Advocate newsletter 4/21/26

✝️ Students at the Baptist-affiliated Baylor University organized a talk this week featuring several LGBTQ+ advocates, as counterprogramming to a right-wing Turning Point USA event. Now, the Baptist General Convention of Texas will launch a formal review of its 140-year relationship with the university. Here's the latest reporting from our sister publication, Them.

The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up one case and declined another related to LGBTQ+ rights. The court will consider a Colorado case involving whether taxpayer-funded preschools affiliated with churches can refuse to admit children of LGBTQ+ couples. But the court declined to take up a case out of Massachusetts about whether schools should be required to out trans kids to their parents, leaving a lower court's ruling in place.

Until next time,

The Advocate team

Texas Baptists might end 140-year relationship with Baylor over one LGBTQ+ event

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Appeals court clears path to move trans women into men’s prisons despite sexual assault risk

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Supreme Court passes on case over outing trans students

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The Supreme Court is taking up a case that could shut LGBTQ+ families out of preschool

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Another woman ousted from Trump’s Cabinet as Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer exits

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The Atlantic calls Kash Patel’s $250 million defamation lawsuit ‘meritless’

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