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Pennsylvania families fight Trump Justice Department subpoenas for their trans kids’ private medical records

ā€œIf our Constitution means anything, it means that the federal government can’t rifle through your child’s medical records in order to intimidate you,ā€ a lawyer for the families told The Advocate.

Federal court rejects Trump Justice Department’s effort to access trans kids’ medical records

Attorney General Pam Bondi, under Donald Trump, has tried to force hospitals to give the government access private health information of children.

LGBTQ People Are Being Forced Into 'Conversion Therapy' in China

Human rights groups found centers taking individuals in against their will and using practices including electroshock therapy.

Supreme Court Considers Challenge to Washington State’s Conversion Therapy Ban

The far-right extremist group Alliance Defending Freedom brings a case that threatens to undo protections for LGBTQ+ minors from dangerous and abusive conversion therapy.

On Trans Day of Visibility, Do More Than Make Yourself Seen

Being out and proud is important, writes Milo Primeaux, but visibility alone will not set us free.

This NFL Team Owner Is Opposed to LGBT Equality

Bob McNair, owner of the Houston Texans, has donated $10,000 to the effort to repeal Houston's LGBT-inclusive equal rights ordinance.

Anti-LGBTQ Sex Ed Law Struck Down in South Carolina

The state had bannedĀ mention of same-sex relationships or other LGBTQ topics in sex education classes, except when relating to disease.

PrEP in a Time of Hobby Lobby

In the wake of the Hobby Lobby ruling, gay men may be vulnerable to employers who would attempt to block access to HIV drugs.

Op-ed: Are You a Public Servant? Then Serve the Public

Why 'religious liberty' laws protecting public employees from accommodating LGBT people are truly problematic.

Trump Admin Opposes Trans Girls' Participation in Girls' Sports

The Justice Department has taken a stand in a Connecticut lawsuit that seeks to bar trans girls from competing with their cisgender peers.

Second Judge Blocks Effort to End LGBTQ+ Health Care Protections

A federal judge in D.C. blocks a Trump administration rule allowing anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in health care.

Florida attorney general threatens gym for allowing 'men posing as women' in females' locker rooms

But Florida's bathroom law does not apply to privately owned facilities.

Judge rules police didn't need to seize Christian Ziegler's phone, so the media can't watch threesome videos

The one-time Republican power couple fell from grace after the Ziegler's were revealed to have had threesomes with women — something advocates have said is hypocritical given the couple's previous anti-LGBTQ+ stances.

Does Criminalizing the Red Light Do More Harm?

Though there are many objections to the legalization of prostitution, does criminalization do more harm than good?

Denver Web Designer Who Refused Same-Sex Couples Loses Court Case

The law at the center of the case is the same as theĀ Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court case from 2018.

Op-ed: Social Justice Can Cure What Ails Us

Being discriminated against is bad for your health, according to new findings.

LGBTQ+ Groups Call for Expanding Supreme Court, Lifting Filibuster

"The Supreme Court has lost the public's confidence in its integrity and has eroded its own legitimacy," say four LGBTQ+ legal organizations.

Lawsuit challenges EEOC's failure to investigate anti-transgender discrimination

"The Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful effort to erase protections for transgender people is cruel, and a violation of the law and the Constitution," says Democracy Forward President and CEO Skye Perryman.