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.
Gerika Mudra video Defending Victims of Anti Transgender Bathroom Panic
News

Lesbian teen cornered by server in bathroom and forced to prove gender files charges

Gerika Mudra, 18, says a Buffalo Wild Wings waiter made her show her breasts to prove she could use the women's restroom.

Utah Senator Mike Lee
Politics

Republican Sen. Mike Lee's pornography ban is moving forward in the Senate

Utah Senator Mike Lee's bill that would ban all pornography federally is advancing within the Senate.

Aaron Parnas Pete Buttigieg substack podcast
News

Pete Buttigieg clarifies recent comments around ‘fairness’ of transgender kids’ in sports

“I see this issue being used to divide,” the former transportation secretary told independent journalist Aaron Parnas.

Brown University Rhode Island campus student orientation
News

Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement

“Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu speaks to reporters after a press conference
Politics

Texas Democrats fleeing the state also stopped anti-abortion and anti-trans bills

Democrats left Texas to stop Republicans from redrawing the state’s congressional maps, but they stopped other bills, too.

US Rep Nancy Mace
Politics

Nancy Mace announces run for South Carolina governor with anti-LGBTQ+ remarks

The Republican congresswoman said she would seek statewide office on Monday.

Jillian Michaels
News

Jillian Michaels complains on CNN that Smithsonian teaches ‘just one race’ is responsible for U.S. slavery

“I'm surprised that you’re trying to litigate who was the beneficiary of slavery and who was not,” host Abby Phillip said.
A guard appears to be checking on inmates of an unidentified prison
News

Trans people in Georgia prisons are being forced to detransition. Now they're suing.

A class action lawsuit representing nearly 300 incarcerated people says the state's refusal to allow gender-affirming care constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
Politics

Pete Hegseth shares video of pastor calling to ban gay sex and ban women from voting

Pete Hegseth has seemingly endorsed his pastor's views that gay sex should be illegal and women shouldn't vote.

transgender rights protest London UK
World

Which country is about to implement a nationwide transgender bathroom ban?

The U.K. is set to ban trans people from single-sex facilities — even some that match their biological sex.
foreign passport showing stamp american flag and toy airplane
Politics

Trump bans trans women athletes from 'extraordinary ability’ visas

Transgender women athletes can no longer receive O-1A, E11, and E21 "extraordinary ability" visas.

Noa Lynn van Leuven of the Netherlands throws during 2025 Betfred World Matchplay Blackpool England
News

Trans darts champion laments ban against trans women as 'loss for the trans community'

Noa-Lynn van Leuven said the World Darts Federation's new gender eligibility policy "does affect me personally."

'Gilded Age' side-eye: How a silent maid unveils centuries of trans history
Arts & Entertainment

'Gilded Age' side-eye: How a silent maid unveils centuries of trans history

One subtle eyebrow raise on screen becomes a portal to trans trailblazers who fought wars, tamed the Wild West, and helped shape the Constitution.

Emma Morquecho posing with a volleyball outside a building
Sports

Volleyball player sues California university that revoked her scholarship for being trans

Emma Morquecho moved to California to play for Westcliff University. Then the Cal Pac Conference yanked her scholarship.

Clayton MacCallister with his wife
Print Issue

Meet trans vet, husband, and dad, Clayton McCallister

In our 2025 Thriving Under 30 feature, we highlight several young LGBTQ+ activists and advocates who are already changing the world.

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders
News

Federal appeals court endorses Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for minors

It’s the latest attack on trans rights in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Skrmetti ruling.

teen group therapy
News

The fight to eradicate dangerous ‘conversion therapy’ isn’t over, alarming new report warns

Transgender young people are the targets of the latest iteration of the damaging and discredit practice.

Maura Healey speaking at a podium
Politics

Massachusetts lesbian Gov. Maura Healey signs abortion and gender-affirming care shield law

Shield Act 2.0 further strengthens protections for patients and providers of reproductive healthcare.

Donald Trump oval office White House Washington DC Candace Owens Turning Point Peoples Convention 2024
News

Candace Owens claims Donald Trump asked her to stop calling Emmanuel Macron’s wife transgender

The far-right commentator says the U.S. president intervened on behalf of the French president to get her to stop spreading lies.

Harper Steele Matt Bernstein Jonathan Capehart in short form documentary Reclaim the Flag
News

How these LGBTQ+ icons are reclaiming the American flag

A new documentary explores how, in a Trump-era America where queer symbols have been weaponized, LGBTQ+ people are reclaiming the country's flag.