GOP proposes bill that would punish supporting trans youth through new names and haircuts
A bill in Arkansas would allow lawsuits against people who use trans kids' preferred names or give them gender nonconforming haircuts.
MARCH 19 2025 12:24 PM
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What states are the most dangerous for LGBTQ+ people? Here are the worst 15
A lot of states are passing laws that target the LGBTQ+ community — but these 15 are the absolute worst.
MARCH 04 2025 10:14 AM
Ohio bill would ban ejaculation without intent to conceive — with exceptions for LGBTQ+ people
The Conception Begins at Erection Act contains exceptions for men using birth control, donating sperm, masturbating, or having sex with another man or member of the LGBTQ+ community.
FEBRUARY 14 2025 4:38 PM
What is gender-affirming care, who uses it, and do they regret it?
Gender-affirming care is banned for transgender youth when it's mainly cisgender people who use it, and when it has a significantly lower regret rate than all other major surgeries, tattoos, and children.
FEBRUARY 13 2025 9:57 AM
Major Virginia medical center stops gender-affirming care for minors after Trump’s executive order
The treatment remains legal in Virginia, but at least one medical provider is complying with the anti-trans presidential directive.
FEBRUARY 01 2025 8:00 AM
Gender-affirming care ban leaves Trump with ‘blood on his hands,’ group says, joining others in outrage
“Only eight days into his second term, President Donald Trump has blood on his hands,” executive director of Advocates for Trans Equality Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen said earlier this week.
JANUARY 30 2025 10:23 AM
Hormones and surgery improve transgender men's quality of life: study
A new study proves gender-affirming care directly improves quality of life among transgender men.
APRIL 04 2025 3:18 PM
Most religious Americans support nondiscrimination laws protecting LGBTQ+ people: survey
Regardless of faith, the vast majority of U.S. adults support LGBTQ+ protections.
MARCH 04 2025 12:31 PM
This cancer researcher was studying LGBTQ+ people. Her work is now in limbo
A researcher at the George Washington Cancer Center says Trump could erase years of scientific work.
FEBRUARY 28 2025 1:11 PM
Most Americans support transgender health care and sports bans — yet they oppose discrimination
Most Americans support banning gender-affirming care for youth and preventing trans athletes from participating on teams that align with their identity — yet they also support anti-discrimination laws protecting trans people.
FEBRUARY 26 2025 4:30 PM
Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly once again vetoes gender-affirming care ban for minors
Senate Bill 63 sought to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria while allowing the same treatments to continue for cisgender minors with other conditions.
FEBRUARY 12 2025 11:54 AM
Under Trump's 'authoritarian era,' these LGBTQ+ and abortion rights activists are standing up
The organizers behind last year's Gender Liberation March tell The Advocate about how they're fighting back now.
JANUARY 30 2025 2:21 PM
RFK Jr. lies to senators about claiming that pesticides make kids transgender in HHS confirmation hearing
“I never said that,” he claimed. The record says otherwise.
JANUARY 29 2025 4:13 PM
A USAID worker's pregnant wife was denied an emergency medical evacuation after DOGE fired her
Charlee Doom's wife was 31 weeks pregnant when she suffered "life-threatening" complications. The State Department denied her medical evacuation request — twice.
APRIL 03 2025 1:15 PM
Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's trans daughter, slams 'cartoonishly evil' Trump team
Vivian Wilson wants everyone to know Elon Musk's further shift to the right is "not because of me."
MARCH 20 2025 1:39 PM
What states are the best for LGBTQ+ people? These are the top 15
Based on laws surrounding marriage, family rights, health care, and education, here are the 15 best states for LGBTQ+ people.
MARCH 04 2025 10:26 AM
Over 80 House Democrats demand Trump rescind gender-affirming care ban: 'We want trans kids to live'
The letter, introduced by Rep. Becca Balint and signed by 89 House Democrats, asserts that the ban "threatens the lives and well-being of the young people who need this care, which is supported by every major medical association."
FEBRUARY 27 2025 12:07 PM
Washington judge blocks Trump’s gender-affirming care ban, says it's unconstitutional in multiple ways
“Because the sex-based distinctions drawn by the Executive Order are not substantially related to achieving the Order’s purpose, the Order does not survive constitutional scrutiny,” the judge wrote.
FEBRUARY 18 2025 7:48 PM
Trump is ‘dangerously’ conflating gender-affirming care with a human rights violation
Groups that work to end female genital mutilation and cutting worry about an executive order that co-opts the policies they’ve worked to pass over nearly 30 years.
FEBRUARY 14 2025 12:42 PM
Rep. Sarah McBride denounces Donald Trump’s ongoing attacks on transgender people
The first trans member of Congress is speaking out against the president’s attempt to erase Americans.
FEBRUARY 04 2025 11:19 AM