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The VA listened when this transgender veteran demanded better care. Then Trump returned

Giovonni Santiago helped create the VA’s first transgender-specific clinic. A decade later, he is watching the government dismantle the system that made its care possible.

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'Strange Fruit' in 2026: Why LGBTQ+ people cannot look away from racial terror

Opinion: As reports of Black Americans found hanging from trees evoke the country's history of lynching, queer writer Josh Ackley argues that solidarity across marginalized communities is more urgent than ever.

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Appeals court allows Trump DOJ investigation of transgender telehealth provider to resume

“The goal of ending ‘gender-affirming care’ is not in and of itself an ‘improper’ policy objective,” Judge Carlos Bea wrote.

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Culture

Rosie O’Donnell tells Jesse Watters to ‘stay out of my orbit’ before roasting Trump on Kimmel

The lesbian comedian said she had “no interest” in the Fox News host after his crew confronted her outside a New York theater.

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Ohio abruptly blocks transgender people from changing gender markers on IDs

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The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles stopped allowing people to change their gender markers on drivers' licenses without notice.

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The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles will no longer change the gender marker on a driver’s license or state identification card at the holder’s request. Keep Reading →

Trump cannot strip Obamacare protections from trans people’s healthcare, judge rules

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Transgender people's care cannot be stripped out of the Affordable Care Act, a judge ruled.

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A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration rule that would have prevented some gender-affirming care from being treated as an essential health benefit under the Affordable Care Act. Keep Reading →

Nancy Pelosi on AIDS, trans rights, the legacy she resists claiming — and why Democrats must ‘win big’

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Nancy Pelosi is The Advocate's September-October cover star.

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Tourists are already taking photographs outside Nancy Pelosi’s office when I arrive at the Longworth House Office Building at 10:30 on a Thursday morning with photographer Mike Nelson. Keep Reading →

Republican Byron Donalds attacks Democrat David Jolly over trans rights in Florida governor’s race

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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., talks with reporters after a news conference with members of the House Freedom Caucus to say they will not support the DHS funding bill, in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall on Friday, March 27, 2026.

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As Rep. Byron Donalds runs for Florida governor, he’s already making opposition to transgender rights a central part of his platform. Keep Reading →

The despair on the USS Abraham Lincoln exposes the deadly fraud of Pete Hegseth’s machismo

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ARABIAN SEA - APRIL 16: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) conducts U.S. blockade operations related to the Strait of Hormuz on April 16, 2026, in the Arabian Sea.

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When you've survived a suicide attempt, or attempts, as I have, then you know what it feels like for the walls to close in and the dark to feel permanent, and no one hears you or understands you. When hope disappears, and when there seems to be only one solution. Keep Reading →
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