Daily newsletter 7/16

📣 A day before the federal government plans to pull the plug on the nation’s only government-funded dedicated LGBTQ+ suicide crisis line, lawmakers are warning that lives hang in the balance.

Meanwhile in Florida, law enforcement is investigating a rainbow crosswalk that was vandalized (again), while state officials argue that the Supreme Court's ruling against gender-affirming care for minors allows them to deny coverage to adults as well.

Unsurprisingly, a new study reveals how much President Trump's election alarmed the transgender community, even before executive orders or court decisions were handed down.

👀 In awkward political news, gay Trump loyalist Richard Grenell, who lost the coveted Secretary of State position to Marco Rubio, has undercut Rubio's efforts for a prisoner swap with Venezuela. “I think that’s what happens when Grenell goes freelancing," one former Trump official remarked.

Until tomorrow,

Christine Linnell
Social media manager, The Advocate

Lawmakers call out Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ‘unconscionable’ apathy on eve of LGBTQ+ suicide hotline shutdown

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“It’s heartbreaking, scary, and deeply harmful,” Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids, who said the Department of Health and Human Services should keep the successful 988 program intact, told The Advocate.

Florida authorities search for truck driver who vandalized rainbow intersection

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Delray Beach police released video of a driver intentionally burning tire marks on a mural that has been vandalized twice before.

Donald Trump’s election triggered transgender people to contemplate DIY hormones & suicide: study

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A new University of Vermont study found that 100 percent of respondents worried about their access to care after Donald Trump became president again.

Ric Grenell’s rogue diplomacy stalls Marco Rubio’s Venezuela prisoner deal

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The gay Trump loyalist and special envoy is ruffling feathers in Washington.

Florida officials claim SCOTUS ruling allows them to deny trans adults health care

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Did the Skrmetti ruling give states carte blanche to discriminate against all transgender people?

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