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Health policy expert to RFK Jr.: You can't ban trans youth care this way

“They are trying to do something that CMS simply isn’t empowered to do,” a former senior Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official from the Biden administration told The Advocate.

RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce sweeping measures to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth

The Department of Health and Human Services announced new proposals that would effectively block gender-affirming care for trans youth across the country.

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After 30 years in uniform, a veteran in Nebraska who survived ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is running for Congress

Kishla Askins was investigated several times for being a gay woman while serving in the military. Now she's running for Congress to make those she lost on deployment proud.

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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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.

Sarah McBride says GOP should protect Americans’ health coverage, not criminalize trans kids’ medical care

“They are obsessed with trans people,” the first out transgender member of Congress said. “I actually think they think more about trans people than trans people think about trans people.”

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.

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.

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.

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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Rachel Maddow on standing up to government lies and her Walter Cronkite Award

The out MS NOW anchor spoke with The Advocate about being honored with a journalism award and her podcast, Burn Order, which traces how government lies led to the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II.

North Carolina county dissolves library board for refusing to toss book about a trans kid

“It’s a pretty dramatic response to wanting to have diverse and inclusive books on shelves,” PEN America’s Kasey Meehan said.

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.

George Santos’s exclusive D.C. Christmas party featured famous grifters & MAGA influence peddlers

In a Washington holiday tableau where politics blurred seamlessly into spectacle, the former congressman once again proved he understands the value of infamy.

Pete Buttigieg mocks Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s strange airport pull-up stunt

“I love exercise. I love air travel. Putting them together is not really something I would think to do,” the former Transportation secretary said.

Appeals court mulls upholding ruling that struck down Pentagon’s HIV enlistment ban

Lambda Legal asked a three-judge panel in Virginia to allow people with an HIV diagnosis to serve in the U.S. military.

‘Proud’ pro-LGBTQ+ Democrat flips Republican state House seat in Georgia electoral upset

Eric Gisler won a special election on Tuesday by about 200 votes.

Trump rants nonsense about transgender people instead of fixing affordability crisis at Pennsylvania rally

He called "affordability" a Democratic hoax while repeating bizarre "transgender for all" claim.

Rachel Maddow snags 2025 Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in political journalism

The accomplished lesbian MS NOW anchor will be honored with the award in Washington, D.C., alongside NBC’s Peter Alexander, CBS’s Scott Pelley, and The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart.

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.